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Scandia Journal in Scandia, Kansas

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Newspaper

Scandia Journal

Location

Scandia, Kansas, United States of America

Date

Dec 21, 1916

Page

5

Adjustable Lunatic Personifies City Crowds On St Patrick Day

An unnamed man calls himself an adjustable lunatic and befriends a narrator amid a St Patrick Day crowd. He guides the narrator to his bachelor room filled with oddities and art objects, reads a wild poem, and vanishes after handing a railroad ticket as a supposed card.

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Married postwar deception unmasked in county town

In a small county seat town a dry goods clerk learns the buyer is the wife of a notorious local prevaricator. The woman apologizes, saying she married him just after the war when men were scarce, exposing a tale of postwar marriage to shield a fraudster.

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Why Not Speed Confession Quip Spurs Debate

The excerpt presents a quip during a car ride where one person accuses another of lying about speed. The reply jokes that the speedometer could have lied, sparking a humorous exchange over truth and measurement.

John

Sister Quips At Family Sleep Talk

A fragment from a domestic scene shows Tom joking that a sister is a good child only when asleep. The sister retorts that she is not dead when she sleeps and adds she has bad dreams waking their mother.

Tom Sister

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