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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1906
Page
6
In a sunlit garden sophomore Ralph and Mollie share a playful see-saw encounter amid Aristotle and Greek study. A flirtatious promise leads to a kiss as they exchange lines from Byron and Greek phrases, while a light breeze sways rose petals and a beetled swan of summer lingers.
A young girl Mildred Greene saves twenty three dollars by selling farm produce and eggs to fund a surprise trip for her mother. She plans a distant vacation, with help from Bill the farmhand, and later uses earnings to support her mother while pursuing schooling in the city. The tale ends with rewards for unselfishness and a note from Detroit Free Press.
A fragmentary verse piece questions daily behavior and social scenes through playful rhymes. It ponders departures, frightened figures, a corner loafer, burglars, lovers, and children asking what an editor might give for rhymed lines.
A Milwaukee Sentinel joke panel portrays a barber advising a thinning client with a tonic claim, while a patient woman in a Puck cartoon fears shared drinking cups and contamination, reflecting light social humor of the era.
A playful party centerpiece involves a large prize pumpkin hollowed and filled with toy bundles tied with bright ribbons. Replace the stem to disguise its hollow state and place it on the tea table. After the feast, children guess seed count and pull ribbons in unison to reveal prizes.
Alfalfa stands as the premier forage crop shaping western farming systems for harvesting and use. Early efforts began in New York state with introductions as far back as 1791 in Jefferson County. It reached the West in 1854 from Chili to San Francisco and has expanded over the past two decades across the Great Plains, thriving where irrigation is scarce and rainfall is limited, while eastern progress lags behind red clover and timothy.
A collection of short humor items from Puck and other papers. A brash man ignores fear, then perceives luck when opportunity returns. A hostess offers mineral water to a child, who prefers paid-for water. A dog causes a drunk to resume drinking, and a stubborn suitor keeps pressing. A bookstore clerk touts a book titled The Liars' Companion.
A playful exchange from the Chicago Tribune features a garbled street dialogue where a speaker asks for companionship and a playful reply dismisses a fishing miscue. The whimsical quip captures a transient moment of humor in a newspaper’s verse style.
The piece presents a dialogue where Miss Maudie suggests marrying at her age, echoed by Mr Rimid-Oer. The Philadelphia Record and Chicago News tone appear in a collage of quotes, with a quip about hospital purchases and promotions for machines from an automobile manufacturer.
A humorous New York Sun fragment contrasts summer farming with railroading cows on track. A farmer notes greater profit when cattle stay on the railroad line, while a family quip hints at a broader epidemic joke about a friend Anela and a nephew debating a complaint.
The passage notes a newlywed man who works each evening to improve his lawn in rivalry with neighbors, easing his sense of strife as a judge observes the scene.
A Chicago Chronick item quips about a cow acting as a dressmaker, ruining Mina Dieh’s new skirt with a gore, while Mr Muggs jokes about strolling through spring meadows and vernal vales.
A collage of comic exchanges from various papers features playful lines about beauty, marriage, engagement rings, and fame. Jokes explore flirtation, miscommunication, and social norms with brisk, punchy setups and witty endings.
In a Tit-Bita style snippet a friend tells another to cheer up none of the music is theirs. The Cleveland Leader quote hints at public reaction to an opera with accusations of theft and imagined identity.
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