The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-09-05
TOWN TALK

iOlV1EAAL " WIN i AAN
The Jackson News explains double jeopardy
as the situation which arises when persons sit
ting on opposite sides of the table are eating
grapefruit at the same time.
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The Deano Eagle is worried It fears. be-
cause children driving at so tender an age
these days "that some of these times we shall
see them cutting their teeth on the steering
Wheel"
If fairly good mother would offer to all
middle-aged people the granting of one wish the
big majority of them would take a straight
eight digestion that could make the grade on
high when they felt inclined to tackle barbe
cue sandwich.
A man got drunk and killed his only son.
Then he blames it onto the "rotten bootleg IL
quor which sets men crazy" He also intimated
that in the good old days of real hard red liquor
such thing would never have happened. Seems
like poor argument but we have little doubt
but that the enemies to the Volstead law will
see merit in it.
The record Rotarian is George Pitt of Wash
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four luncheons. He has eaten 1000 chicken
croquettes which have cost him about $1,000
plus his hat-check money. What he has done
in value received for all these croquettes nobody
! seems to have asked. But he is the perfect Ro-
tarian-he NEVER misses the luncheon
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One Minneapolis book store reports that a
woman customer asks for "that new book called
the new TESTAMENT think it has something to
do with the Bible" and another shop reports a
call for "The book of songs starting out with
John Browns Body-evidently request for
Stephen Binet's long narrative poem of the Civil
War. Not all the rubes, literary or otherwise
live out in the tall grass country
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/ A baby was born recently in Indiana with
out arms or legs. What we call "moral senti-
ment" will keep this unfortunate child alive I'M
til it dies natural DEATH Nothing could be
more cruel than to introduce child thus handi-
capped into the struggles of this world. And yet
society will do it because we have not reached
the stage wherein thinking rules instead of senti-
ment. Some day will have attained the cour-
age and the sense to treat such cases as fully
civilized human beings would treat them.
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From this distance it seems reasonable that
may
have been the cause of Governor Smiths wobbl-
ing on the farm relief and tariff issues in his
speech of acceptance. The genial Governor has
long been ardent advocate of lower food costs
for those who trod the sidewalks of New York
Therefore, with butter selling in that city at 70
cents pound, it no doubt looked to AL. like pol
itical suicide to tell the millions of New Workers.
that he favored higher prices for farm products
A lot of people who don't read the newspapers
were listening to the Governors speech-Rock
County Herald.
DR.. Lulu Hunt Peters, the woman physician
who helps women to diet and do other beautify-
ing things in perfectly healthful way repeats
this conversation with a young woman of hel
acquaintance
well, doctor didn't always have so
much common sense. My hair used to
be very black. but at about % years of
age, began to get gray and soon began
to dye it. After about five years or so
of more or less successful camouflage,
began to be strangely ill-terrible
cramps in my abdomen, neuralgia pains,
and other symptoms. was X-rayed and
everything, but nothing could be discov-
cred as cause. Finally one of the
physicians noticed my hair-it didn't fool
him-and he asked me right away, How
long have you been dyeing your hair"
When I told him, he made minute ex-
animation of my gums and found a faint
blush line on them. The examination of
my blood showed abnormalities He told
me must choose between dyeing and
dyingi l was suffering from lead poi
soning. Then it was I had my hair bob
bed and stopped dyeing it, and have had
no trouble since"