Twain Humor and a Honest Boy Tale in Hannibal
Mark Twain recalled a schoolboy who suddenly felt well after a day of feigned illness. The tale ends with the boy declaring recovery on a Friday and heading to school, much to the doctor and family’s bemusement. A second item notes a Philadelphia billiard room owner thwarting a chalk thief by jokingly identifying him as in the milk business and offering water instead.
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Hannibal
Mark Twain
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Ledger
Beardless Youth Seeks Kiss. Minors Alcohol Law Quips
In a playful exchange the beardless youth Freddy asks for a kiss claiming intoxication, while Miss Rose refuses citing it would be unlawful to give intoxicants to minors. Freddy melts away as the scene ends with a comic note from the Chicago News.
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Freddy
Miss Rose
Chicago News
Freddie’s exemplary day with aunt ends on a note
Freddie spent the day with his aunt and behaved well. On return his mother praised him for his conduct and remarked he did not take a second helping of meat.
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Freddie
Innuendo and Ice Cream Spark Side Allusions
The Baltimore American excerpt shows playful boasts and cheeky retorts as Freddie recalls a parental tip about choosing two plates of ice cream. Cholly confronts a perceived insult and a laugh appears over a police threat while Mrs Style teases about meeting a baby in the park and a new nurse lurking in memory.
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Style
Goaste
The Counterfeiter and The Confidence Man
A brief quotation from the Philadelphia Press contrasts counterfeiting with the risks of passing fake money. The exchange frames quick money versus the danger of being caught in deceit.
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Philadelphia Press
Its Advantages and Oddities From History and Geography
A collage of quotes and notes on sea versus mountains fashion, Marlborough the handsome general Creasy on battles, sea surface and ocean sizes, a magazine quip about neighbors, Chinese celestial rulers and terms, Peru communistic poverty, Thornburg six fingered siblings, and the myth of Davy Jones with Duffy Jonah's locker, as reported in the New York Telegram.
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Leslis
Davy Jones
Duffy Jonah
Duffy
Jonah
New York Telegram
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David M. Pfaelzer
Chicago
GEO
Fisher
E. Heron St
Harper’s Weekly
Cholly
Inevah
Male Attich
Puck
Marlborough
Europe
Creasy
Globe
Pacific Ocean
Atlantic
Mediterranean
China
Puan
Tien Hoang
Peru
Spain
James Thornburg
E. B. Benn
Mgr
Grand Theatre
Jessie Bushley
Channing Pollock
Miriam Michelson
Players Liebler & CO
the Herald
Ade
Parquet
the Herald Printery
Herald
Herald Printery
E. Wishkah
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