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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1907
Page
7
A man in sudden pain seeks a doctor who uses delicate instruments and tapes to measure precisely the afflicted area. The exchange turns to alarm and satire as the doctor insists on careful diagnosis while the patient worries about outcomes. A caricature from Puck and banter from Chicago Tribune follow, ending with a quip about persuasion and a motor car.
A humorous note from the Chicago Record Herald recounts an exchange about poetry and a book. Mrs Henpeck comments on a book's value while Henry admits he only skimmed the ending noting the hero and heroine do not wed.
A collage of quips and snippets from Chicago Record Herald Chicago Daily News Yonkers Statesman and Phleago Nowa. Jokes touch on marriage ages cemetery purchases summer changes and puns about death and tombstones. The fragmentary items reflect light humor and era slang with brief dialogues.
A fragment from the Milwaukeed Sentinel shows scattered dialogue about time, money, and truth. Speakers debate prevarication and value, mentioning vast annual costs and a dream of millions upon waking, set in a chaotic overheard exchange style.
In a report from Baltimore, a governor learns that a student hired a tutor to advance, prompting a surprised reaction as the tutor is revealed to be a chauffeur rather than a formal educator. The governor confirms funding a larger expense for the tutoring.
A humorous exchange from the Yonkers Statesman highlights a woman’s failed vote due to a lengthy discussion about women’s suffrage. The cartoonish dialogue contrasts a president of a women’s club asking about voting with the quip about missing polls after a talk.
A garbled OCR fragment pulls together fractured lines from multiple papers. It mentions a chronic kicker and a proprietor, a guest in room 23, and a clerk noting frequent complaints. Whimsical musings on weather, a Washington Star aside, and stray dialect snippets appear, plus a stray address at the end.
Harrison Grey Fiske praises restraint in acting at a New York dinner, noting a nod and silence can outperform shouting. The discussion spans a country scene with an undertaker and a physician, plus remarks on laundry starch and a controversial doctor’s comment about babies. The Philadelphia Ledger reports the exchange.
A 19th century market-style notice claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. The ad offers a $100 reward if it fails, and invites readers to request testimonials. It mentions F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio and recommends Druggists sell the product. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A jumble of quotations and ads appears including jokes about European travel money, a claim for Defiance Starch for home ironing, church missionary ambitions in Africa and Manchuria, low price hunting gear from N W Hide & Fur Co, a call to use Red Cross Ball Blue, a Penn quote about doing good, and Lewis' Single Binder cigars. The text shows a snapshot of a late era newspaper square with misc notices and promotional blurbs.
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