Curse of Progress Hard Luck in a Diner Exchange
In a cheap restaurant a diner complains the egg is hard as a brick after a waitress says the egg was timed with an egg timer. The man quips about a calendar, while a driver and pedestrian tease each other about experience in a brief joke note from the L. and N. Employes' Magazine.
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L. & N. Employes
Pirate's Rate Miss Gush on Shipboard Banter
A playful exchange notes pirates overcharging the captain three dollars a day and poor shipboard meals. The joke highlights sea life and harsh dining aboard.
Uncommon Americans and the Chautauqua Movement
A portrait of John Heyl Vincent and the Chautauqua idea as a major force in popular education. It traces Vincent’s role, the spread to summer schools and lectures, and quotes Theodore Roosevelt on Chautauqua as an American institution, plus a profile of photographer Mathew Brady and his Civil War work and later financial struggles.
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John Heyl Vincent
Alabama
John
Wesleyan Institute
Newark
N. J
Rock River
Ill
Galena
Ulysses S S. Grant
Vincent
Methodist Episcopal Sunday School Union
Sunday School Union and Tract Society
New York
Lewis Miller
Chautauqua Lake
N. Y
Chautauqua
Arvard
Yale
Theodore Roosevelt
America
Mathew Brady
New York State
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Ater
Brady
Morse
United States
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