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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1919
Page
10
A fragmented OCR item by A. Hitt details a local fountain event or feature with unclear names and a mix of distorted terms. Readable portions mention a community setting and possible celebratory language but lack cohesive facts or date, leaving the core event unspecified.
A collection of brief vignettes shows Temple Able seaman Murphy fabricating tall excuses to get leave by claiming family events like a great-aunt wedding, bearing a humorous twist. Other setups include a lawyer’s witness remark about a tombstone and a barber’s chatty client, all in light comic style.
A fragmentary comic scene shows a gang of crooks with marked cards and a plea for a new deck as suspects in a con. The piece shifts to a domestic moment where a child jokes about swapping toothpaste with sister’s oil paints, lightly perturbing a parent.
A nostalgic piece recalls past prices and meals, noting how a dollar bought more in earlier times. It contrasts memory with present costs and jokes about aging, study in French, and a humorous poke at authors and legislators. References to prunes, pie, eggs, butter, and a solar systems article suggest light, reflective humor.
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