Sunny Sunbeams Dialog Sparks City Laughs
Patchwork dialogue shows a mix of snappy exchanges on cars elocution and luck. A fortune teller teases outcomes while a demobilized proprietor jokes about rent and war service.
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Newspaper
Grand Forks Sun
Location
Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jun 27, 1919
Page
3
Not Home but Engaged If the Bell Rings
Dialog snippet shows Ethel busy with a call and proposing she is engaged. Fred remarks on non attendance or engagement, implying a misread situation. The exchange highlights social miscue and flirtation in a domestic setting.
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Fred
Ethel
Local notices and business names in wartime style
A light piece references dinner with Mrs Salston and a Hostess. It promotes W P O Connor offering neat sign painting for business places. R C McCutcheon receives a carload of dry lumber ready for cabinet work. Job printing at the Sun office remains near wartime prices.
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W. P. O’connor
Lhe Sun
Letter from World War I air service member mocks massive kitchen in a fanciful war-time description
A letter found near a Southern railway station, allegedly from a Scott Field Illinois air service member, playfully exaggerates a military dining hall operation with absurd figures such as 27 pile drivers to mash eggshells and 690 gallon coffee tanks, ending with a lighthearted plea for an afternoon off.
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Air Service
Scott Field
Illinois
Gulliver
Earth
Mesamer~geant
Swatt Field
Liberty
Maine
Cooka
Jevere
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