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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1908
Page
11
A street car passenger, a tailor, asks a fellow rider how to approach William Jennings Bryan and whether the candidate would loan him five dollars. The Roman-nosed man dismisses the idea, saying Bryan will never be president, and suggests Taft as an alternative.
A July encounter in the Adirondacks reveals a settler family living unchanged through a national money panic. The father and his wife insist their poverty has had no effect, continuing with corn coffee taters bacon and a roof over their heads.
The dialogue features Horan Doran and Faith debating whisky and stomach pain with a hammock and fishing net analogy. A jokey exchange ends with a cutter’s task about trimming the jib sheet, showing sailors at leisure and a light miscue about the boat gear.
Harold recounts a morning fall from a buggy but claims no injury. Howard quips that Providence favors intoxicated men and fools. Harold insists he never drinks liquor, and Howard concedes.
Dicks presses Miss Wrinkles about friendship while Wicks reveals they have been married since June, signaling a tense, ended relationship.
Cook says Swiftly was held up last night. Hook offers the robber acted as an act of charity stating the thief could not hold himself up when last seen.
A quiet man walking home at midnight is accosted by a tramp who riffs on Venezuela tensions and Castro as an impending war. The man refuses a dime citing domestic dreads, jokes about fighting abroad versus a domestic row with Mrs. Castro. The exchange ends with a brisk, humorous twist.
A string of witty, unrelated exchanges appears as a humorous dialogue. Characters like Ruyters Kramp and Miss Kayne exchange lines about editors, honesty, and luck with money. The snippets reference digestion, pastries, and a joke about a mule.
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