Quotable Jabs and Odd Anecdotes From a Curious Column
A collage of jokes and vignettes including names like Ima Hogg and Ura Hogg, a Nebraska man’s odd child names Burnt Burst, a hog carcass mystery, a preacher’s pun, a dinner table scene with a jeweled wife, a professor’s critique of women, and a lovers poem about life and dreams.
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Nebraska
Buret
Canada
John Weed
Nellie May
Charlie Will
Senator Hogg
Texas
Ima Hogg
Ura Hogg
Maria
Multittude
New York
Freinda
Tennie
Susan Jane
Fragmented Readable Names in Obscure Note
A jumble of names Margaret Versteeg Agatha Miller Julia Anderson Hilda Mos Mabel Reimar Eva Weir Emma Weise appears with parts of a domestic song lyric about a husband’s weekly pay and a wife’s drudge duties. The passage combines scattered proper nouns with a archaic verse urging a woman to be a housewife.
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Margaret Versteeg
Agatha Miller
Julia Andersons
Hilda Mos
Mabel Reimar
Eva Weir
Emma Weise
Tober
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USA
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Dull
Jowa
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