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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1938
Page
6
A trio of brief humor lines appears with exchanges between a beggar and sailor, a diner and waiter, and a confused rider. The snippets showcase quick banter from Bee Hive, Tit-Bits Magazine, and Boys' Life with a punchline twist about credit, tough steak, and a mistaken lunch wagon stop.
The popular film star tested her French with dinner companions. When a gallant asked for sugar she answered Oui. He asked what she meant by we, and she replied O u and I.
A humorous vintage ad touts Pepsodent Paste and Powder with Irium claiming a natural pearly shine. It promises quick whitening without bleach grit or pumice and notes the product is safe and leaves the mouth tingling clean.
A set of ten queries covering astronomy geography linguistics and history asks about star points the White House naming the earth curvature postage stamp denominations water level marathon length Lincoln Memorial inscriptions Sequoia ancestry Mackinaw spellings and Crater Lake formation.
A compact set of 10 factual items covering scintillation effects from atmospheric refraction, Roosevelt era naming of the White House, earth curvature per mile, a five dollar figure, concave water surfaces from capillarity, a Marathon runner’s distance, Gettysburg address on walls, mixed Cherokee heritage, spelling distinctions in place names, and a volcanic summit collapse theory for Mt Mazama and Mt Shasta.
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