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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Aug 31, 1929

Page

7

Decadence of Pure English Provokes Talk at Woman's Club

A lecturer titled The Decadence of Pure English spoke to a woman's club. Afterward an overdressed woman teased him about language decline, joking about stains on a tablecloth that vanished overnight with the cloth, ending a friendship.

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Humorous Skits of Courtship Farm Life and Odds

An assembly of quick vignettes from a seaside voyage and rural life unfolds. A proposed union is declined with a witty protest about safety on a boat. A city cousin tours a farm while cows crowd for condensed milk. A boy questions hens’ cleverness and a father muses on gifts. A man vexes an old rival by tearing a million-dollar check.

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