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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1908
Page
7
A pasted collage of jokes and witticisms drawn from multiple sources mixes remarks about life, love, and society. The items include banter about maids and lunatic asylums, misheard regional lines, advertisements for education, and snippets from humorous magazines, with several dated voices and places implied.
Stella Anthony navigates high society and romantic intrigue at a Central Pacific camp banquet. Alfred Vincent, Miss Hamilton, and Gideon clash amid railroad tensions, hidden motives, and a perilous plot. Stella observes and weighs love, loyalty, and risk as Cadwallader’s wire tapping scandal looms and camp life unfolds around them.
A fragment from a Baltimore American piece presents a quirkily archaic exchange where Prudent Swann muses on stealing a kiss to test fear, and a timid maiden laments that fright reduces her courage, concluding with a wry remark about a right-minded man being snod-hearted.
Mrs Frank Stroebe of Ton Wis describes health decline and sleeplessness before using Peruana. She credits Peruana with restoring strength, improving outlook, and restoring vitality, calling it a rival tonic and strength builder.
In a village talk, townsfolk discuss Mrs and Mr marriage woes as jest. An old man jokes about courtship length and misunderstanding, while a witty exchange ends with a quip about leaping to conclusions. Tit Bits.
A church missionary received a letter from a convict begging him to reform the writer's wife, who is also imprisoned. The convict, serving a single term, laments the lack of credit in receiving prison letters. Another inmate, writing to a brother, boasts he has not sunk to the workhouse yet.
A wife tells how switching from coffee to Postum cured distressing symptoms including suffocation, dizziness, and heart palpitations. After trial and proper preparation, she found Postum tasty when served with cream and sugar. Her family followed, except her husband who admitted coffee had harmed him, and he joined later.
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