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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1913
Page
3
A restless, eccentric man named Hardman frets after proposing to the wrong woman. A beggar with a safety pin enters his life, gains access to Hardman’s rooms, and guides a fraught reunion with Betsy as Hardman slowly settles on a hopeful, if uncertain, future.
Ayer, New York's wealthy, writes a 1200 page poetry volume titled Bell and Wing. Critics note his belief in beauty and morality over wealth, marking him as a distinct figure among millionaires. The excerpt highlights his poem Among Ruins and the book’s central premise that beauty and right action define worth beyond dollars.
A humorous segment recalls a Cook County naturalization official noting a man August Hulzberger who, after filing first papers, scans his envelope and jokes about returning in five days. The piece then pivots to a satirical Lamb banquet lecture hall scene imagining noiseless weapons firing waffles and buckwheat cakes during speeches, illustrating the absurdity of silent theater and political discourse.
A satirical piece praises a hypothetical voiceless rifle and its imagined social uses. It absurdly envisions suburbanites using a dough dumdum bullet to torment a lazy hireling from a library window, presenting a darkly comic critique of violence and tech optimism.
In a New Orleans school an instructor of cookery details beef cuts to pupils. She lists side portions such as shoulder and leg, then asks Alice what her father, a groom, counts as pay per ride. Alice responds with a clever answer about dollars per trip.
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