Speed on the road prompts safer driving ethics
A 1926 NEA Service PSA urges motorists to curb speed and restore judgment at the wheel. It questions the real time gained from speeding and warns of the danger to others, urging common sense and safer driving practices.
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Quips and Quotations From Tom Sims In Anniston
A collage of wry sayings spans cities like Anniston New Orleans and Atlanta. Observations cover rest and labor public behavior theft and crime fashion and manners while poking fun at optimists waking sermons and gadget snubs in a playful local column style.
Music Hath Charms In Jokes From Johnston’s Joy Book
A collection of humorous anecdotes from Bill Johnston’s Second Joy Book published by Appleton. A violinist in England asks for an E string and is told to pick one, a French tourist in Paris brings two girls to a café with pockets full of sandwiches, and a café manager quips about the band. More jokes involve a Sunday music price, a pianist’s toe stub, and wordplay on musical terms.
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Little Joe Considers Skirts and Songs for City Show
The dialogue hints at a comic or musical night with "Little Joe" rehearsing with friends. Cook jokes about performing, offering to sing "The Holy City" as a featured piece while noting limited recent singing activity. The fragment suggests a lighthearted stage scene in a small-town paper.
Now She Wants to Go Back to Husband
Denver reports Mrs Mabel Brown wife of Harry Brown, an Detroit auto plant worker, ran away with milkman Lee Smith with three babies. Federal officers found them fleeing and took them into custody. Mrs Brown said she would return to her husband at the first train if he will have her back.
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