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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1908
Page
11
A comic exchange has Mosquitoes bantering about illness and a week spent in Chappytown. One Mosquito notes dining on cigarette fiends, while the other remarks on being sick and overwhelmed by the scene and jesters.
A theater spectator requests two adjacent seats or two consecutive standing room spots together, prompting the box office to respond that only standing room is available. The exchange records a preference for proximity in the audience.
In a terse two line exchange a speaker declares a burglar worth doing if he is worth having while another counters that even a thief should be well to do. The odd wording hints at a humorous or satirical note about crime and status.
Our correspondent reports from Japan with overheard views of a Tokyo grocer an Ichiban butcher and even the Mikado. The grocer cries in tears at America pride and warns against Spain or Italy attacking the United States. The butcher says Japan loves the United States and would not seek war. The Mikado expresses peace and asks to convey love to Roosevelt Platt Carrie Nation and others while criticizing Foraker.
A calcium light show on a street canvas drew cheers for Taft and Bryan until a man questioned the value of campaign funds. He refused enthusiasm and money, declaring patriotic effort without bribes as the true stand, noting his landlady would not accept campaign cash.
A brief exchange notes that wisdom comes with parenting as newly married couples consider the impact of a baby. It contrasts the view that all babies resemble each other with the reality of parenting responsibilities once a child arrives.
Natica tells the speaker she will marry but not with him, delaying union until she finds a suitable match. The exchange ends with her firm stance and a clear break in the intended match.
A playful line praises a fly that rises with the dawn, highlighting its early start as the finest time for the insect. The verse centers on the fly's habit and timing.
A prosperous rear-seat passenger muses on political promises and the temptations of office. He recalls colleagues like Joe Sweeny Jim Thompson Tom Daily Peter Mann Jim Boland and others who would have demanded jobs, and laments the inevitable rows if he had run for president. The exchange ends with a firm resolve to decline politics.
In a humorous local exchange, a boss jokes about the office boy missing after an accident while the bookkeeper notes such mishaps occur occasionally on the right-field bleachers, reflecting a light sports-page tone.
A sextet gathers to weigh Constitution versus demagogues and defend the Tree of Liberty as a president’s policy clash, political corruption, and economic strain loom. a boy delivers a gas bill 30 cents higher, and the six leave in silence.
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