Fresno man predicts pennant winners and a Moose note
Fresno secretary of the Loyal Order of Moose F B Alexander writes from Fresno to Thomson Calif about plans to visit Illinois in October, his Montana fondness, and his job. The piece mixes his annual baseball pennant predictions with a humorous Morning After vignette and a wife’s joke about an evening gown.
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Hub City Cleaners Morrison Illinois Dry Cleaners
Morristo n Illinois agent Byers Irve Martindale acts as the cleaning operation representative for Hub City Cleaners in Morrison Illinois with ongoing service arrangements and agency details on file.
A Child Test to Himself and Mother's Sacred Love
A sentimental poem praising mothers and motherhood. The speaker laments speechless gratitude for a mother's tender care from childhood through night’s tears, vows to show love while able, and asks God to keep loved ones safe through trials. Anonymous devotional verse.
Jokes From An Ancient Model On Age And Wit
A humorous dialogue contrasts elderly and youthful voices in a playful exchange. A Vienna setting frames jokes about age, marriage, and propriety as a young boy deflects questions with quick replies. The back and forth riffs on age and authority highlight social norms with light satire.
Farmer and hired man clash over firing on field
A farmer fires a sleeping hired man at week’s end and questions the wake up moment. The man retorts why wake him now. In another vignette a car buyer jokes about sending a car to his wife in advance. A political wife comments on her husband’s long tenure since an election.
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A scattered comic page with slang and jokes from a school setting
A garbled montage of jokes and dialogues featuring a bachelor, a post about the high cost of living, a father and son exchange, a surgeon patient scene, a Scotsman canoed comparison, and classroom banter. It reads like a fragmentary humor page with partial names and illegible lines.
Orders Mixed Little Willig Running Home
A fragment shows a dialogue where a child warns of trouble at the grocer’s. The exchange includes a question to the mother about the cause and a mention of a sign in a window seeking a boy. The text hints at a domestic scene tied to a local shop and missing context.
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Jumbled Exam Answers and a Dizzying Tea Visit
A boy misstates Braddock's death and claims three horses were shot and another through his clothes in a US history exam. A salesman jokes about bowling afterwards while a buyer bluntly questions a seller. A very ugly man visits a widow, but the child exposes him with a comic zoo sighting or lack of clothes.
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