Tramp Reflects on Lost Marble Hall Home
A tramp asks a farmer for bread and Pie. The farmer's wife notes his looks and he replies he once dwelt in marble halls. She asks how he lost such a home and he answers term expired.
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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1927
Page
3
A tramp asks a farmer for bread and Pie. The farmer's wife notes his looks and he replies he once dwelt in marble halls. She asks how he lost such a home and he answers term expired.
A reader remarks that shoes are not part of the outfit and should not be included in weighing clothing. The exchange questions manners and the expected standard for attire in a light social note.
A writer targets Hermann Blair in a brief item noting a dislike and a quip that baseball needs more fresh air. The piece presents a sharp opinion attributed to an unnamed speaker in a short newspaper fragment.
Senator Sorghum dismisses public focus on Shakespearean drama as less valuable than his own oratorical efforts. He questions why society should study profound soliloquies and splendid speeches to compare with his rhetoric.
A steno asks if her son got the white collar position he wanted. The boss confirms the job involves making them white in a laundry, indicating a garment finishing role rather to a traditional office position.
Mrs Scrappington declares a neighbor a tyrant in a terse exchange with John. The Boston Transcript records the quarrel as a brief civil confrontation with pointed remarks and implied judgments.
A quirky dialogue shows a grocer offering eggs and a bride choosing white eggs with a yellow polka dot center, creating a whimsical domestic vignette.
The exchange centers on a remark about collars and ties with a snappy ready-made tie adding dressiness to a Sunday suit. The dialogue features the congressman and his wife sharing light banter on attire.
A quirky line ponders what a fossil is in a baseball context. It likens a fossil to an old player and contrasts belief with certainty in a compact, tongue in cheek remark.
In a household note the Browns praise the new cook for soup toast and vegetables but mention the dessert was prepared by the successor indicating a small kitchen mishap.
A brief park confrontation centers on inequality with the speaker insisting all men are born equal while the heckler questions the implications of that claim and the resulting differences.
Dialogue fragment features a mentor urging diligence in studies and a reply about learning’s lasting value. The exchange highlights a compact mentor pupil dynamic with a playful remark about knowledge and possession. The characters are unnamed but labeled as Small Nephew and Pathfinder in a moral-satirical vignette.
In Stray Stories a diner waiter jokes about coffee that looks muddy and explains it was ground this morning as the tiny vignette notes a slice of everyday humor.
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