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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1919
Page
15
Furthers of the season push for spring styles and fabrics as January brings demand for ready made children's clothes. A warm school coat in heavy double weave and a castor beaver hat accompany a wool dress with pleated skirt and clever pocket detailing.
Women crowd ribbon counters as Christmas offerings dominate stores with corsage ornaments dance caps and bags. Guides explain making a dance cap with millinery wire crown lace and silk wire edging while ribbon roses and rosettes decorate breakfast caps and other garments. Drooping shoulders for spring mirror fashion notes from French couturières.
In a Caruthers household Solomon the plump goose becomes the holiday anxiety as a dog chases him and Johnnie fears cannibalism, while Doctor Arnold courts Carrie and a turkey dinner ends Solomon’s fate as the family resolves to eat turkey instead.
A janitor on his rounds wishes a new tenant holiday cheer and boasts I’m the man that empties the garbage can. The woman replies I’m the lady that fills it, turning their brief exchange into a humorous holiday moment.
A dialogue captures a character’s dim oppressive mood at Christmas described as a burden on the chained spirit. Mr Flipperley admits the feeling, joking that he attributes it to pudding, revealing a humorous, lightly satirical mood about holiday spirit.
The piece explains that foolscap derives from a royal watermark change during Cromwellian times when royal arms were replaced by a fool’s cap and bells on paper. It notes the tradition persisted for Parliament journal sizes. The column ends with a proverb about public praise and private reproach and a quip about a Chicago auctioneer.
Prof Yves Delage reports Doctor Gallipe found living micro organisms in century old paper. The organisms resisted 248 degrees Fahrenheit heat and remained active in fifteenth and eighteenth century paper. They can be cultured move and even multiply in Chinese manuscripts predating printing.
A quip about a husband’s sleep turns clever as a night scene conversation raises a punchline. The joke hinges on mischief and a playful take on domestic sleep sounds.
A sermon praised widely has been stripped of sharp edge and danger. The text now pleases all listeners and causes no injury or trouble to any creature.
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