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Newspaper
Pratt City Herald
Location
Pratt City, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1901
Page
7
A collage of brief humorous exchanges and quips from various papers recounts a wedding tale overheard between May and Maude, notes on past romances, and foreign-sounding quips. A mix of light anecdotes, poems, and jokes underscores social chatter in a faded clipping.
A visitor praises a remarkable child at a school noting his steady eyes on his books despite passing fire engines. the teacher adds he is hard of hearing. The exchange shifts to a publisher’s critique of a society novel with conversations deemed too stupid and drawn from life. A separate remark on a man’s mouth uses the phrase simply immense.
An Allen's Foot-Ease ad promotes foot powder claiming relief for burning feet corns and sweat with 25 cents price and free sample. The Ohio State Journal feature jokes about a quiet guest and a rag-time pianist, highlighting Le Roy Rag-Time Favorite Rag-Time entertainment.
The Missouri Pacific Railway opens double daily service from St. Louis and Kansas City to Colorado and the Pacific Coast. Trains run from St. Louis 1 a.m. and 11 p.m. Kansas City 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. with through sleep cars to San Francisco. Excursion tickets go on sale and agents in St. Louis offer information.
A collage of humorous and mixed quotes references lines about a boy's head being a chip of the old block and a teacher labeling him a blockhead. Also notes aphorisms about dares, work, adversity, and a pun on Salt River, drawing from Detroit Journal and Atchinon Globe style.
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