03 Dec 1913
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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1913
Page
1
A southern congressman recalls touring Mississippi and encountering a cabin where a negro child and pickaninny gleefully eat from a large plate. The elder’s pride and the father’s quick grin underscore a stark depiction of race and appetite in a bygone era.
A collage of light anecdotes and misremembered tales features a child’s powerful appetite for pie and a father’s pride, a stumble by Rev Beecher over announcements, Lord Stanley’s witty Scotland exchange, and Pat’s dram of whisky as told in a London Tit-Bits style.
A fragment from Stephen Lea Cock on being photographed in Familiar Incidents. The photographer enters a machine, seeks light, and returns to judge the face as three quarters full, while the subject recalls human warmth. Thackeray’s New York Bowery anecdote closes the excerpt.
A former United States Fairway mail service official forced a department head to suspend an agent over a missing $6000 package. The package later reappeared, the agent returned to duty as a train wreck occurred, killing none but injuring the suspended worker who later resigned admitting near penitentiary danger.
A collage of anecdotes and literary reminiscences including Tom Faugsett a famed Oxford punster remembered in a YORKSHIRE style sketch. It recounts a Brooks’ barroom clash involving Fox and Adam and a quip about government powder. Also a tale of Archdeacon Hudson Stuck in Alaska with two mots and a comic baggage charge in Skagway.
A short witty anecdote quotes a young Englishman at a tower who asks about bird's nest pudding and, when told a bird made it, corrects the remark by naming the cock as the creator. The joke hinges on mishearing and rural wordplay.
A jumble of quips and stories, from a citizen praising a daughter’s elocutionary skill to Opie Read recounting a near-missed invitation. The piece weaves short exchanges and wry remarks about trains, confidence, and Waterloo lore, ending with a teen hopeful sending a letter to Col. Connie Mack about a baseball future.
A Pawhuska gathering with Oklahoma editors and Osage chief Bacon Rind yields a humorous exchange. Pete Duffy of Hi Reno proposes a share with the chief, who jokes about dividing wealth and work. The interpreter notes the chief’s odd ideas as the editors reflect on promptness and progress.
A servant in livery anticipates every want as a guest grows restless. The guest protests the dancing around the room and impatience, urging the servant to draw in a chair and share the table, declaring there is enough for three.
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