Hens, pine sawdust and a cold Pennsylvania crowd
Grimsol warns warns of disbelief as Uncle David denounces egg forcin and sawdust feeding hens creating wooden eggs. Squire Billduff recounts a wild deer kill tale from Ed Mott in Philadelphia Ledger, while a benevolent stranger exits in anger and mockery.
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David
Grimsol
Pitcher Gat
Squire Billduff
Old ‘Biter
Sugarlip Bill Fritchey
Pennsylvania
Gabriel
Ananias
Sapphira
Ed Mott
Philadelphia Ledger
Rainy Day Sessions at Grimsol's Grocery at Catfish Crossing
A rainy day scene at Catfish Crossing finds locals gathered in Grimsol's grocery as visiting stranger recounts old tales and warns of nigh sighted dangers. He narrates Uncle David Breckendarter and a hired man amid odd eggs and beddin' antics, revealing a comic, rural exchange in dialect.
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Catfish Crossng
Grimsol’s Grocery
Jersey
Catfish Crossing
Grimescl’s
Bilduff
Crump
Bill Fritchey
David Breckendarter
Vale O’ Pochuck
Job Jeffers
David
Willin
Beddin
Uncle David
Sally
Amusing 1842 Port Mahon Ball Story From Reminiscences
In Reminiscences of the Old Navy a US ship Preble visits Port Mahon in 1842. A midshipman dressed as a boat at a fancy dress ball cannot reveal his identity. Wine and soben sados are served. sausages block his peepholes as he struggles, paddling about the ballroom like a rudderless ship.
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United States
Preble
Port Mahon
The Night Herd
A Denver Times poem by Henry Longan Stewart paints a night cattle drive scene with mournful wind, fog, and riders circling the herd. The speaker muses on memories and ghosts shaping the cadence of wind and wood, imagining songs and dances tied to the trail and the cattle’s shadowy roam.
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Henry Longan Stewart
Denver Times
It Was No Joke Scribbles on Biblical Characters
The dialogue recalls humorous depictions of biblical figures, noting Job as an example who “fairly boiled over with humor” in a lighthearted discussion about sacred personages and comic interpretation.
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Dibbles
Job
Pa Explains to Little Willie on an Assignee
A father explains the poker term assignee to his son, defining it as a person who has the deal and awards himself four aces in a moralizing exchange. The dialogue captures a rustic, humorous view of gambling language.
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Little Willie
Wigg
Miss Newitt
Pallette
Pellette
Scribbler
Scrawler
Andrew Carnegie
Homer
Andy
Barnes
Greenleaf is Overruled For Illustration Saga of Slavery Ideas
A long, polemic reminiscence by Bill Arp recalling Judge Greenleaf and the old south. It defends slavery as humane, praises white dominance, and condemns northern interference, arguing race hierarchies and paternalist bonds between whites and blacks. The piece cites Boston lawyers, Tewksbury almshouse, and Dr Mayo to justify racial views.
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South
Achan
God
Gabriel
Toombs
John Randolph
John
Mayo
Boston
Bill Arp
Atlanta Constitution
Captains of Industry and a Parade of Jokes
A fragmentary collection contrasts a Chicago Record-Herald quote praising housewives as “captains of industry” with a string of cartoonish gags. The humor touches on marriage, wealth, insurance, and everyday mischief, framed in a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper style.
Record High Jump Foul Claim Sparks Collegiate Meet
In a heated rival meet the field day between women’s colleges sees Tessie Thistledown clear four feet three inches in the high jump as a blonde rival captain protests a foul. The referee says he did not hear the crowd call mouse and would have jumped himself if he had heard.
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Tessie Thistledown
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Mor
Los Angeles Times
Aunt Sally
Sprout Hill
Danelle David
Billarp
Bartow Man
Cass County
Jim McGinnis
J. P. Machine
Judge Parrott
Abba Johnson
Greenleaf
Parrott
Mr. Greenleaf
Tewksbury
Captains OF Industry
Tia
Chicago Record-Herald
Tommy
Pop
Arthur
Millie
Harry
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