Reg'lar Champion and Odd Ball Sayings
A town exchange notes on Bill Simpkins as a no account fellow and weed talk. A quip about a mournful ditty titled Mother's Hair Has Turned to Silver Since Father Lost His Gold. Twelve Glassy-eyed Rabbits on a grocer's shelf provoke gratitude in a satiric jab about the world’s loss.
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Wasas
Gustave Koch
Box
Kewick
Keokuk County
Iowa
Peruna Company
Columbus
Ohio
Bill Simpkins
Kentry
Harvey Peake
Philadelphia
Rejected Suitor Snubs Counsel in Slacker Style
A humorous dialogue features a suitor asking if there is another man. The girl replies with two million, somewhere in France, delivering a witty zinger in a lighthearted tone.
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France
Statesmen Plan New Constitution in Missouri Plan
Missouri lawmakers Buck Buford and W R Lay propose amending the constitution via the General Assembly like Ohio did to avoid a constitutional convention. If adopted, amendments would be chosen for a 1920 vote with enabling legislation in 1921, aiming to relieve restrictive current laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson City
Missouri
Carter M. Buford
W. R. Lay
Crawford County
Ohio
General Assembly
Buford
Lay
Missouri New Constitution Association
Story Bites Back at Rumor in Front Yard Tale
Willie hurries to mother with a tale that Jim Smith claims his father killed two lions and a tiger in their yard. Mother rebukes the notion while Willie defends the neighbors’ chatter and his father’s truthfulness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Frerer
Duenweg
Frerer
Laddonia
Warren Smith
Willie
Jimmie Smith
William
Achieving the Goal in a Classroom Duel
Pupil muses that music is only time killing while the stern teacher asserts the progress is real and ongoing. The exchange captures tension between ambition and discipline in a music lesson.
Fragmentary remark on women kissing echoing boxing handshake
A brief, odd comparison notes two women kissing as reminiscent of a pugilists handshake. It reads as a stray opinion with no clear event or named entities.
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Koch
SPOHN
Spohn Medical CO
Mfrs
Goshen, Ind
Jones
Baltimomerican
Bayer
Ayer
Richmond
Bay Circuit
Thomas J. Bohannon
Frank P. Divilbliss
Bohannon
Divilbliss
Seventh Judicial Circuit
United States
Ray
Clay
Carroll Counties
Russia
Ray County
George W. Lovelock
Allen
Henry Allen
Kansas
House Rules Committee
Argonne
W. F. Maring
Carthage
One Hundred and Thirty-Seventh
Maring
Missouri House
Court Kills
Farm Bureau
Warrensburg
Johnson County
OG. G. Boisseau
University City
Board of Education
Luther T. Ward
Kansas City
St. Louis
Lamar
Lamar Silberberg
Grace Reilly
James L. Gill
Ham
William C. Shupp
Gardner
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Read Board Politica
George E. Mclninch
St. Joseph
Republican
State Highway Board
Gee Ee Ee Ee
A. W. Graham
Western
Canada
Cma
Grayco
le Roy
Haarlem
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