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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 22, 1916
Page
8
A humor page showcases short gags and light vignettes. Scenes include pipers, a baby’s first words, doctors delaying surgery, Christmas talk, a young diplomat, and children earning plans for the future. The tone resembles a late 19th or early 20th century paper with playful dialogue and punny twists.
Amid a chaotic class, students joke about courage and marriage to calm fears during a thunderstorm lesson on elements. A humorous exchange questions lightning’s reach while a boy misstates a scientist’s name, reflecting a lively, overheard moment in a yearbook style vignette.
A whimsically mixed sheet presents childish riddles and puns about characters, objects, and everyday life. It folds in a short memoir about a Christmas party where a boy explains his mother’s late-night care and the joy of treats, framed in a quaint historical voice.
A boy named Ralph laments his second goodbye to a teacher, wishing Miss Ruby could stay to teach him in the third grade next year. He expresses tears and a hopeful wish to continue learning from her despite moving on.
A woman refuses a paper cutter claiming it is not ivory and declares she does not want it. A clock and the man question the plausibility of the scene as an elephant remark shifts the odd dialogue.
A fragmented OCR passage describes a chaotic kitchen scene with references to corpses and a humorous, unsettling ramble about food and appetite. It mentions dessert items and odd dinner plans, implying a holiday breakfast or dinner theme with strange aside about corpses and appetite control.
A hodgepodge page includes holiday verse about candy and Christmas cake, jokes and riddles, light verse with a bishop's attribution, a bell-ringing anecdote, punny Q&A, amateur theatre notes, and Christmas party quips. Notable names include Exeter and Bishop credits.
A humorous collage features a shopper buying Christmas cigars for her husband with a two shilling and six pence sale, a dealer who quips about marital strain, plus a Florida boy named His Limit and a naturalist’s puzzled verdict on a diligent but slow learner. Additional quips question why stout friends remain good natured.
A fragment from a humorous column with captioned dialogue and urban slang. The text features a string of children’s misinterpretations and comic exchanges about money, cattle, schooling, and daily life. Characters named Jimmy, Hubert, Lobert, and Johny appear in short vignettes.
An elderly friend misidentified the groom as a rejected suitor and offered congratulations to the wrong man. The bride, embarrassed, corrected him and introduced her husband Bob. Jim muses on keeping Christmas Day longer, joking about lasting until the next year.
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