Laughable Gossip and Wordplay from Dizzy Columns
A collage of jokes and anecdotes fills this feisty clippings-style page. Bits include a grave digger pun, a spelling-bee tease, a Chicago sister mix-up, and humorous miscommunications on trains, with a Missouri Congressman mistaking cold tea for whisky and a stammering duet ending in a marriage proposal.
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Missouri
Congress
Potomac
Misapplication and The Juvenile Tormentor Dialogue
A Springfield Homestead item presents quoted recollections featuring an Arkansas man warned of arrest and rough handling over a money remit with a misused term. The piece then shifts to a child’s chorus about smallpox, vaccination, and a fisherman’s week at the lake, examined by a popper and mommer in a conversational vignette.
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Arkansas
Popper
Poppe
Mr. Brown
Kor Mommer
Springfield Homestead
Widow Bodett
Sir Walter Scott
Scott
Blancherd
Landa
Llus
AN . Caack
Hugh Conwna
Pooka
They Were Not Man and Wrre Real Estate Farce
A Dearborn Street agent quotes a couple posing as tenants in a comic claim they are “wife and man” not man and wife. The woman does all talking, the meek man agrees, and they argue over renting a flat for 25 dollars while asserting unconventional gender roles in their household.
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Dearborn Street
A Curtain's Fortunate Discovery on Board the Schooner
Captain Coleman and family suffered coughs while sailing between Atlantic City and New York. Dr King's New Discovery brought instant relief and eased chest soreness. The household endorses it as standard remedy. free trials offered at J H Young & Co. Also promoted Sulphur Bitters and Boston Globe endorsements.
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Coleman
Weymouth
Atlantic City
N. Y
Dr. King
King
J. H. Young & Co
Boston Daily Globe
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