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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1920
Page
2
A temperance hostess hosts a house party where liquor flows freely. A physician is summoned when two young women near death intoxication prompt gossip. Gossip claims the hostess and a married matron who despised liquor were among the revelers, challenging reputations.
The second international communist congress opened in Petrograd with fifty one countries represented among the delegates. United States delegates were among the four from the country noted in the report.
A Hooper incident involved a boy stepping on an oil can and injuring his foot as he fled. The curious detail about potato prices is noted but unclear in cause, while the article hints at a broader question of using corn cobs on oil can spouts.
A reflective column notes that many claim the hardest work, urging residents to swap roles to understand others' duties. It praises weed control after rain, urges prompt action, and warns procrastination robs time and church attendance. It ends with a racist vignette on a Jim Crow train car highlighting dated stereotypes.
On a business trip a farmer went to a waist department to buy a shirtwaist for his wife. He asked a clerk to show him some but failed to understand her description and replied that he did not hear anything, creating a humorous misunderstanding in the shop.
A merchant jokes that two hundred cigars would be followed by a gramophone, while another humorously counters that many cigars would rather yield a harp than a gramophone, reflecting light banter over a trade.
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