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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1918
Page
15
A column critiques cabarets, gender roles, and public behavior with satirical tone. It contrasts masculine freedom with social expectations, notes same era debates on virtue, and ends with a quip on consumer spending patterns between departments and groceries as a wife’s shopping shifts.
Comic snippets and light verse from Luke McLuke feature snippets about blue laws, parlour gags, and social quirks. The column riffs on aging, manners, jokes about trade, and a parade of quirky vignettes with playful wordplay and character sketches.
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