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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1913
Page
10
A collage of short phrases from old newspapers includes teething syrup claims, a quip from Puck, a comic housemaid scene, a peddler joke about selling whistles, fashion gossip overheard in Detroit, a Pittsburgh millionaire near an escape after a bullet missed, and a witty political exchange from the Washington Star.
The piece outlines Christmas gift ideas with ribbons, cretonne bags, and accessories for both women and men. It highlights opera and shopping bags, collar bags with silk, Japanese fans, and practical items like cretonne closet bags, wastepaper baskets, and boxes for ties and gloves.
A hungry ex convict, freshly released from prison, pleads for work at Mr Underdone Cutlets Speedy cafe. The owner offers thirty dollars weekly to slice ham after hearing the con man’s past counterfeiting scheme. A separate anecdote recalls Anatole France and Raymond Poincare trading legal pressure for literary progress.
In a dining room scene a mother tells Maria to stay in the next room until she is sorry. Maria answers with quiet resolve, saying she will tell her mother when she is sorry, avoiding immediate repentance. A suffragette remarks on household chores, noting no man may measure up, and the husband present at the meeting remains seated.
A garbled mix of ad copy for Allen's Foot-Ease and a few scattered lines from plays and conversations. It mentions an English insurance policy related to militant suffragettes and references remedies for pains, with stray quotes and names embedded in the text.
A distressed woman on Christmas Eve contemplates stealing from a baby’s money box to buy a gift. After several moments she decides to act then, with guilt, she empties the box onto the table. John had arrived earlier and taken the contents first.
A timid man declines a flying machine as the persuasive salesman argues it could save his life, noting the risk of being airborne during an earthquake. The exchange captures a humorous exchange from the Washington Star.
The fragment suggests a dialogue oriented note with phrases like get me a fy New Page Dead or alive alr Punch. It reads as a terse exchange possibly stage or crime related but lacks clear events or identities to define a full item.
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