Paris Fair Con Game and Countess at Nolan’s Club
A Cripple Creek gambling tale features the Countess of Morganstern visiting Nolan & Vetters, studying the game from Crumley the dealer. Crumley refuses to take her money, while the city government covers losses. The comic exchange ends with Crumley packing up as the party departs.
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Cripple Creek
Countess
Morganstern
Nolan & Vetters
Nolan
Crumley
Kirst National Bank
John Oakhurst
Colorado
Denver
Helena
Marshall
Denver Times
Paris Butcher Attacked by Lion After Champagne Prank
A country fair lion taming act in Privas Ardeche drew a crowd as a Paris butcher joined the lion in the cage and offered champagne. The lion seized him biting and mauling his body while the frightened audience trampled and injured several onlookers.
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Paris
Privas
Ardeche
Odd Bits Of News From Around The World
A telegraph cost in Pekin to London, trains in Birmingham, and 7009 Parisians in hair preparation. Wheat yields in Ellis County and cotton profits in the South. California lemon growing becomes profitable. A Chinese plow, Doniphan county places, and naturalization limits for Chinese residents. Baltimore switches to electricity, Goshen water rates, fresh meat voyages to Liverpool. Warsaw’s sugar factories, Marconi gear for warships, and Russia’s agricultural dominance. Bolivian railway surveys, Cedar Rapids festival, census urban growth, North American apple harvest, Lewiston stone water chain, Guam climate, Arctic flowers varieties.
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Pekin
London
New Street
Birmingham
Paris
Ellis County
Kan
California
Wolf River
Bumblebee Lane
Turkey Ridge
Northern Lights
Beanville
Idle Hour
Doniphan County
Kaw
United States
Hawaii
Baltimore
Goshen
Indiana
Kingdom of
Poland
Warsaw
Marconi
Russia
Oruro
la Paz
Lake Titicaca
Cochabamba
Chaliapata
Colqueschaca
Potosi
Cedar Rapids
North America
Lewiton
Guam
Philippines
Arctic
Pay Day at Scrooge's: Bookkeeper's Double Duty
The Philadelphia Press recounts an exchange where a bookkeeper, after covering both his own and a junior clerk's duties, asks Scrooge to acknowledge pay. Scrooge calculates the week’s salary as six dollars for half his own work and six more for half the clerk’s work, totaling twelve dollars.
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Scrooge
Old Scrooge
Philadelphia Press
Boston Post Photo Contest Seeks Amateurs and Pros
The Boston Post announces a weekly cash prize contest for photographs with $10, $5, and $3 awards. Entries should have title, name and address, and a brief note on circumstances. subjects should be newsworthy with clear light and few figures. Works not returned. send to Editor Photograph Contest, the Post, Boston.
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Boston Post
Ihe
Sunday Post
the Post
Boston
Crowd in car prompts strained entry for pretty girl
A Baltimore American snippet shows a pretty girl pleading to be squeezed into a crowded car as a young man offers an arm to help, while the conductor issues six go ahead signals on the fare register.
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Baltimore American
Miss Stagestruck Starring Draws Attention in Collingwood Ties
Detroit Free Press notes Miss Stagestruck is currently starring while Collingwood asks who lends support. The reply points to her father as the supporting figure, highlighting a personal connection amid a spotlight on the production.
Foolish travels and a bank money request on shipboard
Passenger Bob Roberts on the steamship St Paul to New York rushed a trunk search for papers he feared he left in London. He repeatedly called himself a fool, then, as he neared finishing, a bank clerk nearby asked him for a bit of money in the same vein.
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St. Paul
New York
Bob Roberts
London
Chicago
Mr. Roberts
Roberts
Janet and Mother Quip Over Marriages in Bazar Quip
A humorous Harper's Bazaar exchange recalls social marriages. Janet notes Miss Poindexter’s marriage to an underwriter while the mother contrasts with Clara’s marriage to an editor, highlighting social norms and witty commentary.
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Janet
Jack
Conscience on the Menu in Paris Restaurant Parlay
A visitor in Paris complains about the high prices in a top restaurant at the exhibition grounds. The waiter deflects with a pun on conscience con science and suggests the restaurant may or may not carry such a notion on the bill. The exchange ends with a tease about the bill and conscience.
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Paris
Exhibition Grounds
Traveling tintype operator at Marlboro fair
A man from lower Maryland and his wife seek a tintype from a mobile gallery. They bargain on price and even offer a coonskin as payment. The husband probes risks while the wife glares, recalling a previous sitter who died after a session.
Thought it was only square to tell yo
The artist declined to take the risks and the man walked away with his coonskin saying the blame rests elsewhere. He warned against tearing the wagon wreck for a single coonskin and joked about the ole woman sewing a roll of kniiker while letting the picture go.
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Washington Post
Telegraph boy run over by blind man with missing leg
Last Friday afternoon a telegraph messenger speeding with a telegram valued at sixpence a minute was seriously injured by a blind man named Standfast. The cripple had removed his wooden leg to rest it by the roadside, and mischievous boys had hidden the limb. Groping for it, Standfast moved into the boy’s path, and the rapid messenger was struck. The boy sprained his wrist and will be unable to hold a grip for two weeks.
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Standfast
Early Train Farewell mixup at country inn
A traveller resting in a country hotel woke to a brisk knock asking if he was to be called for the 5:15 train. He confirmed, but the porter announced the train had already departed, leaving the guest to return to sleep. The anecdote appears in the Buffalo Enquirer.
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Buffalo Mnquirer
Dog Holds Back Freight Trains Remembered in Kansas Tale
A Philadelphia Record anecdote recalls a dog in Kansas that sought to stop trains for water by biting the caboose rear step. Trainmen retaliated with a fake cow tail, leading the canine to grip the tail and be dragged into a dust cloud. The pup returned toothless after days on the road.
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Kansas
Philadelphia
Figures Won’t Die In The Minds Of Voters
An exchange in the Washington Star quotes a man who trusts numbers less than before. His unhappy friend notes the coal dealer's vote calculation, a tainted weight of 1920 wounds per ton, and a payoff of $1.25 short in his charge, illustrating waning confidence in figures.
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Washington Star
Daily Table Hints and Meals Menu Summary
Daily table hints from the Sunday Post outline breakfast and dinner offerings with dishes such as sliced bananas, cream beet, roast chicken, mashed potatoes, scalloped tomatoes, and peach pie. A soup and potato puff recipe is included, with directions for turnip and carrot prep, stock, mace, parsley, and a baked potato dish. Signed by Mabel Atkins of Roxbury.
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Mabel Atkins
Leyland Street
Roxbury
The Sultan's Harem Mystery of Escape and Love
A traveler in Turkey befriends a sullen slave named Pedro to infiltrate the sultan's harem. He learns of a Spanish queen prisoner's plea and joins her plan to flee, aided by a staged disguise and careful timing. They execute a midnight escape disguised as slaves, facing risk if captured as they seek safety in distant Spain.
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Turkey
Pedro
Jengland
Senor
Spain
Carlotta
Madrid
Senora
Sener
Sanor
Piereet
Lenora
Teres Gar
England
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets Adverts and Endorsements
A letter from A Ellms and Chas F Buzzell assistant postmaster of South Sudbury Massachusetts endorses Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets at five dollars a box and cites personal relief. A Toronto woman, Mrs Jas Barton, reports dramatic improvement after three to four tablets, noting relief from acid dyspepsia and improved energy. Doctors and druggists confirm safety for children and adults, with use after meals preventing acidity and aiding digestion.
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Stuart
Mr. Ellms
Ome
Escape and Death in the Sultan's Reach
The narrator witnesses Carlotta sacrifice herself to thwart the Sultan's seize of the abducted queen. He frees himself, escapes amid commotion, and helps Carlotta’s rescue via a fatal dagger strike. He later learns of her death and returns to England wealthy from her letters.
William Jennings Returns to New England in Sunday Post
William Jennings arrives in New England and sees the Sunday Post story section intact. He may spend three cents to take home its twenty eight columns of life stories for Mrs. Bryan and enjoy Champ Clark anecdotes for himself.
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William Jennings
New England
Sunday Post
Bryan
Champ Clark
The Yellow Garden Poem In Emerald Hills
A poem from Smart Set describes a yellow garden among emerald hills where the land blooms gold. It recalls a cavalry square fallen in battle and the ghosts seen when the acre bursts in bloom, likening the scene to cloth of gold through sorcery and old magic.
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Acre
California Tours With Raymond and Whitcomb Begin Soon
California travel expands as Raymond and Whitcomb offer winter tours on a palace vestibuled train with dining cars. Four return routes and eleven eastbound parties include escorted travel, with tickets valid on any train until next July. First Boston departure November 6 for Southern California arrival November 10. Descriptive circular available from Raymond and Whitcomb, Boston.
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California
Messrs. Raymond & Whitcomb
Boston
Raymond & Whitcomb
Washington Street
School Street
Personally Conducted Tours to Washington and New York
Travel notice announcing directly conducted tours to Washington Philadelphia and New York aboard the Royal Blue line leaving Boston on October 12 and November 13 all expenses included itineraries available from J Simmons New England agent Pa Washington Street Boston
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Washington
Philadelphia
New York
Royal Blue Line
Boston
J. Simmons
New England
Washington Street
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J. C. Ayer Company, Practical Chemists
Lowell, Mass
Countess Wor
Stranger
Mr. Cuily
Harper's
Beast
Cage
Keeper
Strigken
Arthur F. Smith
Taylor Street
Waltham
Wilfred
Fair Lady
W. W
Chicago News
Lower
Maryland
Marlboro Fair
Peach
Isabelle D. O'Brien
Walnut Street
Lynn Mass
Pete
SO MR. Bryan
Raymond& Whitcomb
Horsford’s
Bell AsNes
Krivans
PANY
Spruce Street
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