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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 04, 1910
Page
3
A discussion on sales pitches and imitations in fabric shopping. It explains how substitutes are offered when preferred fabrics are out of stock, warns readers to verify the original cloth, and urges questioning and care to avoid deceptive imitations and misrepresented goods.
The youngest old ladies of Los Angeles organize the Jolly Old Ladies Club. Members must be optimists who have passed sixty and laugh with sixteen year old enthusiasm. The creed promotes cheerfulness, health, and avoidance of sickness or gloom.
A Danish Queen visits Iceland and asks a bishop how many children he has. The bishop, thinking of Icelandic sheep wordplay, replies Two hundred children. The Queen asks how he supports them. the bishop quips that in summer he feeds them on the hill and in winter he kills and eats them.
An English sportsman describes outwitting an African elephant after a fierce chase. The elephant climbs steep slopes, slides down, and charges relentlessly as the hunter escapes to safety, then mimics the beast back to the woods.
Ainslee's contains Theodosia Garrison verses describing distance and longing. A hundred miles or years cannot part two souls, as a single dragging moment reveals true feeling. The speaker contemplates farewell to former loves and wonders if the other can hear.
The waiter replies to a woman asking if the man is her husband by saying he does not know. He jokes that sunshine makes her miserable and if it shines she says it fades the carpet, turning the exchange into a light banter.
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