Real Essence of Humor at Boston Club Speech by O'Hara
A Boston City club speech by Neil O'Hara blends timely topics with humor. The routine riffs on Calvin Coolidge, labor, Prohibition, and women’s fashion lampoon the era’s economic strain, political shifts, and social mores with a brisk, period voice.
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Philadelphia Record
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Republican Party
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Washington
Simon Swig
Ford
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Bluelaw Reformers
Patrick Henry
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Boston
Trenomt
Boylston
Preference for veterans in hiring urged by Galbraith
A Chicago paper highlights unemployed World War I veterans sleeping on benches and begging for work, urging national shame and duty to grant preference to veterans able and willing to work. The call extends to cities nationwide to ensure employment for capable veterans and to find suitable jobs for those not yet fitted.
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Galbraith
Chicago
America
Legion
Hospitality and the becoming world of travel
The text traces hospitality from prehistoric soup pot hospitality to modern civilization. It credits increased travel with broader tolerance and claims the motor car boosts human intercourse beyond rail and steam. It envisions private transport uniting people, fostering universal amity that could end war.
When It Rains Nebraska Learns Its Dry Fortune
A Nebraska essay reflects on the state’s historical drought resilience and the surprising benefits of its arid climate. The piece contrasts rainfall variability with agricultural stability and notes regional attitudes toward weather.
Nebraska's Rain and Drouth Shape Its Superior Agriculture
The State Journal argues drouth as a serious crop impediment, praising Nebraska's adaptive farming which thrives despite low rainfall. It notes wetter eastern regions suffer soil leaching and drainage costs, while Nebraska maintains fertile, well kept farms, barns, and dwellings, aided by intelligent crop choices and favorable climate balance.
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Nebraska
State Journal
Changes of Day What He Said to His Wife
A series of humorous misreadings about starting a garden. A husband rejects gardening citing time and money, while a neighbor and partner react with disbelief and jokes. The sketches play on stubborn resolve and domestic dialogue.
Patience the Chief Fruit of Study in Selden Quote
A compact quip notes patience as the chief fruit of study. The speaker credits self-improvement through reading, suggesting patient acquisition of knowledge yields comfort and entertainment across fortunes.
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Selden
Smith Factory Era Sign Confirms Local Origins
In a city visit, a traveler recalls a large sign reading The Smith Manufacturing Company and muses on how Smiths are connected to production. A series of brief anecdotes reflect language quirks, jail terms, yard neglect, and a joke about canning labor.
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Smith Manufacturing Company
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Emergence of Tangelo Impressed Eastern Markets
The tangelo, a hybrid of tangerine and grapefruit, has been developed for years and is just entering markets in modest numbers. It blends traits of both fruits, offering a mild, handable fruit less prone to be messy. Grown in Arizona and southern California, with Florida potential, it suggests new citrus options.
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Arizona
California
Florida
Los Angeles Times
Experience over books as prime educator, Alcott reflection
Experience, not books or people, shapes us and teaches when books fail. Education remains complex, often guided by life’s pressures, necessity, and chance, forming notable characters beyond formal schooling.
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Bronson Alcott
Not Interesting Move Hint Confounds Rhetoric say Post
In a column echoing a Houston Post stance, speakers should frame actions as the subject’s move without implying locations like the cornfield or iron works to spark interest, cautioning against vague prompts. The remark reflects persuasion guidance in contemporary discourse.
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Cornfield
Iron Works
Houston Post
Rain and Snow Conversion Note
A weather note states that one inch of rain is equivalent to tem fteches of snow, outlining a rough precipitation equivalence for forecasting and reporting purposes.
Jud Tunkings quip on wisdom and listening to advice
Jud Tunkins notes that a man may show wisdom by declining to take all kinds of advice, but never by refusing to listen to it. The remark underscores judgment in choosing guidance rather than closing off input.
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Jud Tunkins
Radio-micrometer and social blush fears in Punch
In no danger the radio-micrometer is described as sensitive enough to respond if anyone nearby blushes. The writer notes that in the current state of society there is little fear of its being used in this context.
Quote about love and age from Boston Transcript
A brief quoted remark notes a college professor’s claim that after thirty, men act by common sense in love, followed by a counterpoint that there is no fool like an old fool, as printed in the Boston Transcript.
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Boston Transcript
Ocean Bed Not Known By Oceanographer Claim
Oceanographer Dr G W Littlelmdes of the hydro graphic office of the United States navy says a vast portion of the earth's surface remains unexplored. In the North Pacific vast ocean bottom areas have never been sounded by any line and may remain beyond current reach despite extensive exploration.
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United States
G. W. Littlelmdes
Hydrographic Office
United States Navy
North Pacific Ocean
Furmer
Unexplored Ocean Floors Hold Vast Patches, Says Scientist
Dr Lit tlehales notes immense sea floor patches larger than Australia remain unseen. He calls for extensive sounding to map ocean basins, as half the earth my surface contour is unknown. Closer interval soundings could reveal submarine peaks guiding theories of earth formation.
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Australia
Littlehales
Evening Post
A Gentleman
A trimmed quotation from William Makepeace Thackeray asks how many true gentlemen exist beyond well dressed surfaces. It notes generous arms and elevated truth and urges readers to list genuine gentlemen in their circles by character rather than appearances.
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William Makepence Thackeray
Memorial Tree Planting Marks NY Institute Exercises
The international memorial tree, a white oak planted with soil from every country allied with the United States and from every state, opened the New York State Institute of Applied Agriculture at Moriningdale New York. Charles Latrobe Pack of the American Forestry Association cited it as symbolizing those who served and those who did not return from the war. Soil collection took over a year and was leaked to boost productivity.
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United States
New York
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