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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1902
Page
2
In a humorous exchange from a Topeka State Journal Saturday evening edition a foreign guest and host debate pronunciation and diction. The editor notes playful rhymes with wind and fined while a late poet and dentist joke about dental trouble starting at age one.
A reader in a prison exchange asks the warden to show “stripes,” recalling a dry goods past. The warden replies there are items in stripes that might interest the visitor, weaving humor into a scene about punishment and social pretenses.
A jumble of comic exchanges and brief skits from a small town hotel scene. Characters joke about discrimination, authors, professors, marriages, and stage life in a rapid, lighthearted sequence. Names and places are lightly sketched, with wry lines about painters, actors, and scholars.
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