Impudent piece at Sarasate's party and quipings
A social function featured Sarasate among guests when a young violinist sang a Sarasate piece with self invented variations. Sarasate remained silent, prompting the pianist to ask for praise. He called it impudence. A Philadelphia physician tale contrasts quinine and whisky, ending with a joke about the wife taking all the pills. Washington Star quips about a belle in soft material reminding an embarrassed man of past tar and feathering.
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Sarasate
Mroneleon
Philadelpha
Coyote Chartey
Washington Star
Vexed Question Settled in Autumnal Fable
In a Chicago Tribune note a talking squirrel asks why the rabbit wobbles its nose to avoid poking into others affairs. The rabbit coldly replies that the nose wobble shows there is something else to do with it.
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Chicago Tribune
Fractured Voices on Court and Shop Floor
The excerpt mixes mock courtroom banter with a shopper’s alarm as a man collapses in a bargain crush. It juxtaposes a taunting comment by a Black defendant toward white jurors and a store scene where a sudden death halts a sale, underscoring public theater and sudden tragedy in daily life.
Screen reunion prompts Glasgow trip for missing husband
South African officers, back from London exhibit, identify a friend in a moving picture. The wife of the officer asks the manager to show the film on a specific evening so she can travel from Glasgow and finally see her husband after more than a year. Jerry Simpson switches to stock and commission business in Wichita, Kansas.
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Ackley World
Ackley
Givan
South Africa
London
Glasgow
Ostrich Farming in Early American Plume Industry
The article describes the rise of ostrich farming in the United States, starting from South Africa origins, and notes southern California and other states hosting ostrich ranches. It explains behavior, mating, egg laying, incubation, chick growth, feather plucking, and economic aspects including admission fees, eggs as souvenirs, meat quality, and egg consumption.
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Ifrd
United States
South Africa
California
Texas
Arizona
Arkansas
Shark Skins and Sharks Fins in Pacific Trade
The article describes shark fishing as a lucrative Pacific Island industry. Islands yield fins tails and skins sold mainly to Hongkong and Singapore. Chinese merchants pay sixpence to eleven pence per pound for fins, tails valued for food and garnishes, with glaze in tea chests linked to shark byproducts. Noting skilled shark ashers from Gilbert and Kingsmill islands and mentions Ocean Island and Pleasant Island as key locales.
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North
South Pacific
Sydney
Auckland
mid-Pacific
Hongkong
Singapore
Australasian
China
Gilbert, Kingsmill
Pacific Islands
Ocean Island
Pannopa
Pleasant Island
Naura
Equator
Chambers
Forecast Editor Moore Faces Weather Bureau Backlash
Willis L. Moore, chief of the weather service, faces criticism for forecasting beyond the immediate future as public interest grows in the bureau’s wide duties. The piece traces Moore’s rise from newspaper work to leading the bureau since 1895 and outlines the bureau’s extensive functions and scientific advances in meteorology.
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Moore
Willis L. Moore
Rent
Uncle Sam
United States Weather Bureau
Tyreat
Secretary of Agriculture
Auige
Benete of Agriculture
United States
Weather Bureau
Yentel
Brown
Willis Wu. Mouce
The
Weather Service
Moorahua
Binghanton
Grant
Uuty
Tuul
Signal Service
Ort Myer
Signal Corps
Bureau
Western Post
Cleveland
Harrington
Lively Q A on Conundrums and World Religions
The information editor and exchange editor spar in a back and forth of humorous questions and answers about motives and differences, ranging from tomatoes to Washington and a wide set of quirky contrasts. The piece ends with the editor pausing to answer a reader’s query on how many religions exist and a brief description.
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Exchange
Washington City
Oliver Cromswell
Marston Wear
Hiad
Chicago Tribune
Fun From Yonkers Budget of Texts to Make You Laugh
A humorous crash of quick quips and dated stage style lines from a vaudeville era skit. Jokes about marriage, theater, races and divorce mix with playful misreadings and banter. The sketch reflects light satire and social quirks of its time through sharp one liners and comic misunderstandings.
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Flo
Brie
Convert Converts Disbeliever in Hypnotism Story
Chicago News reports on a man who doubted hypnotism until a necktie bought by his wife, via a clerk’s persuasion, led him to change his view. The anecdote centers on Convert and Smith with Jones noting the shift and the sale.
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Smith
Jones
Chicago News
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New York
America
Ben
Snall
Appa Horne
Sooning
Ulzes
Standard Oil CO
IL. M.andrews & Co
J. d. Gone Goods
West Main ST
M.wilson
Jeabon
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FUN
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Jim
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Lipton
Shamrock
Jin
Mra
Styles
Iyles
Aruy
Gotham
Church
Sant
Prica Humphreys
MED. CO
William & Jule Gu
Waterloo Steam Launri
Yin Potent
Watts
H. Aitphalis
Wagon N Maker
Presbyterian Church
T.J. Symington, Piysician
Queen's University
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Isy
Ackluy, Towis
J. A. Jones
D.D
Nentist
Northwestern University
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Linus
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Inock & ‘Thiele Marness
Avicley
Lowa
Nike
Russia
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