Jokes and Oddities Span Madrid to New York Humor
A New York Sun excerpt recalls English humor on Broadway with sketch gags about a fall of 350 feet and pigs. It includes Madrid jokes on marriage debts and a cruel animal protection scene, plus barber vanity and a Cornwall bog rescue tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broadway
Jones
Edith
Percy Smithers
New York Sun
Cornwall
Baring-Gould
Redmire
Mr. Baring-Gould
Rattlesnakes and Paris Housing in Colonial Echoes
Readable excerpts note rattlesnakes in New Jersey with a cave containing 20 bushels of bones and a Paris housing crisis pushing workers to outskirts. Also mentions Rushen castle clock and miscellaneous humorous vignettes from various papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
KFKR
Stockton
New Colony
Princeton College
Curtogs
Rushen Castle
Castledown
Isle of Man
Newcastle
England
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Noble Street Theater
A. R. Noble, Mer
W. Cook
Cole and
Johnson
Coontown
Wikle’s
Jwad Association
Anniston Banking & I.oa. CO
B. Welilborn
Pre
Hb. BG. Swift
D.n Murdoch
Wholessle
Parkersburg
W. Va
Mernett
Kermott
Psap. Encyclopedia
Philippines
Porto Rico
Hawaii
China
U. S. Army
Standard American Annual
Pulitzer Bidg
New York
Via
Nioen Pacific
Colorado
Montana
Idaho
Oregon
Ashington
F. Aglar
St. Louis. Mo
Madrid
Gedeon
The
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Ernesto
Mamma
Mexican Herald
Philadelphia Record
Paris
la Villette
Grenelle
London
London Mail
London News
Charles Keene
Mrs. Shears
Mr. Shears
Boston Treneerts
Europe
Mrs. Fosdick
Mrs. Spriggs
New Poston
Curtis Itmas
Seeneee
Anniston Electric & Gas Co
Noble Street
Evening Star
Hople
City
Oxford, Oxania
Jacksonville
Piedmont
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