Progressive film banter and vaudeville quips in dialogue
A theater couple muses on film progress from movement to speech and scent. A wry line contrasts prosperity with depressions and a wolf at the door, while a joke about a military man becoming a writer and a dating dilemma ends with Mrs. Johnson and Mr. Johnson trading a blonde hair joke in fall.
Austen quotes and witticisms in a humorous column
A collection of humorous exchanges and quips featuring Mrs Grant Hardy Stern Parent Willie Optimist and Mark Twain. The snippets joke about payments, scolding, habits, libraries, lawn mowers, loans, and flirtatious notions. The tone mimics a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper humor page with pithy lines.
Quips and Quarrels in a Dated Page Cartoonish Exchange
A collection of humorous lines touches on war and peace, a soprano solo interrupted by a child, a diplo matic joke about Communists and Kennedy Khrushchev, and a wife’s biscuit joke. The tone mimics a lively old newspaper column with quick witticisms and social sketches.
What’s Left. The Henry Glenn Memorial Item
Fragmentary lines describe the remains of Henry Glenn with a gas tank implosion and a fatal event. The text references beauty with bitter fruit, suggesting a fallen figure and mourning context within a hazy, poetic notice.
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Welcome mat for door to door sales grows at IU survey
Bloomington Indiana AP says Indiana University professor Albert Haring led a study with the National Association of Direct Selling Companies surveying over 25000 salespeople. They report housewives welcome sales visits for convenience time to decide test under real use and family input. In home sales account for about 2 percent of U.S. merchandise purchases.
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