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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1924
Page
13
A humorous slice shows a fish market owner painting a sign that sparks chatter about what it should say. On a crowded train a conductor endures a flood of misaddressed requests before finally guiding a passenger to Rajput avenue half a mile farther on. A shy suitor struggles to propose to his beloved, stuttering through a faux formal plea until his father finally comprehends.
A vegetarian at breakfast argues meat is injurious and the human diet should be vegetarian. The stranger counters with his egg eating, noting eggs are not meat. The exchange ends with a cigarette smoking confession from a 16 year old and a younger child saying he has given it up. Bedtime Pencil Pictures.
A collection of short humor lines about a street car scene. A conductor flirts and a married man jokes about freckling. Passengers react to flattery and a spectrum of witty exchanges about lectures, pockets and penny tricks.
A whimsical scene unfolds as a young woman demands strong glasses at an optician and online banter with a poet on a shipboard romance. The dialogue covers gaffe with a bee misread as a blackberry, a ship’s speed joke, a sailor’s knot lines, and cigars shortened by design.
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