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   Estrelita Phillips said, 7 months ago

   Has to be the 40s if you could pick up a newspaper with only a quarter – and have change to spare!
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   Quartermain MILLER said, 7 months ago

   The chain of command, trickle down method. Speaking of a Quarter#3, how about “about a quarter to nine.”
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   Quartermain MILLER said, 7 months ago

   Al Jolson#3.
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   SUSAN NEWMAN said, 7 months ago

   Cicero could get an ice cream cone with the 10-cent change.
   A-a-a-ah!!!!
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   Number Three said, 7 months ago

   Stop treating poor Jeff like a Mutt, Mutt!

   If Jeff did get the newspaper after all… He should bring it back in his mouth and crawl on all fours.

   LOL xxx
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   Number Three said, 7 months ago

   @Quartermain MILLER

   I loved that song!
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   jmcx4 said, 7 months ago

   @Quartermain
   One of my Jolson favorites is, I love to sing, when he performs with Cab Calloway. There was no better “big band” than Calloway’s.
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   Jerry Carlson said, 7 months ago

   Ca 1930 Geoffrey T. Spaulding proposed an eight cent nickel with which you could buy three-cent newspaper and get the same nickel back as change.
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   brklnbern said, 7 months ago

   @jmcx4

   Any Jolson mention is a great mention.
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    brklnbern said, 7 months ago

    @Estrelita Phillips

    Through the 1960s newspapers were from a nickel through a quarter. Didn’t get as high as a quarter till the mid 70s.
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    catman5169 said, 7 months ago

    You pay more for a paper today than you did a month of home delivered papers in the mid/late 60’s!!
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    Quartermain MILLER said, 7 months ago

    @Number Three

    When you see(hear) my name, “Does Your Heart Beat for Me?”——Russ Morgan
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    Quartermain MILLER said, 7 months ago

    @jmcx4

    You are right and how about Cab’s “Minnie The Moocher”!
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    Quartermain MILLER said, 7 months ago

    @brklnbern

    Remember how he’s say—“You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!” He did a great job on “Avalon” and April Showers too.
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    notsooldguy said, 7 months ago

    Enjoy the cigar, Jeff. Ah, the good old days when you could smoke with impunity because everyone just assumed it wasn’t harmful. Dr Oschner and Dr DeBakey published the first article linking smoking with lung cancer in 1939.
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