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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1920
Page
4
A boy sits on a Central Park bench in New York watching donkey rides. An overweight woman hires a donkey and offers the boy a ride, but he declines, preferring to stay and laugh at the scene.
Richard Manning of South Carolina relates a humorous yarn about a farmer named Jake Brown who buys a weather barometer to predict rain. His wife Mary questions the expense, joking that the Creator gave her rheumatism for such extravagance and misunderstanding the device’s purpose.
Evansville resident Edward C. Pfiffer Jr. credits Trutona with restoring his energy and stomach health. He reports no sour stomach, relief from dull pains, and a renewed pep for work. The Perfect Tonic is sold at R. P. Mullins Drug Store in Greencastle.
Mrs Harper departs for an engagement leaving Bridget to watch the ill Mr Harper. On return she finds him restless and questions Bridget who admits she may have disturbed him while giving sleeping powder.
A three year old granddaughter of Harry Godfrey wandered outdoors during potato planting time. After a search she was found beside a row of potatoes speaking in a confident tone. She explained she was waiting for the potatoes to come up and then raced back to the row insisting on command.
The excerpt traces Ernest Maltravers a rich youth who shelters in a moor hut with Alice a village girl he helps educate and later seeks again through years of thwarted reunion. After misdirections and separations Alice becomes Mrs Templeton while Ernest rises in letters and politics, and a rival reveals the past to force a final, fateful meeting.
Tucker visits markets and shops noting oysters and flowers while judging a toy window display and a family gift exchange. He debates neutrality in wartime toy windows, corrects quotations, and receives small gifts from family as he navigates social exchanges and misreadings.
A humorous verse sequence contrasts courtship gifts with married life. Before marriage a man lavishes money and gifts to win love while after marriage the couple clash over money and luxury, revealing comic marital strain.
A salesman, urged by a brother ambassador of commerce, calls on a tradesman with whom he had no prior account. The tradesman welcomes him and, after seeing a bag of samples, orders immediately. The salesman departs delighted at a new client, only to hear the tradesman remark he will see how the man fits all those samples back into the small bag.
A playful dialogue features a plain engagement ring described as needed to match a ruby spaniel, with one person asking for the desired type and the other expressing the requirement for matching the ruby-toned dog accessory.
A reflection on suburban farming trends as city workers seek a simpler rural life. The piece notes rail and auto competition spurring suburban plots, rising farm values near cities, and the rise of the gentleman farmer who loves horses, cattle, and the quiet of nature, per John A. Sleicher in Leetie's.
A traveler endures a pedantic bore who boasts of learning until the traveler declares you know everything except that you are a fool and I know that.
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