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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1901
Page
3
A little man walks into a dry goods store asking to call a doctor for a tele phone. The clerk replies with absurd medical woes about a paralyzed patient and crude treatments, ending with a grimly humorous jab about a once fine case cracking a bone.
An Irish farmer visits an ironmonger to buy a scythe and is tempted by a bicycle offer priced at fifteen pounds. He jokes he would rather pay in a cow, then quips against riding a cow and milking a bicycle. The other vignette shows a Prohibition lecturer mocked by a rum drinker who praises the lecturer's crusade but admits his fondness for rye.
A traveling man recalls a humorous exchange aboard a Pullman car about sleeping aboard trains. Two women discuss discomforts and one jokes that life in a flat makes the sleeping car seem preferable, highlighting humor about travel accommodations.
Dialogue snippets depict a tense scene with a speaker asking about armor and safety. A contrasting exchange shows a child resisting outdoor play in bad weather while a parent negotiates by offering rewards. The tone mixes military imagery with domestic banter in a fragmented wartime vignette.
A collage of quips and jokes from brief exchanges and ad blurbs. It includes misheard nursery replies, family banter about a new baby, punny exchanges about umbrellas and crowds, plus a string of humorous vignettes and sample testimonials for remedies and household products.
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