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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1919
Page
4
A column recounts possession of Harper's New Monthly Magazine issues from before the Civil War and brief notes on humor and anecdotes found in them. It cites jokes about whiskey in cakes, age tricks, weather, and scenes involving a circuit preacher and a Vermont missionary tale.
A letter to Dear John from New York portrays life in Minneapolis with satirical sketches of economic woes and social quirks. The writer jokes about failed commerce, debt across firms, scarce stamps, church pews priced at 380 dollars, and a frigid climate as a thermometer plunges far below zero.
Commodore Vanderbilt ordered a seven hour workday with pro rata pay after laborers requested eight hours. An Irish worker doubted relief, saying the Commodore would not be softened, while another replied he would have control of the place within a week.
A former Ohio governor recounts addressing a Georgetown DC temperance gathering when a sobbing, seedy man in the rear shares a tale of burying three wives. The governor consoles him, and the mourner replies with a grim joke about outpacing the Lord by taking wives as fast as He took them.
Professor Charles Avery of Hamilton College is described as a witty capable educator. In a chemistry class a student experimented with poisons and proposed testing a whisky sample to test its contents, framed as a safety measure amid bottle study.
A terse tale compares a moon’s red face as a weather sign with a boy’s wet moon term. An Eastern traveler in Arkansas cites hotel rules begging boot blocking before meals, noting the placard on his chamber door and hinting at pages to follow.
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