Hit or Miss Column and Cracker Humor Snippets
A collection of humorous vignettes and quips on winter, coal supplies, express vs parcel post, and playful anecdotes. Includes a joke about a man with a broken leg, Doc Alexis Carrell claims, beauty by age, and a Florida pine woods traveler with deaf hogs causing footloose woodpeckers to injure the animals.
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Young
Doc
Alexis Carrell
Rockefeller Institute
Florda
Weill
Mother and Child art calendar from Farmers' Review
The Farmers' Review Chicago presents an Art Panel Calendar for 1018 measuring 3 feet by 73 inches, lithographed in 14 colors plus gold. Titled The Mother and Child, the piece is offered postpaid for 10 cents, with a free sample of the paper upon request.
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Farmers’ Review
Chicago
Ill
Card of Thanks for Michael Van Deraa
We thank neighbors and friends for kindness and respect shown at the death and burial of our dearly beloved father Michael Van Deraa. His Family.
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Michael van Deraa
Respect Due to Rank by Alice Wenban
A Cleveland Leader item notes Alice Wenban, a cliff dweller, watching across the street as a new apartment builds the janitor’s house first. She follows the excavation with breathless interest, then asks her mother why the janitor’s home is constructed before other units.
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Alice Wenban
Jranitor
Cleveland
Have room for two more girls in dress making school
Miss J Ho Wiegand announces two openings in her dress making and cutting school inviting interested girls to enroll.
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Mis
J HO Wiegand
Odd Advertisements Stun Portland Shoppers
The clipping notes bizarre notices from a Portland storefronts window. Dentists promise teeth extracted while you wait while ads mockingly promise redress for old feathers. Other signs tout discounts on gloves and meals inviting wary readers to second guesses about cost and quality.
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Portland
Cinders for Sale From Pope Beet Sugar Works
Cinders are available for sidewalks and other uses via Pope Beet Sugar Works. Buyers may request wagon or car loads by calling the works. Handy for various outdoor needs.
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Pope Beet
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Old King Winter
Jones
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Vandenberg
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A. S. Diekman
First National
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