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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1944
Page
6
A humorous dialogue features Mandy asking for leave to attend her husband’s funeral while clarifying the date of the hanging, revealing a mistaken belief about mourning procedures. The punchline hinges on Saturday’s timing and the husband’s non-death.
Dialogue snippet shows Harry and Jerry exchanging terse lines with humor about marriage and verbosity.
Diagram style dialogue shows a visitor asking about access to a boss in conference. The steno notes indicate the boss is unavailable out of town but in a meeting, and the visitor is told to proceed. The fragment preserves a courtroom or office humor tone with terse exchanges.
A shopper asks a grocer if grapes have been sprayed with poison for her ailing husband. The grocer responds that poisons must be obtained at a drug store, denying any local contamination.
A light two person joke where Blue jokes about his wife’s hat and the joke ends with Brown prompting, Blue predicts the bill will be the punchline. The quip relies on visual humor and the sting of an inevitable bill.
A playful exchange features Pat and Mike debating birthplace origins. Mike says Dublin, Pat claims three miles from Dublin and jokes about being born there if he had spoken up.
Phrased as a jokey exchange a speaker notes a decade of weekly payments to a lonely hearts club with a niece predicting a pension or a tombstone as the outcome. The quip pokes fun at long term subscriptions and uncertain returns.
Mrs. Jones recalls keeping a maid for a week but the elevator failed in their ten story apartment building and the maid refused to walk upstairs.
A humorous dialogue remarks fashion items in the press as outdated. The husband jokes that yesterday's paper offers styles suited to no one, while the wife asks about current fashions. The quip highlights paper obsolescence and light domestic banter.
Comic dialogue frames a husband venting that his wife is never satisfied. He recalls buying a vacuum cleaner last week and quips she now wants a rug, sparking Smith’s amused retort.
A brief military humor exchange centers on a rookie asking where to eat and a sergeant replying about a mess with his company. The riff plays on standard unit life and food routines.
The article debates ammonium nitrate pricing by army ordnance plants and TVA at $50 a ton f.o.b. and freight costs from Calgary to the U S coast. It notes TVA production costs, projected losses, a shift to the Commodity Credit Corporation, and potential postwar plant scrapping amid rising farm demand and future fertilizer use.
A humorous spoof presents Wendell Willkie as an Indian chieftain named Flying Eagle amid delegations from across the land. Presidentials sing of a bright future while wary voices urge patience as springtime politics unfold. The piece closes with quips on war bonds and a mock weather prophecy.
A fragment describes painting old furniture and household items blue with pink rose stencils. It mentions rose patterns usable as stencils or paintable freehand, Pattern No. 260, with mail order at 15 cents.
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