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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1916
Page
18
A humorous tale recounts Agatha von Addlepate and Oswald von Osterhaus in a comedy of love and adventure. Oswald battles robbers and social folly, while Agatha disguises as a knight, challenges him, and they wed after a comic duel.
A humorous satirical column mixes verses on kindness to tradespeople with a string of quirky anecdotes. It includes a note about a Serbian yes and no gesture and a Pasadena fishing mishap involving a 12 inch trout biting a man in the face. It ends with a boast by the Aberdeen Battalion Boys Brigade about collecting 127000 empty bottles in one week and a joke about non license impact.
A biting poem ridicules Carranza as a cowardly target for the author’s ire amid political and stock-market frustrations. The speaker vows to vent against the “whiskered thief” and “windy churl,” asserting libel laws won’t deter sharp satire.
A 72 year old man at a Western university is alleged to have stolen a street sign during his college years and kept it as room decor, with odds stated as 9 to 4 against his age being a factor.
In a war torn town Arsiero a gambler loses his watch pay and straw sombrero while teaching aro. A soldier on Calderia hears of a friend's diphtheria and collapses in silence then is seized by hysteria in a sudden crisis.
Report cites a primate incident aboard the Berkshire on the Hudson River. The monkey’s escape is linked to comparisons between humans and animals, then shifts to remarks about sandwiches and notable figures including the Earl of Sandwich and James Duke, the tobacco magnate.
A fragment from Newburg features John J. Evers musing on thunder as loud but harmless, a joke about a South American ornithologist discovering a cow milking hummingbird, and a query about the fate of the old fashioned girl.
The verse expresses personal conflict over eating onions and enduring their strong scent. The speaker notes lingering fumes from others and ends with a provocative line urging punishment.
A political satire unfolds with Carroway McFudgeface the cruel ward boss and John Jallap defending a stevedore’s son. In reels of political drama and comic violence a new paint offers power, betrayal, romance, and a fatal twist ending.
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