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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1922
Page
4
An ad extols Cantilever Shoes as practical stylish footwear for the modern woman. It highlights comfort, flexibility, and support for arches, promoting good circulation and natural foot exercise while promising a fashionable design aligned with short skirts and collarless necks. The piece invites readers to try the wings to the walk Cantilevers offer, shown exclusively in the store.
At a baseball game Johnny Jimpson brings his grandfather who opens a snuff box. The wind blows the snuff powder across the stands causing a chorus of sneezes. The nephew jokes the sneezing could rattle the players while the grandfather insists the snuff should have blown on him.
A North side angler searched for his live net before the bass season opened. He found the net hanging on a nail for six months. After catching a fine bass, the trapped fish slipped through a rotten net and escaped, despite being placed inside. The Indianapolis News report notes the net had degraded from weather exposure.
A Winnipeg Tribune quotation shows a vagabond demanding two dollars to leave. The Prosperous citizen questions the plan, and the vagabond offers to move on for the money, illustrating a lighthearted town improvement jab.
A shopper asks if the dress wears well. The clerk leans in and jokes that you will have a legitimate excuse to buy a new gown after the second wear, implying the garment’s poor durability. The remark appears in The American Legion Weekly.
Mr. Elam Martin of Caroleen was discharged from the hospital last Monday after recovering from a fractured leg sustained in an automobile accident some weeks prior.
The piece portrays Africa as a land of mystery and vast wealth from deserts and jungles to gold camps and diamond fields. It notes slavery, abundance of resources, and historic powers from Vasco da Gama to Napoleon, leading to the rise of a modern empire shaped by Cecil Rhodes.
Vincent Astor, returning from England to visit his mother Lady Ribblesdale, recounts a tale of an American tourist in London who in a taxi rushed the British Museum court, dismissed pigeons, and asked about the Elgin marbles before planning a packed day touring St Pauls Westminster the Tower South Kensington and the Wallace collection then catching the Oxford train and Stratford express to see Shakespeare's house before dinner. The anecdote underscores a sense of American hustle amid high exchange rates.
Two dusky soldiers trained in the AEF stage a farewell bout at a demobilization camp. At center ring one warns of reveille on the morrow while the other jokes about taps serenading the crowd. The exchange blends martial farewell with camp humor from the American Legion Weekly.
Notice to School Children. Certificates of promotion to the High School, certificates for not being absent, and certificates for being neither absent nor tardy will be given at the school building Saturday May 13 at 2 p m. Come or send for yours. FOR SALE Typewriter ribbons. The Forest City Courier 29-tf.
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