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Bainbridge Democrat in Bainbridge, Georgia

04 Jun 1908

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Bainbridge Democrat

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Bainbridge, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Jun 04, 1908

Page

4

Remarkable 19th Century Tale of a Half Dollar Loan

A New York Sun obituary anecdote tells of two travelers one penniless, one with fifty cents. The borrower rises from clerk to head salesman then partner in a great midwest retail house earning a fortune, while the benefactor declines offers. The story ends with the lender's later decline and drift.

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His Third Marriage and the Doll Mandate Tale

A Badaon man in upper Burma faced superstition that a third wife dies soon. He married a doll as instructed, staged her burial, then wed his fourth wife, defying the doom for a new union.

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Lahore Badaon Upper Burma
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A Dry Bath Riff from Scotch Wit

A Scotsman learns to bathe using a cistern and colander and reports the shower was fine yet dry. He explains he kept dry by not standing under the water without an umbrella. This quip adapts a dry humor about casual showering.

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