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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1947
Page
4
A mixed classified page lists items for sale including a lawn mower, a house and lot in Brim Field, a Carr coal range, Lincoln beans, and Lincoln weed beans. Also wants roof work painting spouting and pump repair and a used stove and furnace changeover. Found linen handkerchief and thanks note from hospital visit recipients.
Sunday visits span Moline Peoria and Lansing Michigan cattle sales. Royal Neighbors meet June 27 at 2 30. Picnics and family visits abound with May and June events. Hog and cattle market summaries hint at July level, plus local weddings and church piano recital.
Velma Louse Bills and Margaret Rose Siils Richard A Radtey Jr attorney for Guardian Co H Sweeney auctioneer present. A Hollywood hostess instructs a new maid not to wear any jewelry while serving guests, the maid replies she has nothing valuable.
A farmer uses sales talk to push a horse as a pupil quips about a cow in a pasture. The dialogue contrasts language mood with a humorous misdirection about attention on the coat and pants in a Western auction setting.
A magistrate tells a prisoner he is charged with voting eight times. The prisoner responds that he expected payment for the act, calling the charge queer and surprising.
A young man replies to a question about gardening by noting he once waited in a roof garden for two months, asserting practical experience beyond casual familiarity. The exchange highlights informal job experience as a credibility point.
In Munich a somber curb sweeper on a busy boulevard explains he is new to the job since yesterday. An observer asks why he lost his prior post, and the man replies Americans would not let him keep it because he is a Nazi. Another man grunts that he is a Nazi too, hence his assignment.
A jocular crime of appetite has the cannibal king impatient for lunch. The royal cook apologetically answers with a macabre punchline that two old maids are left overs, prompting the king's exasperated reaction.
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