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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1909
Page
8
In a Long Island hamlet, locals feared a tariff would cut prices and trigger a consumer rush. After the rate passed, the store owner shut the shop, then returned with a compromise on seidlitz powders and ax-shelves, inviting more trade and promising a boom for the old country.
A humorous exchange notes a wife appreciating a telephone for its convenience but reveals she must listen half the time, as Henderson quips about domestic listening. The joke hinges on the idea of a henpecked husband and the phone as a practical household aid.
A fourteen year old visits a drug store and fails quiz questions on earth, the moon, and sports. The pharmacist doubts him but hires the boy for four dollars a week with advance to own the store and become ward alderman, despite the odd conversation. A labeled poem follows about a summer maid and isolation at sea.
The piece notes crowds flocking to cinema shows day and night as nickelodeon venues rise. It contrasts canned drama with live theater bans, praising film reels for humor and variety. It highlights wide appeal across ages and the growing craze for moving pictures.
A hotel crowd in Sea Cliff watches a tense confrontation as a janitor admits only being the bank’s janitor while a cashier allegedly swiped 845,000. The supposed culprit is revealed among the listeners, then escapes to the Sound.
Two voices joke about rope and climate shifts as they ponder what people would discuss if weather never changed. The exchange blends humor with a nod to environmental unrest and social chatter.
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