High Cost of Living Jokes Fall Flat
Humorous musings about rising prices fall flat as jokes and quips fail to sell. The column riffs on doctors, horseshoes and family banter, with playful asides about luck, matchmaking, and growing up.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1932
Page
10
Humorous musings about rising prices fall flat as jokes and quips fail to sell. The column riffs on doctors, horseshoes and family banter, with playful asides about luck, matchmaking, and growing up.
A jumble of quotes from a local page features a father questioning an aspiring son in law about work at the mint and marriage plans. Other snippets cover crime news tone, a singer expected to scream during a robbery, and a theatre critic asking about a new star who dies in the first act.
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