100 years ago

1925: County Assessor Billy Beeson on Wednesday received a shipment of brass tags, one of which is to be given to each person securing an automobile driver’s permit in accordance with the new law that went into effect yesterday. The tag is to be worn on the keyring, around the neck, in your shoe or attached to your left ear, whichever method of cohesion you prefer, and is supposed to identify you if you are pinched or killed and to be a lot handier than a card, which, the secretary of state has carefully figured out, might get worn out after a few years. If one of these tags, which is serially numbered, the serial number prefaced by our county number 11, all the same as an automobile license plate, is lost, the finder is instructed to mail it to the secretary of state. Bett

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