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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1919
Page
7
The Portland Evening Express notes a witty exchange about a new color named Messenger Boy Blue and jokes about how phrases compare human traits to animal or professional stereotypes. The item showcases playful ad copy and reader sentiment.
A jumble of phrases mentions alfalfa and sweet clover for sale at nine and ten per bit by John Mulhall of Sioux City Iowa along with remarks on marriage and alimony and a laundress singing about a happy day using Red Cross Ball Blue.
Advertisement extols Boschee's Syrup for coughs bronchitis and lung complaints across the United States for fifty one years. It claims to ease nighttime coughing aid morning expectoration and aid recovery with American made product sold for more than half a century.
Dr J C Orth of Guthrie Center is named state organizer for the Iowa League to Enforce Peace with all counties to be organized. Iowa moves to establish state parks with Black Hawk county bidding for two sites as Cedar River beauty spots are eyed for preservation.
City editor quips about avoiding the overused term intrepid when profiling a brave airman. Young reporter vows to describe the aviator without clichés, as quoted in the Birmingham Age Telegraph.
A woman shows a Christmas clock her aunt sent. A man jokes about being homely enough to stop a clock, and a woman notes such hype about loud talk is a sensible marriage warning.
A group at a hotel recalls famed shooting tales when a stranger recounts using a double-barrel to shoot at an immense flock of blackbirds. He says the birds rose en masse, none fell, and he and his brother later found four bushels of legs, claiming he had “shot a little under.”
A Los Angeles Times note tells of Sing Lee a bright night school pupil who in a test failed on the question Where are glacial moraines found His witty answer claimed Moraines are everywhere with flights in air ocean and land and even Kaiser inquiring later This humorous boast ends with a caution to finish what you start and not quit what you care to leave alone
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