Ironic Medical Tales and a Funeral Day Joke
A doctor tells a patient how nervous dyspepsia from worries about a tailor’s bill can be cured. Grandma’s Funeral Playfoot has Whifflebotham remarking on a tiring day as an office boy tries a gag about getting off for his grandmother’s funeral.
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Whifflebotham
Dictators Dining Onboard Aboard A Ship Menu Mocked
Fragmentary dialogue depicts Benito Mussolini Adolf Hitler debating a fictional shipboard menu with jokes about soups, fish, lamb, lobster and dessert while a light antiwar satirical edge surfaces. Includes stray references to Konoye Dies committee and anti-vegetable lines.
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Benito
Adolf
Young fashion design pattern No 8772 for schoolwear
The design titled pattern No 8772 offers a casual coat with an inverted back pleat and a full gathered skirt. It targets juniors and includes size 11 through 19 with yardage estimates for various jacket and skirt options in corduroy, flannel, wool crepe, and tweed. Orders should be sent to the listed address.
Fingal's Cave and Nobert lines cited in curious world notes
A Collier's fragment notes Nobert's hairline diamond lines on glass plates for microscope testing and Fingal's Cave on Staffa as a birthplace of wind music inspiring Mendelssohn. It adds a claim that over half the world worship in temples without seats and forbidding shoes inside.
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Nobert
Fingal
Staffa
Hebrides Islands
Scotland
Mendelssohn
Fingal’s
Collier’s
Pidgin Eskimo: Trade Speak Across Languages
Eskimo pidgin blends words from Danish Spanish and Hawaiian used by traders and explorers due to the Eskimo language's vast noun and verb forms. The note from Collier's discusses how this simplified lingua franca aids communication across multiple language groups.
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Collier's
Bayer Aspirin Delivers Quick Relief At Low Cost
This ad promotes Bayer Aspirin as fast acting and affordable, urging customers to buy genuine Bayer Aspirin by its full name. It claims hours of relief from neuritis rheumatism or headache and warns against generic aspirin.
Knowledge as wealth surpasses theft in value
A concise reflection praises knowledge as wealth that thieves cannot steal, asserting learning’s priceless worth and resilience against theft or loss.
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