Public Notices and Humorous Snippets From Era Newspapers
A collage of short excerpts includes social banter between characters like Dashaway and Cleverton, theatrical quips from Life and Boston Transcript, and jokes about Miss Bosting. It ends with a product plug for Piso’s Cure and a statistic on US rail fatalities, reflecting fragmented 19th century newspaper content.
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Dashaway
Cleverton
Boston Transcript
England
Miss Bosting
Miss Flurtey
Mr. Haggard
Cure Deafness With Constitutional Remedies Promoted
An 19th century advertisement asserts deafness from inflamed Eustachian tubes can be cured by constitutional remedies. It quotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and offers a one hundred dollar reward for incurable catarrh deafness, with circulars available from F J Cheney & Co of Toledo. Also promotes various tonics and remedies for teething and liver health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Hell's ‘Amit
Pilla
GoopD Short Stories of Political Wores and Wits
A string of cartoonish anecdotes from American political life. A youthful MP halts a noisy meeting with a quip about braying asses. A Maine farmer tricks a lawyer by sending ducks in his opponent’s name. A Maryland campaign visit ends with a witty wife’s verdict on her husband’s party loyalties. Oliver Wendell Holmes and Robert C. Winthrop fail to secure seats and become private secretaries for Evarts with comic mischief.
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Maine
Frank C. Wachter
Maryland
William E. Curtis
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Washington, D. C
Robert C. Winthrop
Senate
Evarts
Houses
Congress
Supreme Court
Mr. Evarts
Dr. Holmes
Mr. Winthrop
Witty Exchanges and Social Snaps Across Magazine Jests
A patchwork of humorous quotations and social quips from multiple outlets. Jests about love money marriage and polite society appear alongside wry observations from papers like Chicago Record-Herald Smart Set and Puck. The items showcase quick banter and domestic humor.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Sarah
Detroit Free Press
Whistle of John Brown Found in Washington
The silver boatswain’s whistle John Brown used to issue orders at Harper’s Ferry has been found in Washington by Kansas Historical Society officers. The nine inch whistle, in good condition, passed through Stewart and Washington to Mary Cassin of Georgetown and is linked to Brown’s sunrise and sunset signals before the raid.
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Philadelphia Bulletin
Puck
Singleton
Chicago News
Willy
Santa Claus
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Daly
Riley
Brooklyn
John
Bagsleys
Reuben
Chicago Record-Herald
New York Weekly
John Brown
Washington
Harper's Ferry
South
Kansas Historical Society
Arsenal
Harper’s Ferry
Brown
Lieutenant Stewart
Regular Army
Stewart
Colonel Washington
John Cassin
Mary A. Cassin
Georgetown
Kansas
Comment on Goelet fortune prompts royal title joke
A writer quips that with the Goelet millions the subject could be called Duke of Rocksburghe. The remarkplayfully suggests a noble title fitting wealth.
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Duke of
Rocksburghe
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