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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1927
Page
15
A jumble of pasted phrases and jokes from a newspaper page includes stray names and non sequiturs about furniture, college life, radio recipes, and light humor. Shifts in tone show snippets of conversations, mock dialogues, and caricature captions with scattered proper nouns and quirky lines.
A humorous vignette shows a tense family dinner with a boy eager to speak but silenced by his father. A separate postcard-like item features a blackmailer demanding 2600 to avoid kidnapping the wife, then a quip about a missed alarm and other light, magazine-style bits.
A New York actress gave a benefit at Sing Sing with riffs and banter about jail life and punch lines from multiple jokes and poems. The piece mixes satire and caricature, citing a Pennsylvnia Punch Bowl style column and a running collage of quips from humorous exchanges.
A collage of humorous lines from student columns and small notices. Bits cite Ohio State Sun Dial, U.S. Calif, Westminstrer, and Pennsylvania Punch Bowl with playful quips about dream scenes, dancing, misread names, and a royal ball mishap. Includes classroom chatter and light piecemeal gags.
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