No Need to Look Further Damages Demand Fractured Quip
A bruised man demands damages after a beating. His friend grimly notes the injuries reflect themselves in the glass, a blunt quip that ends the exchange with sharp humor. This London Answers snippet captures a terse street encounter.
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Venus de Milo's Handout Joke Gets Schulz Like Twist
A playful classroom quip reimagines Venus de Milo as unable to offer a handout. The joke pivots on the statue's missing arms, turning a critique into a light moment about teaching.
Criticism and Friends Define a Man Better Than Enemies
Observes that enemies' opinions are unreliable for judging a man while true denouncement comes from his friends. The aphorism stresses selective judgment based on loyalty, suggesting friends understand character more accurately than adversaries.
Thanksgiving in Song and Turkey Trade Across America
The piece reflects on turkey farming decline due to blackhead disease and range needs, notes Westward shift of turkey ranching to Texas New Mexico and Nevada with big flocks in the Southwest, and ponders synthetic food and a future Thanksgiving anthem. It cites John Dickinson Sherman and celebrates Thanksgiving as a national, home centered holiday.
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America
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Middle States
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Southwest
Western Hemisphere
Europe
Spain
France
England
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Chicago
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Black Hills
South Dakota
Nevada
American Southwest
Wise Sayings on Observation Confidence and Conscience
A collection of maxims on education shaping judgment, trust as merit, and conscience marking memory. It urges controlling anger, thoughtful reasoning, and self reliance while warning that reputation shadows a person and the present should be seized without fear of the future. It emphasizes interdependence and prudent self improvement.
When the Nights Were Long
A successful man addresses a class urging students to cultivate a taste for good books. He urges owning books for constant access, recalling how as a boy he worked all night to buy books and rose before dawn to read.
Cascarets for Liver and Bowels Advertised
An advertisement promotes Cascarets as a remedy for biliousness constipation sick headache indigestion and related digestive issues available at drug stores. The copy emphasizes a 10 cent per box price.
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New Timepiece and Conversations on Risk
A fragment shows a dialogue between Lou and Sue about a visit and a place to stay described as a one permanent wave. It then notes that many conservative men lose money on a sure thing due to fear of taking chances.
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Sue
Dodd's Kidney Pills Ad Promises Backache Relief
Stop Your Backache and learn what it means to be well again. Bertha Vosberg of Wyndmere North Dakota reports backache relief after one box. Large box 60c. buy at drug stores or by mail. Prompt relief or money back.
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N. Y
Jaques Capsule Co
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Dodd
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Wyndmere
N. D
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