Slogans and jokes from a Nebraska press page
A column of quips and brief items features: a farmer in Estherville offering a cow yielding five quarts of milk daily with farming tools. Old Bill Metz proposing a county slogan. a New York paper’s bedtime story trend. auctioneer Colonel Link on Will McWilk’s milk cow wants. a humorous shopper exchange about surgeries. a local merchant comment on small versus big ads. a kitchen savings joke about a wife, a cookbook, and a doctor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonel Link
West Point
Will McWilk
Donnellson
Springtime memories of childhood in the wildwood
A reflective verse recalls spring scenes from childhood and the bittersweet memories they evoke, including sassafras in the landscape and the passing of those bygone days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sassafras
Visual Proof and Oddities in a Local Market Scene
A collage of humorous vignettes from a bygone era features a foreign woman returning overshoes with a quip about fit, plus voices from a merry-go-round and shoppers debating currency and sales talk. Other items include moving pictures on a farm, a merchant’s receipts, and a merchant’s ballad about taxes, debts, and community life.
Bores and yawning remark sparks party anecdote
Attorney General Gregory recounted a dinner quip about bores being talkative and silent, noting a guest who claimed another man yawned during conversation may have been signaling a message rather than showing politeness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gregory
Jones
The Usual Courtesy in a Local Debt Dispute
A grocer called out a debtor planning to leave the community saying it isn’t worth suing as the man owes money. The exchange hints at unresolved dues and potential collection questions within the town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Brokesley
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Estherville
Bill Metz
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Nebraska Press
New York
New Yorker
Irshman
Graettinger Co-Operative Live Stock Shipping Assn
D. BE. McCarty
John Bouthus
Jorgen Anderson
Farmers’ Grain Co
Graettinger,owa
V. L. O'Connor
Vest
V. L. Ocsanez, P
Seke
Miili
Rastus Johnson
Dollah
Rastus
Straits Settlement
K. P. Padmanabhapillai
Bukit Cloh Estate
Jeram
Sreemathi Thankammal
Travancore
T. R. K. Pillay
Batu Caves
F. M
John
Paris
Napoleon
M.P
Graettinger Times
Ney
Ny Re
Carl S$ Pies
T D. Collins
Sherwin-Williams
Bite
Grarttinger
Charley Jensen
New Windsor
F. B. Schurmann
Prop
Overland
Chevrolet
Buick
Jhnsen
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