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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1924
Page
5
Want ads show buying hauling bids for ear corn by J A Spies. Lost keys and Chevrolet crank found. For sale Poland China boars and Rhode Island Red cockerels plus assorted feed. Featuring jokes on weeds, a big pike joke, moon life, bootlegging, and quips about taxes and weather.
A humorous exchange about a woman whose triplets became twins the next day. One of the babies died, prompting the punchline. The joke hinges on a misdirection about birth counts and mortality.
A collage of light verse and social snippets. Jokes on church life and love amid rural humor. Short quips about parsons, a watermelon patch, and a color joke. Tiny ads promote work shirts and good values amid a brisk, witty tone. Includes a gas death statistic and a match hazard line.
An officer recounts a lively retailer tale in court showing druggists navigating odd requests. A fat lady, a requester for medicine, and a hurried shopper populate the scene as the clerk handles bottles by name rather than size while counting sales of cosmetics and sodas by 8:10 PM. The piece notes a pre jazz quip about music soothing the savage breast.
An odd dialogue notes a wreath smelling of liquor and a quip about taste. The text shifts to a lexical oddity about Lwang on wine land and a Glasgow to New York liner where over three quarters of passengers carried Mac starting names, with a comment on America absorbing Scotch despite Prohibition.
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