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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1921
Page
8
A fragment from the Birmingham Age Herald presents a garbled exchange about reconciliation and a pretended gift. The lines include misquoted phrases and suggest a comic miscommunication where a corkscrew is requested. The text preserves odd diction and incomplete dialogue.
A humorous column fragment debates personal exemptions and tax law with a couple exchanging quips. Mr Henpeck jokes about car fate and lunch money as his exemption while a landlord style narrator riffs on names and immortality. The snippet blends wordplay and a cartoonish marital exchange.
President Harding selects Secretary of State Hughes to lead the U S delegation to the Washington conference on arms limitation and Pacific and Far Eastern issues. The president says he will delegate conference responsibility, save for naming other delegation members, and will address delegates on November 11. The invitation stresses seeking humanity and proposals to control new warfare and poison gas, possibly including submarines.
War department statement by Col John McA Palmer outlines a policy for a small peacetime army augmented by citizen forces from National Guard and reserve in emergencies. It says Congress and the President define and empower unified military organization, aiming to keep peace while ready for war.
The Curtis Nelson act adds 25 million dollars to the farm loan system, increasing treasury depository privileges from six to fifty one million. It aims to keep loaning operations continuous, with potential annual liquidation of about one billion dollars in debts and a projected 200 million yearly demand for farm loan bonds.
Sportsmen push NAT and House bills known as the Public Shooting Ground Game Refuge bill to create a Migratory Bird Protection Fund from a $1 annual federal license. Funds would buy shooting grounds and refuges, protect birds, and cover necessary expenses. Supporters say the measure will safeguard waterfowl during migration and complement existing law.
Canada ranks as the second best customer of the United States with total trade of 2 450 550 176 in the year ending March 31. Imports from the United States averaged 100 per capita of Canada's population, with total imports reaching 1 240 125 050, up 175 000 000 from the prior year, attributed to heavy buying. Great Britain remained the largest buyer in the period.
Georges Carpentier chats with a girl reporter about evolving sport in France. He notes the modern Frenchman’s progress yet calls the French “retrograde” in victory and cites a humorous anecdote of a Frenchwoman asking for a clay pigeon recipe after Jacques goes shooting.
A matron consoles a seasick passenger as the girl requests to be carried to ground under a large tree, describing her first time across. The piece closes with a reflective line about the peril a policeman faces when facing a threat.
A new stenographer reads a note left in a typewriter describing a coworker as dead from the neck up. The Chicago Tribune mentions crude racist myths, tied to a Wisconsin collection on Indian lore compiled by Charles S. Brown for University of Wisconsin summer session students.
Stillwell, in good humor, plans an evening call on the Mortons to avoid imposing on their dinner. He insists they will go to the Mortons’ house instead, while his wife prefers staying in. The dialogue reveals social expectations and mutual politeness in a domestic setting.
In a garbled dialogue two characters complain about neighbors and borrowing household items. The fractured quotes reference Tevdi, Mugyttia, and dugiella, with mentions of lawn care, washing, and freezers, all set in a New York Sun context.
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