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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1910
Page
5
Old resident and stockholder discuss the elevated loop problem in Chicago. The issue centers on maximizing profits by extracting nickels while minimizing expenditure, reflecting a pragmatic cash focus from a Tribune perspective.
A World War era quip contrasts a globe trotter’s remark that no girl may have a beau until she can bake bread and knit stockings with a fussy bachelor’s retort advocating a law preventing girls with beaus unless they can navigate streets unaided by a dog on a string.
A Kansas City Journal line notes a true love affair requires concessions from both sides with the duke offering to give up baccarat if the father parts with another million, implying pressure and bargaining in a high stakes relationship.
Charles Edward Russell warned in Success Magazine that past generations of independent merchants have been transformed into employees of large stores and mail order houses. He argued department stores rise on the ruins of small shops, turning independent merchants into salaried workers under managers, with wages, time checks, fines, and daily routines.
At a New York luncheon Mrs. Bruyvesant Fish mocks suffragettes with a jab about self interest comparing their outlook to a fictional scene. She imagines Mrs Dash admiring a couture gown and quips about money spent for beauty. The exchange reflects public attitudes toward women’s rights in a light, ironic tone.
Detroit Journal notes a column listing famous men who never married, naming Isaac Newton Hobbes Smith Chamfort Descartes Kant Locke and others. The piece reflects on the idea of lifelong bachelor status among great thinkers artists and statesmen.
A jumble of gags and quips from old papers features a stern uncle urging decisive purpose, a nephew seeking a five hundred horse power automobile, and cartoonish exchanges about taxes and inventions. It includes a shoe powder ad and a fisherman’s joke about worms, rounded out by streetwise banter on labor and irony.
A collage of humorous exchanges from social life and papers, with snippets on hats, photographs, dairies, poetry, romance, and moral musings. Names like Prue Dolly and Mrs Knicker appear amid jokes about engagements, social manners, and small-town gossip.
Outennaned character growled about being worn from a long trek. He laments falling behind Weston by a long mile, claiming Weston moves with extraordinary speed as he complains of the day of his birth in a boastful, rueful aside.
A confidential friend jokes about not taking the doctor on trips with the magnate. The magnate quips the physician is tyrannical and too cheap to arrange care after his long journeys.
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