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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1941
Page
2
A wealthy man holidays by the sea where his wife nearly drowns and is saved after medical aid. He offers to pay for real treatment while a doctor notes the situation. A joke about fooling a wife follows with a punchline about marriage.
A guide to planning an afternoon tea with a visiting celebrity and a forthcoming bride. Includes tea making for 12 servings, sugar and cream quantities, and lemon slices, plus recipes for Almond Finger Biscuits Swedish Nut Wafers Tiny Tea Cakes Pecan Crescents Meringue Bars and related tips.
A Scottish man from Scotland devised a method to avoid paying, blowing into a gas meter to simulate a quarter. An inspector confronted him after repeated attempts, noting the meter reading showed the company owed him three dollars.
Paraphrase of a C C Colton line on paradoxes showing reluctance to enter and regret to leave. The saying reflects on the human tendency to delay and resist change while later clinging to the comfort of inaction.
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