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Newspaper
Hamilton Examiner
Location
Hamilton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1874
Page
6
A collection of oddball quips from a California temperance group about beverages, an Ohio minister’s candid testimony on balancing faith and work, an Irish fisherman’s weathering the rain, and a string of rural jokes. The snippets include a Wisconsin tale of burying a wife, a Dayton style pun about hearing Ollie and 1000 quips on family life.
A Western stamp orator muses on writing love of country as a paper sheet fails to contain it. A Griffin Georgia paper lists an improbable baptismal name Lovie Ann Estallaville Caladonia Desalonda Lucretia Borgia Neal Rabun, prompting jokes about Paradise and St Peter. A courtroom quip questions whether witnesses can prove the exact moment of a gunshot. A cemetery dialogue ponders carved stone and the brief inquiry Do they miss me at home.
The text presents humorous lines on marriage, fortune, labor, and folly, interwoven with satirical views on politics and governance. It references mishaps in love and money, warns of misfortune signals, and notes a rise in service costs under Democratic rule, contrasted with alleged theft by minor civil service office holders.
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