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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1906
Page
6
Bill Handy of Marblehead, a staunch Republican, harvested and sold clams amid abolitionist agitation. A Democrat customer demanded heads be cut from the clams, and Handy replied the clams were real Democrats with no heads. This anecdote appears in the Boston Herald.
A light moment from the Chicago News recalls a hen pecking stray carpet tacks in a back yard. Homer questions the bird’s eating, while his wife quips she plans to lay a carpet, delivering a humorous domestic exchange.
A Punch cartoon line jokes about beards and facial features as a cabby and a character named Bussy An. The quip contrasts attempts to cut off a beard with the impossibility of cutting facial likenesses from one’s face.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quotation contrasts Demosthenes and a pedestrian who watches autos pass and contemplates crossing streets in time for dinner. The exchange defines pedestrian as a man stranded on the curb seeking a way across.
A collage of quips and headlines from old papers. A boy trades a half dollar for a box of cigars. a rabbit ate the cigars, provoking humor on parenting and thrift. The Houston Post reflection links generosity with extravagance and cautions against avarice. The Milwaukee Sentinel jokes about fresh humor not suiting readers.
Doctors Blackshear Cooper and Blackshear are listed as specialists with R D Blackshear focusing on diseases of women G H Cooper on eye ear nose and throat and W J Blackshear as consulting physician.
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