Word: shops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Goteberg were forwarded from there to Lapland where he was establishing a chemists' shop-the most northern chemists' shop in Lapland. He said that TIME saved his life in that desolate country, as he had no other reading matter. BETSY ERSKINS...
Lest some or all of his august ancestors might have died a second time, cursing him upon his flypaper, frightened Yozo Fuyubayashi caused hired priests to perform, last week, loud, strenuous prayers, whereafter he made over to his son his prospering flypaper shop...
...Crompton, England, a large stupid cow waddled into a candy shop. The man of the shop beat the cow, tugged its horns, pushed its hindquarters, fed the cow candy. At this the cow waddled into the narrow doorway and got stuck. The man of the shop poured whiskey into the cow's mouth. Then the cow mooed, wriggled out of the doorway and walked away...
...Royal, Neb., one W. L. Seaman carried a package into a store. Here he unveiled two gloomy and fetid objects, a pair of shoes, which he handed to the man of the shop, saying: "Fix these. Half-soled I want them." Unabashed, in response to scornful comments ill-disguised as polite curiosity, W. L. Seaman admitted that his shoes had never been repaired before; that they were 25 years...
...Banjo Club opened the concert auspiciously with their well concerted accents and efforts of shading. The Vocal Club sang with continuous enthusiasm football songs and some of the old college songs in which the barber shop chords and bibulous whimsicalities dear to the old "grad" were executed with a finish which was rare in the good old days...