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Opinion December 19, 2007
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Up The Creek Without A Paddle
The Reason for the Season
by Terry Toole
      Another year has almost slipped by. With this very special edition, it's been 110 years since my Grandma Zula Brown Cook Toole founded the Miller County Liberal. When Grandma started this newspaper, the type was set one letter at a time. Some of it was wood type and some lead. It kind of make...
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As You See It
      Once again the county commissioners have proven they don't care about the ordinary citizens on a fixed income by going back on their original plan to allow the public to buy meals at the new kitchen. Barbie and company have nearly bankrupted the county. Now they have their fingers in the city's f...
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Prison - Pens of the North
Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp #2071
by Bobby Tully
      New York City... Hart Island opened for Confederate prisoners of war in April 1865, with 3,413 POWs admitted within three weeks. Three months later by the time the prison camp was cleared of Confederate prisoners nearly seven percent of them had perished. According to the records of the U.S.
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Holy Horror
by Alex McRae
      Favorite holiday headline of the year: "Hanukkah causes global warming." If you get a tear in your eye over Elvis' "Blue Christmas," imagine how Jews must feel now that they've been accused of killing the planet by observing a religious ritual that began over two millennia ago.
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Ebony Dots & Dashes
by Katie Smith
      Happy belated birthday goes to Mrs. Annie Pearl Johnson on December 3. She has had a rough row to hoe this year, in and out of the hospital. But thanks be to God she is still with us. Many returns of the day. Mrs. Gladys Moore spent some time in the hospital in Dothan, AL, last week. She is home ...
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The story of Private Stephen Sanford
Submitted by Lindy
      For actions in the current conflict,over 7,000 soldiers have been decorated for valor, and over 15,000 have received Purple Hearts. Let me tell you about one of these soldiers, Private Stephen Sanford of C Company, Second Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division.
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Sounds about right
submitted by Jack Warner
      Japanese doctor says, "Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him out looking for work in six weeks." A German doctor says, "That is nothing. We can take a lung out of one person, put it in another, and have him out looking for...
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A small white envelope: a Christmas story
Submitted by: Marilyn
      Jensen I got this from a friend and don't know the author. It's just a small, white envelope stuck among the branches of our Christmas tree. No name, no identification,no inscription. It has peeked through the branches of our tree for the past 10 years or so.
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