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Newspaper
Colville Examiner
Location
Colville, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1913
Page
2
A compilation of humorous lines from Newark Morning Star and other papers. Jokes touch on lawyers, pickpockets, and the idioms of time, including a cradle speech, seaside checks, and hotel buoyancy. Also notes on musical comedy titles and a 1240 dated island Gothland organ.
Mrs Brown, rushing to finish kitchen work, confronts a tramp at her back steps. With coffee pot and frying pan in hand she battles the intruder while he jokes that he can act the refrigerator and calls out to keep going. The exchange echoes a humorous line from Willing to Help.
A sardonic survey of piano history and culture notes the instrument’s age from the harpsichord to the piano. It contrasts grand and upright models with social use by women and men in tin pan shops and the rise of self playing attachments in modern times.
For Sale at a bargain one Newcomb patented four harness fly shuttle carpet loom and weaver complete with cutting table and knife for old carpet work. Nearly new, price 100 dollars or will trade for a good all round work horse. Address R. F. D. 1 box 41 Colville.
Willie Keeler is hired by Charlie Rickets to coach Brooklyn young players in batting next spring. Fred Clarke starts his 14th year as Pittsburgh Pirates manager. Arthur A. Irwin named business manager of the New York American League club by President Frank J. Farrell, after serving as scout. Denver Western League buys outfielder Butcher from Cleveland. Butcher finished 1912 with New Orleans, still property of Cleveland.
Practical kitchen tips warn against curdled puddings boiling soups and overboiling meat while stressing boiling water for fresh cuts. The page also explores Japan’s kokiu and samisen trio, the aye aye lemur relative with a long finger and hook claw, plus humor from Detroit Free Press on old fashioned marriages and shipboard romance misreads.
A fragmented column notes a professor linking rash acts to black eyes, queries a woman as postmaster general in Wilson’s cabinet, and cites Burns memorabilia sale. It mocks elicit tales, plus a faulty ad for Catarrh Cure from Cheney Company and Hall’s Pills.
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