The Curse of Progress Hard Eek
A diner scene features a diner patron complaining about an egg that is hard as a brick. The waitress answers with jokes about using an egg-timer and calendar. The exchange ends with a playful quip about experience.
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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1937
Page
3
A diner scene features a diner patron complaining about an egg that is hard as a brick. The waitress answers with jokes about using an egg-timer and calendar. The exchange ends with a playful quip about experience.
Fragmentary note describes a captain boarded by pirates and a confusion over charges and feud. No clear names, dates, or locations are readable. Further readable text needed for a fuller, sourced summary.
Haney Hulda as chief cook and bottie washer invites readers to stitch seven tea towels using 6 to the inch crosses. Pattern 1383 includes transfers for seven motifs, each about 6 by 614 inches, with material needs and illustrations. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. 82 Eighth Ave New York X.Y for pattern.
A tourist group doubted a guide's claim of ruins dating 2,500 years back while a film star was seen out with her husband for the third night running, provoking comments that it might be a publicity stunt.
A fragmented dialogue shows a motorist bragging about speed and a pushy friend, with stray lines about manners, pie eating, and practice. The text includes garbled phrases and a remark about Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets and a traffic rule about right of way when life is at stake.
An old ad promotes Adlerika as a quick scientific method to rid the system of harmful bacteria and gas. It describes gas bloating from a poisoned colon, claims cleansing both upper and lower bowels, and urges readers to buy at leading druggists. Includes a second note on reciprocity as retaliation.
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