17 May 1912
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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 17, 1912
Page
1
A collage of humorous snippets and jokes from a late 19th or early 20th century issue, including quips about proving a hat’s poetry, a rascal fining a babu, a Burma money anecdote, and a preacher’s climate sermon for Great Britain, with playful banter between cabman and husman and a colorful ben Nevis wind gag.
A veteran salesman recalls his first road trip to a Cairo area town selling drapery and gentlemen's furnishings. He notes crowded shops, improvised dress, and wary customers. The trip ends with a humbling misread of local humor as he realizes his own unfamiliarity.
A house wife reflects on old-fashioned husbands praising their steadiness and willingness to stay home for tasks like ceiling whitewashing and greenhouse repairs. She notes these husbands meddled less in superficial status, were cautious with finances, and did not treat wives as unpaid housekeepers, while acknowledging some drawbacks.
A North of England commercial traveller stranded in a small Scottish town spends the night at a hotel. He asks the boots to wake him at six for a seven o’clock train. The boots shakes him awake with a grave proclamation saying Yer hour has come, sir, giving the sleeper a jolt of fear and surprise.
An Irish contractor in San Francisco sends his father from rural Ireland to visit. The old man marvels at the Presidio and officers quarters, jokes about the sun setting with a bump, and attends a school pantry treat where Tommy asks what grace means, recalling his family’s simple meals.
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