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Staph

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1. There used to be a "weakly" paper in West Virginia . . .

Reply to Tanuki (Original post)

Fri Apr 25, 2014, 04:00 PM

Apr 2014

called the West Virginia Hillbilly, published by a real character named Jim Comstock, a native of Richwood. To promote the ramp festival one year, he published the local newspaper with ramp juice included in the printer's ink. To quote Goldenseal Magazine:

According to Comstock, "We got a reprimand from the Postmaster General ... And we are probably the only paper in the United States that's under oath to the federal government not to smell bad".

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Ramp Festival, Richwood, WV [View all] Tanuki Apr 2014 OP

There used to be a "weakly" paper in West Virginia . . . Staph Apr 2014 #1

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