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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1920
Page
3
A collage of witty lines and exchanges from the era. A boy jokes about a Sunday school teacher’s faith while another remark highlights a minor car collision. A Kansan resident muses on house hunting amid the Cyclone Belt with a quip about the wind.
An elderly beggar in a wheelchair on Delancey Street near the Williamsburg Bridge used a teen helper to shout in Yiddish urging passersby to give alms. The scheme drew coins as onlookers stopped and complied, turning old beggary into a modern con.
The American Chamber of Commerce in London describes a wireless emergency device enabling ships with a special transmitter to ring bells on nearby vessels with matching receivers, even if an operator is away. The bell alerts crews to 8. O. S. calls, promising immediate attention.
Dialogue contrasts beauty with merit and fitness, noting that even professors of physical culture must show strength. The Birmingham Age-Herald commentary uses pointed humor to critique appearance based judgments and the link between capability and public perception.
They say fortune tellers make a lot of money. Naturally, it is by its nature a business of prophets, you know.
In a colloquial exchange a man asks if the doctor he visited fixed a swelling, replying that the physician “put it in the bit,” suggesting a humorous or coded medical remark within a dated fragment.
A court snippet quotes Marion Lawrance on divorce disputes. The attorney asks a wife how incompatibility manifests as she seeks separation while her husband resists. The remark underscores social views on marriage and the idea that those not pursuing business should stay private.
Lesson outlines focus on Peter and John in Acts chapters 2 through 12 and on Christ’s living presence. Lessons cover Peter’s preaching at Pentecost healing a lame man before the Sanhedrin and empowering the church, with emphasis on witnessing fearlessness and open speech.
A Nashville woman in Indianapolis recalls a music store encounter where a customer claimed to have heard of Caruso but not that he sang. The tale includes a quip about Miss Fowler closing her eyes on high notes and an improvised pun about an agricultural failure who has gone to seed.
Public health notice urges vigilance on blood health and promotes S. S. S. as a revitalizing vegetable blood medicine. It claims disease resistance and vitality improvements and offers free medical advice from the Swift Specific Co. in Atlanta.
A southern Oklahoma cotton camp meeting story recounts a preacher praising heaven while a congregant longs to be a June bug and fly away. A sister quips that a woodpecker would peck him to heaven, reflecting humorous rural African American speech captured by the New York Evening Post.
In a brief dialogue Miss Cuay enne brushes aside the idea that a local figure, described as a parlor socialist, will turn to full red. She asserts he will remain largely unchanged, likening his hue to a shrimp pink.
A quoted proverb notes changing times in housing where a dry cellar once mattered. The remark “Not in these times” signals broader shifts in home upkeep expectations and living conditions.
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