A Peculiar Train Conversation About an Ostrich Egg
A New York businessman on a Central train shows a neighbor a large ostrich egg to hang in his poultry shed. He says it will inspire his hens to greater ambition as they carry on with poultry work. The exchange appears in Texas Siftings and Truth comic snippets with other quips about calves and marriage.
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Carrie
Humphreys
New York
Albany
U. S. Army
American Newsaper
Rowell
Advertising Bureau
Spruce St
America
UE & CO
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Hudson
Texas
ACM
Neiria
Warren
Bristol
Providence
Fall River
Horas Caralenge Exchange Place
Market Square
Newport
J.B. Kenrick
Isaac N. Marshall
Geo. L. Connor
G. P
T. A
Eleanor Kirk
Lancor
Reene Ayeno
Brooklyn
A Rainy Day News Tangle At A Milliner and Beyond
A fragmentary collage of old joke lines and quips set in rainy weather. Characters include a madame dispatching Julie to a milliner, a maid’s banter about true fortune and wealth, and anecdotes about barber shops and blind wisdom. The tone mimics a period humor page with brief gags and witticisms.
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Jaulie
Madame
Azor
Julie
L'Evenement
Prayers and Jokes Across The Page
A collage of quips and verses from early 20th century papers. The Brooklyn Eagle anecdote features a maid heading to church while a singer in a choir jokes about prayer. The Life Defined line offers a witty aphorism. A Chicago News Record quip ponders happiness through forgetting unhappiness. A marriage joke sketches a poker night with a dress and guests. Little Johnny’s tale ends with a comic mispronunciation about birds.
Revivalist tale and burlesque quips from Detroit papers
A Detroit Free Press retells a revival scene with Eph confessing chicken theft to Uncle Silas and a stern rebuke about salvation. It then sketches mischief at a burlesque with a country cousin noting the star, and a school moment where a pupil learns halves and generosity. Also a humorous classroom tale about wild cats ends with a broom-wattle exit.
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Broeam
Silas
Eph
Brudder
Uncle Silas
Ain
Elias
Detroit Free Press
Knowles
Ingalls Skeleton Prank Brings Sad Boy’s Crying Laughter
A Kansas doctor friend of ex Senator Ingalls staged a staged skeleton in his office to scare a newsboy selling papers. The boy panicked, cried, and Ingalls called him upstairs to buy a paper, but the boy cried that the joke failed because Ingalls no longer matches the boy’s trust.
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Mr. Ingalls
Ingalls
Kansas
Atchinson
Salvation Oil Promises Relief for Heavy Labor Strains
A fragment from a era column notes practical remedies for injured workers, praising Salvation Oil as the best treatment for strains from levers pulleys wheels and axles. It recalls quips about reform and small legal notices while advertising medical literature from A. P. Ordway & Co. for free copy.
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