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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1935
Page
3
In a dialogue tone a client explains losing glasses and being unable to search until found. The Brute Attorney advises potential grounds for separation as the husband deserted her last night after she paused to look in a milliner’s window.
A fragment from Pearson's Weekly imagines playful exchanges with Oliver Twist and Dickens references. The dialogue riffs on who "should Freddie" and who knows Father Dickens, then shifts to a flirtatious exchange about affection and preference.
Cap Didn’t Fit Pat walked home after a convivial evening and fell on slippery ground. He rose to see a priest blocking the path and the exchange turns on Pat’s good nature and faith in a humorous, rustic tone.
A fragment touching self judgment and profit in judging oneself. It discusses anticipated pleasures, usefulness after contentment, social dynamics between cleverness and company, and notes on the School of Experience and McGuffey’s Readers. Includes an advertisement for Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as a laxative.
A concise reflection notes that anger defeats rational thought and returns to challenge the thinker. The saying attributed to Publius Syrus emphasizes the self-inflicted conflict of losing control and then facing one’s own flawed reasoning.
Drummer notes a playful exchange with a conductor about a song and a repeated line, while the boss asks for a recitation and the drummer clarifies the jest as a showy bit in a club setting.
A humorous dialogue mocks frugal spending with Hubby urging budgeting and Wifey retorting that nothing ever remains by week’s end. The sketch lampoons domestic money matters in a light home front tone.
In Sydney, a fourteen year old boy asked for a half-fare ticket to Binghampton. The clerk balked and the boy retorted that he smokes a cigarette. He insisted on full fare, declaring the line about his age as false.
An exchange in a Boston Transcript joke features a Professor forgetful about an umbrella and a King Arthur quip about remembering to forget. The humor hinges on a misfire of memory and a playful medieval reference.
In Pathfinder Magazine a humorous exchange shows Mrs Green seeking to open an account while the cashier asks for a deposit. She refuses to fund the account and instead requests to withdraw $30, highlighting a playful banking moment.
In a dialogue from the Florida Times Union, Mr A notes the bank’s reorganization reveals more executives than depositors. Mr B asks about the issue as the exchange highlights corporate excess in a period of restructuring.
The quote notes Jones feels most at ease in his library and reveals his bookcase doubles as a folding bed. This playful detail highlights a literaryly inclined youth with a clever furniture twist.
Duff questions Park er's meteorology while the Pathfinder magazine notes his success. The forecaster reportedly abandoned instruments and relies on coins to gauge rain, a contrast to scientific methods.
A humorous scene shows Mrs. Jones inviting a caller to sit while an installment collector declines and agrees to take the piano instead, illustrating a light domestic moment about debt collection and appliances.
Miss Cayenne explains she refused an offer to enter film, preferring to dream of potential stardom rather than risk a failed career, saying she would rather go on imagining greatness than face a flop.
The exchange questions the battle in which General Wolfe, upon learning of victory, exclaimed I die happy. Willie suggests it was his final battle.
Ohio State University expert L Blackman reports dairy improvement data from 32 associations totaling 10 320 cows. Purebred herds dominate top producing lists in small and large herd classes with a majority of top cows purebred, while mixed breeding yields fewer high records.
The Conservation Service promotes earthen dams as the cheapest practical farm reservoir option. Dams can span drainage lines or form depressions fed by streams, with labor and equipment often supplied by farmers. Emphasizes ample spillways, watershed vegetation, and mud control measures to prevent erosion and flood damage.
An Indiana Farmer's Guide writer advises using chopped fodder as part of a winter ration for horses but not as the sole forage. Best practice is a mix of half alfalfa and half corn stover with ears removed, fed in barn and then turned out as weather allows to provide exercise and nutrition.
E R Garrison of the Missouri College of Agriculture advises washing and returning tit cans to the farm, then treating with chlorine solution just before refilling. He notes bacteria grow in moisture inside cans even after washing and steaming at the plant if the lid remains on.
An ad copy describes a luxurious tabladoy pattern for cloths, bedspreads, and vanity sets using fine cotton. It lists pattern 57338 with charts, material requirements, and stitch instructions. Readers are urged to send cents to The Sewing by Household Arts Dept, 20 Fourteenth St., New York, NY, with name and address clearly written.
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