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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1940
Page
3
Gay and John share a tense farewell at a lakeside retreat as romantic feelings rise and a promise to marry tests their friendship. Gay admits doubt about Todd while John offers concern and a quiet plea for truth before an overnight departure and a late night return.
Dr. Harold Westlake of Pennsylvania State College reports analysis of 1500 X-ray mouth and voice box pictures from hundreds of people showing the larynx influences speech more than the tongue in vowels and that laryngeal spasms precede visible tongue or facial symptoms in many stutterers. He predicts larynx will become central in speech instruction aided by electrical energy measurements.
A teacher notes the boy’s originality is evident in mathematics and a parent comments on observing his progress. A playful line contrasts marriage with a ring on the bride’s finger and a ring through the bridegroom’s nose, reflecting social humor of the era.
A humorous exchange over shaving costs features a customer balking at thirty cents for a shave and the barber retorting that the price and chin have both grown. The quip highlights playful street banter and old time barber shop culture.
In a brief dialogue between Mr. Cloud and Miss Stone, the poet offers a gift of thought while Miss Stone insists on an assay of its value before acceptance, highlighting a clash between sentiment and measured worth.
After complaints about manners a clerk was dismissed for rude dealings with customers. Months later the manager spotted him in a policeman's uniform. He said the job lets him tell customers they are wrong.
A sergeant questions a recruit about his birth in December 1917. The exchange recalls a bitter winter with humorous lines about cold weather and a penguin delivering the baby, highlighting wartime humor in a training setting.
An advertisement pitches a laxative that combines senna with Pepsin and is described as appealing to children. It urges readers to ask their druggist for Dr. Laxative-Senna.
A Colton quotation remarks that memory aids wit yet can betray invention. The saying contrasts memory as a friend of cleverness with its treacherous role in creativity.
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