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Newspaper
Saint Johns Review
Location
Saint Johns, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1910
Page
7
A collage of humorous quotes and dialect snippets from old newspapers recounts quirky exchanges and local color. A trolley pitch, goose and geese rhymes, a Gaelic speaker, a doctor patient quip, and jokes about breakfast foods display regional speech and social humor across various publications.
Fragmentary excerpt discusses food intake and nourishment with garbled phrases about meals and fortifying the body. Mentions the idea that eating provides energy and vitality, but specifics are unclear due to corrupted text.
In Modern Times a dialogue recalls a risky banter about lightening the ship to avoid threats and lowering the figure overboard with a parachute, reflecting the era's wartime tension and satirical tone. The line juxtaposes casual speech with dangerous action in a clipped, ironic exchange.
Ragged fragmentary clipping shows snatches of dialogue from multiple items: a judge and attorney banter about necessity and law, a Paris siege remark, and misc notes on a literary society, a congressman, caricatures, fashion hats, and a printer’s dispute. The text is unreadable in places but preserves names and brief phrases.
The Moscow Imperial State Theater stages An Ideal Husband in Russian, reporting remarkable Moscow run with 26 performances in four months. Also notes archival discovery of Walter von der Vogelweide songs, a 14th century DIN binding fragment, and varied literary items from Gambetta to George Meredith. A New York settlement for immigrant mothers hosts tea and sewing as a worker records a child’s misheard word Nearer My God to Thee, illustrating intercultural life and a touching miscue.
A business man strolling a sunny avenue yesterday afternoon was accosted by a persistently affectionate stranger who offered a gold ring and carfare to a Brooklynite. The man was grabbed by the elbow, sparking a heated exchange as the young man brandished a birdcage, realizing later he had met the businessman years ago at a fraternal gathering.
The dining car kitchen exemplifies space economising with suspended water tanks a long range wall and storage boxes. A pantry vestibule between kitchen and dining car handles orders and dishes while each food item and utensil has a fixed place. Perishables stay in a refrigerator and conductors monitor tables to prevent neglect. A trip sheet records supplies and sales ensuring loss is traceable like other car equipment. Waiters face $20 monthly breakage pay with excess damage shared among them.
A satirical piece extols the homemaker as the ideal of Womanhood urging men to keep her in the home. It jokes about the absurdity of demanding endless domestic labor and warns against reducing women to stenographers or mere helpers, while celebrating chivalrous regard for home life.
A fragment shows Brown asserting familiarity with a wife and claiming prior knowledge, Smith retorts about prior advantage and garments, Needham Quick dismisses dead set on old items, and the line ends with a remark about lightly soiled garments suited for use. The exchange reflects a terse, sarcastic handoff in a Chicago Tribune style.
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