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Newspaper
Citizen Times
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1968
Page
2
A collage of light humor lines and ads fills the Cedar Rapids Citizens Times page. Items include cash ads for box replies, room and desk space for rent, wanted clocks, reporting requests, and job offers. Anecdotes and quips about actors, cowboys, and a rabbi appear amid small classifieds and service notices.
Citizen-Times classifieds list ad rates and contact numbers for subscriptions and items for sale including hot plate heater and binoculars. An Army group begins jump training with a blunt three week progression joke from a tough major about separating men from boys and idiots.
Business cards advertised at 6.50 per thousand by the Citizen Times. Two color raised lettering offered on Ist Street Northwest Cedar Rapids. Poodles advertised as AKC Silver Miniature puppies with stud service. Contact 365-4747 evenings or weekends. Also a help wanted notice calling for a creative mind and willing spirit to earn pin and pen money in Cedar Rapids Linn and adjacent seven counties with a note to PRAS Box 4278 Cedar Rapids Ja.
A mysterious author recalls a rich man who promised to share his fortune with friends if he knew them. In a midwinter blizzard he dies and requests a dawn funeral. Only three men and one poor woman attend, and the will divides the estate equally among the attendees. The tale ends with a wry line about scarce friends.
A public quip compares tax collectors to postmen and the post office, while a joke counts 139000 firemen and 277000 police. It frames people as twice as dangerous as fires, underscoring urban humor and safety anxieties.
A sympathetic neighbor offers concern about an ailing wife. The farmer replies that she is fine, busy with a new henhouse rather than coughing or illness, showing a rural humor about domestic labor and daily life.
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