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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1909
Page
10
The piece imagines Teddy Roosevelt traveling in Africa to hunt big game. In a satirical dialogue Roosevelt meets a lion and a rhinoceros who scorn his power. A native audience later finds his remains. The lesson warns against being too great.
A car scene unfolds with a man railing against hard times as another man recalls offering betting counsel last fall. The adviser clarifies he urged betting that Bryan would win if he lived long enough and ran often, not that he would be elected then, a plan meant to give hope for the future.
A collection of short comic snippets and dialogue bits features doctors per capita jokes, estate questions, alphabet trust pun, wise sayings, and backstage theater banter. Lively quips include a nurselike line about crying health benefits, a clumsy suitor remark, and a Brushen Pallette cartoon caption mix up.
In a terse exchange the speaker notes Boozem did not break the drink habit. he says the habit broke him instead. The dialogue reveals a bleak, self compromising struggle with addiction.
A humorous dialogue depicts prices for tomatoes at three cents each and a thirty cent rise per bushel for taters, explained by tariff and ad valorem. Flatirons drop in price due to freel trade while washboards fall to help the poor. a suburban real estate scene ends with a quip about a bride and a student’s jab at degrees.
A music store salesman and a millionaire's daughter fall for each other but lack the father's consent. The delay and a baseball score reveal a betrayal as the pair miss a crucial meeting. She marries a Count a month later while he is left with a reduced wage.
The Historian says a true impartial Civil War history will be written only after another generation passes. The Publisher counters that by then there will be insufficient interest to justify publishing the history.
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