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Fayette Reporter

Location

Fayette, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 23, 1911

Page

5

Kerosene Burner Promises Bright Modern Lighting

The pitch extols a simple kerosene burner that doubles light output and lights instantly. It notes wide usefulness with many practical applications and claims gasoline lights illuminate stores, shops, offices, homes, and grand buildings. Also mentions a handheld gasoline fuel light and a study on lighting options.

Humor and Wit On Gender, Fatness, and Fashion

A collage of jokes and quips on women and men, fat jokes, and social foibles. It blends satirical lines on hair, aging, dating, and double standards with humorous newspaper snippets about soldiers, factory life, and witty exchanges in social circles. The item reads as a curated humor page with dated voice and miscellany.

Wurely Spokane Spokesman-Review

Quick-Fire Comic Quips From Ragged Funnies Night

A collage of quick wit and snappy exchanges from vintage newspapers includes jokes about investments, servants of pedigree tracing, multilingual professors, stubborn locks, horse laughter, bedroom phones, missing husbands, and a running gag about a daughter’s second marriage.

Fad Follows Fresh Air Diet Talk Sparks Poverty Joke

A garbled quip from London Tit-Tits cites a six week rift and hunger terming poverty as the result of a fad. Old Salt answers with an odd cooking line about mutton. The remark lampoons fresh air fad influence and social perception.

London Thse Tudge

155 Acre Farm At A Great Bargain Near Clermont

For sale a fine stock farm 3 miles northwest of Clermont comprising 155 acres with 125 acres under good tillage and rough pasture. The place features excellent soil, a good road, well fenced pastures with water, various outbuildings including a 14x16 dwelling, 32x40 barn, hog houses, and a 10x16 kitchen building. Owner a farmer offers this low price with terms and potential possession soon. Price $46, un. A title partition. Inquire for details.

Clermont Audie Ba Party Metine

The Electric Handy Light sales pitch across many uses

A sweeping advertisement extols The Electric Handy Light as superior lighting for hairdressing sewing typing and eye protection. It emphasizes universal usefulness from homes offices and schools to hotels mills and railroads with claims of task specific illumination and eye safety.

Vark

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