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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1939
Page
3
A humorous fusion of misheard dialogue and a cigarette ad spoof. The piece features a toll bridge quip, a waiter order, a student joke about modern art, a birth date exchange with a teacher, and a Camel cigarette test ad claiming Camels offer more tobacco and slower burn with longer ash. The text resembles a vintage newspaper mix of captions, jokes, and an advertisement clipped from 1920s era print.
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