“I notice that Smith has changed some,” said a citizen yesterday. “He does not drink any more.”
“No,” replied a wag, “but he drinks as much.”
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“I have heard of stingy men,” remarked a citizen a day or two ago, “and I think I have found the stingiest. He lives in Goldston and he writes all of his letters in short hand to save ink.”
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“What is going to become of this country?” asked a far seeing old man on the streets the other day. “People are mortgaging everything that they have to raise money to buy automobiles; the state, the cities and the towns are issuing bonds to raise money to put on roads for more people to buy more automobiles so they can ride over good roads made by issuing bonds to raise money to build these roads, so they can haul more cross ties to buy automobiles to ride over good roads kept up by the tax-payers of the state, and dog-gone it, what’s the matter with people anyway?”
From the editorial page of The Chatham Record, Colin G. Shaw, owner and editor; Chas. A. Brown, associate editor, Thursday, Aug. 30, 1923
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