The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-08-15

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The crown prince made little pro-
gress until he shifted his gears into
reverse.
A man may lose all of his other
belongings, but he never forgets what
he did with his tobacco.
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Germany starves or gluttonizes ac-
cording to the impression it seems
momentarily expedient for report to
create.
We know of one thing the kaiser
will not do at the end of the war
He will not go into chautauqua work
in this country.
The only objection to the water
pumpkin pie, makes one so messy
about the ears.
After this war is over people won't
care anything about what kept you
out All they will want to know is :
whether you were in it.
When woman does it at home it is
'the wash" but when she sends it /:
down town it is "the laundry" :
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Since patches have become honor
able you can tell by mans patches
he is addicted to praying :
much or just sitting around.
1t is reported that an Emmett man s
dropped quarters worth of sugar E
On his way home, an ant grabbed it
md hid it in the grass and the man :
ant find it again. E
When the foreman in a newspaper :
room made a mistake and :
rot Cascaret "ad" in the "Movie" :
olumn, it was a case of inadvertent =
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The following ryhme bearing on
came by mail few days
go:
Mother voted dry;
Pa not yet;
Brother undecided;
Baby wet. l
The Sunday school teacher told the
lass that she wanted all of them
hat knew the golden text to come and
'hisper in her ear. One little 5-year-
Id was very prompt, but what he
-hispered in the teachers ear was
OF the golden textile said: "Teach-
r, forgot it, but don't you tell the
est of the kids"
when are you going back?'
RATED man asked a Canadian SOL
Ter who had been lecturing in this
'untry. I'm not going back" an
wered the Canadian, who was on the
,tired list. "It's up to you fellows
finish the job we started" "Well,
ell do it," retorted the Idahoan,
md it wont take US any four years,
Their"
Four soldiers in the trenches were
gagged in playing bridge whist. One
the soldiers said: 81 make it
arts" Just then shell came along
ID took off his head. After the ex-
cement had died down one of the
rec players left went around to
lere the dead soldier was, picked up
S card hand, glanced at it and said
lie could never have made it on
arts"
This signing up for sugar" bust
SIS recalls an old custom in vogue
my years ago in Kansas. Many
rmer Kansans will no doubt re-
,mber, when signing up for two
unds of sugar, the other period in
cir lives when they had to "sign
- to get drink. Kansas, in those
US, was a distressingly unhealthful
tie, and the percentage of sickness
I'M stomach trouble was abnormally
ge.
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What absurd things get into print
e following is making the rounds:
farmer in the state of Wisconsin
ties that cows to which the phono-
aph, or graphophone, has been play
while they are being MIXED have
zen two quarts of milk a day more +.
IN they ever did before. Professor
rker remarks upon this that cows
| do lot better if they are enter
ned and amused, and that a great
Il depends upon their mood"
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dollar head had been promised
Mike, an Irish dragon, for every II
rman he captured. Daybreak one he
rninp in a front line trepch some-