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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
May 26, 1949
Page
16
A garbled excerpt shows a speaker insisting to pay someone soon and keep quiet while plans to move furniture downstairs and into the front room are discussed. Other parts remain unclear or missing.
A string of risqué jokes and gags are recounted, including a cook Jenkins in a barrel tale, a flight attendant’s panic with a loud passenger, a farmer robbed of coins, a captain querying a mizzenmast, and various punchlines about romance, divorce, and foolish mischief at a public event.
Cartoonish sketches and dialogues capture farm life and village humor. Jests range from host and guest banter about mushrooms to quarrels and sermons, with sharp wordplay and dialect snippets reflecting everyday rural society and social occasions.
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