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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1910
Page
6
A New York reporter recalls a Pat Sheedy story about a bride asking a corner grocer for jack pots. The grocer jokes he stocks teapots and coffeepots, and explains that a jack pot is greens, not cookware, in a humorous misunderstanding.
A humorous snippet recalls Johnie Poe, great nephew of Edgar Allan Poe, serving as a Honduran army general. Facing low pay, he seeks transport home and jokily offers fifty four pieces: a pair of socks and a deck of cards, prompting the amused American commander.
In a tale told by an artist Whistler once tried to place a rival painter's work in the autumn salon. The painting hung but when the artist viewed it on varnishing day he exclaimed that it was displayed upside down. Whistler replied the committee had refused it the other way.
James Russell Lowell returns to Cambridge from London and hosts a Daglish peer in Boston. The guest jokes about simple living as Lowell faces a lonely dinner with creamed fish. The earl declines the fish course, lifting Lowell's spirits with a shared joke about simplicity.
A burgher caught stealing a baby and valuables was severely lectured by the judge who asked why he tried to take an innocent child. The prisoner replied that he believed nobody would mind such a thing.
A Washington proprietor hired a Maryland youth as a stable boy but discovers he spent days away from work. The lad explains he believed the ad asking for a 16 year old to sleep on the premises was his instruction, prompting a puzzled reaction from the master.
Ragged tale of a Dunbar ferryman saving a drowning English traveler after a rope tugging mishap on the Leven to the Clyde. The incident ends with the traveler losing his wig and shirt collar as he is pulled from the water. Also notes a English bishop whose reform-minded wife faces a slum meeting question about pay night finances and a fighting jag.
A reader recalls a pair of guiding maxims: do not believe anything bad about anyone unless proven true, and do not tell unless it is necessary. The adage emphasizes caution in judgment and restraint in speech.
A Georgia revivalist preached on vanity using a mirror moment. He challenged the audience to spot a single woman who had not sinned in appearance. One woman rose. he complimented her and then gently teased her about the reflection.
A society young man in an eastern city appears ignorant of history after a dinner party. While his lady friend recounts what she learned in class, she tests him with Knights of the Bath. He stammers and答 delivers a humorous misanswer: Saturday nights, Suppine.
Packed Manchester hall could not open high windows and one had to be broken amid stifling heat. Mayor tried to explain proposals but the crowd roared for Gladstone Wie and shouted his name. He finally halted the proceedings and announced someone else would speak.
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