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A Half Hour With (he World’s Famous Laugh- Makers. JOYS AND GLOOMS. OpwV«. IMI *vkMl Nm ^r-^it i , /\Y PEAR JoMtS , iA A CROSS CRABBED UGLY OLD COVE But I would u kE tOTAKE You overyotve ice CREA* FESTIVAL -- DONT say NOTHING To j \ \ . MERE Cousin Ann is a note u> Miss Jones. its FROM 51.1 CANT FIND Miss Jones so i tjwuqht ID BETTEJIGIVE IT To >fou -Y^ ...... V SAY BUDDY You TAKE THIS NOTE UP To Miss Jones and ill. ' C.IVE You A PENNY -—_> Yes Sir J 1 C -A— t FllRTINQ aqaim.be ve TAK.E OFF TBEm STOKE CLOTl BEFORE 1 COMB Noor MA1S / VYlTHTBIS ROU.INQ PIN1 Y--— (DEARMJtt JbNES > llMACTOSS CRABBED UGLY 01. D COVE But 10 LIKE To Take You to the ice «UhFEST)YAL PONT TEU.7HC f \ The Hall Room Boys * opytlfht, 1911. National N«m» Aaaottattoft yes. we me stbumilinc, To mahe a mamc fob ouh SELVES, AND TmOUOH Wt AK[ LIVING IN A MALI"BOOM, IT WILL NOT AlWAtS BE THUS. WHEN OFfOBT\jNtTY HMGCBS AT OUB &OOB, WE small show the WCBLD 'atmAT WE „ CAN ACCOMFuiH . I flS. NOTM'HC, Lirt MAX j A C.OO& INlRRCSSiaN ON yiMC START '* r . , r fWM PlA f I MADE 10 OuA PRETTT LiTTLC WfiPESS- WHAT? IT TAHES fHC . Nl/W IE 'WE Sl'JEFE o AMD SAID v/E WE AE MEN ABOUT Town" ANO That SOAT OF TH>M«», SHE WOVADM T have been a b«t iMTrqrsTrp, __^ /f\> Ia*T ~J m -i &l«. - WITH a f'ALl I VOMC. CLA^S- WHAT ? VjCH AS WEU.HA/t I ^-. , }*,,Cwe WE. Might BECOME / o^X«HT to BAOHEA5 IM r-S 0«»EA0u"NCA no time. \jioss a c<aa. h : .. . ^ 4'. / ! k<s>c>k m:?!) i? ip k-' 1'^' *< > > u.w_ R* To-Day’s Best Story A professor of tbs Uslverstty SI Penney, vacla. whs hsa greatly sa dasred himself to the stndeata as se rous t sf sis hlad-heartedaeea. has one particular fa! lag—that at abssat mladednesa Ha visited his married aepheer a few days ago end had listened to the yoarg wife's prates sf her Bret bora, i Tbs gentlemen fslt that ha muat say something ts glee the Impression that i be was Interested. “Can tha deer little fellow walkr* hs Inquired quietly. "Walkr tha mother shouted. “Why. hs has been walking for Are months!" "Dear mt™ tha professor exclaimed, lapsing again lato abstraction, “what a long way hs must hare got." Bad News I El to ME 8. M'WADE, tha wealthy ' Duluth sociologist, was talking at an Raster Jir.ner about tha American belreaa “t>he la beautiful and brilliant and all that." he said, "but with her mill-' ions, she la independent. Tha penniless American youth who weds her haa a lime of It. lie Is put away in a year or so. Hence, from hie point of view, the foreign nobleman Is welcome to; uer, thank you. "1 know one of these poor chaps married to a Philadelphia helreaa—she haa divorced him since for a banker_ who once got wrecked at sea. But be was picked up floating on a spar, and' from tha Brat port wired to his brother: “*I am saved. Try and break *lt to my wife.* “ _—i": I j He Was Puzzled j 1 O. PHELPS STOKES, at the Knlck- ' J* erbocker Club in .Sew fork, waa' {•railing the various country week asso ciations that are already preparing to give me children of the poor brief coun- I | try vacations. “The little urchins.” said Mr. Phelps ■ Stoke* "enjoy meee healthful holidays land wonderful are tha remarka that the 1 country's strangeness draws from their i'"*"* — aneruoon a tiny ; East Slder. pointing to a farmer a herds In a ahady meadow, said: *■ *dVhera doea the farmer get all th. chewing gum for hie cower1 Was One the Other? j A GERMAN cobbler and hla »if» had ,wo ansa—A Sh Bernard, sic months old. and a fox terrier, three years! Old. A friend, calling one day. salj to thecobbler: “Those are two fine dog ! i 1 oo have." “Yes." replied the cobbler, “und d 1 | funny hart of It n dat de biggest dog1 | is the littleat one.” i *,f" ,hrn »P'’h« up and explained t i *ou rnuet mine husband egscuse h 1 1 sPheake not very gnot English ’ H ‘ de oldest Cog 1, the youngest on«. A STRONG DRAM. j An oM worthy who *ai In the habit | of calling each evening at the village Inn for a “drap o1 the be*:" found the landlord one right putting a chine on tbe taps After a few remarks about th# weather be received his nightly dram After he had gone the landlord dis covered to his horror that he had sup piled Donald with a half gill out of tlie ; 1 bottle of aulphurlo acid which he had 1 been using for cleaning the taps 1 Every moment he expected to hear of old Donald's death, and his relief was great when the old worthy arrived next evening. ''Donald, what did you think o' that whusky ye got last night?" Donald—It was a fine dram, a good warming dram, but It had wan fault! Every time I coughed It set Ore to my whuskers. MISTAKE THAT STUNG. There^ was a dele-mined look In the young lady's eye as »h* marched Into the ' opth-i.in'a shop. “I want a pair of rle««ee Immediately." j she said "flood strong o-»s | won't I be without them for emther day!" "flood strong ones?"' “Ye*, please. 1 wee ouf In tbe country ! yesterday, and 1 trade a very painful! blunder, which I hate ru wish to repeat." "Indeed! Mistook ar entire stranger for sn old frterd. perhnpt "No, nothing of tbe «orC I mistook a ' humble bee for a blackberry “ CANT BE DONE riark Mo hla employer. Juat tearing tha offlrel- Mh, Mr. Kralem. hgvafl't I yon forgotten yonf umbrella? It'a! raining. 1 M-. Hr»!*m fin-! h-lp it f»a made a veanlutlon to have one hara and nno at home. to provide tor all amarg anrlra Now. If I taka thia theyll hn>h ha at homa, a a a •Tit hara an anto<nohlla r»«t g immar anaa " ••IVhr neat kitmtnar?” "1 tlgura that hr than I’ll hara enough i»etd on my houaa to mortgage my equity ,for a tar " • a a •They »t ha tana ahwlufety nothing for ronvantlon " 'Thai’e true lla'a worn a atraw hat j thraa |lmra alraady.** Willie tj »o.| !•». our taarhar aara that I ••rollaaf* and * congregate" maaa tha aama thl-g, I lla». Mr. flood Wall, von ta|| yntir I'aarhar that you hate Informatirtn that jihofa <• a rt.na’daraMa dld-ren-e hatwaan I a aongragatlon ard a eotlartloa. -I n»v*f »a w a man who tatkad Mfca tha haro of a atory," aald Mra * I f ttWahar I ••Wall." replied har huahand. *'t n-var aaw a woman who looked llha tha pletur# In a favhlon maga/lna" • a a Iwpa-tlng flnaat To,i*ve got a prattr plar- here I'rank. hut It looka a nit hara vat I lloat «"*h. If* harWuaa tha traaa ara I a hl| ) |I>» I hopa thav'll haaa grown Ilo a good kite hafora vou come again! “la ri laa n« tha a iparlor in'! ianna In thla own hnuaeT* '1'm afraid not TTa'a nna of thoaa Jman who nndrratand erectly what It'.atr w yra ara talklnc about whan limy daarrlha what other women wear,” Woman in Our Honrs of Ease. 1*11. «tfml Mm in lilfci /'CmhaV* tm*t -\ OH- F*THCR \ COMC POWN. I \ THERE. -> #°» / 1 VJSURftLftR! 1 arc" Yoo"\ sSSx VP0.1*^^ BUROLM ?/ «?!W V 1 ' * > ? Nervo the Monk nnf>5Tl*nt, 191J, National No— A»w»uijob. • DYNAMITERS have \_l v*- shall have To Blown up tme bridge''' 'nvestisate on Mr PROPERTY '. (-- l thig \a<at<.q \ , / (RightoT) I ■STfAlW, MT C* A* «A*7T0, •T WLl lfAt> u& tO_ *jyp * nfefefc IS A CURIOUS/ *--IT MAT &« ! \WOftTM FOtLOWiNg 11 _ A/oNDf^nju! >v~