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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1949
Page
6
A group of hikers pass a hillbilly’s cabin and see his wife go inside as a wildcat leaps through an open window. The owner, lounging in a chair, replies that he never liked wild cats and offers no action.
A pair of partners compete in sales as one overexplains suits before the other finds the remaining option that wins the customer. The successful partner boasts selling on the first try, while the other quips about who got the man dizzy.
A shipwrecked sailor proclaims three years on a deserted island and eagerly awaits rescue as a lifeboat arrives. An officer glides a bundle of newspapers to him and asks the reader to confirm if he still wishes to be rescued.
A visitor at the state penitentiary grilled an inmate with questions and pressed for why he was imprisoned. The inmate responded with dry humor saying he aims to be a warden and would start from the bottom.
A humorous exchange shows a long distance operator asking if a call is station to station. A minister in Hoboken calls a minister in Omaha, who replies it is a parson to parson call. The anecdote highlights churchmen using telephone lines for personal ministerial chatter.
Onlookers in a Lancashire town notice a funeral passing by and a bag of golf clubs resting on the coffin in the hearse. One spectator remarks the deceased may have been a keen golfer and another questions the idea.
Advertisement for a cross stitch pattern 690 offering eight motifs at 5x7 inches. Proposes sending 20 cents, name, address, and pattern number to receive the pattern.
Local ad touts do it yourself cough syrup using Pinex with sugar and water or honey. It promises quick relief, no cooking, and a pint bottle if a druggist supplies Pinex with a money back guarantee.
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