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Added: 2008-06-26 In September, posters begin to appear in Austin, Texas. These posters advertise the October 12 performance of “Louis Armstrong, King of the Trumpet, and His Orchestra” at the Hotel Driskill in downtown Austin. Surprisingly, for this time and place, there is nothing degrading in this advertisement.

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