Timely plea and comic snippets across papers
A jail scene features a prisoner pleading for more time over a watch theft. The judge retorts five years to gain time. The page also clips humor from multiple papers with quick exchanges about cigars, color of hair, a New York skyscraper drill, and light banter about autos and blue blood, plus a rude anecdote about proofs and a gossip-style exchange.
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Baltimore American
A Makeshift Telegram Joke in a Derby Speech Delay
A parliamentary member could not speak in Derby because rain washed out the line and sent a telegram. The reply humorously suggested borrowing a shirt. The piece joins a column of light jests and quick quips from various papers and sources.
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Derby
New York Tribune
Grape Nuts Postum Adverts Rally Against Critics
A long defense of Grape Nuts and Postum targets critics labeled as the tribe of Ananias. The piece details factory procedures, nutrition claims, and stresses buyer vigilance against alleged liars, inviting readers to witness production and issue legal challenges when misrepresented.
First Pasture Critics Grape Nuts and Postum Ad Claims
A column accuses cooking school teachers and sanitarium demonstrators of being paid to praise Grape Nuts and Postum. It alleges deceit by called-in lecturers, headed by a controversial doctor who runs a magazine with questionable correspondence responses. The piece notes a New York lynchpin moment when a young woman branded an instructor for improper claims and received $10.00 for courage.
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Ananias
Michigan
America
London
Anunias
Lars
New York
Trade press cattle in the pasture of ads
Editors describe grocers papers pressuring for advertising and resorting to slander about Postum or Grape-Nuts. They defend legal action, comparing advertisers to cattle kept in a pasture and argue against branding every publication.
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