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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1922
Page
8
A fragmentary blend recalls social wryness from a banker's wife facing hardship to a broker's office life. A widow notes cashiers and wives cope by pretending wealth, while Uncle Ken laments gambling and ongoing fights. The piece ends with a humorous hosiery advertisement misfire and a sharp reply.
An old advertisement touts California Fig Syrup as a cure all for sick children with coated tongues, colic, or feverish symptoms. It promises cleansing of the liver and bowels and a return to health within hours, urging mothers to buy from their druggist and insist on the California label.
Dr Albert M Wehenkel of Detroit heads the new tuberculosis hospital in Camp Custer turned over to the Legion by the state. Opened by Marshal Foch, it serves Michigan veterans with patient rooms and running water. Wehenkel is a seven year TB expert for the Detroit health board and served two years in army medical service.
STEPS FROM NAVY TO STAGE To doff the robes of King Lear for the blue wool of the god was no exertion for Charles B. Hanford, one of America's foremost Shakespearean actors. He enlisted as chief yeoman in the navy, saw life at sea, then returned to the stage. Recently he staged The Merchant of Venice for the benefit of the George Washington post of the American Legion, the first post organized.
Whipple Ball warns ex service men to avoid the Orient unless they can afford returns. Siberian front veterans with Russian wives, once penniless, drifted to the Islands as merchant sailors and now rely on the Legion and auxiliary. Natives perform most manual labor and small clerical work.
A mission worker noted men aided by funds from the East side missionary favored a lodging house famed for its appeal to self-respect. The manager explained the sign above the desk reads Gentlemen Are Requested to Leave Their Valuables With the Clerk, underscoring the lodging house's practical value to its residents.
A sergeant of the seventy ninth division, who left his lines at 10 55 a m on November 34 1018 while attempting to capture a German machine gun, died at America Legion headquarters as the claimant for the honor of the last man killed in the war. At 11 o'clock sharp, the doughboy was picked up and carried in the American line.
A house cleaner Caroline announces she will mourn for her uncle for four months after his death. She initially asks to keep her red skirt but later decides to mourn from the waist up, reflecting a change in how she expresses mourning. The exchange occurs with her employer Miss Sophy who had offered the skirt for her to wear.
The Kansas City Star features a frontier tale with Gap Johnson recounting a mob around a man with a rope, unclear outcome, amid a domestic science joke about bone dry beer and a quarrel over a boss swap. Grimes jokes about apples apricots and asparagus, noting his wife left a domestic science course after the first week.
A Danish club recounts the king of Denmark’s Greenland visit story. A lone Eskimo paddles a fragile canoe to the royal yacht and is rewarded with a cigar and rifle. Greenland’s commissioner later reveals the man is an escaped convict who fled prison yesterday.
A fragment reflects on old time romance with a five pound box of candy as a failing gesture for impressing the modern girl, noting imitation cheerfulness as better than nothing in a humorous tone from the Boston Transcript.
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