Chief Bacon Rind and the Osage Nation Debate Riches and Work
Oklahoma editors meet Osage leader Chief Bacon Rind in Pawtucka where the tribe’s wealth and land are noted. Mayor Pete Duffy of Reno, Oklahoma, questions sharing profits, while the chief jokes about recipes for division. The exchange reveals tensions between wealth, labor, and cultural perception.
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Pawbtaka
Pete Duffy
HE Reno
Okio
Bacon Rind
Mayor Duffy
Osages
Indiana
Washington
Treasury
Uttle Ainglish
Tuffy
Chiet
Duffy
Meester Duffy
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Faraway Evening Post
Fragmentary quarrel at Avery party over drinking
A garbled passage describes a guest confronting a dancing pair and asking them to finish their drinks, as Landen Tatie notes the scene. The text records a tense moment where a servant is urged to take action and clear the table.
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Avery
Sidesteps and signals from a Lyceum night tale
An excerpt from Opie Read's tale about a homeowner seeking a famed speaker for his daughter with elocutional promise. The exchange centers on travel constraints and a missed visit as the speaker plans a westward date. Intrusive requests collide with schedules, revealing the social friction of demand for public figures.
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Lyceum
Bete Noir
Bob Burdette
Opie Read
Opie
Tend
Todge
Facing the Camera Man Describes Photographic Process
Extract from Familiar Temples to the American Magazine by Stephen Lea Cock recounts a photographer's dramatic tableau as he readies light and pushes light and air through a cotto n sheet. A grave verdict follows and the face seems three quarters full. A strange blend of humor and humility colors the tale.
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Puay
Mack
Mr. Mack
Ateoping
Saturday Evening Post
Stephen Leacock
Wanted to Go Too Archdeacon Stuck Alaska Tale
Archdeacon Hudson Stuck’s first Alaska foray reveals two prevailing maxims in the territory a commercial line and a social one. The former pledges nothing for nothing while demanding a dollar for every small service, the latter counsels cheer despite hardship. The anecdote includes a baggage handler in Skagway charging a dollar per bag and a traveler remarking on robbery yet continuing on, reflecting frontier attitudes.
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Archdeacon Hudson
Alaska
Archdeacon
Skagway
Maltbanks
King Coffe s Flight and a Chronicle of Quips and Satires
A fragmented reminiscence praises a late schoolfellow Tom Faussett, famed as a top punster and remembered for a quatrain that charmed England during the Ashanti war. The piece then recalls political diversions with Fox and Adam, a foiled duel, and a light anecdote about a cuckoo and bird seed pudding, all in a tuneful, period voice.
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King Coffes
Oxford
Bia
Tom Faussett
All England
Ocoomagsle
Strong on Pie and Posh Mindset in Mississippi Tale
Southern congressman recalls a Mississippi cabin scene where a father boasts his child’s appetite and pie influence. Anecdotes of Beecher memory lapses and Johnson Scotland antipathy follow, illustrating humorous misstatements and cross cultural tensions.
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Mississippi
Pat's Drama Misinterpreted Whisky Dose
London Tit-Bits reports a tale of a physician who advised an ounce of whisky three times daily to an Irishman. Four days later the patient is noticeably drunk. Pat's wife explains she gave the exact amount, unaware that an ounce equaled sixteen grams, leading to overconsumption.
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Pat
Dochter
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