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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Reporter
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1907
Page
7
A collage of jokes and sayings about life ambition contrariness and learning. Items reference a lawn mower fortune, drowned cattails in a pond, the invalid's resort, college boys versus scholars, and light musings on age and progress. The pieces read like a newspaper feature of witty quotes and brief anecdotes with a period voice.
A terse dialogue recalls a near-miss with a French count for a son-in-law as Jones and Brown banter about a gold brick past. The exchange hints at past romance and risk with humor and irony.
A collection of brief humor and dialogue vignettes with puns and wry observations. It includes lines about a printer, a failed attempt, rings and rings on thumbs, aging photographs, a fishing club tale, stage life, mistaken ambition, and moral quips, all delivered in a lively, old timey tone.
A troubled individual vows to his parents that he will never smoke again after confessing his cigarette habits. The note reveals a promise and concern over health and discipline within the family.
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