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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1919
Page
5
A leading railroad has donated 55 000 pairs of safety goggles for employees since starting its eye protection campaign about five years ago. The program supplies lenses tailored to prescriptions for workers who wear glasses or need goggles for ordinary conditions.
In a London Tit-Bits snippet, a woman and her fiancé exchange playful lines about love and marriage. She vows to share griefs and troubles, while he coyly notes he has none before marriage. The brief banter captures lighthearted romantic banter in a social column.
A Boston Transcript note quotes a London Times ad about Western railway testing punctual service near Maidenhead. It urges railway officials to return a name in gratitude while mentioning the 6:50 Paddington to Wycombe train.
A dialogue notes Mrs A accusing a new cook of odd behavior. The cook acts as if she believes the entire house belongs to Mrs A, prompting Mrs B to seek clarification on the strange conduct.
A humorous exchange where one person seeks a plausible reason to buy a new dress and asks for an invitation to a party as an excuse. The other grumbles about needing a real justification before joining in.
Mrs. Roselover found her back yard garden wrecked after Halloween a long rose arbor uprooted rose bushes trampled and garden decor is ruined. A neighbor quipped about fun from the Halloweeners while she compared the act to a stake torture in a bitter appraisal.
A homeowner directs Mrs Bug to hurriedly contact a plumber to repair a broken ring setting. The note implies urgency and a prompt service request for repair work at a residence.
Returning to the country, I offer my seven room residence on West High Street in a top city neighborhood. The two hall, two porch home features a large yard, garden spot, cellar, cistern, gas and water, and a yard garage. In good repair and offered at a bargain for a town home buyer.
Children from Lithuanians Russians Jews and Poles play together in a public garden in Kovno under the American relief European children's fund. About 250 youngsters attend daily from morning till six, with younger children fed and the older engaged in garden work under a matron and helpers. The diet is one meal daily due to the number of needy children.
In southern Africa virgin diamond beds near the Vaal river will soon see unusual mining operations. A shallow-draft boat will anchor above a bottom-diving bell, 15 feet across, with native workers shoveling gravel into compressed air hoists. The material will rise to the deck for sorting.
The quote cites Europe’s booming demand for silk hats and the inability of production to keep pace. It claims the peace conference neglected to inform the supreme economic council about the pressure the new nations would place on the silk hat industry.
An official estimate places 35,000 thought readers mediums and psychic prophets in Paris, a surge attributed to wartime uncertainty and public fascination with the unknown amid the conflict.
The Courier Journal notes a moment in a restaurant where a kiss occurred as lights failed. The man questions the offense taken, suggesting it may have been by mistake and expressing confusion over the reaction.
A reading joke contrasts an epigram as a brief line that sounds light yet invites thought. The other tramp argues the judge's ten days is an epigram, implying a witty or pointed remark in a courtroom context.
A whimsical Louisville Courier-Journal item features a quarrel between a squirrel and an owl in the woods. The rodent threatens legal action over hoarded food, framing a satirical clash of wits in a rural scene.
Jim, shaped by war, becomes a poet after wartime work. The line hints at a figure whose postwar success stems from experiences in munitions and conflict, turning to verse as a new vocation.
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