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/ Mark Twain's Sly Humor

Once, while on a lecture tour, $a;{ Twain arrived in a Y3t!*lpJdc' rall town and visited the barber$op for a shave'. . ^ffir1,y ' he would. small the barber\f,rop shave' jiou bought your ticket?"

The barber suggested that he *ai a stranger, and he !fipf"'N9t -yet," said the humorist' mitted that he was, had never been in the town-lrfiG, "Afraid you'll have to stand to hear him," said the baras a matter of fact. t' ber. "All the seats are sold."

.,you chose a good time to come herg?dE the barber. "Remarkable coincidence that is," said Mark Twain- 'I've ,,Mark Twain will speak nerc togl4|{ I suppose you'll gone to hear him lecture many times, and always I have want to go?" { to stand while he speaks."

Cclifornicr Builders SuPPIY Co.

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California Builders Supply Co. is handling the nationallyknown Eubank ironing board, at its three Northern California rvholesale warehouses, in Oakland, Sacramento, and Fresno.

This firm has also been appointed distributor for the Nu-Frame A11 Metal \\rindorv Screen, manufactured in Berkeley by Rudiger-Lang Co.

Siding Wcrs Checp In 1907

F,our letters and two post cards which got stuck in the mail chute in the R. A. Building, Kansas City, u'ere discovered recently when the building was remodeled. One of the letters from the M. R. Smith Shingle Company quoted prices to the Grobmeyer Lumber Company, Forrest City, Ark. Clear redwood siding was listed at $25.2fr per M, and shingles were quoted at $3.18 a square.

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