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Newspaper
Garland Globe
Location
Garland, Utah, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1910
Page
3
A collection of short gags and anecdotes. Includes a Zanesville widow misreading a tombstone inscription, a Chicago marriage license prank, a census office quip about age, barber shop banter, a barber and patron joke, a miscommunication at a gathering, and a child’s joke about choosing the medical profession.
In a dialogue from the column the characters Miss Gabby Laura Uashby and Miss Catty discuss a near refusal by Laura to Freddy last spring. Laura suggests Freddy did not ask her, prompting the near rejection. The exchange captures social etiquette and flirtation themes from the period.
In a North Carolina border chase, Ardmore and GrIswold contend with Appleweight plots as Gov. Dangerfield’s absence fuels a power struggle. Reporter Collins is recruited by Ardmore to publicize the governor’s mysterious disappearance while danger closes in at Ardsley and the red bungalow.
The article notes the festival of St Thomas of Canterbury faded from English practice and finds no revival support among Anglo Catholics. It recalls Henry VIII seizing the Canterbury shrine for royal revenue and 1538 orders to burn St Thomas bones, decanonize Becket, erase his name from service books, and obliterate monuments.
The item describes stage superstitions about an opened umbrella, new shoes worn on the wrong feet to avert bad luck, hurried dressing, whistling on stage during rehearsals, and a yellow clarinet in the orchestra believed to bring a frost on opening night.
One of the shortest speeches in forensic annals follows Taunton after a judge. Charles Philips, an Irish orator, gave a flowery speech in an assault cage. Taunton replies that his friend's eloquence shows only that his client received a sound horsewhipping and that the defense is brief.
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