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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1945
Page
4
The piece contrasts reactions to a joke by English, Italian, French, and American audiences. It notes different laughter patterns: English laugh three times, Italian twice, French once, and American not at all after prior exposure.
A very young college boy was tasked to usher a fashionable church wedding for a friend. It was his first experience and he became flustered as guests began arriving, noticing a stranger.
A bemused man hurries to a woman about to seat herself in a family pew and asks for permission to guide her to another chair, clumsily apologizing in a humorous, affectionate exchange.
Harrison eyes a big drive as his mother in law sits nearby. He jokes about accuracy while playing with a friend at the course. His friend teases that a 200 yard shot could not hit her, noting the humorous tension.
An American describes a trip to Mexico where he attempted to order steak and mushrooms in a small village restaurant. He could not speak Spanish and the waiter did not speak English, then drew a cow on a piece of paper to communicate.
A diner recalls sketching three large mushrooms while the waiter replies in Spanish. He hurries to the kitchen and returns with three umbrellas and a ticket to the bull fight, as described in a playful scene.
A father encourages his son to start a home circus by creating a sawdust ring. The boy wonders where to get sawdust, and the father suggests cutting firewood into fireplace lengths to produce the material. The exchange frames a playful woodworking idea linked to a pretend performance.
A speaker endures a disruptive audience member who coughs sneezes and blows his nose during a talk. He suggests stepping outside to cure the cold but the man replies he has no cold only an allergy to applesauce, adding a humorous twist to the incident.
University of Iowa College of Pharmacy offers a home method using two powder packs calcium carbonate and dry citrate with malic acids to preserve freshness. Brace the tree in a wide mouth jar, add water and powders as the tree drinks, and repeat to maintain fragrance and vitality.
Elmer Harland assisted Bill Hesseltine with corn picking last week and this week Bill is helping Harland. The informal update reflects neighborhood cooperation in Gray during the harvest.
The chirping of house crickets is widely valued in the Orient with many households keeping them in ornate cages. Cages are often elaborately wrought and decorated to display and protect the crickets.
Meg Nye and Mrs John Nye with daughter Mary Alice will reside in College Syringes Ta inside a Methodist church in the Creston conference. Dr and Mrs 8 Baseier report their son Carl moved from a Chicago hospital to a veterans hospital in New Jersey. George McCaleb departed Saturday for a visit with brother Gene sister in law in Olathe Kan and friends in Wichita Kan.
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