Kinloch The Old Home Town Humor
In Salem and nearby towns locals mocked Abe Lincoln and Bill McAdoo in youth, predicting failure. The piece recalls Abe becoming U S president and McAdoo rising to secretary of the treasury, with many still hoping for misfortune. It notes Bryan and Orville Wright also faced hometown jests, illustrating the joke on the old home town.
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Salem
Abe
United States
Springfield
Bill McAdoo
Bill
Hudson River
Orville Wright
Revival of the Old St. Louis Fair Eyed Again
The Edwardsville Intelligencer notes renewed talk of reviving the old St. Louis Fair after years of gaps. It cites vanishing expos and attractions, but argues an agricultural and mechanical expo with a horse show could revive the event as a yearly St. Louis staple. The piece also praises safer Fourth of July celebrations and hints at a forthcoming pardon for Gavrilovich.
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St. Louis Fair
Edwardsville Intelligencer
St. Louis
Fragmentary Note Presents Unclear Summer Plans In Troy
Readable bits suggest a summer scene in Troy with chatter about a vacation climate and a crank refusing to be returned from his position, though details are unclear.
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Troy
Home Town Building in the Middle West Merchants
A reader argues that declining small town populations stem from merchants not engaging with modern retail methods. The piece urges local shopkeepers to use daily or weekly newspapers as mail order catalogues, featuring full page ads with clear prices, and to adopt city-style pricing to attract buyers and sustain industrial growth. It emphasizes that cheap advertising and visible prices drive sales and that towns must adapt to interurban transit, cars, and parcel post.
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Middle West
United States
Merchant
Those Songs of Yesterday Nostalgia and Old Fashioned Lyrics
A collage of verse and prose recalling era tunes and humor. It includes lines on beloved songs like Kathleen Mavourneen Bonnie Doon and Comin Thro the Rye, plus a humorous exchange about leftovers and a history clock of notable dates.
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Kathleen Mavourneen
Bonnie Doon
Local quips spark small town humor lines
A compilation of caustic witticisms and punchy one liners from several papers. Edwardsville mocks July fireworks. Connecticut and Maine figures are cited in a quip about perseverance. The Brighton News jokes about a mysterious "J. M. O'Donnell" and a proposed marriage rumor.
Modern Fables The Husband and Modern Farm Machinery
A rural household resists labor saving devices until the wife has a baby and returns to a kitchen full of automatons. The narrator mocks dependence on gadgets as the man, left to herd chores, embraces electric appliances. Moral: labor saving devices are useless while the other partner does the work.
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Ben Franklin
Cartoonist Chapin Highlights Timerg Editorial Junket
A St. Louis Republic cartoonist Chapin created a homely image for the recent junket down the Mississippi River by the Southern Timerg Editorial Association. The piece presents a simple, plain subject with understated humor.
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Chapin
Republic
Mississippi River
Southern Timerg Editorial Association
Religion as a money making force and political critique
Bishop Warren Candler argues Christianity as a wealth-creating system and condemns reformers as revolutionaries. He warns against big bad business, exposes corrupt probers, and critiques commerce without an international outlook. He likens demagogues to vultures preying on victims.
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Warren Candler
Dead Easy First Urchin Quote Strategy Talk
A garbled ad text features two urchins discussing a strategy to keep firing when out of ammunition. It promotes Dr King's New Life Pills as a pleasant laxative, claiming easy bowel movements and no bad taste. Sold by druggists in 86-pill packages for 25 cents.
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Ruth
Dr. King
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