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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1925
Page
9
A collection of humorous quips and comic snippets attributed to readers and columnists from 1925. It includes remarks on education common sense and life with light jab at taxes bootleg liquor and social scenes. Names and places hint at a lively era of newspaper humor columns.
A mixed text fragment shows a puzzle description about filling letters to form the two word diamond, with a math hint about 28 applicants, 21 receiving eight dollars, and a calculation equaling 165. The accompanying short prose includes a tainted wartime anecdote about a mine superintendent and a colored miner in a tavern, ending with a garbled catchphrase from American Legion Weekly.
The excerpt presents fragmented newspaper humor with a Charleston accent and quick exchanges. It features a maid, a newlywed couple, a judge, and an actress in a breach of contract dispute with a solicitor observing.
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