Bill Nye seeks railroad work and lobbies on pass limits
The article recounts Bill Nye the humorist’s mock plea to railroads for employment, railing against the interstate commerce bill’s pass restrictions. Nye correspondence with General Pass Agents of the Chicago Rock Island Pacific, Milwaukee Road, and others reveals a satirical campaign to secure a job while noting political and personal reflections on travel, courtesy, and regulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Railroads
Congress
Mr. St. John
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Road
A. W. H. Carpenter
Milwaukee Road
Asheville
N. C
H. Carpenter
St. P. Ry
Milwaukee
Wis
Deak
In Time of Lent Dialog Scenes and Social Fatigue
A fragmentary dialogue set during Lent depicts fashionable society, chaperones, and social obligations. Characters discuss religious observances and rest while detailing busy schedules, gatherings, and the strain of high society life, with references to travel and charitable plays.
Bill Nye seeks work from Minnesota official in 1887 letter
In a dated 1887 exchange, Bill Nye asks Teasdale for employment and a way to earn a living, offering to take any honest job and mentioning road workers. Teasdale replies needing a janitor at Minnesota offices, noting pay deductions for breakdowns and urging Nye to respond quickly as state legislature awaits applications. Nye plans to contact editors and other officials for work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carpenter
Milwaukee
Wis
Bai Nye
Ena
Asheville
Ear Sik
House of Representatives
Isconsin
Weil
W. Av. Hi. Castastes
Taleo
Mr. Teasdale
Omaha Road
M. C
W. Teasdale
Royal Route
St. Minn
Winter
Bill Nye
N.G
Minnesota
T. W. Teaspare
Girone
Talk Ablu Laziness San Francisco Chronicle
A wealthy traveler in a hotel lives a relaxed life without working, claiming no laziness in others while enjoying an expensive suite. He breakfasts calmly, signals a waiter, and asks for another cup of tea as his routine unfolds with unhurried, courteous etiquette.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Visitor with a Cane Delays At Downtown Residence
A hall attendant reports a young man in the parlor who brought only a cane. the girl dismisses him and leaves to visit a sick friend, saying she will not be home for a week. The scene unfolds at a downtown residence as she resumes reading.
Had No Trouble with Them
A Buffalo Courier fragment shows Jupkins Sr and Jr discussing Western men who are said to be lawless. The older man asks about drinking with them. the junior notes he never faced trouble, claiming he always drank and was spared due to youth, though the line suggests danger.
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Buffalo Courier
Jupkins, Sr
Jack
Jupkins, Jr
Gust
Montana
Mr. Bowser
Lhanno
Diary Evidence of Connecticut Women in Early America
An excerpt notes that many Connecticut women kept diaries in the last century. One entry from 1790 recalls a dinner of roast pork with a doctor joking about Eve’s creation, illustrating era humor and social customs.
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Connecticut
Ingies
Patty
Aes
Campaigning With Banks Fort de Russey and Red River Advance
General Franklin leads 40 000 troops from Alexandria toward Fort de Russey after Admiral Porter ferries a large fleet up the Red River. The breakthrough at Fort de Russey opens the Red River to Alexandria and shifts operations toward Natchitoches and Shreveport with Banks and Lee coordinating river and land forces. The march traverses a pine country, with skirmishes near Pleasant Hill and a strategic push to control Shreveport and the lower Mississippi, impacting Texas and Mexico policy.
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Franklin
New Orleans
Brashear City
Teche Bayou
Opelousas
Alexandria
Porter
Red River
Ozark
Osage
Neosho
Benton
Carondelet
Pittsburg
Mound City
Louisville
Essex
Chillcothe
Price
Choctaw
Lafayette
Black Hawk
Ouachita
Champion
Tyler
A. J. Smith
Sixteenth Army Corps
Vicksburg
Mississippi
Uid River
Atchafalays
Port Hudson
Mower
Bayou Place
Yellow Bayou
Atchafajiava
Smith
Lorttle Russey
Simmsport
Fort
Admiral Porter
Dick Taylor
Fifty-eighth
Ulinois
Wisconsin
Eastport
Fort de Russey
Shreveport
Stone
Banks
Lee
Teche
Neval Banks
United States
General Mower
Panks
Natchitoches
Mansfield
Thirteenth Army Corp
Sonera Ransom
Nineteenth Army Corps
Emory
Dickey
Grant
Richard Arnold
Green
Ramsden
Virginia
Army of the Potomac
Fort Smith
Grand Ecore
Pleasant Hill
Kinson
Lanks
Vetich
Arly
Les
Paspare
Davis
Napoleon
Louisana
Arkansas
Texas
trans-Mississippi Department
Kirby Smith
General Banks
Frank Funny
Home Again in Brooklyn Eagle Housekeeping Tale
Jurdette narrates settling back in a Brooklyn home after years in hotels and storage warehouses. He recalls packing fragile items, a six story fall, and keeping a flawless stove leg. The piece humorously chronicles hidden treasures, a moth count, and a barrel adventure with a barrel crawl and a nail hammered joke.
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Nowgong
Sol
Washington
Quail Courtship Aboard Rock In Nature's Courtroom
A San Diego scene describes quail courtship on a rock beside a brook. A hen quail attracts multiple males who compete, fight, and one victor gains a mate. After bouts, more groups repeat the ritual, reflecting human nature in bird society and courtship dynamics.
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San Diego Sin
Miss Quail
The Persian New Year and No Root Celebrations in Persia
The piece describes No Root and New Year festivities in Teheran with royal ceremonies, gifts of confectionery, and public receptions. It notes the Shah's embraces of tradition, the multi-faith timing, and the horse races and grand parade including an elephant leading the royal procession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. Benjamin
Persia
Teheran
Royal Household
Aepe
Zeer Haredjeh
Woulki Bs
Iis
Legation
Shah Viemsheed
Mahomet
Darius
Chosroes
Van
His Sister Did Not Know Him
In Chicago Tribune prose Maud scolds Irene for doubting Henry's social awkwardness. Irene asserts she knows him as his sister and claims he hates society yet shows she believes he is an accomplished young man in sleigh riding.
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Chicago Tribune
Maud
Irene
Henry
Carrying a Stove on the Road
A Chicago Herald note describes a new sales stunt where traveling salesmen tote real stoves to demonstrate goods to merchants. The tactic aims to outshine photographs by offering hands on displays as competition rises in the stove trade.
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Chicago Herald
Unclear Text Sparks Travel Stove Dilemma
The fragment discusses using hot stoves in baggage carts to demonstrate function, noting the absurdity of transporting red hot stoves between towns and criticizing the traveling business’s direction. No clear names or dates are present.
Golden haired angel and the Bowser romance gone sour
A Detroit Free Press piece recounts a rocky marriage marked by jesting affection, faded charm, and sharp lines. Bowser mocks his wife’s hair, flouts poetry, and plans to “settle down to realities.” The couple quarrels over finances, illness, and daily life, revealing a brittle domestic farce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Bowser
Mr. Bowser
Oine
An Interesting Experience Revue Scientifique Moment
A narrator recounts a vivid dream-like scene shared with a police official. An employee guides him through a college wing to find soup vegetables, leading to a cabbage found under a stairs stove, then wakes as soup is set on the bedside table. The dream blends memory, color mixing, and a kitchen task with surreal movement through familiar spaces.
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Revue Scientifique
Tts
A Drove of Cows Tobogganing on an Icy Hill
An amusing Perry county tale reports Everhart ranch cattle sliding on an icy hill near New Port to New Bloomfield. Several cows slipped and tobogganed downhill, with the last cow performing a gymnast like slide before the herd rose and moved on. The spectacle entertained onlookers as the ice made their descent comical.
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Altoona Tribune
Messrs
Everhart
Newport
New Bloomfield
Perry County
Why She Wore Stays of Black
A New York letter in the Cincinnati Enquirer humorously depicts a fashion-minded daughter and her father debating a black corset worn during Lent. The daughter defends the color as pious, while the father frets about visible undergarments and spiritual consolation.
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New York
Cincinnati Enquirer
Anna Maria
Where Faith Ended
In Omaha World excerpt a doctor warns a suitor to avoid treating the daughter when she is ill, demanding trust and proof of care as the condition for happiness and marriage prospects. The exchange highlights parental protection and a physician’s caution in matters of courtship and health.
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Omaha
Lime Kiln Club Adopts Dooty Map and Trade Dollar Debate
The Lime-Kiln Club’s meeting features Brother Gardner outlining dooty as obeying laws saving for family and paying debts, while condemning excess zeal. They discuss a Toronto Canada-US peace prospect, a jailed professor, and a tongue in cheek critique of the trade dollar, with members venting at Congress for devaluing currency and the public’s trust.
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Detroit Free Press
Brother Gardner
Samuel Shin
Whateber
de Lana
Africa
Cape Town
Zanzibar
America
Ebery Pusson
Washington
United States
Indianapolis
Canada
Ve Lisle Caban
Ohio
Kentucky
Leone the
Kaintucky
du Purfessor
Brother Financial Smith
Horder
Chen Congress
Congress
Detroit
Brother Smith
Greenback Jackson
Committee On Finance
Hrother Gardner
Hull
Posishun
Baby Beasts at a Zoo in Cincinnati Enquirer
The Cincinnati Enquirer describes maternal behavior at the zoo with Macaques and mandrills. A Macaque mother protects her two month old, the male mandrill disciplines others, and a jaguar with a three month old cub resists visitors. Lucy the leopardess protects her five month old, while her mate Tom shares meat from his mouth.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Lucy
Tom
Kittie
Cubs Play Like Kittens As They Grow In Captive Vaults
A lioness named Katie tends three cubs, Grover Cleveland, Francis and Dewey. Each cub, about a month old, teases and swipes at food tossed into their cage. They leap over each other and race about, displaying kittenish playfulness within their confined pens.
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Katie
Grover Cleveland
Francis
Euy
BRIC-A-BRAC Merchant Traveller Tale
A married man endures discord as his wife uses pointed words and a sharp retort to disrupt his peace, delivering a cutting remark that unsettles their home life and leaves him reflecting on her boldness.
Kind-hearted Gentleman Cheerfully Consoles Crying Child
In a tender scene a kind old gentleman consoles a frightened, injured girl who protests she cannot be a little man, asking how she can be one when she is a small girl, closing with a gentle, hopeful moment.
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Harper’s
Charming is Her Dark Blue Eye and Fair Florisette
The verse describes Charming eyes and golden hair, a young Florisette with graceful ankles and a tiny boot. It mentions Piorisette and Rita, and includes a humorous line about a superintendent of a fashionable Sunday school asking what bird Noah brought tidings by, with a child answering Ostrich to reference Mrs. Nash's hat wings.
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Charming
Piorisette
Rita
Noah
Mother-in-law blamed in humorous Chicago verse
A Chicago Herald verse pokes fun at a husband by asking who teaches him life quirks and faults. The piece culminates with the line blaming his mother-in-law, framing a playful indictment of family tensions in a lighthearted tone.
Clock Winded by Mia Dilby in Detroit Free Press
A playful exchange quotes Richelieu and Arthur about Mia Dilby winding a clock after staying late, in a lighthearted Detroit Free Press joke column.
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Detroit Free Press
Richelieu
Mia Dilby
Arthur
This is the Way of It Love and Pain in Verse
A poem contrasting two lovers, one devoted and one detached, depicting passion and sorrow. It frames love as both powerful and painful, with imagery of awakening tears and quiet sleep, ending in the notion that passionate love is the mother of pain and life goes on after sorrow.
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Pain
Sheriff Sells Off Farmer Editor After Years of Guidance
A Norristown Herald item reports a man who edited an agricultural journal for fifteen years and advised farmers on cultivation and wealth building was sold out by the sheriff last week after buying a farm and pursuing agriculture a year earlier.
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Norristown Herald
May Moon and Old Romance in a Rural Night
A Providence Journal verse narration recalls a moonlit walk with a loved one where spring’s air stirs memories of romance and cold fear of aging sparks, ending with a humorous dialogue about tramp travel and a coal fire in a sleeper car.
The Cigarette Poem of Loss and Memory
A nostalgic poem laments a cigarette as a charms bearer and witness to lost love. The speaker recalls candlelit afternoons with Kate, the elms, and tender gestures, then mourns fading passion as smoke and heart fade to ashes.
Theatrical Agent Seeks Church Backing for Ballet
A theatrical agent asks a pastor if his wealthy congregation will denounce a ballet set for next week. The minister replies that a mild protest costs 100 and a severe denunciation would be 200, highlighting a humorous yet blunt negotiation between art and religion.
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Eaver
E. St John
GPA
RL & P
Rny
Chicago
Coronel Bill Nye
Algevityr
Marvin Hughitt
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Sin
Philip H. Welch
Puck
Carlyle
Fan
Nan
Mama
Old Point
Hillhouse
Mrs. B
Mrs. X
Bu Ss
Belle
Ms. X
Saunders
Aunders
Clinton Bugie
Ciris
Fort de Bassey
Home Again
MR. and
the Lime-Kiln Club
Darkies
Florisette
J. HL. Gibson
Ena Wheeler Wilcox
Providence Journal
C. F. Lummis
Kate
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