The Gate Crashers at the Somesta Parade
Reporters plan a risky assignment during the Somesta decorous procession at Majorca’s inner temple. They dodge guards while filming a sacred rite, aided by a sympathetic girl who shields them from discovery, only to lose their first roll to her.
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Atorco
el Miguel de la Somiesta
Poten
Tor
Murdock
Oceania
Darrell
Sint
Terry
Queech
Geo Priest
Slim
Cimera
Majorca
Zee Cimera
Silm
Feller
Jerry
The
Express
Diet
Queek Zee Cameral
Cardston experiment offers state medicine to town
In Cardston Alberta a 2000 population Mormon town tests state medicine via a voluntary plan. A committee funds full medical service for about 1500 residents through 40 monthly payments to two town physicians, covering major operations but not hospital care, guaranteeing income for doctors and access to care for families despite nonpayment.
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Alberta
Cardston
Tickling the palate and the duck feathers debate
A boarder compliments a landlady on her cooking yet quips about feathers left on the dish. The exchange, set in Loidon Angers, centers on the palate and a humorous misinterpretation of praise.
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Bie
Fragmented Dialog From The Montreal Star Police Scene
A clipped dialogue describes a tense exchange between a doctor and patient with references to temper and a next door room. A commercial traveler questions an Aberdeen shopkeeper metaphorically about measuring a last consignment, while an Aberdonian dismisses the notion.
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Thadagtor
Tenyen
Aberdeen
Aberdonton
Montreal Star
True Enough Irish Dialog In Local Skit
A garbled exchange between Pat and a landlord features remarks about a dead wife and a betrothal. The scene hints at social fault lines through a comic mock dialogue with Irish undertones and rapid repartee.
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Iis
Pat
Cat
Expert Absent in Class Dispute Over Routines
A teacher questions an absent expert as a boy answers that his father is the one who handles chores at home. The exchange centers on who performs morning duties and excludes the missing expert from the routine.
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Mity
Misa Smith
Dead Letter Baritone Yossah Sings in Wartime Jibe
An oddly garbled exchange from a Florida Spies Union piece features a baritone named Yossah musically claiming to be a great singer. A correspondent jokes about learning to sing from a correspondence school and mocks the subject’s accuracy in dialect.
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Yossah
Bay
Florida Spies-Union
Sweet and Thirty: A Woman’s View on Age and Love
A brief item from the Boston newspaper notes a woman novelist’s remark that thirty feels unkind to a woman, and forties seem harsher, reflecting social attitudes toward age for women in contemporary life.
Proof Rastus a Mareled Man Phrase
A fragmentary quote appears from London Tit-Bits featuring a dialogue about identity and craft with archaic wording and a tainted dialect, reflecting a satirical snippet typical of turn of the century humor. The excerpt shows characters Rastus and a boss figure in a stylized exchange.
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Rastus
Soli
London
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Wmiteband
Berlin
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