24 Feb 1938
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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1938
Page
1
A collage of quirky exchanges and captions from Stray Stories Magazine and Boys’ Life includes a teacher and child dialogue about a deer, a sister asking about a brother, flirtatious lines, and a coin collectors note, reflecting playful vintage teen humor.
A shiftless man returned from a coon hunt and slept in his clothes. His wife woke him to start the morning, but he grumbled that his shoes were fine as they were not his good ones.
An ad style snippet touts Pepsodent toothpaste with IRIUM to improve appearance of dull teeth. It claims gentle cleaning without bleach and suggests a whiter smile as the key benefit. The text imitates playful praise and product features in a lively, promotional tone.
A Connecticut Yankee, Prescott Ford Jernegan, claimed to extract gold from sea water with a gold accumulator, fooling investors and jeweler Arthur W. Ryan, amid a Maine plant and a Rhode Island test. The scheme collapsed when divers proved the gold was placed by an employee, leaving stockholders damaged but some recovery. The piece also recalls con men Lester Green and the Spectra hoax by Witter Bynner and Arthur Davisson Ficke, and notes Chile’s Borax supply from Lake Ascotan.
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