Modern Jokes Blend Love and Irony Across Everyday Life
A collection of vintage witticisms contrasts marital talking points with family mishaps. Jokes touch on courtship, marriage, training, and daily quirks from dentists to drivers. The humor hinges on misunderstandings and sharp lines about adult relationships.
Senator Moses Recalls Changes in School Life
In a recent address Senator Moses contrasts today’s bright rooms and varied study with his youth, saying schools now offer pleasure rather than drudgery, though he notes continued concerns about modern education.
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Moses
Humorous School Yard Anecdotes and Domestic Quips
A collection of light humor from teachers pupils and families including a returning pupil joking with a teacher about desk duties a clerk’s rapid rise through roles and a gag about silent films. It also includes exchanges between a mother and child a bedside query to a sick husband and a wife’s quarrel with a vow to send the children out for air.
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Johnny
Grant announces Texas gubernatorial bid on Republican ticket
John F. Grant of Houston endorses a business administration and tax reform as he announces his candidacy for Texas governor on the Republican ticket. He criticizes the Democratic party as no longer useful and says its policies cannot serve the state's economy or workers.
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John F. Grant
Houston
Texas
Grant
Washington's Beer Recipe Read to Senate
In the Senate today Senator Hawes presented a letter from Senator Hawes to Senator Bingham about George Washington's beer recipe. The text details steps for mashing, boiling, molasses addition, yeast, and bottling, noting Washington’s distilling traditions and suggesting private experimentation.
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Washington
Senate
Tydings
Maryland
Hawes
Missouri
Bingham
Connecticut
George Washington
Mount Vernon
Value of pressure canning equipment
Mrs J L Cantrell credits the steam pressure cooker canner with dramatically lowering food costs and expanding pantry staples. She advises garden planning, growing key vegetables, raising poultry and livestock, and using fall and spring turnip patches to stretch the food dollar.
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J. L. Cantrell
Extension Service Department
National Farm Bureau
How to Fail Says Waco Farm and Labor Journal
A list of self destructive habits urges readers to avoid fear, excuses, procrastination, neglect, and arrogance. It links failure to poor health, debt, broken promises, sniping, and resistance to learning. The piece catalogs behaviors that undermine effort and cooperation.
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Waco Farm & Labor Journal
Cassonne’s Ancient Walls Stand Through the Ages
The walled city of Cassonne in France, famed for its double fortifications and 50 towers, dates to late antiquity with a Visigothic citadel from the fifth century and an eighth century St Nazaire cathedral. Julius Caesar reportedly saw the site 2,000 years ago.
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Carcassonne
France
Nadaud
St. Nazaire
Julius Caesar
Methodist Missionary Society Meeting Planned
The Missionary society of the Methodist Church will meet Monday at 3 PM in the home of Mrs H C Willis with meditation on Not Mine but Thine. All Methodist women urged to attend to help make this year notable. Hostesses are Mrs W R Hooper and Mrs Willis.
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Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
H. C. Willis
W. R. Hooper
Willis
If All The Others Came Like You
A devotional line questions church giving and service asking if all members shared one person’s zeal. It ponders whether congregational finances and ministry would meet obligations and fulfill plans if everyone mirrored that pattern.
Nebraska farmers seek 2 million loan for feed relief
Two hundred farmers in overalls urged Governor Charles W. Bryan to call a special legislative session to authorize a 2 million feed and seed loan for drought affected counties in Northeast Nebraska. They proposed a general sales tax to fund relief and emphasized they want feed more than donations.
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Lincoln
Neb
Charles W. Bryan
Nebraska
Red River Bridge Suit Won by State
Judge W F Robertson of Travis County District Court ruled against the Red River Bridge Company in its suit against Texas for 165000 claiming premature opening of the Denison Durant free bridge. The company sought 60000 for abandoned toll value and 140000 in monthly tolls. appeal noted.
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W. F. Robertson
Travis County District Court
Red River Bridge Company
State of Texas
Denison
Durant, Ohlo
State Highway Commission
Denison-Durant Free
Murray
Oklahoma
A. of
Texas
Theigbway Commission
Texas Rangers
Free Bridge
Toll Bridge
Red River Ridge Company
New Fertilizer Will Be Gray Pills
Theodore Swann of an Anniston Alabama chemical plant announced a new a la carte fertilizer in gray pills. The drillable nitrogen and phosphoric acid mix promises precise feeding, reduced waste, and potential millions in annual savings for American farmers.
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Theodore Swann
Anniston
Ala
Swann
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