Quipfilled Page with Wit and Local Color
A collage of jokes and anecdotes from a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper page. The items include humorous exchanges about pregnancy, poverty, schooling mishaps, legal quips, and domestic life. Advertisements for medicines and salves appear among light humor and social sketches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Widow Bedett
Sir Walter Scott
Scott
Almple
Shze
Almore Truenone
Hugh
Hugh Conway
Lin News Co
Philad
Also Mentioned on This Page
Alan
LEWIS
All Drugegiste
Lewis & CO
New Haven
Conn
U. 8
Pearl
St Tine
Tay
Erin
Franklin
Lyken
Sibermode
W. H.spooner
COAL
Purelykes Valley
Lackawa
NA Coal
WOOL
Chuich
Dol Seth P
Franklin Coal
W. H. Spooner
A. P. Baxter
State Street
H. C. Farnum
ST. Michael's Church
Mr. Farnum
St. Michael’s
WSR
P.O
Warren
B. I
Baltimore
Otis Munro
Accaroni M
rPusis Island
Vermicelli, Otis Monro
WM. H. Seooner
Formosa
Japan
John Lake
Corner State
Thames Streets
BP. Rowell & Co
New York
Qroxz Ware
AL All
Sind Reet
the. Bristol
Pharris
Henry
Yome Indy
London
Boston Transcript
Thomas Throughman
Speaker
Our Lady
Mrs. Snaggs
Famaus
Brooklyn
Fanny
Katy
Elizabeth
New Jersey
Dr. King
J. H. Young & Co
Eva
D'Onzex
Brown
Smith
Lowell
Buorlen
Arxton
J. H. Young & Ca
Ayer
T. P. Bonner
Chester
L. N. Smith
Utica
Richard Norris
Lynn
Mass
John Burdett
Troy
Jaws
Ayer’s
Ayer & CO
Lowell, Mass
All Druggiste
Dr. Lewis
DR. C.J. Lewis
Friendship Street
Providence
R. I
Richmond Street
Broad Street
C. J. Lewwisis
B.1
A. P.oway & Ca
Bomon, Mast
Sanickrwne P
Eattles, SE
Nancy J. McConaughey
Ashe Grove
Tippecanes Co
Ind
Swift
Wiift Ric CO
Drawer 3
Atlanta
Eaton Phibes
Pa. Parsons
Eve Sheridan
Express
Biscaee
Dr. I
Idonuson
Ms U
Boston
Tre Boyd
Springfield Meg. Co
Springfield
Ohio
George W. Simmons
Practical Undertaker and Embalmer
Bristol
Plorenes Warden
B. L. Far Jeon
Mrs. Gaskell
Mary Barton
Wilkie Collins
Court Farm
Henry Wood
East Lynne
Cupid’s Net
Dora
Mary Cecil Hey
John Bowerbank
Misa Mulock
John Halifax
Gwendoline
Dora Thorne
Jasper Dane
Miss ME. Braddon
Aurora Floyd
Mary Cecil Hay
Brenda Yorke
Gabriel
David Wont
Mrs
Ann
Stephens
Old Middleton
Dudley Carleon
Misa M. K. Braddon
Lady Audley
Easient
Etta W. Pierce
Valerie
Mrs. Alexander
Sister Rose
Woman In White
Anne
Miss Mulock
Amos Barton
George Eliot
Adam Bede
City Hall Square
City Hall
Post Office
New York City
Brooklyn Bridge
R.R
C. H. Thompson
Hope Street
Actice
Bunco
Shane
A. Geisler
Mount
Hope Avenue
B.C. Munro
Wood
Valley Streets
WM. Hodgkinson
Rhodes Island
Providence Plantations
Supreme Court
Ereas
Wilhelmina Christiano Arnold
Frederick Edwarde Arnold
Frederick Edward Arnold
Spoane
Holden
Charles A. Waldron
Rhode Island
Bristow
Mabel Maud Wood
House of
William BR. Woodhouse, Jr
William B. Woodhouse, Jr
Ss. C. Spooner
F. H. Richmond & Co
Providence, R. I
Fountain Street
F. H. Richmond, Co
Wheelwright
C. Munro
RYE _STRAW
A Teaniz W. H. Spooner
E. C. Mune
George Richmond
Weyhosset Street
Providence, R
Horne
WM. W. Smith
Forest Street
Taunton Branch
R. R. Atileaboro
T. Hoene
H. T. Worne
Wm. H. Horton & Co
Snow St
Barrington
W. S. Dixon
Hesthurn
LADIE
Gentlemen
State St. Old Bank Building
C. D
Spooner
Spec
Algo
Court Street
Josiah
Peckham
William F. Bowler
Josephus Gooding
Musical Instruments
Bradford Street
Insurance
Providence Mutual Fire Insurance CO
A. D
Westminster Street
Providence, Rr, I
Mutual Fire Insurance
New England
H. B. Barker
H.C. Waters
William R. Taylor
Dorchester Mutual Fire Ins. Co
Inc
DWARD
Babbitt
Equitable
Union Mutual Fire Insurance Company
A.C. Barstow
Thomas J. Hill
Henry A. Hidden
FeantoHber Lippitt
Isaac H. Southwick
Edward P. Taft
Royal C. Taft
Francis W. Carper
Charles H. Smith
Edwin Barrow
Josep
Nathaniel
Edwin Barrows
Stephen Harris
Henry Lippit
Rowland Hazard
William Binney
John W. Danielson
James H. Chace
John W. Slater
Fred B. Evans
A. Eddy
Greene
BR. I
Pawtucket Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Stephen P. Fisk
Thomas Moses
George L. Walker
A.A. Mann
J. E. Dispeau
Robert Cias
P. Moses
Jelg Isaa
P. Shi
C Shove
Ner, Jr
Dwelling House Insurance
Praneklin Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Wood's Building
South Main
Corner College St. Providence, BR. I
Benj. B. Adams
Edward A. Greene
Waterman
Thomas Brown
Francis M. Smith
Weeny Scott W. Mowry
Eugene W. Mason
Amos M. Bowen
John R. Wheaton
P. Shinner, SR
Fire Insurance Agency
Aetna Insurance Company
Hartford, Conn
Capital and Assets
Connecticut Fire Insurances Co
Hartford, Cony
Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Co
Philadelphia
P. Skinner
Bristol County Savings Bank
High St
Baylis
Byfield Market
GEO. P. Rowell & Co
Jas R. Arnold Gladding
Stinson & Co
Portland
Maine
U.S. Patent Office
U. S. Patent Office
A. Snow & Co
Patent Office
Washington, D.C
WM. H. Spooner
Thames Street
Longman & Martinez
Orst Claea
W. H+OUNER
M.W. Ayers&son
Agency of
Mestre
Otis Mune Abertants
Ste Ee C
Beb
E. C. Munro
MONRO
RESH
Apli
John H. Collins
Wood Street
Wardwell Lumber CO
Bristol, R. I
Preston E. Day
National Mixed Paint Co
American Mixed Paint Co
F. C. Pierce & Co.'s Paints
Sherwin & Williams
Union
Jewett’s and
Bradley
Kirby’s
Tarr & Wonson
Bay State
Deli
Travelers’ Guide, &c
Providence, Warren & Bristol Railroad
Warren Bristol
Fall River
Newport
Calver
A. M
Bristol and
Way
Market Square
India Point
Providence R. R
Newport Express
Far River
Orse
Exchange Place
P. M. Waterman Stone
Providence Steamboat Co
Richard Borden
Bristol Ferry
R. H. Eddy
Hilley
United States
Great Britaan
France
Washington
BR. H. Eddy
Pates 5
Mr. Eddy
Edmund Burke
Patents
Wasington
George Draper
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