Kissing Festivals Across English Towns And Austrian Fair
In Hungerford Berkshire an April Hocktide festival appoints tutty men to collect tithes and kiss a woman per house. Newcastle on Tyne hosts a quinquennial barge day with the mayor and sheriff kissing a chosen woman and gifting her a sovereign and a mayoress present. Maidenden Beating of the bounds includes crowd guided clambering and a bump or kiss choice for women. In Haimagen Austria a St Theodore fair grants all men the right to kiss a woman, a relic of a Turkish raid rescued captives.
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London
Hungerford
Berkshire
Newcastle On Tyne
Thames
Maidenhead
Halmagen
Austria
Hailmagen
St. Theodore
Until We Meet Again in the Dining Room
A reflective provincial piece on gender tension and social judgment. It weighs abuse between genders and courting, notes mercurial opinions of rivals, and laments changes in a wife’s view of her past salary after marriage. It ends with a sober dream of public praise for sobriety.
Father shoots son by mistake in Civil War homecoming tale
A New York Sun feature recounts a Georgia rifleman deafened by war who returns home to a trap of trust. His father fires on a stranger at the gate, killing his own son. The tragic misunderstanding unfolds amid a community gathering and funeral of a fallen Confederate.
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New York Sun
Lee
Appomattox
Her Choice in a Humble Courtship
A brief humorous dialogue features Mr Oldback aged 50 proposing to Miss Oldmaid aged 40. She answers yes declaring she would rather be an old man’s darling than a young man’s slave. The exchange reflects playful social norms of courtship.
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Mr. Oldback
Miss Oldmaid
There Is Only One Way to Meet Impoliteness
A brief remark notes that the sole method to confront rudeness is to ignore it, suggesting restraint over reaction and maintaining composure in social encounters.
Women Dog Thieves Operating Across London Streets
A London Mall report details organized dog thefts in Oxford Street Regent Street and Piccadilly. Women, dressed well, snatch small terriers and conceal them under cloaks or hire passing hansoms. Larger dogs like collies and poodles fetch high prices in France with various fates for small breeds including markets at Shoreditch and ransom schemes. Police note multiple notices offering rewards up to £20 at Vine Street Marlborough Street and other West End stations.
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London
London Mall
Oxford Street
Regent Street
Piccadilly
France
Shorediurch
Vine Street
Marlborough Street
West End
Trains Race to Mexico Tail Light Joke
J D McNamara tells of a Wabash and Alton rivalry on a 20 mile stretch from Clark to Mexico Missouri. As both trains near Mexico the crews trade breaks in two signals and arrive tied, each joking about missing tail cars and tail lights in the humorous exchange.
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Kansas City Times
J. D. McNamara
Wabash Railroad
Clark
Mexico
Alton
Centralia
Alton Man
Bud
Chicago and Alton
The Chief Joy Siene and the Opera Pearla
The first night of the opera features Mrs Jules in a stage box while a critic mocks her deafness then the other voice notes she wears the family pearla. The exchange lampoons social pretension at the theater.
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Siene
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M. D
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B. J. Sheldon
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