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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1918
Page
3
A fragmentary humor exchange features misquoted proverbs and odd questions. The dialogue plays on turns of phrase about Adam trousers oil water and a peach pit, forming a sequence of light, whimsical lines.
A shorehound encounters a French lieutenant on Michigan Avenue. The lieutenant says he was born in France but is part American. A god asks how that is. He replies that his glass eye was made in New York. Great Lakes Bulletin.
Quote style note shows a debate over a coat and a pen based gift. The passage implies a rich man accepts a small change or token despite potential pride, illustrating a social exchange or irony.
The page lists simple breakfast ideas including Ham Balls Date Gems Boiled Dinner Hash Fried Cornmeal Mush and Scrambled Eggs a la Guerre with steps and ingredients. A closing motto proclaims a friend sharing common objectives.
Our cook shares several chowder recipes including Corn Chowder Maryland Fish Chowder Soft Clam Chowder and Creole Chowder. Each method uses pork onions corn and milk or tomatoes with spices and crackers for serving.
Uncle Tarpy notes letters from soldiers abroad reveal boyish charm and homesickness then reports Private Emory Tinker earning a Distinguished Service Cross for killing two Germans to rescue his corporal. The piece ends with a question on Yankee invincibility. Ad inserted for May Apple pills and patent remedy ads appear in the page.
Adelaide Chronicle notes a humorous quip about marriage possibilities in a double-header feature. The item frames the joke as a playful aside reflecting social views in Australia.
A reflective line notes a girl seeking marriage should not appear eager while also reminding that not all condemned by society face execution. It uses old fashioned wording to ponder fate and virtue.
Mrs. A. W. Brazer of Black River Falls Wisconsin credits Lydia F Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with saving her from an operation for organic troubles and severe side pain. Doctors urged surgery but the remedy cured her, and she urges others to try it and seek advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
A child, Boneless Alice, favors a rag doll over others because the rag doll, Angelina, has no bones. The mother asks why she loves the old doll more, and the child replies with the bone free nature of Angelina.
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Medicine as building the system cleansing the blood and reducing frequent colds. Claims internal action through the blood to mucous surfaces with testimonials free and a $1000 reward for any case not cured by the remedy. Bartlett, F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
Brother Nappy demands payment for a remedy while the other speaker insists the product did not work. The exchange, styled in dialect, ends with threats of violence and a terse reply defending the guarantee. The scene riffs on a failed cosmetic solution and a harsh personal confrontation from a Kansas City Star excerpt.
An advertisement extols Red Cross Bail Blue as the best made in America for wash day and suggests even failures can form an interesting patchwork.
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