Pork and Beans Battle of Boston Ends in Banter
A tall tale set in South Boston narrates a family feud between Pork Eaters and Bean Eaters. Mrs McGinnis threatens, a boy named Jimmy witnesses antics, and the two sides fight with bean porridge and corn shooters before peace via shared beans. The narrator recalls a village conflict that ends in unity and baked beans becoming a local staple.
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Mr. Blackstone
North End
Plymouth
Hannibal
Citadel
Smith
Boston
Jim
Battle of Pork and Beans Tale From Family Campfire
A narrator recalls a childhood memory of a mock battle after a long feud in the Infant colony. Families arm hogs as riders and wield corn powder, facing a bean soup assault by the Bean Eaters. The scene blends humor and hardship as hogs and humans endure a messy defeat and lingering disdain.
Tricky Bridge Problem No 16 Analyzed by Correspondents
A historical bridge column discusses problem No 16 with a detailed card sequence and signaling strategy. It evaluates lead choices, trump management, and partner signals, highlighting best plays and reader responses from D H V and others.
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D K
A Decided Bargain at the Parlor
A Detroit Free Press anecdote describes a customer rejecting vanilla ice cream after detecting a kerosene-like taste. The parlor owner explains vanilla is out and jokes about half-price service and a supposed sore throat cure.
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Detroit Free Press
Susan
Daniel Webster and the Large Hat of Eloquence
Bill Nye recounts Daniel Webster's wit and intellect with humorous anecdotes from Massachusetts politics. He contrasts Webster's sharp mind with warped echoes of vanity, recalls Butler's hat quip, and muses on brains and fame, then shifts to a medical note touting Jaen Co's Coca Beef Tonic.
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Benjamin F. Butler
Massachusetts
Jim Nye
Senate
Mr. Butler
Webster
Daniel Webster
Mr. Webster
J. M. Carnocman
New York State Hospital
Jaen Co
Congress
Voltaic Belt Co Offer for Nervous Debility Cure
Nervous, debilitated men urged to try a free thirty day trial of Dr Dye's Celebrated Voltaic Belt with Electric Suspensory Appliances promising speedy relief and permanent cure of nervous debility loss of vitality and manhood plus other diseases. Complete restoration guaranteed. Marshail Michigan pamphlet mailed free by Voltaic Belt Co.
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Goat
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Billy
Mrs. McGinnis
Dover Street
Vin
Collinses
Orphas
Belial
Phatever
Marcy
McGinnis
Heans
Wood
Leeveee
Ky Q
Burcess
Rene
Daeesre Aee
Bill Nye
D. Webster, Esq
Mass
LaPointe
Lake Superior
Louis Roudedeau
Fair Land
Winchester & CO
Dey St
New York
Florida
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Fla
St. Andrews
NEW York & Havana Cigar CO
Broadway
J.h.reeves
Chatham St
F. U. Fowler
Moodus
Coun
Sudwly
Ayer
C. Johnson
Hicks Sr
Broooklyn
N. Y
E. R. Henry
4Th St
Lowell
John W. Starr
Laconia
Lowa
Pettinger
M. D
Glen Gardner
N. J
H. M. Thayer
Hillside St
Milton
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co
Lowell, Mass
J. A. Ancurr
M.D
Oxford
Brooklyn
Tus Cannave Company
Fulton Street, N
Condensed Milk CO
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Samuel Hollyer
Finden
Longfellow
Irving
Shakespeare
Scott
Byron
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bowdoin
Concord
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cambridge
George Washington
Bunker Hill
GLOBE
the Weekly Globe
Cis
Tee Vee Uuyy
U.S
the Free Press
Detroit
Mich
NEW England Medical Institute
Tremoxt Row
Rogather
Grant
Bierstadt
Icture
Incom
Garfield
J. T. Headley
FE. B. Treat
Rich
Fast Hampton
Conn
Marston Bolus
Vuerico Cele
Marston Remedy CO
H. Treskow
West 14Th Street
TuThS&wyly
O.addrea
DS. T. A
Slocum
Pearist
Ward & CO
Louisiana
GAY Bros
Ea Rata Ang
John H. McAlvin
Frea
United States
Grover Cleveland
Reform
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