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Newspaper
Moulton Weekly Tribune
Location
Moulton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1949
Page
3
A policeman chats with a young governess pushing a baby carriage in a park. He compliments the baby and asks his age. She answers he will be two next week and jokes that they were very young when he was born.
A casual talk reveals a long-ago romance as the professor recalls proposing to a former love. He recounts building up courage, winning acceptance, then forgetting the engagement and proposing again during a later visit.
Four men ride into town in an old car, celebrate with liquor, then return. After a few miles they joke about nearing the reservation noting they are hitting more Indians as the punch line.
Jessica sobs telling her father that her mother drowned one of her kittens. The father consoles but she insists the mother promised to do it sparing no detail about the reason.
A dieter and her friend visit a butcher and request exactly twenty four pounds of meat. The butcher confirms the weight and the woman asks if it can be sent or carried. She replies she wants to illustrate what losing twenty four pounds looks like in a single piece.
A shopper browsed blankets in a department store asking a patient clerk to remove every blanket except one. She explained she hoped to find a friend among them, prompting the clerk to offer to pull down the final blanket if needed.
A customer asks the price of bread. The grocer quotes ten cents and a second loaf at twenty cents, then explains the difference is simply the higher price for the second loaf.
Shopper asks price of tomatoes and grocer confirms thirty five cents, says they rose from thirty cents yesterday after claiming they were grown by the grocer.
Chrysler Plymouth agency Evenson Motor Sales Sheldon Iowa seeks a good man for a permanent position with pleasant working conditions and top pay. N O Evenson proprietor. Women wanted to manage magazine circulation from home for children and schools. Jr Magazine Box 495 Kansas City Missouri. Livestock reg Jersey bull for sale one year Masterpiece breeding and pure Hereford boars and gilts all ages Earl Davis Washington Iowa.
Barber-Greene Ditcher Martin low boy trailer and full ditching equipment advertised for sale by A. H. Piper in Emmetsburg Iowa.
For sale listings include a Koehring dragline with 50 ft boom in good condition and an Eagle coal crusher. Also offered are enlarged prints and reprints from Villisca Photo Service. A 1948 Cessna airplane with 120 total hours is available from Elmer W. Wede of Sutherland Iowa.
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