“Maria, will you pass the sugar?” said “the brute” to his wife at breakfast, subsequent to a long connubial lecture. “Here it is. Before we were married you used to say you never wanted sugar when I was . t the table with you.” “Humph! that was some time ago. Now, you will observe, I use very little pepper and vinegar.” An umbrella garage is the latest service installed by a Chicago drug store. Persons caught in showers in down-town Chicago are invited to borrow umbrellas. A deposit is asked, but the entire amount is returned when the umbrella is brought back, making the service free to the borrower. Cameras are lent on the same basis.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 27 October 1928, Page 13
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