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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1893
Page
4
A collage of humorous exchanges from period papers and cartoons. Scenes include a grocer charging for imagined items, a medicine hawker at a doorstep, a peddler’s grudging apologies, a dog seller and a wary buyer, a father scolding a child, and other sly jests.
A brief dialogue notes a friend asking about marrying a rich girl and a poet replying he will continue in the business. Harry questions whether Mabel Pruyn would suit as a wife for Jack, who wonders if it could be fooled. The exchange appears in Life The Point and Truth sections.
In a Harpers Bazaar style quip a conductor explains the cable car’s jerky motion as the grip. The remark reflects a humorous take on transit issues in the era.
A collection of brief gags and exchanges from readers and columns. A father jokes about boa constrictors with a pun about b o re in different settings. A young lady and shaved youth navigate a social rebuff. A joke about unlucky thirteen at table concludes the segment.
A young writer named Van Lyte has released Kitty Blank Verse, drawing notice from readers and critics. The publication marks a foray into poetry that prompts discussion of style and merit.
A Vienna police court heard of a former prosperous baker driven to poverty by an obsession with collecting handkerchiefs. He stole to fund the habit and police found 1,494 scented handkerchiefs in his apartment. He was ordered to a lunatic asylum.
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