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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1938
Page
3
A Sand Prairie man in a dilapidated Model T drives to the Savanna Sabula bridge toll house. Toll taker Chet Ackerman asks for twenty five cents and the driver says sold, while the editor notes the punchline about not buying the Ford. Editorial humor and poetic dialogue dominate this odd local vignette.
The calendar lists events from August 3 to September 14 across Illinois and Iowa including Cheese Day in Chadwick, the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, and the Mississippi Valley Fair in Davenport. Other highlights: Hooppole Plowing Match, Hillsdale Fair and Homecoming, Lyons Birthday Celebration in Clinton, and the Illinois American Legion Convention in Rockford. Also noted are Whiteside County Fair in Morrison Elizabeth Community Fair in Elizabeth and Doughnut Day in Mt Carroll among many regional gatherings. Labor Day is on September 5 and Melon Day in Thomson.
A collage of jokes and quips from a 1920s or earlier rural paper. Bits include a private detective joke about a husband, Sid Sennett’s quip about Wade Guenther, classroom wordplay, and social humor on topics from mothers tongue to marriage and baiting fish with chewing gum.
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