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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1919
Page
20
A collection of light anecdotes and jests from playful vignettes and conversations. The piece weaves jokes about clergy, social manners, marriage, and soldiers with humor tied to wartime and home life, featuring snippets about a minister, a widow, farmers, shoppers, and officers.
Mrs. Gordon dismisses a quarrel between Jimmy and Teddy as trifling while a neighbor vows to send Jammy over on a stretcher. An employer quips about watching the typist as the clock-ticking scene unfolds.
In a March scene Jim Spudd sketches a wartime plan to grow a grand victory garden in his backyard with a detailed plotting scheme. Neighbors Brewster and Spudd discuss learning from past failures and using a planned approach to gardening to aid Europe and keep minds active in difficult times.
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