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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1908
Page
11
A Long Island farmer who sold potatoes in Brooklyn says his son Bill now runs the farm and must be consulted on decisions. The narrator recalls Bill’s rise after a violent scrub with a tramp, cementing his new front in town.
A playful poem shows Smith, Jones, Green, and Brown amid a chaotic moving day. Vans wheel through a ruined street as cursing, broken furniture, and smashed mirrors tally the toll. Police arrive but the melee lingers until dawn. Joe Kerr narrates the comic catastrophe.
Joe Kerr recounts attempts to influence a state legislature through cash bribes to lawmakers. A railroad-funded lobbyist describes offering $100 to a neutral member who then criticized him, later voting for the bill anyway, and a second bribe of $250 to another member, highlighting corruption.
A playful note describes the season’s first fly of spring fluttering about with cheeky mischief until a sudden chill wind blinds it and it is punished for being too forward.
A poetic appeal describes hunting for a new home with bath and furnace, sunlit rooms, a garret, a back yard, and a plot of grass. The couple seeks proximity to school and courthouse square, fresh paint, and a well-kept condition, hoping neighbors can share keys for a year’s move.
A Pittsburg drummer recounts traveling 26 years and nine cross country trips. He describes wiring in New York with $20000 from his late aunt, being duped by a telegraph game, and lending $20000 to a bankrupt doctor who was from his hometown. He laments his trust and guilelessness while seeking sympathy.
A humorous exchange imagines the May queen arriving with coats and stoves, while a beware of trickery joke contrasts a moving drag with a sand bag theft. Dickson reveals a planned marriage to a famed alley bowler, Wickson confirming she is the state champion.
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