The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-01-13


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: Seventy-six new words were bro
a out ~ the result Of thewar, but non
: tof them 70 aptly describes war ~ tn
! one Sherman used.
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The man who sings "Home, Swee
!. Home" in rented house il kidding
!. himself and serenading the landlord
Billy Sunday.
II has long been noted that those
Of the ten commandments broken
most rarely are the ones it costs the
most money to break.
"Rumors Of Several Bills says a
headline from the legislature. Wish
! the rest Of the January bills were
nothing but rumors.
A grass widow is not allowed to
marry for six months, but = real wi
dow can marry on the way home from
the funeral If she wants to.
| Where the deuce does = girl get
vaccinated now, 50 that it won't
show? asks an exchange. Well, has
anybody examined her ears?
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Some OF the old timers may remem-
Der when the boy whose trousers were
three inches above his shoe tops was
considered out Of luck instead Of right
in style.
When there's box supper at a
country schoolhouse and one box
brings SO, while the others average /
about 60 cents apiece, you know which
box the schoolmarm brought.
"A Kansas dairyman who struck oil
on his farm notified milk customers
that he had quit, and would "tie his
cows in the alley and his customers
could milk them il they desired"
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1t makes you realize that age is
approaching when you go to a dance i
and see some girl flying about who E
snly little while ago kept her moth
sr home from parties because she had S
he Group. e
Old Bill Misgivens youngest boy i
S now six months old and can spit a
through his teeth. When the boy was n
week old Old Bill had to tie him to v
seep him from climbing out Of the a
led and chasing the cat. Fl
The Congregational churches of c.
England have dropped tho word d
obey from the wedding ceremony. v
Iot that they expect women to a
hange their habits, but that they
ate to have the brides lie about it.
"Ah shuah does pity you,' said a 81
olored pugilist to his opponent as -
ICY squared OF. "Ah was bohn with m m
oxin' gloves on" "Maybe you was" +,
storted the other; "and All reckon W
ou'se goin' to die de same way" u
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The inventor of sticky fly paper Ia
ent to his heavenly reward the 9th ne
day, according to news item, and :
e hope heaven will have pity onE /
m if st. Peter has the same grudge
,ainst him that we have. In
An East India station master had
en- cautioned to do nothing without
structions, That probably account
for his sending the following mes ,e !
ge: superintendent Office, Cal =
tia; Tiger on platform eating con- H.
ctor. Please wire instructions" 49,
Bobby's mother took him to the cir
ana as they stood watching the
DIS in the enormous cage the little u !.
low observed . stork gazing at him. x /,
h, look, mother said Bobby. "The y
rk is trying to see If he remembers ~ -
still" -
It's boy called the doctor. The
her Of the rev baby clapped his =
Ids with joy. "It's wonderful, II
sure" said the NJ D. "You bet," Mir
the enraptured father jumping eau
und irrepressibly, .and to think So n
now can deduct another 5000 Fs;r
m my income tax Is due" hi ,
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Yes" remarked Old Bill Misgiv- !.
II once invented a rubber -
amatic suit for workmen working =
Ereat heights" "And was it sue