An Excuse For Each
A mother asks how many strawberries were eaten by Ethel from a basket. Ethel responds with two, one to test the taste and one to remove the taste from her mouth.
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Ethel
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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1910
Page
7
No Healthily Skin Left Cure Report
A mother recounts her five year old son’s severe skin eruption, failing treatments, and relief after using Cuticura Ointment. She details extensive bandaging, repeated skin damage, and ultimate recovery after multiple applications, claiming her son is now healthy twelve years later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Wattam
Forty-eighth St
Chicago
Wireless Telegraphy Explained In Old Atlanta Speech
An employer kindly tries to explain wireless telegraphy to his curious worker. He notes the basic concept of sending messages through the air rather than via wires, while the worker asks how the air is attached to poles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mistah Jenkins
Atlanta
Henry
Yassah
Little Anna Hurries To Sea For Warm Water Dip
A young girl named Anna visits the seaside for the first time and eagerly dresses in a bathing suit at breakfast. She reasons she must enter the water early to avoid crowds and keep the water from getting cold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ina
Anna
Spohn's Distemper Cure Promises Wide Horse Coverage
SPOHN'S DISTEMPER CURE will cure any case of DISTEMPER PINK EYE and related diseases in horses of all ages and prevents others in the same stable from contracting the disease It also claims to cure chicken cholera and dog distemper Available from any druggist or by mail at 50 cents and 1 000 bottle Agents wanted Free book Spohn Medical Co Spec Contagious Diseases Goshen Ind
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spohn
Spolm Medical Co
Goshen
Ind
No Friend of His
A witty exchange reveals social tensions as one man explains that Mrs Gaussip is a friend of his wife rather than his own friend. The dialog style illustrates differing perceptions of friendship within a social circle.
Diplomatic exchanges and ad lines amid brief social snippets
A fragment shows a dialogue with a woman claiming an impossibility of marriage to Noa while a man is teased about titles. An abrupt ad-like insert promotes WH Sell Guns and Traps Cheay Bwin and Hidea with a catalog offer from Hide & Fur Co. in Minneapolis. A moral adage about forgiveness concludes the piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hide & Fur Co
Minneapolis, Minn
Murder at the slag dump ends Gordon's revenge plot
Gordon stalks Vint Farley through a coal yard and furnaces as a stakeout for revenge. A tense pursuit unfolds from the church to the slag dump where Farley is endangered by a drowning torrent of molten slag. A sudden moral clash halts Gordon as prayer-like words echo in his mind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ludlow
Helgernons
Caleb
Henaiker
Gordon
Farley
Kincaid
Tom
Cra
Avery
Warley
Crton Farley
The Paired Descent of Farley and Gordon in Gordonia
Tom Gordon frees Farley from a crushed foot in a blast accident then secures control of stock through the banker Henniker. After the collapse of Gordonia industries, Gordon negotiates loans, sells pipe-pit patents to American Aqueduct, and oversees winding up Chiawassea affairs while Dabney family interests are settled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Vancourt Henniker
Tom Gordon
Gordonia
Gordon
American Aqueduct
Colonel Dudbury
Tom
the Marlboro
Chiawassee
Warwick Lodge
Duxbury Farle
Major Dabney
Chiawassea Limited
Arden Dabney
Farley
Siberian Camels and Weather Endurance
A Birmingham Age Herald quips about Siberian native camels coping with extreme climates from 40 degrees below zero on Mongolian plateaus to 140 degrees in hot deserts. The piece ends with a humorous exchange about Shakespeare and personal property listings in souvenir postal cards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siberia
Mongolian
Had Time to Spare Bus Exchange Laughs and Rules
A humorous passenger and conductor exchange on a slow bus ride unfolds with the passenger joking about speed while another line notes a statistic: thirty eight in every thousand GIs men who marry are over 50 years of age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.L. Douglas
Bt 1
Douglas, Brockton
Masa
Hannibal Meets a Speeding Constable in Comic Air
A humorous scene shows Hannibal and his staff halted by a tin badge constable who complains they exceed the speed unit. After a bag of gazoollans is handed over, Hannibal laughs and rides on, later resuming fierce conflict with Roman forces at Rome’s gates. The piece also quotes a Boston Traveler note on decision making and hats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hannibal
Alps
Rome
Boston
Not on Your Life Pat’s Upward Si tuation Joke
An Irish worker in a skyscraper builds a joke as he climbs with mortar. When the boss calls him down he replies that he came up head first and cannot find the way back. The humor hinges on a literal misdirection and Pat’s stubborn reply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat
Shinshu Student Dies by Jump Into Asama Crater
A Shinshu student died by suicide by leaping into the Asama crater. The body was found three days later after rescuers recovered documents left near the crater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shinshu
Japan
Asamayama
Dr Martel’s Female Pills Seventeen Years Standard
Dr Martel’s Female Pills advertised as a long standing remedy for women’s ailments. Presented as scientifically prepared with quick and permanent results. Sold at all drug stores under the responsibility of H L Wayland.
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