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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1898
Page
3
A reader notes Aunt Lucinda gains from a new doctor yet jokes the physician finds new illnesses. The exchange hints at social views on medical care and marriage prospects in a light, humorous tone.
Alfred Turner of Wisdomfield and his wife prize their gifted daughter Belle a girl of six who speaks languages and knows capitals. Dr Goodman, famed for cures, questions if genius can outlive fragile health and unrolls a three scene tableau of a prodigy doomed yet later restored as a happy child playing in a meadow.
Freddie jokes that the weather bureau cannot open its bureau drawers. His father, discouraged by a failed attempt to open a bureau compartment, sighs at the lowering sky. The exchange captures a playful household quip about weather forecasting limitations.
A Yonkers Statesman quip notes a woman’s vanity grows from repeated compliments about her tiny feet. The exchange highlights humor in social vanity and public perception. The dialogue showcases light, everyday wit typical of the era.
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