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Newspaper
The Old Abe Eagle
Location
White Oaks, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1893
Page
3
A garbled OCR collage parades jokes and stage dialogue from late 19th century humor Pieces include a Detroit Free Press quote, a Life magazine quip, rural shopkeeper misadventures and a Brookline divine’s quip about pace of work Then follows a soap opera style exchange between George and Netta about engagement and social expectations ending with a wedding scene and servant interruption.
A collage of dated vignettes and snippets recounts domestic shocks, misadventures, and social quirks from unlikely sources. Damaged prose treks through marriage disillusion, a drowning scare, a champagne of nursery woes, a forest chase, a floor walker with a lost child, a playful drive gone wrong, and curios about rattlesnakes, carbuncles, and cookery. Names, places, and era-tinged phrases pepper the mashup.
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