Poor Bobs synopsis in a Japanese town tale
In Mitagiri Kayama son of Aochi boasts of buying a girl with stolen gold. A drunken white man is knocked out and Kayama switches clothes with him then robs and escapes. Wells wakes at Aochi’s house and learns a bargain to buy a girl. Aochi dies. Wells buys the girl who claims to be white. The tale shifts to Wells’ youth as son of a missionary and his romance with Alberta Hayward while Williams plots against him.
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Mitagiri
Kayama
Aochi
Thunder Gate
Re Becape
Wells
America
James Sanderson
San Francisco
Bob
Alberta Hayward
Raymond Williams
Williams
Sandy
Ray-boy
Sanderson
Berta
Ray
Alberta
Arizona
Jim
Robert Wells
Uncle Jim
Gordon
Takasaki
Entangled lovers weigh future of Sanderson empire
Alberta and Ray Williams press toward a hidden engagement as Ray plots a path to power with the Sanderson outfit. Alberta's ambition ties Bob to a marriage that could advance Sanderson interests, while letters from Takasaki reveal aging concerns and debts, ending with a dying father’s warning to his son Bob.
Unsettled talk at the Sanderson construction desk
Sanderson presses Gordor for blunt answers about Bob the worker. Gordon notes Bob’s wild parties and the crew’s resentment. Bob defends his methods, declares himself American, and mentions the Fushiki bridge job as a risky but central project.
Two Misses Cause Car Trouble for Joe
In a comedy sketch, Joe confesses to misspeak about two misses in his car, prompting his wife to overhear. The punchline reveals only one miss was in the engine, not in the car, turning a spat into farce with Steve Jackson watching.
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Bill
Joe
Steve Jackson
Amen Shouts Amid Wider World Cries Hallelujah
A reflective line contrasts personal happiness with global sorrow as people cry Hallelujah while some respond with Amen. It ponders restraint in expressing joy amid others' distress and calls for compassion in public sentiment.
Calcium Cyanide Offers Hope Against Chinch Bugs
Illinois tests show calcium cyanide in dust or granules, used with creosote or coal-tar barriers, can kill 75 to 95 percent of chinch bugs along barriers. Costs run about 21 dollars per quarter mile, with barriers renewing daily early in the season and more if weather slows movement.
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Illinois
College of Agriculture
University of Illinois
Aiie
Bulletin
Farm mechanics department aids Illinois farmer
The College of Agriculture directs a farm mechanics department offering drainage and soil erosion work, farm building design, materials, home equipment, power and field machinery. It studies new machines, tests plow drafts, and hitches via a dynamometer, and has built six experimental septic tanks for safe sewage disposal. Five tanks have operated since 1922 at university and college farm sites.
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Farmers’ Service Department
Illinois
College of Agriculture
University Experimental Sewage Treatment Plant
College Farm
Penalty of Negligence in Early Household Tale
Mrs Johnson reports Lum Gawky’s death while chopping stove wood. Gap Johnson comments that improper marital duties led to the tragedy, reflecting a harsh rural mindset from a Kansas City Star piece. The dialogue captures rural tensions and tragedy in a single telling scene.
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Lum
Mrs. Johnson
Gap Johnson
Rumpus Ridge
Kansas City Star
Pilgrim's Progress and a Plymouth Rock aside
A literature and history teacher frames the classic Pilgrim's Progress with a pupil’s quip about reaching Plymouth. The joke notes a rock in the road that stops progress and a humorous landing on it.
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Plymouth
Emerald Oil Germicide Promises Quick Varicose Vein Relief
Advert says Emerald Oil neutralizes varicose veins rapidly with a two ounce bottle sold at drug stores. Claims it also reduces enlarged glands goitres and wens. advises to use as directed for noticeable improvement in a few days and guarantees results.
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Misako
Elsie
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Fushiki
Goron
Blue Box
Champion Spark Plug Co
Toledo
Ohio
St.Joseph’s
Haarlem
Saas
W.N. U
ST. Louis
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