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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1908
Page
6
Leslie, a mountain hunter, woos a free-spirited woman who values living in the wilds over marriage. After years apart and trial illness, she accepts his offer to build a life together away from walls and city life, embracing love as true freedom.
A humorous exchange on mispronunciation reveals a hotel clerk misunderstanding cabbage as cab fare and a boy rejecting the presidency for a catcher’s fun. The dialogue contrasts language quirks with aspiring choices and everyday talk.
A man declines advertising arguing tradition from his grandfather. He rejects modern marketing habits citing generational attire such as knee breeches and a queue as reason to avoid public promotion.
A Colorado ranchman calls sheep the most senseless animals, claiming they refuse shelter, pile up in storms, and follow doomed leaders into quicksand. He cites losses of sheep and describes dangerous flock behavior, arguing sheep lack practical self preservation. St Louis Globe-Democrat.
A liar boasted of a running bullock a crowing fowl and a learned dog, but his wife feigned wonders to fool a visitor claiming the husband would soon return from Pekin. She said the bullock could travel fast the fowl crowed at watches and arrivals and the dog ran a city school. In New York a painter suspects a janitor’s taste as critic or cynic after a blunt critique of a self portrait.
A Bohemian Magazine quip about the duo Weber and Fields visiting the Weber Field Museum of Drama in New York. Two Western visitors, seeing the city for the first time, ask which is which and joke about preferring to be the other.
A Kansas City Journal excerpt notes a man receiving attention from an actor with talk of a marriage proposal. The plan involves rigging a spotlight in the parlor and arranging the pianola for a slow music scene to woo the lady.
Mr Howard and Mrs Talk marvel at Niagara’s power in Brooklyn Life. The couple share surprised remarks as they witness the scene, noting they could not speak at first full moment.
The London Spectator notes humility earns respect like courage and condemns the self praised Pharisee while contrasting with the modern prig. It argues true virtue shines when humility accompanies courage and condemns boastful self regard.
A cheeky exchange unfolds with a customer refusing a tip in a barbershop scene. The dialogue shifts to fear and social tension as a character named Dollboy confronts concern about marriage and trust. The passage ends with a quip about knowing a man whose heart is in the right place.
In a playful Pearson's Weekly vignette Sarcasticus and his wife head to the theater. She asks him to fetch her goats from the dressing table and reveals a joke about aging children versus terms of endearment, ending with a humorous exchange over what counts as "kids."
The article cites section 151 of the revised statutes defining resignation of the president or vice president as a written instrument signed by the person resigning and delivered to the secretary of state. It notes this standard, quoting the Washington Post. It also includes comic lines from Barber and Jaggs in Bohemian Magazine about personal habits.
A humorous exchange about hats turning expensive and a suggestion of going without. The Grumpus pair debate, with a quip about cost and necessity, in a wry domestic vignette. The piece uses playful wordplay on fashion and money.
A Yonkers Statesman quip mocks a flea by calling it a coward. The aside notes the insect never meets the scratch, then concedes it reaches toward where the scratch will occur.
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