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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1909
Page
8
A man with a sunburnt face recalls an off year in the country with shortages of milk butter eggs poultry berries and fish. He paid seven dollars a week for board and notes a peasant promise of future improvements including better board and supplies. Joe Kerr.
The exchange shows a boastful boast from The Big Chap and a witty retort from The Small Man. The dialogue centers on pride, independence, and social signals in a humorously tense exchange.
A baseball club tabled fines for discipline when a member joked about a handsome girl on the grounds. The fines totaled forty five dollars but were remitted after credit for aiding in upholding standards. Joe Kerr signs off.
A farmer recalls his son Bill planning Marathon races as a big money chance. Bill claimed to be a strong runner and persuaded his father to let him try. The son then shirked chores, lying in bed late while the grocer pressed the farmer for payment and helped explain the scheme.
A rough tale recalls a man nicknamed Bill turning to hammock lounging, cigars, beer, poker, and courting three women to gain nerve. He tried a race, failed, and vanished after being fastened in a hen-house before fleeing into the woods.
A fragment mentions flyin-macheens and a man suggesting no training is needed for them. It contrasts with a home scene where a godly father sits with his newborn, awaiting two months of laziness to pass as Joe Kerr remarks.
The verse muses on a landlord’s disdain for mosquitoes at a summer resort yet notes their complaint about meals. The speaker imagines the ocean courting bathing girls and jokes about hugging the shore versus the girls in a playful coastal satire.
Two workers on a train car discuss a satirical plan to force China into accepting a loan and later foreclose influence, using mock scenarios of debt, price reductions, and eventual occupation as a blunt critique of American imperialism. The dialogue ends with the assertion that the scheme beats the dangerous green goods trade.
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