Comic Snippets Color Bryan Curb
A jumble of dated quips and commentary from The Daily Eagle notes local witticisms about Theodore Roosevelt Patton and Georgia politics. It lampoons post office meddling jokes about Bryan Cameron and Fort Worth while musing on life death and public affairs with playful barbs.
Fragmented excerpts from Temple Telegram column mix satire and speculation
A collection of satirical and opinion notes includes a jab at political processes and Boom makers, Longevity figures, a Cleveland dispatch on Taft Roosevelt politics, praise for humor, geologist Serviss on Earth's iron core, and Bishop Candler invoking the term gringo in a Thanksgiving sermon.
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Garrett P. Serviss
Gringo term traced to Mexican invasion soldiers’ song origin
The piece notes the origin of the word gringo during General Taylor’s northern Mexico invasion. It explains the soldiers’ favorite song “Green grow the rushes” and how natives misheard it, coining the term gringo for Americans. A bakery ad follows offering custom orders by Mrs. Otto Boehme at phone 89.
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Mexico
Taylor
Texas Bakery
Otto Boehme
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