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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1907
Page
6
Jim Jackson faces a judge for chicken stealing and is convicted. The judge, puzzled, questions how chickens could be stolen when roast ree lay under the owner’s window, with two guard dogs nearby. Jackson quips the judge could not replicate the act, suggesting buying chickens in the market instead.
King Louis Philippe consoles Marshal Soult with patient words as Thiers leads ministers at the Tuilleries. A Lipincott anecdote recalls a goat sheep joke in a church. Uncle Harry wins a child by feigning fatigue. Boswell notes Johnson on Scottish ostentation at dinner.
A late night ad for an agreeable companion to visit Egypt leads to a comical confrontation as a young man, stowed in a hansom, reveals he cannot accompany the elderly advertiser. The scene ends with the old man irately ordering the cab away while the diner explains a mistaken plan.
Our time black Percheron stallion Truant's Premier will begin his sixth season at Col. D. J. Palmer farm one mile northeast of the city. He is described as one of the best and surest breedings in the county, with no finer Percheron in the area. D. J. and D. M. Palmer announce this listing.
A father asks his son to combine halves of an apple and a dollar to reveal wit. The boy answers that two halves make a whole apple, but two half dollars would be a fit, not money, illustrating a playful pun.
A compilation of historical quip and a comic divorce vignette. The first anecdote recalls General Knyphausen aboard Lord Howe in 1776 noting sea and geography ignorance and urging passage past America during dark nights. The second scene presents a sobbing girl seeking divorce from her father in a lawyer’s office.
A messenger boy aboard explains he is a director of the Union Pacific and directs envelopes in the master mechanic's office. Harriman reacts with a frosty smile as the telegram is sent to Mr. McKeen.
The wedding ceremony concluded as the bridegroom, shy and nervous, leaned to the officiating clergyman and whispered his stuttered question about the ceremony.
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