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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1876
Page
4
A collection of jokes and puns about language, objects, and common situations. The answers rely on wordplay and misdirection, including puns about animals, letters, and professions. The humor targets everyday figures such as roof, mouth, ark, and lawyer with playful twists.
An insurance agent visits a Main Street establishment and asks about stock. The dealer laments low cash and misreads the agent as the tax gatherer, thinking stock is insured for 84,500 while claiming actual value around 8,000. The exchange ends with apologies and a corrected figure.
A Laramie Sun clipping recounts a Colorado tale where a woman, tired of a long flirtation, confronts a suitor. She gives him a stark choice to commit or leave, challenging him to either marry and stay true or quit and let another man have a chance.
A settler Isaac balks at quieting during a court session. The squire warns of a five dollar contempt fine for drunkenness. Isaac retorts that the squire’s father was the meanest man he knew. Also notes on William Bell’s move from Coleraine to Illinois and a death-bed confession of a neighbor in a separate incident. A physician’s remark about hard boiled eggs closes the clipping.
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