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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1908
Page
5
In a humorous Chamber of Boarders scene at a vacation school, Ranley wooes Leila with gifts and shy declarations. A playful miscommunication about a supposed proposal leads to a blunt reveal that he needs a vacation due to a cold and a hot rash, quelling romance expectations.
In a humorous Washington Star gag a self aware scale laments overweight rivals and a chewing gum character quips about gaining weight ahead of the next fair. The cartoonish dialogue plays on weight and ruin with playful wordplay.
A tearful old man in a park explains he is losing the prison home after 25 years as Sing-Sing jail is sold and torn down. A passerby offers a dollar, learning the home is the jail and the man has nowhere else to go.
A sale notice states the bidder opportunity at a farm located 2 percent miles south of Lockridge, 1 percent mile east, and 3 percent mile north of Glasgow, awaiting bids from interested parties.
Readable prices and items listed include wheat oats barley corn hay baled hay and sacks of corn meal, with additional entries for shipping steers stockers feeders sheep lambs hides and a bike price. Locations or dates are not provided and many terms appear as fragmented OCR data.
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