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Newspaper

Denton Journal

Location

Denton, Maryland, United States of America

Date

Sep 24, 1910

Page

3

Bargain Axes and Small Town Deal in 60 Cents Each

A tale from The Scrap Book covers a sharp dealer pair Smith & Jones who sell axes at 60 cents each. Old Bill Sackett buys five for a dollar, paying 20 cents each to split. The scene shifts to a St Louis car episode about birthday row and a reflective poem closing the segment.

Smith & Jones BJ Sackett Saul Bill BNL Bil Bili Philadelphia Ledger

A Goocd Trap at Cumberland Club Portland Story

Members of the Cumberland club in Portland recount a tale about Tom Reed and a companion who find a pocketbook hidden in a coat pocket. Reed suggests keeping the pocketbook and returning to the smoking room, hoping to avoid attention.

Cumberland Club Portland Tom Reed Reed

Ade and the Editor Wastebasket Farce Gag

In early Chicago a young George Ade visits a Sunday editor with a manuscript. The editor dismisses it and jokes the piece should go to an undertaker for funeral readers. Ade then recovers the work and leaves. Elsewhere a tale notes the Bible version quarrel in a family over a wife’s reverence or fear of her husband.

George Ade Chicago Imanager Ade Fust Efe Mr. Ade New York Evening Post

Brown Keeps Silent After Wife's Death Threats

In a Scottish village BM Brown, a farm laborer, faced years of widow’s threats after his wife died. She vowed he should not remarry and would be punished if he did. Brown reportedly dismissed temptations, later admitting the rumor as true while insisting he had prepared by burying her face downwards, ensuring she could not scratch him from the grave.

Bill BM Brown Bin Mary

Practiced Too Often Doctor Tricks Church Service

A young physician newly practicing in a country town devised a bold ad plan. He was summoned from the pew thrice during sermons, and on the final interruption the minister halted services to turn the moment into a prayer for the patient Dr Bolus was supposedly tending.

Bolus

Portrait of a Polite Caller in a Chicago Furniture Building

A young man in a Chicago furniture building loses temper over a phone call but is met with a calm reply. The operator reveals she knows him from the big office and his photo. The exchange ends with a playful joke about the source of the photo.

Chicago Central Quick Furniture Journal National Food Magazine

Sunday School Teaches Lessons in Frisky Fright

A charming auburn haired teacher, Miss Frisbee, led a Sunday school class as the rector announced a hymn. The moment sparked a ris ing reaction and the organ played. A precocious youth teased her to sing, insisting the minister had ordered it. The teacher recovered with smiles after smelling salts and restoratives were used.

Reddy

Missed the Children by a Traveling Man

A stranded traveler in a western town amid a street fair loses three chances to win rag dolls with baseballs for a nickel each. After three more futile tries, he returns to his hotel and writes to his wife expressing how lonely he is and that he misses the children.

Saturday Evening Post

Emergence of Private Property in Ancient Lands

A New York American retrospective notes that early landholding among ancient tribes was communal. Life and all welfare-related property belonged to the tribe, with private ownership only gradually appearing under the old regime until it became the norm.

New York American

The Front End

A Quaker minister officiated a marriage and quipped that the husband was at the end of his troubles. Weeks later the groom returned in anger, claiming his wife proved troublesome, and asked about the end he was warned of. The Quaker replied that he had said end, but not which end.

Dialogue on medical treatment and costs from a Washington Herald excerpt

An old physician explains a scenario where women may pay five dollars for oxygen treatment, suggesting they would forego car fare for access to fresh air. The exchange includes the young medic asking for an example and the physician offering a blunt financial take.

Miedico Washington Herald

Books Help Conversation Says Washington Star Quote

A pithy exchange on books and talk suggests that buying books does not guarantee better conversation, while selling them may. The Washington Star quote frames the idea with wit about readers and booksellers.

Washington Star

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