Early "bullshit"

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Randy Alexander
<strangeguitars at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does Scholtz's have an ad in the next issue? (Maybe with a correction or
> apology?)

The same ad (without the "Bull Shit") had appeared on February 28,
then the altered ad appeared on March 2.  The ad returned to its
February 28 form in issues printed on March 3 and March 5 through
March 8.  I don't see that the newspaper ever issued a correction or
apology or admitted an error with regard to the March 2 printing, so
how "Bull Shit" ended up there remains a mystery.  In any event, it
doesn't seem to have deterred Scholtz from advertising in the paper:
new ads continued to appear through the spring.

The complete text of the line that had been obscured by the offending
words read:  "the season's choicest flowers and plants can always be
found."

-- Bonnie

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