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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1908
Page
11
A fragment shows SMOILIE with Uncle Josh watching a game and joking about piles of jewelry. Reggy is teased about betting as a husky man offers sodas for caramels. A playwright and actor debate a strong scene about home ties and not trampling them.
A veteran umbrella maker explains to a streetcar passenger that a canal project doomed his business. He anticipated shipping 40,000 umbrellas to Panama's workers but a government rule forbidding one handed use while digging ruined the order, suggesting he should have produced canoes instead.
A poet notes November as the year’s twilight and comments on practical sentiment. The piece humorously reflects on Thanksgiving over and Christmas looming, suggesting little cause for gratitude until the next year.
A Sage dispenses comic counsel on rising in fame through a country sausage brand before urging a would be politician to beguile voters by a tastier path. The piece closes with a moral about greatness coming through the stomach. Also includes a stanza titled He Didn't Want Work and a bachelor themed verse about winter romance.
An old farmer recalls hiring three extra men during harvest and his son Sam who takes up boxing. After a single round knockout of a peddler, Sam becomes boastful until a second confrontation leads to a knockout and a change in Sam. He then reads 40 Bible chapters in 30 nights and learns 12 hymns while hoping for a better land.
A prose poem notes careful planning after a Thanksgiving test. It urges giving digestion needed rest before Christmas dining.
In a New Hampshire village inn two men argue all day and into evening about tariffs. The landlord says the talk will stop once the narrator leaves. The pair are Deacon Taylor and Squar Goodheart, who fear telling outsiders what they argued.
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