Quick Glimpses of Newspaper Snippets and Gossip
A collage of light fiction quips and social wheezes from varied papers. Characters trade witticisms about rooms money and marriage while brief crime notes and oddities tick by with dry humor and local color.
Darling kiss question reflects a playful exchange
A humorous vintage dialogue between two speakers about first and last kisses, noting the speaker’s happiness in the moment as recorded by Des Moines Argonaut.
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Des Moines
Argonaut
Unnecessary Precaution Prompting Caution
A Des Moines Argonaut item warns readers that a man must be careful these days or risk getting his clothes muddy. The remark reflects a local tone about cautious behavior and potential mishaps.
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Chappy Nicefella
Des Moines
Noted Physician and Hayseed Jibe on Town and Country
A weekly exchange contrasts city folk walking tall with country folk bent over, joking about tall builds. A mother describes her daughter's hair as auburn with terra cotta undertones, from a Chicago News Record item.
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Hayseed
Minks
Tler
Chicago News Record
Excusable Familiarity in a Teasing Row
A dialogue shows one friend slapping another on the back and calling him old man while the other recalls a forgotten name. The exchange captures casual familiarity and social friction in light conversation.
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Ile
Mad Cat and Humorous Snippets in 19th Century amusements
A collage of comic quips and notes from periodicals. It includes a hydrophobia joke about a cat, boarding house hash, a manuscript note from Literary Note, elopement talk in Deary and George, a joke from Harper's Bazar, and a Kansas rabbit bounty report. It also mentions mass posting offices, unmailable letters, and a North Carolina tale of a woman with a monstrous head selling it for seven dollars.
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North Carolina
Fragments of humor and personal notices from an Irish paper
The clipping offers quips about a missing clothing haul and a public admonition to John Hall, a joke about a proposal and a Chicago World’s Fair contrast, a busy editor dismissing verses, and anecdotes from General Grant’s Missouri farm. It also includes testimonial snippets for Dr Bull's Cough Syrup and Sulphur Bitters.
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John Hall
Chicago
Fred Grant
Vienna
Grant
Missouri
Johnny
Hartford Courant
Sarah EB. Willever
Phillipsburg
N.J
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Ayer
Bonifacio Lopez
Nerce
Ayers
Louise Rielle
Little Canada
Ware
Mass
Law Net
E. F Hasbrough
Elk Run
Humphreys
New York
Albany
U. S. Army
J. K
Corner William and John Sts
N Sts
Humphrys’ Medicine Coo
Oliver William and John Sts
W. F
Sayder
Bristol
America
True & CO
Augusta
A. P. Ordway & Co
Brea
Mave
N. Y. Herald
Hunter
Puck
Deacon Medders—Skipps
Onderdonk County
Texas Siftings
Tommy
Macy Sister
Dennis
Jury
Peters
Jenkins
COAL
Wood
Mason
Lumber Yard
Bradford Street
Coal Pockets &c
State Street
New Orleans
John Lake
ODD Fellows Building
Gargel
Byfield Market No
Colchester
WM. Fred. Fish
The
Waren and
Daniel G. Waldron
D A Pierce
C A Johnson
Hope Street
Sami. McCaw
High Street
Carl Siegel
Mt. Hope Avenue
Dolley
Brooklyn
Alex. E. Sweet
Deary
George
Papa
Momma
Willie
Harper's Bazar
Kansas
Barber County
Dr. Taft Bros, Mi. Co
Rochester
N.Y I
Insurance
Pawtucket Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Stephen P. Fisk
Edmund
Mann
Benjamin P. Smith
George A. Mumford
James L. Jenks
George W.newell
Philo E. Thayer
George L. Walker
Edward A. Greene
Robert Sherman
Chas. P. Moses
Jell Isaac Shove
P. Skinner, Jr
Geo. H. Peck
Mutual Life Insurance Co
Hamburg-Bremen
Ee Instrance Co
Casall Insurance
Dorchester Mutual Fire Ins. Co
Edward
Babbitt
Equitable
R. I
Union Mutual
Edwin Barrows
Joseph T. A. Eddy
P. Shinner
Fire Insurance Agency
Aetna Insurance Company
Hartford
Conn
Connecticut Fire Insurance Co
Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Co
Philadelphia
P.skinner, JR
Bristol County Savings Bank
Connecticut Mutual
Hartford, Conn
Tornto
United States
Jacob L. Greene
John M. Taylor
Edward M. Bunce
Daniel H. Wells
William G. Barrows
Weybosset Street
Providence
Sostable
Henry Goff, Jr
Thavealoa
Shellac
Eale
Letit Paunl
Thames Street
Court Street
Outwicks
Waldron & Brownell
Ciss
Rowell
Advertising Bureau
Pr.ees
Sallie J. Battey
Bureau For
West 128Th Street
New York City
Agcibert
Queens
Hatrine
Queen Chemical Co
Race Street
Cincinnati
Gro. P. RowExt & Co
Spruce Street
Claiis Company
John Wedderburn
Eeeming
Tate
Mazzelous
Evortien
Scientific American Agency For
Munn & CO
Broadway
Enetine
Scientific American
Tonia
Poblishens
Broadway New
Jd. R. Littell
Ington
WM. H. Spooner
Old Colony Yar
Z. J. Lewis
U. S
Washington
C. A. Snow & Co
Patent Office
Nockdown
Robert Davis
American House
Boston
Travelers’ Guide
OLD Gulony
Providence Division
Warren & Bristol
Trainawill
Warren
Hristo
Fall River
Tuo
New York Dent
Vlun. A
Newport
Tor Kendrick
Manieer
Marshal LL
Geo L Connor
D. C
William T. Dunwell
South Water Street
T. A. Campbell
Briatel
F. A. Geisler
Venus
Geis’er
Mount Hope Avenue
A. Geisler