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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1941
Page
3
A comical old lady asks her niece to bury her in a best dress with pants removed for humor. The niece objects fearing scandal as the aunt reveals a sly joke about Uncle Frank. A separate quip mocks judgmental conclusions from a hint of drinking. An idle moment in a professor's class is mused about as fleeting.
A brief humorous dialogue contrasts treasure and treasury ratings in marriage. A man recalls a wife praising him as her treasure before marriage, then jokes she now calls him her treasury, noting the shift and its cost difference.
A man enters a barber shop and asks for a shave but the barber notes he is too low in the chair. The customer then requests a haircut instead, showing his fatigue.
A jokey dialogue shows a boss and new office boy riffing on a company motto. The boy claims the motto is Push, saying he saw it on the door when he entered.
A playful dialogue features a joke about a dearth of colorful fiction and references seed catalogues. The sketch includes a gag about a best man and a jab at flight training as the speaker describes an apartment climb and an aviator.
A fragmentary dialogue mixes domestic scene and social observations. A mother and child debate appetite and reasonableness before referencing a church sighting of Virginia after a year and a suggested change of attire. An explorer quips about a brave man who rides a taxi to bankruptcy court and invites the driver as a creditor.
The Fort Laurens garrison of Colonel John Gibson faced a siege by 200 Wyandots and Mingos after a December escape attempt left 13 soldiers alive. A key moment came when hunger drove the Indians to demand flour and meat in exchange for lifting the siege, which Gibson granted, prompting their departure. A relief force of 500 from Fort Pitt arrived in summer, and Laurens was eventually abandoned as too remote to defend.
United States Senators George W Norris of Nebraska and Josh Lee of Oklahoma used the telephone to deliver talks from Washington to a Columbia University class in New York and answered students questions. The Dayton central clearing house handles five million words a month on a 2100 mile teletype system.
More than 30 000 youths entered exhibits at the Ohio State Junior Fair to be held in Columbus August 23 to 29. A 14 member Junior Fair Board will guide delegates in conferences with State Fair management. Members include Dorothea Hilliards Dan Reichard Venetia Hall John Jelley Alice Morrow Dorothea Tyler Owen Cotterill Martha Krause Carl Fought Hela Goldsberry David Rees Mildred Knauber Dennis Heindel and Harley Deisler Jr. Only Ohio youths may exhibit and many are open class exhibitors at the Ohio State Fair.
A Milwaukee woman injured by telephone calls her physician at Marquette 4442 her attorney at Marquette 4443 and an insurance doctor at Marquette 4444 all at different locations. A mathematician estimates the chance of selecting three Milwaukee numbers in sequence at about one in 4 911 526 198 260 000.
A survey by Dr. Harvey Lehman of Ohio University estimates peak inventive ages: general creativity 31–35, chemistry 28–32, mathematics 34–38, physics 30–34, astronomy 43–47. It notes Alexander Graham Bell was 28 when inventing the telephone.
Telephone linemen in Florida sweep outdoor lines with long-handled brooms to remove large spiders and delicate webs that form in the strong sun. The webs catch evening dew and can cause short circuits on the wires, prompting daytime cleaning to prevent outages.
Pete Edwards of Hillsdale Oklahoma won first place in a sheep shearing contest at the state fair. He sheared three sheep in nine minutes, compared with an average of six minutes per sheep cited by experts.
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