Credit and Complaints Across a Busy Street
A witty exchange unfolds as a beggar asks for a dime from a sailor who has no change yet offers repayment later. A waiter jokes about tough steak prompting a manager, while a commuter misreads a train stop as a lunch wagon in this collection of light, humorous clippings.
Spelling It The Actress's French Table Conversation
The popular film star tested her French at table with companions. A gallant asked for sugar and she replied Oui signaling a pun about we and you and I.
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Pepsodent Miracle of Ilium Cleans Stains From Teeth
Pepsodent promises brighter teeth with The Miracle of Ilium. The ad claims daily use of Pepsodent Paste and Powder containing Irium removes surface stains and reveals natural radiance.
Historic Hoaxes The Spider Farm and Shakespearean Forgeries
A compilation of famous hoaxes from the 1890s and earlier. Ralph D Paine recounts the Spider Farm yarn falsely selling trained spiders to age wine bottles and Sara Bernhardt the queen spider. It also covers Samuel Ireland and a forged Shakespeare collection, exposing how publishers and actors were duped before fakes collapsed.
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Ralph D. Paine
Philadelphia Press
Pierre Grantaire
Lancaster Pike
Emile Sala
Surinam
M. Grantaire
Atlantic Monthly
London
Samuel Johnson
Boswell
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Drew Lane
Ireland
Edmund Malone
Mrs. Siddons
Rowena
Shake Speare
Difficult Scientific Name Mimosa Silk Tree
The plant Albizzia julibrissia is a large shrub or small tree known by several popular names including mimosa acacia and silk tree. It is not the true mimosa but is closely related to acacias and is beautiful in bloom and otherwise.
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Cotton Mather
Increase Mather
John Winthrop
William Phipps
Massachusetts Historical Society
South Carolina Historical Society
Texas
Maine
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