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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Reporter
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1906
Page
7
A collage of quips and lines features playful wordplay, misheard phrases, and social foibles. Jests about romance, spelling baffles, a wedding voyage, and a running record cue a lighthearted, era-tinged humor piece with named speakers and dated tone.
A garbled collection of jokes and quips appears to poke fun at romance, money, and social mores. Phrases like What were you going to say and A woman's aim mix with lines about marriage, finance, and clever wordplay. The text reads as a damaged humor page with stray dialogue and punchlines.
A jokey dialogue features Mean of Wille with a new gun and a cat with nine lives. Mamma claims thirty lives. Cupid is lampooned as a merry deceiver stealing hearts. A spinster is explained as enviable, with a jab about contempt of court. A father asks why a man stayed, and the daughter recalls she had said no twice.
A quip about a woman marrying a man with a yellow streak. She reasons perhaps she hoped he would match the color scheme of her ward robe. The remark reflects social humor of the era.
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