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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1908
Page
9
A fragment depicts the Jolly Jesters with banter about a lynching rescue and a baseball umpire. A college oarsman recalls convincing his father to attend a race while another jokes about dairy chores during vacation.
A country driver recounts panic over a long island scare and the collapse of confidence. A widowed neighbor rescinded a marriage promise after the panic, and the man faced a breach of promise summons as he left the scene. Joe Kerr reports?
Clara DeVere faced a dramatic moment at graduation as she delivered an essay in a music store clerk’s front row seat. A stranger named Hogg saved her moment with a panic of mistaken romance before she fled behind the curtain.
A stocky man, fresh from a streetcar scrap, asserts his victory and credits his actions to a just cause. He targets an ice man for short weight, details a knockout assault, and claims the man confessed and offered three dollars. The scene hints at political tensions and possible corruption links.
A zany collage of snippets features Miss Ann Teek and a bachelor heiress, jokes about a lean spinster inheriting a million, a horse with reasoning, and a cab shying. Banter moves through a summer resort scene where a wife keeps her husband loving by withholding principal.
Two church elders, Deacon Jones and Elder Davis, nearly collide in the street after a heated exchange over a $3,000 pew rent dispute. The confrontation ends with no violence as they glare and step aside, a potential tragedy averted after tense words.
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