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wwiiJEMliETO"raifl& qjhrhj pCTi.gji hew york. 2 fellers came into the boss' office the other day and 1 came in at a time & both was men what the boss.knowed a long time ago but it was a long time sinct he had seen them well, said the 1st, who was mr pe terson, i am going back to the soil, he said, for i have been slaving at a desk here in the city all these yeres & now i have got enuff to buy a littel farm where i can get up with the chickens in the morning & go to bed with them at nite i am tired of the life in the city where a guy has to work all the time & dont get neckst to natshure atall it was about 15 minits later that mr hobbs come in howdy, he says, & the boss says well it has been a long time sinct i gave-you the o. o. yes, replyed mr hobbs, i have spent the last 10 yeres slaving down on the farnt & now i have made enuff to kwifr the clods and come up here where peeple live i got my fill of getting up with the chickens and working my head off just to feed the chinch bugs & let the sun burn up the crops that aint al reddy killed by too much raines there aint nothing that will corn pair with the city & you fellers have got it eezy sitting here at your desks watching the clerks do the work for you so you see this plases me in a dick ens of a fix because if i stay on the job here in the city i will be disatis fyed & have to go to the country when i save up enuff dough & if i go to the farm now i will have to come back to the city when i get tired ras- sling twith' korn shucks and bundels of wheat aint it too bad that we cant have cities out on the farms & farms rite in the city. o o TODAY'S BELLRINGER "No, sir. Not a penny!" was the reply of young Ardup's opulent but immovable relative. "I've lent you more money already than you will ever pay back. You can shift for yourself henceforth. The difference between us is that I am provident and you are improvident. "The difference between us," ven gefully retorted young Ardup, with his hand on the doorknob, "is that 1,'m a man of moderate means and you're a man of immoderate mean ness!" Then he fled. Tit Bits. o o AN-EASY ONE Mrs. Newrich had been told by her caller that a certain dinner party had "wound up with great' eclat." When her husband came home she asked him what "a-kla" meant "Why, that's the desert, I guess," said Norwich. "Didn't you ever eat a chocolate a-kla?" dMgh The quickest way to get a highly respectable woman man is to tell her she looks just if she had stepped out of the latestfashion book! .. . ITttffolrtli'idllBlit Jff ftillifcliPi I i m-ri --.- - ... .A .. r. -i-. ..., ,-- &s&viMtitiiikmummmmMimmmmmmmm