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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1927
Page
11
A collage of jokes and quips from campus humor pages and cartoons. The pieces lampoon manners, travel, advertising, romance, and student life with puns and playful misreadings of foreign customs and famous names.
A Texas Ranger overhears a contentious exchange about love and loyalty as a cafe sees sharp wit. The dialogue features a barbs laden joke about a "girl" and a dismissive remark about her talking. A rival quip notes a bank arrangement and no soup sales.
A collage of quips about paying doctors, frats, banks and daily gaffes. Jokes reference paying for calls, bids for fraternity status, bank failures, a dog and a Boston terrier, and playful exchanges about home life and strangers.
A collage of humor and captions from a vintage paper features quips about advertising signs, peddlers, courting miscues, party fines, bicycle arrests, and a fat conductor. It includes jokes from various contributors like Cincinnati Cynic and Lehigh Burr, with editor notes explaining the humor.
A traveler protests an open hog pen under a house while a local resident defends the setup noting no hog losses in fifteen years. The exchange highlights practical tolerances and neighborhood standards in rural life.
A collage of humorous student quips from multiple campuses. Jokes touch work, rest, politics, parties, fashion, sleep, songs, weather, and family wealth with names like Arizona Kittykat and Arthur in a light, sarcastic tone.
The quote reflects a social reliance on optimistic outcomes from sociologists while noting few people actually engage in cross country running. It attributes the line to Dartmouth via Jack O'Lantern.
Reported large section of Michigan fifty feet of Chicago lake frontage vanishes amid two storms. Chicago police launch search in Cicero underworld district as authorities pursue leads and safety concerns.
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