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Newspaper
Francesville Tribune
Location
Francesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1908
Page
6
A miscellany of satirical quips and social commentary from Francesville, Indiana. Jests touch on treachery, lunacy, royal weddings, nihilists, bedfellows politics, and sunlit futures. Snippets joke about marriages, divorces, Mars water, tycoons, and a Chicago father abandoning twins.
A European chef offers 168 ways to cook eggs while Americans learn the art. A girl climbs a tree to escape a bull for three hours, with a rescuer nearby. A watchman fatally shoots a burglar, praised by jurors. A Chicago journalist travels to New York by trolley in a week and a half, seeing electric road networks linking cities with only two breaks in the journey.
A dying mother tries to reveal a message about a lacquered box on the shelf. Her son Benny later discovers the box contains a savings book with 3600 dollars, plus interest. The funds enable his rise from farmhand to a prosperous businessman after he reunites with his beloved Belle.
A physician contends that using the handkerchief with one hand causes noses to become crooked. He notes the habit is usually the right hand and recommends the left hand for such use, claiming several young patients’ crooked noses were corrected by this method.
A Philadelphia Record anecdote recounts a clubman proposing to sit on a silk hat without crushing it. The plan requires a smooth surface crown downward and a board across the rim to distribute weight 140 pounds gradually. He notes fragile hats will fail while good hats endure with care.
A fragment from the Cleveland Plain Dealer quotes a disappointed speaker recounting a harsh stay at a place called Jas' and claiming financial loss, personal temper, and possessions lost over fourteen weeks. The passage suggests caution about service promises and rental arrangements.
A discussion of humane trends in criminal justice across countries highlights habitual criminal laws in New Zealand and New South Wales, probation after reform, and inventive sentences like a Brooklyn magistrate’s unique domestic guidance. It notes traditions in Scotland, bankruptcy in China, and a Chicago Buildings Commission enforcement on exit signs costing the department store.
A witty exchange frames a mother and father arguing over heredity as they claim Bobby’s faults and traits come from each other. The joke hinges on mutual blame and playful scientific boasting.
A fragment from a Princeton Tiger column recalls daily shipboard chatter on voyage life. It contrasts steerage conditions, cloud shapes, iceberg rumors, captain interactions, sightings of porpoises, and a mysterious new passenger, all with light humor.
The speaker recalls asking a Scotch man the first thing a golf novice should do. He says the reply was a simple hoot, illustrating the humor of starting out in golf. The anecdote captures a light moment about learning the game in Chicago.
The article explains thinness due to digestive issues, emphasizing fat digestion by pancreatic juice, hyperacidity from gastric fermentation, and how Peruna taken before meals may speed digestion and preserve pancreatic function. It ends with a caution against vague efforts to combat sin.
An advertisement extols Cascarets as a natural bowel exercise alternative. It claims Sawbuck wood sawing or ten mile walks promote regularity, compares Cascarets to exercise without work, and urges buying the Sterling Remedy Company product in ten cent boxes with genuine CCC markings.
A compact quotation from the New York Sun discusses energy shifts as coal disappears. The speaker imagines harnessing sun and wave power and notes energy saved by using hot air.
A farmer notes his new hired man keeps a ledger of breaks, placing the pitchfork behind his ear when he stops work. The quip appears in a Woman's Home Companion joke frame.
A reflective verse notes a man counting deeds at sunset with his wife urging more tasks. The light domestic scene hints at ongoing duties and moral responsibility as evening settles.
A column recalls the fable of the woman who killed the goose that laid the golden egg and the lesson about consequences. The anecdote features a narrator named Bobby Herdse reflecting on the moral.
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