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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1923
Page
6
A playful note asks if a friend can spell capitalization with seven letters, yielding the gag Tra on. It also cites a steam shovel built in England for irrigation in Punjab India, weighing 300 tons with coal and lifting 20 tons per minute, claimed to do the work of 600 men.
A brief remark notes that riding a hobby horse should be acceptable as long as the rider does not block the entire road and insists on exclusive road use. The editor suggests courtesy and reasonable sharing of the roadway.
Fragmented text moves from a celebratory verse about success and happiness to a misjoined historical note about the Jagiellon dynasty. The piece references prosperity, marriage, and domestic life before abruptly drifting into a historical line about the Jagiellons ruling Lithuania Poland Hungary and Bohemia ending with Sigismund II in 1572.
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