Random Shots Stolen Brag Sparks Amazed Response
A boast about holding breath for two minutes leads to a tense exchange as a man boasts to his partner, who challenges his claim, and the scene ends with a note that something was stolen.
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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1922
Page
3
Docks tale of two labor battalion workers on Brest docks
Two Black men lie behind a packing case on the Brest docks claiming their tough lineage and labor roles. One boasts his father cut nails with an ax and filed teeth. the other says his father is a plumber who shaves with a blow torch twice a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brest
Camille cigarettes spark witty orphaned luxury tale
A young matron declaims a glamorized habit with a cigarette case. Friends tease about odor and taste comparing ragweed or garlic. She reveals a scented weed named Camille from New York, calling it the Egyptian brand and confessing the joke she renamed to Camille while sharing a pull.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adelaide
New York
Old Man Weeks Praises Hoopskirts and Cheek to Cheek Dance
A Kansas philopsoe comments that if hoopskirts return and cheek to cheek dancing continues the world will brighten for the masculine power in social life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Not Sundae and the Grand Jury Eyes Mississippi Garage Heist
Mr Callahan muses on holidays and golf fashion while a Mississippi garage is robbed of $180,000 in cash and securities. Authorities view the loot as a grand jury matter and hint at bootlegging links.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Callahan
Mississippi
Joot
From Prohibition riffs to city oddities and idle boasts
A column passage mocks Prohibition woes and social quirks. It cites a Hebrew patient seeking a priest, a ship bound for Cuba, and a three mile limit talk. It lampoons J Hyde Sweet of Nebraska City Press, galoshes fashion, an Omaha drunkenness case, and Bridgeport gossip about Ray Ryason and local ladies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vance Thompson
New York
Cuba
J. Hyde Sweet
Nebraska City
J. Hyde
Roers
Boston
Omaha
Ray Ryason
Bridgeport Herald
Bridgeport
Alliance
Ray
Effects of Decrease in Railroad Traffic on Corporations and Employes
The Railroad Column argues that wage losses by railroad workers from 1920 to 1921 mirror falling rail business, noting 98000 locomotive firemen unemployed by May 1, 1921. It criticizes wage reductions and piecework pay, urging stable compensation despite downturns and citing board actions in 1921.
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Tabilar
United States
United Railroad Labor Board
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