Exciting News and Quick Jokes From The Papers
A collection of light humor and anecdotes from various papers. Jokes cover doctors, pets, advertising, club meetings, shell shock jokes, cooking mishaps, epitaphs, railroad history, a rattlesnake sting, divorce, ballroom dancing, and encounters with notable figures like Boles Penrose and Mayor Hylan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Association of
Association 7
Bill Kenny
Boles- Penrose
Hylan
Cleveland Plain Dealer
English tourist seeks horseflies on Highland inn visit
An English tourist on a Highland trip asks a inn girl for horseflies to use as bait after consulting fecal experts. The strange exchange ends with a puzzled response from the girl as slang and garbled speech mix in this comical fragment from a Glasgow News style piece.
Village News Briefs and Local Notices From Palo Alto
A collage of short items covers a child bitten by a hog with injuries, social visits from Keister and Minnesota, a county corn husking price proposal at six to seven cents, a Reeves hog sale averaging $70 per head, a Parent Teachers meeting planned, corn drying tips, utility rate disputes in Elmore, and local business notes about hotels and eateries near the lake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Mae
Addison Wells
Osgood
Childi
Palo Alto
Prlea
Farm Bureau Board
Yayor
Iowa
Farm Bureaus
Illinois
Northern Iowa sale offers all-wool menswear values
A long oral ad lists high grade shoes suits and accessories from M. A. Packard and other makers, touting sale prices and guarantees. Items include men and youth calf skin and vici kid boots, black and tan dress shoes, all wool suits, cassimere hose, dress shirts, husking mitts and gloves, heavy wool socks, hats, rain coats, leather vests, work vests, and union suits. The sale claims extraordinary value, urging early purchase and confident shopping.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Finnie & Duff
Bones
Hubby
Detroit News
Buffalo Express
William Jay
Louisville Journal
Nutley
Boston Transcript
Courier-Journal
Shaitar
Sid
Pat
Gand
Everybody’s Magazine
Lost Island News
Chas. Higgins
Albert Thorson
PF. Sheffield
Milo Hausner
Nes Matson
Gus Baedke
Ida Peten
Austin
Minnesota
Nels Smith
Carl Christiansen
Lawrence Thorson
Pete Larsen
F. Sheffield
Ethel
Walter Mateen
Milo’ Hausner
Reeves
Poland
Farquhar
Miss Larsen
Iowa Experiment Station
Saya
Evward
Bancroft, Register
Commonwealth Utilities Company
Elmore
Elmore City
Batherville
Orleans
Rooma
Shere
Burnside
Hls
Anson Eng
New Merlo
Mulroney & Coonan
Emmetsburg
Rence
M. A. Packard Shoes
South America
M. A. Packard
Rene Gymeate
Eevee
Kuppenheimer
Sale Prion
House of Kuppenheimer
Sale Raish
Avains
Cassimere
Malloroy’s
Wertten Eterno
Seere
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