Dinner Inquiry From a Tramp at the Door
Housekeeper refuses alms but offers a modest dinner. The tramp asks in a confidential tone what the dinner will be today. The exchange reflects tensions around aid and dignity at the doorstep.
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Newspaper
The Citizen Republican
Location
Scotland, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1920
Page
7
Housekeeper refuses alms but offers a modest dinner. The tramp asks in a confidential tone what the dinner will be today. The exchange reflects tensions around aid and dignity at the doorstep.
An advertisement touts Bayer Tablets of Aspirin as genuine safe medicine trusted by millions and prescribed by physicians for over two decades. It promotes unbroken Bayer packages with labeled ingredients to relieve headaches toothaches neuralgia rheumatism and pain. Druggists offer larger Bayer packages and price in cents for boxes of 12 tablets.
A compact ad reminiscence notes Fifty years past when few used dentifrice. It promotes Allen's Foot Ease as a preventive antiseptic powder for feet, claiming long wartime use by armies and navy due to friction from leather footwear. The piece cites testimonials and urges habitual use to prevent callouses bunions and irritation.
A stark poem fragment portrays a victory ball as revelry and decay merge. Silent dead men watch dancers wallowing in glare, plastic luxury, and salacious athletes. Cryptic voices mock the living while warnings echo about mortality and war.
First Assistant Postmaster General Koons rules that children do not fit harmless wild animal class and thus cannot be shipped parcel post. The piece notes this will upset parents wanting to mail stamps on a child’s forehead to relatives and jokes about delays in delivery making a child grown and forgetful of home during transit.
The Republican National Convention nominates Warren G. Harding of Ohio for president. The piece lauds Harding as a good American, Republican, and citizen, praising his statecraft, adherence to party principles, and McKinley era construction. It notes his consistency with American institutions and his resolve to build up rather than tear down. A separate vignette describes a city street incident where a bystander who helps after a man is struck by a car says it ain’t dono mo no good.
Fragmented OCR yields a garbled note about a historic towerite laying, mentioning German and Winghet and a hoped riverine wheat outcome, with unclear names and events. The readable bits reference athletic terms and a troubling sense of timing and inspection.
Jack Danciger, Mexican Consul in Kansas City, surveys Mexico’s shift after Venustiano Carranza’s fall. He argues the Pan-Latin policy failed, urges Americans to focus on large towns, and notes Mexico’s vast mineral wealth and petroleum potential. He contrasts old foreign policy with Obregon’s promised safety for American property and ongoing peace prospects.
A weekly fragment notes French school children favor Pasteur over Napoleon as the greatest Frenchman. Napoleon is shown as self serving, causing suffering, while Pasteur is praised for saving lives and serving others.
A British research commission reports two studies on alcohol effects and the pace of absorption. It notes beer and whisky can intoxicate similarly if volumes and timing match. Separate discussion argues bad housing, not nutrition alone, drives rickets, with signs ranging from dental defects to chest deformities. cod liver oil is questioned as a universal cure.
A passage explains that alcohol absorption depends on drink strength and speed of consumption. It notes that whisky can raise blood alcohol faster than a low percent beer, that tolerance to intoxication can be acquired, and that the body eliminates alcohol through lungs skin kidneys liver and other organs.
A fragment touches on a pew comedian and a leading lady in a playful exchange. It riffs on a London answer and then shifts to an advertisement touting Cuticura skin care for the face scalp and hair. The piece closes with a political quip about a candidate and a remark on success from small deeds.
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