Freckles Se His Business in Post Office
A traveler converses with Sandy the farmer after a post office visit. The exchange touches on war bonds, savings, and postal orders as a humorous look at rural thrift and country pride.
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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1920
Page
7
A traveler converses with Sandy the farmer after a post office visit. The exchange touches on war bonds, savings, and postal orders as a humorous look at rural thrift and country pride.
Don t forget Cuticura Talcum when adding to toilet requisites. An exquisitely scented face skin baby and dusting powder and perfume. You may rely on it because one of the Cuticura Trio Soap Ointment and Talcum. 25 cents each everywhere.
A narrator recalls entering a powerful executive’s private office by fooling a secretary with a loud golf chat. The ruse suggests the captain’s immense time value and exposes a method to access his space through conversation.
An old advertisement touts Allen’s Foot Ease antiseptic powder to ease corns callouses and foot pain. It claims the powder saves wear on shoes and stockings and can be used in the foot-bath. Also mentions Wright’s Indian Vegetable Pills as a mild tonic and purgative.
A London Answers writer notes animals may end their lives by their own actions. Collies and elk have leaped into the sea or from cliffs when impaired or hunted. A stork perished in a fire to protect its brood, a swallow risked its nest after mischief damaged it.
The passage outlines stock making from bone, simmering with herbs, cooling to remove fat, and clarifying with egg white. It discusses consommé techniques, vegetarian soups with beans or peas, purees, and the role of soup in meals. It ends with a note on servant insubordination tied to viewing authority as despotism.
A readers guide to dessert and savory fruit dishes. Recipes include Strawberry Fluff Scalloped Celery Nut Timbals and Chicken a la Reine with detailed steps and ingredients to prepare a festive seasonal menu for home cooks.
An old advertisement asserts that for over thirty years Fletcher's Castoria has aided in reducing infant deaths. It urges keeping the product in the home as mothers become more acquainted with it.
A theater exchange notes a critic praising a play as good clean and wholesome and urges support. The dialogue shifts to a humorous moment about parental approval and a kiss, with a quick quip on whose mother might be upset.
Say Diamond Dyes. Do not streak or ruin fabric with a ne dye. Insist on Diamond Dyes. follow directions in package.
An advertising snippet touts Freezone as a quick painless corn remover. It claims a tiny bottle solves hard and soft corns and toe calluses with instant numbness and easy lifting. A Leap Year party anecdote follows with jokes about husbands and chicken keeping.
A brief note ponders saving habits as New York City hosts over 100000 clubwomen. The piece contrasts saving for vacations with saving to meet tax obligations, illustrating civic engagement among women in the city.
A humorous fragment shows a sobbing movie star crying to divorce but praising a good husband with no grounds. Friends ask about life philosophy, and a responder jokes about not studying philosophy, preferring to take things as they come and improvise.
Grace says Charlies and Helen have made up their quarrel but Gussle downgrades it as only temporary. They are planning marriage soon, according to the Edinburgh Scotsman report.
The advertisement extols Bayer as genuine aspirin with Bayer tablets and packages for headaches toothaches and other pains. It notes a price for small tins and larger packages and lists the chemical ester basis while a separate campus quip highlights professors joking about publishing costs.
Nell and Doris discuss Jack’s twenty eighth birthday with hints in a brief dialogue from the Boston Transcript.
A succinct old proverb contrasts a spendthrift who tires of excess with a miser who remains consistently frugal, underscoring differing attitudes toward spending and wealth.
A family prides itself on newfound status after moving to an exclusive district. The nine year olds boast about the prestige of having a title and how everything at their home carries the name. Other children mock the idea, noting how the family clings to status symbols and etiquette in daily life.
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