Husband Teases Wife With Lingerie Lace Request
A new bridegroom recounts his failed effort to please his bride after a week of marriage. A telephone plea for lace prompts him to rush to the store to buy material described as four leaves then a sprig. The exchange ends with the husband’s relief at deciphering the pattern in Indianapolis News.
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Hoe
Indianapalla News
Gugende
John D. Ross
Shenandoah
Fort Madigan Penitentiary
New London
Bquada
Senate
Iowa
G. H. Scoles
Nashug
Harry K. Chicester
Francis A. Gallagher
Walnut
Marl Mouchen
Nebraska
Burlington
Lernhart
Michael I. Conry
New York
Pennnsylvania
Corry
No Aia About Har
A mother defends her daughter Elsie against airs from college life. The conversation with a visitor highlights Elsie as modest, sociable, and devoted to reading and music, preferring not to show off and always ready to greet callers without delay.
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Elsie
Blasio
Donkey's Affection Sparks Farmer Pat's Witty Reply
A farmer jokes that a donkey shows affection for his wife as Pat, his servant, quips that "it's not the first donkey that's took asking to her." The humorous exchange highlights rural wit and a cheeky response.
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Pat
Conversation Snippet Reveals Tense Exchange
A terse exchange shows a thief threatening a captive. She replies with sarcasm about being a talking doll, highlighting a moment of defiance under pressure. The fragment hints at a perilous encounter and dynamics of power.
Permanent child welfare station planned in Iowa City
A state university extension committee-backed plan creates a permanent child welfare station in Iowa City to provide regular scientific study and examinations of children at parental request to assess normal development. The report notes ongoing local growth in Nashua and several new or remodeled facilities and jobs across the state.
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Extension Department
The
State University
Committee of Women's Clubs
Iowa City
Nashua
H. A. Fongman
Congregational Society
Farmers’ Cooperative Creamery Society
M. K. Riggs
Vwarl Roberts
Clyde Smallwood
H. M. Kezar
Esther Waldorf
Maxwell
Black Hawk River
W. EH. Robinson
National Engine Company of
Waterloo
G. W. Dickinson
Kenneth Whitner
Red Oak
Corning
Leonard Heffner
Mystic
Davenport
Rock Island
West Liberty
Louis Levy
Chicago
Warry Garmetery
Lincoln
Iowa Fish and Game Protective Association
Iowa
Frank
Townsend
Marshalltown
Iowa Central & St. Louis Railways
Minneapolis
Ninth and
Park Streets
Griswold
A. M. Baughman
Knights of Pythias
Knights of Pythias and Pythian Sisters
Cedar Rapids
Grand Lodge of Iowa
Johnn. Marquis
Coe Collage
Germany
Albert Krahl
Vail
Chicago & Northwestern
Aurelia
John W. Carter
Aston
Newton
Centerville
Will
Bert Kelley
Hamburg
Alve Wire
Mutual
Iowa State Historical Society
Clarke
Pastville
Milwaukee Road
Fred Wieland
Charles Metcalf
Marshall County
Union
Towa
Census Bureau
Washington
Lis
Europe
Thomas H. Macbride
United States
Iowa State Manufacturers’ Association
Oskaloosa
Vinton
Fort Madison
Keokuk
St. Luke's Hospital Board
John Wright
Iowa Anti-Saloon League
Congress
League
Iowa Bee Keepers’ Association
Apiary
J. L. Strong
Clarinda
J. Baxter
Nauvoo
Imnols Bee Keepers’ Association
DB. R. Root
Bee Culture
Frank C. Pellett
Bea
Ottumwa
Jefferson Street
Milwaukee
Town City
New London
Hollering Jones Portrait Sparks Artistic Clash
A famed western illustrator known for bold depictions met a noisy cowboy nicknamed Hollering Jones. After the artist profited from selling studio portraits to an eastern magazine, Jones confronted him over a torn picture, joking that it captured his hollering, but vowing to change his style to a tin horn celebration.
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Jones
Re Powe
Hollering Jones
Rock and River Tales Spark Quiet Local Wit
Comic bits from a St Joseph News Press page snippet mix a joke about a coal miner Irishman and a Polish worker with a streetcar quip about a boy washing his ears and a tongue in cheek Nile fish fact.
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St. Joseph
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound praised by Creston woman
A Creston Iowa woman describes relief from longstanding female troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports regained strength, improved health, and a happier home with a baby boy. The ad notes the medicine's forty year record and offers confidential letters to Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co for advice.
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Creston
Iowa
Lydia B. Pinkham
Lydia
E. Pinkham
B. Boscami
E. Howard Street
Creston, Iowa
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia i. Pinkham
Lynn
Masa
Where It Counts in a Humorous Exchange
A fragment shows Aunt Dinah quipping about removing obey from the ceremony and vowing to remove it from matrimony. The reader is reminded of the frequent gag on controlling stories and the coming man who rarely feeds before arriving.
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Dinah
Chile
Puck
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Iowa News
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