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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1924
Page
5
In a rural square of memory Joe serves as clerk and Tim as bartender. Joe and Jim are in love with Flora a waitress who marries Jin. Joe and Jim fret over Flora as she resolves to life with her husband. One Saturday Joe asks to enter but Flora denies entry claiming she is now married.
Horace recalls his first Hamlet appearance and how the audience treated him kindly with rough humor. He jokes that being chased off the stage and eggs broken was generous, while his mother notes vanity in looking at a mirror.
A fragmented comedy note with snippets from classroom chatter and a film title. Willie answers the alphabet question with a playful miscue while a gag about second fiddle at home appears amid a political meeting and an echo joke.
A collection of light anecdotes features an elderly man walking miles to a town, a rain weather delay at a sign slow to fifteen miles per hour, and a tea table joke about finding a maid. The exchanges reveal small urban humor and social quips from a bygone era.
A scene shows a frightened Bobbie at the threshold as a stranger asks to come inside. The stranger hints at loneliness, claiming the mother is out and the father is unable to move, urging Bobbie to enter for company.
A lecturer extols the wife as a join helper in cooking and housekeeping. Two boys interrupt with a joke about stitching, instantly illustrating the point by showing how a safety pin sews on a button.
The sheriff recalls facing a hostile mob at the jail as he stepped out with a couple of “suns” in his hands and reminded them his brother ran the only undertaker shop in town. He was a strong family man who would help a relative’s business.
A collection of quick witted exchanges and classroom quips. A narrator recalls incidents where mistaken blame, clever deflection, and light irony play through daily scenes from a driver to a student, a cook to a driver, and a teacher to a pupil.
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