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San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Feb 08, 1927

Page

10

Gay limericks and jokes in a lively Florida item

A raucous collage from Ormond Beach and San Francisco features limericks about socialites and a jab at Rockefeller. It cites humor on golf courses and business leaders, a Charlie Chaplin safe joke, and a Women’s Department pinboard including a prize mention and a sanitary undergarment ad.

Associated Press Dispatch Ormond Beach

Little Jimmy and the Nicaragua Escalator Mystery

The fragmentary column blends diary style notes and mock dialogue as a staff correspondent in Nicaragua recounts tense encounters, a spy moment, and a nemesis highway patrolman, with crowding exclamations and dated lines. It hints at a serialized continuation titled To be continued.

Fragmentary Note Reveals Domestic Tension and Inquiry

A jumbled diary style entry shows marital discord over clothing and a missing item. The writer mentions a brooch, a crying spouse, a cadged vest, and a trip to town for lunch followed by a printery visit. The closing line hints at a demand to finish a picture within ten days by Mr Voit Strohe.

Mr. Voit

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