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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1913
Page
3
The mistress advertised for a general houseworker and a girl replied she could dust. Asked about cooking, laundering, and sweeping, she denied competency in those tasks. When pressed, she claimed dusting as her only strong suit, provoking the exasperated employer to humorous effect.
A brief wartime style quip appears as a humorous exchange about substitutes. The line features the sarcastic taunt Got a thumb tack No Use your finger nail attributed to Prince ton Tiger.
Harrisburg reports the House Law and Order Committee favoring the club license bill with Governor Tener's backing. The measure sets a $50 per hundred members annual fee and restricts liquor sale to clubs on Sim days and holidays, aiming at broader liquor control amid counter moves by Anti-Saloon interests.
A compendium of simple luncheon desserts and savory dishes includes sponge pudding with buttered cake layers and vanilla custard, cream of rice with cinnamon, buttered eggs on toast, Graham cake with raisins and spices, chicken cream with aspic layers, Pittsburgh potatoes with cheese sauce, salmon mousse with pink aspic, rice custard, peanut sandwiches with various fillings, and baked squash with butter and spice notes.
The Century Magazine describes Hawaiian oddities including a hall tree that wriggles across the ground and a waterfall that appears to rise, driven by wind and gravity. Burroughs notes tropical nature as harsh and unpredictable with dramatic, almost fantastical movements.
A woman famed for her thirteenth superstition accepted an invitation to a luncheon with thirteen guests. She planned to be the thirteenth to enter the room, noting that while thirteen parties often see misfortune for most members, the thirteenth person tends to escape harm. The Philadelphia Ledger reports this curious belief.
A Boston municipal court judge offers humorous definitions about pat riots and courage. He calls a martyr one who tries and fails while a hero tries and succeeds, and defines a coward as a man who remains single to avoid trying. The quip appears in Youth's Companion.
A visitor asks Bobby if he will step into his father's shoes, and Bobby admits gloomily that he has been wearing his father’s clothes since his mother learned to cut them down for him. The line captures themes of succession and family alteration in a small domestic scene.
A brief "Information Wanted" note quotes a child asking about airships with fly wheels, attributed to the Baltimore American. The item captures a curiosity moment and reflects early public fascination with air travel technology.
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