Plenty of Bed Blankets and Horse Blankets for Sale
An advertisement offers full width bed blankets priced at $1.00 per pair. Also advertised are horse blankets and lap robes in stock, likely as a sale feature in a local classifieds page.
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1910
Page
3
An advertisement offers full width bed blankets priced at $1.00 per pair. Also advertised are horse blankets and lap robes in stock, likely as a sale feature in a local classifieds page.
A Scottish temperance lecturer in Glasgow drew laughs and lessons with a water and whisky experiment using worms. A spectator quipped about flavour killing the worms, prompting the lecturer to affirm the method. The passage ends with a verse praising laughter as a cure for worry and gloom.
A butcher scene unfolds as a man steers to Riley two pounds of beef to cover two blocks away. The plot ends with Riley agreeing to lend his beef for a prank, leaving the man battered and the shop in a state of confusion.
A short verse by Mrs. G. C. Clark uses a peach metaphor to explore longing beyond reach. It contrasts distant desire with neglect of lower fruit and questions why we chase fame or honor over near simple pleasures.
A pained husband is mocked for jealousy after his wife accuses him of hugging a lamppost at two in the morning. The joke hinges on mistaken jealousy and a cheeky punch line from a newspaper column. The second tale notes Freeman Davis mocking Professor Lane’s literary gift and a quip about biblical lineage.
The Cleveland Leader recalls TH Nye appearing at a South Dakota farmers institute. Councilman L C Carran notes Nye agreed to address the session after being invited by a Lake Preston chairman who recognized him. Nye quips he will offer suggestions on humane dehorning methods using hydraulic horns.
A German man in Cincinnati visited a public office and, wearing new or repaired shoes, joked that he had nearly sold them. When asked to show proof, he claimed the shoes were half sold, prompting a groan as he left.
A wartime hospital orderlies gentle comfort story shows the chaplain failing to reach a dying patient Hopkins as the orderly consoles him with blunt humor. The tale contrasts care with resignation in a grim medical setting. Also a joke about misread news leads to a mistaken obituary involving Lincoln handicap horses.
A visitor ill with a chill in Yorkshire is offered a Yorkshire pudding as a cure. The hostess asks if he has eaten it, but he reveals he is wearing the pudding as a chest covering, turning the tale into a humorous misunderstanding rooted in regional speech.
A Yale student asks for the War yard at Harvard in Cambridge and learns the gate is locked due to Yale visitors in town. The piece mixes humorous verses about Scots jokes and a Mark Twain style tale of a temperance member who sails away and returns with a recommitted pledge. It also recounts Tom Marshall and Return J Meigs with a tobacco spittoon anecdote.
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