Militia Sergeant Puts Target Off Balance Joke
A militia captain asks a sergeant how his men performed at target practice. The sergeant boasts their accuracy but quips the target could have been better if it stood a little more to the left.
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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1919
Page
4
Farms For Sale in South Dakota at Low Acre Prices
Thousands of farms listed in South Dakota priced from 28.75 per acre and up. Call to inspect the Dakota Land Company catalog run by E. C. Cole General Agent in Sioux County Iowa and Maurice Iowa Times Building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Dakota
Times Office
Cail
Dakota Land Company
E. C. Cole
Gen’l
Sioux County
Iowa
Times Bldg
Maurice
A Matter of Thousands A Matter of Thousands
Gene Terrill schemes to win Holly Slade while a younger heiress Charlotte Dentler arrives. Terrill’s run to marry Charlotte is exposed by Yantis, who blocks a hasty engagement news while Holly’s pride and fear mingle with a tale of fortune and family. In a park confrontation, Holly’s engagement secrecy falters as Yantis prepares to reveal his next move.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carol
Gene Terrill
Old Ware
Ware & Yantis
Yantis
Gene
Slade
Hollister
Bromley
McCord
Holly
Yantis:firm
Yanus
Ware
Terri
Charlotte Dentler
Theodore Olevant
Charlotte
Gene ‘Terrill
Gene Darling
Father
Holly Slade
Eugene Terrill
Theodore Clevant
Gera Terrill
Cardwell Yantis
Two Maximilians in history and their crowns
The text notes Maximilian of Mexico who accepted Napoleon III’s offer and landed at Vera Cruz on May 28 1864. It contrasts him with Robespierre of the French Revolution, a once impoverished advocate who joined the Jacobin club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maximilian
Franz Tosef
Napoleon
Mexico
Vera Cruz
Robespierre
Rocbesapierre
Jesobean Club
Social Readjustments Reported at City Jail
A young man visited his father in the city jail on a Sunday evening and asked for his shoes for a date. The father, jailed for drunkenness, removed and handed his shoes through the bars, exchanging them with the son for his work shoes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichtea
Pris
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Potter
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American Security Inc. Co., of
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Standard Chemical Mfg. CO
Omaha, Neb
J.C. Harrison
Goodyear
Goodrich
U. S
DeJong
By.h
Searle
McClure
Terrill
Terry
Cord
Josiah Barnett
Barnett
Tye
Terriel
Tve
Maximilians
Farmers Elevator
City Drag
Andrew Hop
Maurice, Iowa
A. Siedsma
van Dyk
Maurice Harness
Mark Ryan
Pontiac
Mich
John Byisma
Orange City
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