26 Sep 1908
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Newspaper
The Marion Daily Mirror
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1908
Page
1
In a humorous domestic scene Mr Bowser buys a cricket to cheer his home on rainy evenings. He presents the box to Mrs Bowser claiming the creature will sing and bring cheer, arguing it is a singing cricket though she suspects a grasshopper. The quarrel turns on naming and the cricket’s true nature.
In a comic tale M. Quad narrates Mr. Bowser’s misread cricket as a bearer of trouble. A country farmer gives Bowser a mysterious cricket and neighbors intrude as Bowser contemplates drastic action. The story ends with Bowser killing the insect and his wife concealing her amusement.
A fragmentary item notes a conversation about an oval bell and incorrect general conditions. The speaker dismisses the details as irrelevant, adding they always slept like a log in New York lit.
A provocative remark questions the belief that only intellectuals suffer hay fever while a Minneapolis Journal fragment notes a husband’s severe symptoms. The Washington Star quotes a puzzled reply about the value of Mystic Stax and the difficulty of affording enough accountants to determine it.
A wandering narrator critiques writers and critics for mislabeling tramps, arguing many are hardworking and honest while reformers stereotype them. He recalls encounters with authorities, jailers, and townsfolk, saying the public misreads the tramp as a menace and misunderstands motives, poverty, and dignity.
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