Fame Without Merit By Richrd H Wilkinso
Mort Lobdell rises from minor league defense to star center with the Bay State Eagles. He clashes with opponents and fans, using dirty tricks and a hidden tactic with an awl to injure pucks. A Chicago visit exposes his cheating, leading to dramatic confrontation and alleged exploitation of rules.
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Mert Lobdell
Bay State ‘Eagles
Mort
Mort Lobdell
Bay Staters
Chicago
Montreal
Mort Lobdel
Roy Lacey
Roy
Boy Brings Tortoise Home To Explain Late Return
A young lad explains his two hour delay home from a visit with a boyfriend by saying he was afraid to carry a tortoise he had been given. His mother demands the truth as he sobs and admits the tale. The Birmingham Post reports the anecdote.
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Yees
Johnnie
Birmingham Post
Forewarned Doctor-What Punchline Cartoon
A brief comic exchange shows a patient criticizing his diet at breakfast while the doctor warns he must stop to ensure he can pay the physician’s fee. The humor hinges on financial strain over daily ham and eggs.
Perch Preference Angler Cites Water Ownership
A estate owner protests a stranger fishing by his lake claiming ownership and stocking rights. The man replies he is not after bass but perch, calmly continuing to fish.
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Perch
Pathfinder Magazine
Moon Question Test For Civil Service Applicant
A ill prepared applicant faced a humorless exam question asking how near the moon is to the earth. He answered that the distance is not near enough to affect his work if he wins the job. The remark appears in the Atlanta Enquirer.
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Civil’ Service
Atlanta Enquirer
Salesmanship Wit Captures Shopper Bet on Field Glasses
A salesman touts a pair of field glasses by joking that viewing objects less than ten miles away makes them seem behind you. The quip appears in a humorous exchange cited by the Atlanta Constitution.
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Atlanta Constitution
No Weapons Debate Sparks Witty Exchange on Campus
A sophomore debater and his roommate exchanged banter about staying unarmed in a planned on campus debate. The exchange highlighted a lighthearted moment before the event.
Clara Gruff and the Ring Involvement
A quotation portrays Clara Gruff meddling in others affairs with witty tone. It notes she often desires to influence engagements and rings and even claims a fingerprint in others transactions.
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Clara Gruff
Asking for It ends with a quip about a sixpence
The guide endures a fussy woman’s questions about cave formation. He retorts he wasn’t alive then and delivers a jokey line about a Scotsman dropping a sixpence down a rabbit hole.
A Generous Disposition of a Fellerish Lesson
A classroom tale features Plodding Pete asking a friend for a favor, the friend refuses due to being broke, and a teacher defining unselfishness as going without. Bobby Brown is cited as unselfish for going without a bath, illustrating humor in a moral lesson.
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Pete
Bobby Brown
Free Air Revives Doctor-What Became Of The Lady
A bystander revived a fainting woman by giving her air and rushing her to a filling station. The incident occurred at a street corner, with observers recalling the quick action of bystanders.
Fare Enough First Boy Sparks Sister Inlaw Riff
Dialogue from a vintage column depicts two youths joking about a man visiting the sister. The first labels him a sap and notes his habit of calling her fair lady while the second identifies him as a street-car conductor.
Post Office Mystery Phrase Drives Downtown Chase
A puzzling back and forth centers on a stranger asking for the post office and a local resident insisting the post office is lost. The exchange hints at a mistaken address and a humorous misunderstanding in a city street scene.
Local social notes from The Plover Patriot
Sunday visits and weekend routines with neighbors relatives and friends across Holmes Pocahontas Ottosen Des Moines Webster City Fort Dodge Havelock Curlew Des Moines Emmetsburg Eagle Grove Pocahontas and Laurens. Quarantine for scarlet fever at the Hubbell home and home project lesson on entertaining closes with a potluck lunch and preparation for April 30 achievement day.
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Alvin Engel
Holmes
F. E. Heathman
Pocahontas
Henry Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Dorothy Miller
Mildred Swanson
Ottosen
George Shaw
Des Moines
Frank Fitzgerald
Fort Dodge
Harry Hilton
Havelock
W. H. Stoufe
Louie Schoenberger
Edward
Edward Lehnus
Webster City
Hher
J. W. Arnold
J. H. Horsman
G. A. Parradee
Iowa City
Lloyd Seagren
Curlew
Fred Grove
Jacinsky
June
F.A. Pringle
Don Hubbell
E. C. VanAlstine
Geo. Majorowicz
VanAlstine
Pringle
Mr. Taylor of
Palmer
George Ande
Eagle Grove
Lock
Laurens
Hal McKim
A. Si
Janice Louise
Walter Rothwell
Gliddey
Eleanor Johnson
Harcourt
M. Burnette ‘Thompson
Bertha Fischer
John Fisher
Mallard
L. E. Garlock
Mabel Hoyt
California
School Carnival Offers Cafeteria Lunch and Amusements
A school carnival on Friday evening April 30 starts at 5 45 with cafeteria lunch and includes a popularity contest amateur contest with entrants from outside schools, basketball shooting, telegraph station, games, stunts and prizes. Menu lists scalloped potatoes potato salad meat sandwiches Spanish rice vegetable salad fruit jello cake pie ice cream coffee milk.
Local residents share visits and family news across towns
Bill McKim and Joe Taylor hauled wool to Fort Dodge. Ottosen visitors joined Marion Ham family in town. Fred Grove has city water in the old hotel now apartments. Rev Dreier spoke on peace and war. Several families sent members to Fort Dodge and Des Moines for events. New baby Earlene Ann born to Earl and wife. Mrs. Nellie Anderson Mountain, long-time local, died in Avonbank Canada.
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Bill McKim
Joe Taylor
Fort Dodge
Edgar Jacobson
Ottosen
Marion Ham
Fred Grove
T. Grove
Florida
Masonic School of Instruction
R. N. Day
Earl Kerns
Earlene Ann
O. J. Cruickshank
C. E. Eppelsheimer
Livermore
Iver Johnson
John Wax
Rolfe
Ray
Peter Olerich
Gilmore City
George Fokken
Nelson C. Dreier
Cedar Rapids
W. F. Hofert
R. E. DuBois
Pocahontas
Des Moines
Supt
G. L. Sanders
Evelyn Kueckenbecker
J. M. Bush
Eldco Heathman
Elizabeth Ferguson
Ed -Wieg
Rothwell
Hal’ -Me- Kim
Janis. Louise
Iseminger
Hal McKim
Janis Louise
Moreman
Nellie Anderson Mountain
Avonbank
Canada
Edward Anderson
Iowa
James Gillies
J. C. Mountain
Jimmie Anderson
Geof Henderson
Harry McFadden
Plover Presbyterian Church Announces Time Change
The Willing Workers meet with Mrs G A Parradee and Mrs May Butler hosting. Mrs Raymond Henderson conducts the devotions. Sunday services include morning worship at 10:30 with Sunday school at 9:30. time change begins May 2.
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G. A. Parradee
May Butler
Raymond Henderson
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Plover Presbyterian Church
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