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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1932
Page
7
The piece extols native pecans as versatile healthful food ideal for salads and cooking. It notes Texas ranking in manufacturing value and payroll, plus the large number of plants and growing peanut shelling industry providing seasonal jobs. A George Eliot quote closes the text.
A tabloid offered $1 for embarrassing moment letters and paid $3 for one about a man catching his wife with another. The piece also notes Texas pecan crop estimates and related industry activity while weaving in other quips and anecdotes.
A humorous exchange between Jim and Joe about railroad versus automobile accidents. Joe jokes that engineers hug the fireman, implying closer attention to safety in trains. The dialogue preserves a light tone and old timey humor.
A young man asks about the traffic lights over the man tel. The daughter explains the red remains until 11 30 then amber flashing until noon when the green comes. She adds that her father is a traffic cop and comments on civilization and leisure time.
An elderly man cautions a boy about worms in an apple with dark spots. The boy replies that worms must watch out for themselves when he eats.
A playground director questions ten year old Johnnie about his father. Johnnie replies his father is dead for twenty years and has no father. The director makes no further challenge.
A garbled humor piece recounts foreman criticism over track material handling and a spike misstep, then jokes about wages and courtship. A Havana physician and a stubborn suitor exchange quips ending with a gun threat and a crash, concluding that building stones matter more than tombstones.
In a humorous dialogue a Beauty and the Beast moment questions women's fashion concerns with the reply that worries have lessened. A Wise Guy aboard a streetcar keeps the crowd laughing while a conductor jokes about needing one more mule to fill the ark.
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