Des Moines Daily News Offers November Bargain
The Des Moines Daily News announces a special November offer for subscribers at 150 dollars a year for the Daily and Sunday paper. An appeal invites new or existing subscribers to mail in payments during November to receive the liberal price. Also advertised are round trip tourist tickets to Colorado via major lines at reduced winter rates with maps, booklets, and hotel lists from ticket agents.
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Knee Breeches The Case For Knickerbockers
The London News argues long trousers rub ankles crease and bag at the knee, while knickerbockers stay baggy and wipe clean. Stockings allow easy changing, making two pairs of trousers used per coat and vest versus two coats and vests per knee breeches.
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Five Minutes Bell Tolls Its Hidden Church History
The piece recalls that the so called five minutes bell began as a signal after a peal to mark special sermon occasions. Earlier use favored instruction or a sermon on select events, when the bell warned the faithful the clergy would address their flock.
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Rhymes and the Unrhymed Vowel Sound in Poetry
The London Chronicle notes how a scarce vowel sound as in but yields few rhymes. Poets use it mainly for blood flood and turbulent monosyllables. They push stress to the final syllable to mask the harsh sound, creating many rhymes like felicitous and mysterious.
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A Pleasant Prospect for Women Shoes
A high medical authority predicts the little toe will gradually disappear. The joke notes that if all toes vanish, women could wear smaller shoes, sparking a humorous forecast about women’s footwear.
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Pompous man and gray-eyed stranger discuss society and business
A terse exchange features a pompous man claiming elite society at home and a gray-eyed man replying with a chilling note about friends in the business. The dialogue hints at a darker social circle and a reference to padded vans.
Tartar Trickster at Nijni Novgorod Saddlery
In Nijni Novgorod a German Russian friend exposes a Tartar dealer’s ruse in a saddlery. The merchant inflates a valise price and pockets a bank note hidden in the bag. The friend pretends to pay as the trickster watches, then retrieves the note and finally offers the valise for less after the fake sale ends.
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The O Gorman Mahon Dies a Duelist to the End
The O Gorman Mahon, about eighty, famed as a duelist and Irish statesman, died after a life of defiant vigor. He recalled old fights, remained in his seat during eighties debates, smoked a democratic pipe, and faced death with the swagger that defined him.
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Advice to the Doctor
A witty quip from the Philadelphia Ledger about medical cure timelines. The patient warns the doctor that delays will extend payment, highlighting humor in doctor patient exchanges.
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Do you remember that five dollars borrowed last June
A satirical quip notes a debtor who lent two dollars to Jones and has not received repayment. The snippet conveys a tone of comic outrage and a casual dispute over money.
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Don’ts for social conduct from Harper’s Weekly
An excerpt of rules from Harper’s Weekly advising against discussing personalities family feuds personal interests children dress and costs in social conversations. It cautions that mentioning wealth or aspirations bores or wounds others and emphasizes maintaining dignity in conversation.
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The Korean Language and Translation Missteps
A discussion notes how slight errors in Korean can cause embarrassment. A preacher warns of a cellar dilemma from near identical words for cellar and the nether world. A Sunday school tale about Lazarus was misreported as entering a bottle due to a phrasing slip.
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Size of the British Empire Explained
The British empire covers about one fifth of the habitable globe with the United Kingdom and about forty three dependencies under separate governments. Canada is thirty times the size of the United Kingdom while Gibraltar is two square miles. The empire’s area is ninety eight times that of the United Kingdom and self governing colonies amount to nearly sixty times the mother country.
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Open the covers of a book this hour
A reflective passage urges readers to escape petty cares through reading. It highlights the love of books as patient friends that wait for the right mood and hour, offering new perspective and solace upon return.
Didn’t Know It All In Courtroom Sniping
In a Chicago News item a blunt exchange unfolds as a self important lawyer cross examines the witness with derisive jabs. The witness fires back noting the lawyer’s occasional clients and implying the lawyer’s vanity and insecurity.
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Chicago News
The Drawback of Uncle Legacy in Brooklyn Life
In Brooklyn Life a dialogue unfolds where Mrs Casey mourns a family legacy and seeks life direction. An old gentleman’s remark frames a parable about responsibility and burden as Mrs Casey and Shbure reflect on duty, chores, and choices.
Judge Questions Provocation Behind Alleged Assault
Dialogue fragment shows a judge questioning provocation for assault as a prisoner insists the man wouldn’t fight. Puck tone implies legal confrontation and comic or satirical context.
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Humor of Japan Samples of Characteristic Stories
A review of Kokkei Hyaku Siowa by Kubo Tendzai surveys Japanese humor through tales of a tipsy village chief, a doctor’s stoic defense against burglars with a spoon, a printed writing dispute, Heiji era armor wit, a quack’s revenge, and a neighborly illness summons.
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