Wealth in West Canada crops spark optimistic banker essay
A Boston banker recounts a holiday trip to Canada noting vast Western wheat fields and the Rockies. He reports Canada’s rebound from war downturn with forecasts of two hundred million bushels of wheat for export and nearly half a billion dollars in wealth, plus strong cattle ranching and expanding dairy industries driven by federal and provincial support.
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Boston
Canada
Wall Street Journal
Canadian Rockies
Sean Miles
Dominion
Great Northwestern
Western
How Do You Like the Army Mose Ziggin Toward War
A medical corps officer in France jokes with a black acquaintance about army life. He demonstrates a harmless mispronounced gag about not knowing how to “alg sag.” Later Mose returns to a hospital saying he may have been ziggin’ when he oughta been gugging.
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France
Mose
Cap'n
American Legion Weekly
William Boon Howells and the Sermon Style Joke
An editor recalls William Boon Howells joking about the latest styles. The anecdote quotes a witty reference to style in a sermon as Howells answers a Naw resident who asks if he noticed. He says the text was drawn from Revelations.
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William Boon Howells
Ole Mintater
Cross in Right and Courtroom Quips Spark Odd Exchange
The mournful philosopher recalls the original cross examination as a sharp joke about Eve and Adam. A playful courtroom moment has Judge asking about costs as fashions from Paris are discussed, and a remark about stockingless ladies surfaces in the exchange.
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Adam
Ames September meeting of Luther League planned
The Young People's Luther League of Iowa and other states will meet at Ames on September 12. Depot bandits entered the Rock Island Railroad station at Marble Rock and secured $100 in cash. Mrs. William Hagen will soon leave Centerville for Romania to work with YWCA. The new $26,000 St Mary's church at Nichols will be dedicated soon. Dr. F. Richter of Clinton was elected president at the Lutherans synod in Waverly. Rev. T. Saervett resigned as sanitarium superintendent at Story City for a pastorate. A swarm of yellow jackets stung George Martiny near his home at Waukon. H. W. Raymond succeeds H. E. Moss as Iowa chamber secretary.
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Luther League of
Synod of Lutherans
Iowa
Waverly
T. Saervett
Story City
George Martiny
Mart
Waukon
H. W. Raymond
Iowa Chamber ‘of
Commercce
H. E. Moss
Jett
Nebraska
L. Atkinson
Marengo
Chicago
Caroline Elizabeth Sanman
Edna B. Walls
Fessor
Iowa State College
Susan Brewer
Vinton
Wesley Brewer
Douglas
Arizona
A. O. Phillips
Mason City
Gaia
Milwaukee
Rudd
Earl Caddock
Walnut
Wyoming
J. P. Downey
Mitchellville
Rock Island
B. R. Harlan
State Historical Department
Stockport
Samuel Alexander Harlan
Harlan
van Buren County
Laws
Town Park Bureau Federation
Fair Grounds
Farm Bureau
William Nall
Valley Junction
H. , Nichols
Grand Jury
Ylaughter Nichols
Nichals
Banda
J. W. McCaffree
Cedar Falla
Ideal
Waterloo Road
Milton Tostlede
Tostlede
McCaffee
Mary Selk
Mariani Merkle
Fairport
Embezzling cashier confesses to love tied theft plan
Miss Bessie L. Pick, 27, a cashier for an insurance firm, admits embezzling thousands from the National Life Insurance Company of Vermont to lavish on Frank Schultz. She aided him with hotel nights and dinners, expressing willingness to marry him. Schultz is held on Mann Act violation charges. others, including Mrs. Hilmar Stearns, are detained in connection with the case.
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Baltimore
Bessie L. Pick
National Life Insurance Company of
Vermont
Frank Schultz
Miss Pick
Schultz
Charlestown
W.a
John A. Hunt
West Virginia
Hilmar Stearns
Bossy Put Kick in Milk
Durham farmer John King found two cows dying in his pasture in a stupor after drinking mash from a moonshine still hidden in a secluded corner. A veterinarian diagnosed the beasts as in a beastly stupor caused by the mash. The incident centers on illegal whisky makers and their concealed operation.
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Durham
N. C
John King
Fhit Whisky
Getting His Bearings
A driver hears a crack near the rear wheel and finds the bearings gone. Stranded, he waits on the running board as a seedy man in a car offers help with a sly wink and a warning to keep quiet before directing him somewhere nearby.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promises Systemic Help
An old advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Medicine builds up the system and cleanses the blood to prevent frequent colds in the head. It asserts internal action on mucous surfaces to reduce inflammation and prevent chronic catarrh, with free circulars from Cheney & Co in Toledo, Ohio.
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Hall
Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Problem to Come Little Harry in a Brook lyn household
A humorous miscue shows young Harry struggling to pull a sleeve over his head while his mother questions how he will fit into a future angel wings. The exchange shifts to a wry medley of lines about life, music, and manners, ending with a quip on the dying sinner and foresight.
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Harry
Brooklyn
Not as She Expected by a Surgery Joke
A town society matron, told she looked ten years younger after a spring operation, quips to the doctor that five more hours would make her a girl again. The surgeon dryly replies that ten hours would have made her an angel.
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Indianapolis News
Self-Centered
A skeptical friend admonishes Mr Growdher about beliefs in a flying machine. He concedes that the invention has not brought him comfort or peace of mind, noting a prior prediction of failure. The exchange highlights tension over progress versus personal unease.
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Mr. Growdher
Uniform Berries in Market Banter
A market exchange features a seller with a near-white apron offering uniform strawberries at the price of fifty cents per quart and a shopper praising the berries as the woman asks if the berries are the same throughout the basket. The seller confirms the uniform quality and price, replying that they are the same at the bottom as on top.
Time Weill Spent and the Fence Whistling A Quip
Jud Tunkins defends his idle fence sitting claiming he was not wasting time but cutting up the fam ty ouija hoard. The Washington Star notes the ironic vanity of self opinion and mocks the uneasy face of a drug store complexion.
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Weill
Jud Tunkins
Washington Star
Quotations on character and pride in life
A set of aphoristic lines on choosing the sunny side of life, maturity, and personal vanity. Bulwer-Lytton’s remark about two men shaking hands and the younger one taking the sunny side is presented alongside witticisms about women’s postscript use and men overestimating their significance, joking on tailor bills and self-perception.
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Mark
Bulwer-Lytton
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