Witty quips and oddities spark local chatter
A collage of humorous vignettes and anecdotes spans tax quirks, street life, and a New York wind joke. Exchanges include an anti swearing club, an encyclopaedia salesman turned down, and a Kansas City piece on prison and asylum staffing. A New Berlin testimonial praises Dodd's Kidney Pills as life altering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shenson
South Water Street
New Berlin
Frank Newton
Dodd
Newton
Where He Came in and Other Comic Snippets
A mosaic of short vignettes and ads recounts barbed exchanges between a debtor and merchant, wit about lunatics and bigamy, a detective tale, stray stories about clergy and the deadpan punchlines of assorted jokes. It catalogs humorous exchanges, oddities, and notices with a mix of ad copy and brief anecdotes. The piece touches on a marriage misfit, a physician’s nostrums, a singing mouse, a costly move by a homeowner, and court-ish curiosities in Anderson and Urbana style, preserving period voice and local color.
Home seekers urged to farm in the South rail lines advertise
The ad sheet promotes settleable farms along the Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis line across Tennessee Kentucky Alabama and Georgia. It touts fertile soil mild climate good rainfall and better crop prices than the North. It invites correspondence with Northern real estate agents and requests pamphlets to H F Smith in Nashville.
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Nashville
Chattanooga
St. Louis
Tennessee
Kentucky
Alabama
Georgia
North
H. F. Smith
Nashville, Tenn
Nothin Rein and the Laughing Exchange
Dialogue features a witty exchange about idleness and energy. Lord Russell asks Mr. Hume about the object of legislation and the greatest number, with a sharp reply. A second fragment mocks Greta Bug as a distinction and Golthleigh as an odd American lunatic.
Free Medical Advice to Women and a Cured Case
An 1901 testimonial from Burrus E. Dermains of San Francisco praises Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetaria Compound for curing nervous prostration and insomnia. The letter claims quick health restoration after starting the tonic and urges other women to use the product.
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Lydia FE. Pinkham
Eau Claire
Wis
Pinenas
Lydia E Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Eleanora
Oman Mars
Pintwan
Lydia B. Pinkham
Mars
Burrus E. Dermains
Lapidge St
San Francisco
Cal
Lydia E
Pinkham Medicine Go
Lynn, Ma
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New York
Europe
The
Kansas City Journal
Kansas
Kansan
McCarthy
Lane
Tate Hamily
Woodw d
le Roy
A. J. Tower CO
Sten Sowers
Boston
Mass
U.S.A
Cailaly
Mee Ames
Enpeck
Avery
Bright
Dean
Joshua Heller
South
Walnut Street
Urbana
Cunningham Bros
Champaign
Mr. Heller
United States
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
J. M. Longyear
Marquette
Mich
Anderson
Ind
Laura G. Hosier
J. W. O’brien
Third Ave. N
Minneapolis
Mino
Inn
Wanita
Dr. Kline
Dr. 2
Enore. Ltd
Arch Bt
Philadelphia
California
the Beautiful
Kansas City
Katy
Wainwright Bldg
John Harding & Co
Davenport
Iowa
Packaza
Suela-Thy-Gu
EALA
Putnam
Mr. Kidder
Mra. Kidder
Hall
Tree
Cheney & CO
Tolado
Price
W.N.U
Des Moines
Goltleigh
Tay IE
California Fig Syrup Co
Lewisville, Hy
Bon Pranciaso
Gal
New York, N
America
New Yorker
Stutsman County
North Dakota
Dure
Kellogg & Britt
Windsqh
No. Dakota
Western Canada
Canada
Otvawa
Holmes
Bt. Paul
Minn
Bennett
Omaha
Neb
Lowa
New Overland Service
Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Union Pacific
F. A. Miller
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