23 Jun 1938
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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1938
Page
1
A short humor piece recalls a doctor meeting with a neighbor and a catty refusal to bring a baby home. A Western Paper note jokes about a Turtle driver making a sharp turn and a pun about seconds.
Mother finishes cleaning the living room and rearranges furniture saying there is more room now Ellen notes all the dirt is gone with the new arrangement reflecting a shared moment in a tidy home.
A Soapy character shuns philanthropy and the law as winter nears. He plans to spend ninety days on the Island through crime and clever misdirection, dining on a cheap meal then prompting police to arrest him. He then targets a passerby girl with his usual tricks.
William Sidney Porter born 1862 Greensboro North Dakota later known as O Henry. He worked in a Texas bank where embezzlement of 1150 dollars occurred. Porter served five years in an Ohio prison, then wrote weekly stories for the New York World starting 1903. He died 1910 and is buried in Asheville North Carolina.
Soapy, evading a woman and dodging a nearby cop, ends his street folly after a public scene near Madison Square Garden. A parishioner’s organ moment leads him to rethink life and seek work, but a magistrate sentences him to three months on the Island for vagrancy.
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