Modest Demand and Clever Wordplay Across Columns
A collage of humorous vignettes from old papers features jokes about eyesight and challenges on Hazylem Avenue, a Pullman porter tale, a Harlem doctor gag, a Sunday school memory clash, a widow's tale, a tin peddler joke, and a staged engagement held to decades of discretion.
Coal Delivery Under Police Protection Speculated
The Chicago Mail reports that delivering coal could require police protection, indicating tensions or disruptions surrounding fuel supplies.
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Stamps Deal and Quick Witty Quips From City Notices
A Philadelphia stamp clerk offers a dozen two cent stamps for a quarter, Mrs Chestnut accepts. A collage of light exchanges follows with quick quips about colleges giants poetry and engagements from various humorous snippets and local notes.
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Mrs. Chestnut
Philadelphia Post Office
Waiting for the Test and a Diamond Ring Question
A curious exchange about a will and a diamond ring unfolds as a joke about inheritance. The dialogue touches on marriage, doubt, and verifying gifts with a jeweler. A doctor quips that the patient spends too much time eating and drinking, suggesting moderation.
What sort of vessel is a lighter ask Mr and Mrs Bunting
Mrs Bunting asks what a lighter vessel is and Mr Bunting replies it would carry petroleum. The exchange appears in Truth. Jacky’s Request and Harper’s Young People.
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Salve Oil Promises Quick Cure for Sprains
A brief column advises that a sprain of the wrist or ankles is common and that three applications of Salvat ion Oil will cure it. The note emphasizes rubbing in the oil for relief.
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W. F. Sayder
Care Office
Rejected Suitor Faces Repeated Rebuffs at Seaside
A young man, jilted by two dozen women over ten years, pleads for marriage from a fair woman who rebuffs him. She leaves him stunned and worn out, while a seaside youth muses on photography and faster negative development. The scene shifts between Detroit Free Press and Washington Star snippets.
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Detroit Free Press
Washington Star
Air Ship Ride Highlights Mount Carmel to Chicago
The Iliinois air ship made a successful trip from Mount Carmel to Chicago on a way freight. A witty exchange shows a museum manager and applicant debating height and feats. The humor echoes old newspaper brief style.
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Washington Pont
Beware of Swindlers Purveying Fake Medicines
We have exposed swindlers who advertise vile compounds as medicine increasing suffering. For a pure medicine and blood purifier we can honestly recommend Sulphu Bitters, Editor Sun.
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Harper's Magazine 1893 offerings and notable contributors
The notice highlights Harper's Magazine 1893 with an upheld standard of excellence. Notable features include novels by Conan Doyle and other popular writers, short stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Richard Henry Davis, and continued illustrated papers and library notices from various authors.
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