The Great American Steam Trousers Creaser Hoax
A stock promoter fabricates a dream of a million dollar steam trouser business to persuade a tailor to lend him a dollar. The tailor learns the capitalized scheme creases 18,000 pairs daily and plans to collect the bill as others chase the scam, ending with a farewell grin.
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Mou
Crofoot
United States
Scott
Failor
Vbas
Grand Promoter
Crofcot
Dot Bill
M. Quad
Woman's Strategy and a Southern Trip rumor in Detroit Free Press
A bored athletic man rejects women as apathy rules him while a Georgia girl Molly is linked to Captain Hawker. Sister Bess pressures with covert schemes as the doctor orders a southward move, prompting a hurried plan to provoke Molly. Detroit Free Press notes the setup and the impending departure.
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Bess
Georgia
Little
Molly
Tab Twing
Hawker
Army
Garrison
Detroit Free Press
The Chief Cook and the Kitchen Crown
A New York Sun article notes that when a chief cook leaves a popular Fifth Avenue restaurant, his entire kitchen brigade resigns with him. The departure reveals how the head cook in large kitchens wields absolute control, with assistants loyal to him and key operations tied to his methods.
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Fifth Avenue
New York Sun
Marriage Jokes and Cab Humor Parade in Morning Paper
The snippet parodies a wedding notice with a cler gyman and music of the wedding march. It quotes a quip about contradicting parties. The text then mocks cabmen strikes and Wall Street lambs becoming bulls, ending with a dyspepsia joke about crime in the Philadelphia Record.
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Johnny
Wall Street
Philadelphia Ledger
Property Listings Across Monroe Area Offer Bargains and Homes
Multiple lots and houses for sale or rent in Monroe and nearby areas including 4 room houses with gardens, 6 room houses with stables, vacant blocks near Main street, and larger farms on Wixon creek. Prices range from a few hundred dollars to several thousand with farming land and commercial spaces noted. Agents invite calls for buy or trade, plus rentals at various yearly rates.
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Main Street
Tno. Lawrence
City
Allen Academy
College Street
Jeff Franklin
City Park
Welborn
Calvert
Bryan Propery
Kurten
Wixon Creek
Bryn
Bryan Road
Grimes County
Bryan
Morgan
Ryan
Lem ‘Essary Unpraveil
Praetorians Meet Senatorial Session in Marlin
Events listed include a state senate biennial meeting in Marlin and a George Washington birthday celebration in Laredo. Mardi Gras festivities run in New Orleans from February 14 to 19, while Panae offers all year excursion tickets at one and one third fare for round trips up to 30 days to popular hot wells and health resort sites.
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Marlin
Texas
State Senate
Modern Order of Praetorians
Laredo
New Orleans
Public Hauling Offered by D D Dawson
A wagon and team owner offers hauling services in town or country at reasonable rates. Apply to D. D. Dawson at his residence two blocks east of the courthouse.
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D. D. Dawson
Courthouse
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Great
American Steam Trouseers Creaser Companys
B. Lewis
Major Crofcot
Dot Leetle
Minks
New York Weekly
Philadelphia Record
W. Coulter
Mississippi
Missouri
America
Land OF Lead and Zinc
St. Louis
Ozarks
Frisco
Ozark
Dallas
Commerce St
San Antonio
Monroe Edge Land & Rental Bce
Panae
Palestine
Foe Works
B. E. Hawes
Bryan Marble Works
Zoe
McGee
Texas Supply Co
Wilson-Jenkins Drug CO
J. Allen Myers
Otto Bobume
Franklin Brothers
Butchers
Bryan, Texas
New Mt Inalding
Bryan Grocery Compt
Dan J. Ford
Prop
Ww. H. Lawrence
Haswell
J. W. Batts
Brazos County
College Road
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