Humorous Snippets Across Borders And Times
A collage of wry quips and jokes touches on history figures, manners, and everyday life. It riffs on Hitler, the Kaiser, and God, then veers to aging, tintypes, dining delays, and a London visitor admiring Skinner’s Hall. Will Rogers and wit about confinement, time, and marriage pepper this lightweight column.
Virtue and chores and a strange shop talk memory
A collage of lines shows domestic labor framed as virtue with no wages, a visitor seeking bead work from an Indian chief who mentions a mail order source, a child misidentifying a peacock as a blooming chicken, and a quirk about butter cracking in extreme Antarctic heat.
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GOP Rally Airborne Protest Puzzles DeKalb Police
DeKalb Daily Chronicle reports a Saturday GOP rally advertised from a plane with a public aid rose system. The flight over Sycamore violated noise ordinances and left police puzzled about how to arrest without the plane's license numbers or pilot name.
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Sycamore
Republican Party
Conditions so bad bouncers throw customers out
A terse report notes deteriorating conditions as bouncers resort to ejecting patrons due to safety and crowd control concerns amid a troubled venue. The line between theater and danger sharpens as staff enforce removal to prevent incidents.
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