Twemlo labeled hog in overheard talk chain
A fragment from a period newspaper recalls a heated remark about a man named Twemlo in a suburban train encounter. It references overheard commentary from Chicago Record and other magazines, noting gossip and social sniping about conduct and propriety.
Begob Its Great Respectively Wan in Ireland
A compendium of quotations and snippets from periodicals and dialogues. The text includes a judge’s jocular line about inventions and Pat and a short scene with Mrs Bunting and Miss Bunting at a piano. It also cites humorous exchanges from Smith Gray Co.s Monthly and La Lanterne de Cocorico.
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la Lanterne de
Convolation and libel claim teased in Brooklyn Life
A terse exchange mocks a libel suit against the paper. A speaker vows to sue over alleged lies while invoking legal maxims and personal anecdotes about gifts to a parson and a binding marriage fate.
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Belos
How a Cold Affected Arm
A boy details a severe cold that struck him while his mother was away. Upon her return he rushes to her crying that both eyes are raining and one nose won’t go, in a humorous childlike misunderstanding of symptoms.
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Not That Kinod of Settlement
A humorous exchange between relatives about seating and kinship. The dialogue features Cousin Jennie urging proximity and a remark about Easter bonnet shopping, reflecting light social banter in a postcard-style snippet.
Quotes and Vignettes from 19th Century Columns
A collage of satirical exchanges and gossip snippets from period publications. Conversations touch on marriage, mourning, and personal habits, with references to tobacco, weeds, and multiple marriages. The snippets highlight social humor and domestic dynamics in late 1800s press.
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Eleanor Kirk
Greene Avenue
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New York
They Have Seven Lives and Other Oddities in Punchlines
A collection of brief quips and anecdotes from Life and Texas Siftings, including a poet Scribbles without an overcoat, a quip about true poets never dying, a musical item Soulful Youth, a light exchange on singing Forever and Forever, a judge in a will case noting Mia Bullion’s insanity and eccentricity, a steamer anecdote about duties on fur, and a N Y Weekly gag about saving money by not suing.
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America
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American War Hero Struggles with Dress Before Mexican Campaign
At Corpus Christi General Taylor met Commodore Stockton in a comical display of haste. The general, dressed in a gauze shirt and brown linen trousers, hurried to don a full dress coat with one side up to the ear and the other down, exposing a missing shirt and cravat as he appeared in slippers and brown loafers.
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