On page 2: "News of the Weird" columnist regales readers with stories of Manhattan business advertising to nudists, a Chinese elephant with a heroin problem and other oddities. Also a story from the Associated Press on a New Jersey lawsuit concerning an inflatable rat.
On page 3: Annie's Mailbox answers a letter from a reader whose 80-year-old mother has a gambling problem. Monday Club notes. MHS Class of 1978 will hold a 30th reunion on November 1. Also the Events Calendar.
On page 4: A letter to the editor from Carole Kays Schaefer reassures Marshall that the Writer's Guild still lives. Columnist Donna Brazile writes on the economic collapse and Diana West worries we've lost Europe to Islam.
On page 6: Cook of the Week Geoff Rands joins the staff of The Marshall Democrat-News.
On page 7: The courthouse report and an AP story on the FBI investigation of financial institutions.
On page 8: Warranty deeds are published. Also an AP story on a Palin look-alike in Maine.
On page 9: Comics, puzzles, "Astrograph," and Dr. Gott's advice for celiac sufferers.
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