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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1907
Page
11
A fragmented verse about boys seeking new things in Papa's socks and sisters guiding calls from visiting young men, highlighting social amusement and involvement of family members in a community gathering.
A light verse recalls family scenes for the holiday season with a mother kindly guiding pa, slippers by the fire, and a smoker’s vow. The father envisions his finances as dreams of loss loom, while he strokes his beard and proclaims he has sworn off smoking. The poem closes on joyful notes of Christmas and beloved days ahead.
In a smoking car tale amid New York bank failures a Hebrew teller recounts how luck let him withdraw 250000 dollars from Knickerbocker Trust with a 25000 overage and chickens for cover. He jokes that luck makes possible almost anything and notes the line of wary, workmanlike depositors nearby.
A brief exchange describes a sleigh ride with a new mare. One speaker asks about how the mare travels and mentions taking his girl out for sleigh riding the previous day. The other asks who was held in the arms during the ride. The dialogue implies casual, domestic humor without further details.
A New Yorker visiting a Long Island village ends in a graveyard scene. The stranger, a Wall Street broker, seeks a grave marked by a lamb on top. The sexton reveals the lamb is a symbol of a vanished stock venture, leaving the broker to ponder the mutton market back in Wall Street.
A wood dealer boasting creosoted pine blocks to heat homes in a neighborhood of colored people reveals he has supplied about 230 families for two winters. He plans to continue, claims no watchman, and notes blocks melt stoves and burn cabins, counting 28 stoves melted and five cabins burned so far. He crowns the colorfully framed claim with a jab at progress.
A playful verse shows Br rabbit dashing through woods as a hunter fires. At home cooks study rabbit stew recipes while the hunter returns with game from the store, capturing a hunting time scene.
A man with a bulbous nose recalls planning a bank in a Dakota town with capital of thirty thousand dollars. Rumors of an unsafe bank trigger a run. he pays off all depositors and faces a committee with a gun, insisting he did not deceive the public.
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