Bloodhounds and Other Hound Lore From Jamaica to Spain
A collection of curious notes on bloodhounds including Jamaica’s Cuban crosses used as police dogs, ancient breed names such as lyme dog and talbot, and observations from the London Spectator. The piece also recounts humorous vignettes about wives and money, a bullfight vignette from the Saturday Review, and social quips from the Harlem Life column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Talbot
Jamaica
Bordeaux
London
Zoological Gardens
Lord Balcarres
London Spectator
Love at First Sight in a Savage Bachelor Tale
A playful exchange questions belief in love at first sight with a savage bachelor declaring certainty. The dialogue imagines whether second sight could alter romantic fate. The Cincinnati Enquirer quote frames a witty, timeless curiosity about love and perception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati Enquirer
Matrimonial Yoke Quip Sparks Quiet Reflection
A humorous quip from the Cleveland Leader ponders why marriage is likened to a yoke. The line suggests a life with a call at one end, hinting at shared burdens and social expectations in marriage with light, ironic tone. Local humor shows turning on household bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Temper and Football Craft From a College Age
The piece contrasts ideal football players with traits like height speed temper and leadership. It notes a captain’s brain and fierce drive and argues temper is essential. It also references college athletics discipline and tactics.
Dinner Table Golf Talk Ends With Pudding Realization
A story from The Independent recounts a young gentleman at a dinner party who talked about a golf match for the entire course of the meal. He only realizes mid dessert that his partner had spoken not a word, prompting a lighthearted apology about “peeing you with this talk.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. G. van Tassell Sutphen
Independent
George
London
Disraeli Replies to Dinner Question and Fatalities Reported
An assortment of quotes and anecdotes includes a quip from Lord Beaconsfield about waiting for “plutton aut” and a physician’s joke on marriage curing blindness. Separate notes state a Kansas jury ruled a death occurred at the hands of a saddle horse, and an Arkansas boat death was attributed to the timing of the decedent’s boarding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Disraeli
Lord Beaconsfield
Plutton
Kansas
Arkansas
Bequests and Wasteful Rent Use for Coal and Fagot Purchase
A reminiscence recalls bequests for buying fagots with rents from a widow’s tenement once paid to parochial clergy. Now the funds are used to buy coal for the poor to warm them. A Berlin statistic notes 44 percent of children work before school. The Philadelphia Times mocks the sounds as the baby wails.
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Berlin
Djornson’s Call for a Future Literature
A brief quotation extols Bjornstjerne Bjornson guiding youth toward a literature that challenges shock value and horror as a mark of genius, urging writers to pursue meaningful, humane themes over sensationalism.
Dillman’s Bakery and Restaurant Opens at Bundy Stand
Dillman’s Bakery and Restaurant buys the stock and fixtures of Leslie Bundy and will continue the business at the same stand. It operates as a wholesale and retail bread cake and pie dealer with a first-class lunch counter, lunches and short orders, oysters in any style, and a fine line of cigars and tobacco.
Haunted House Prank Sparks Schoolhouse Mystery
In a Detroit Free Press tale a college club investigates a reputed haunting. They hear attic noises and uncover a rolling jug with a rat inside, prompting a dramatic prank reaction as kicks shatter the vessel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biz Hicks
Detroit Free Press
Platform Women Blotted Out From American Life
Edward Bok writes in The Ladies' Home Journal that platform women harm American womanhood and homes. He claims they leave homes in disorder, workers idle, children neglected, and husbands derisive, while insisting their influence is waning and never a true power or charm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Bok
Ladies’ Home Journal
Ambitious actress seeks guidance from seasoned manager
The aspiring performer asks how to become a star. The manager quizzes her on romantic entanglements and counsels a heartbreak first. A year later she returns claiming she is heartbroken after marrying and being deserted, prompting the manager to declare one more step is needed divorce before success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Tribune
Local Town Portraits in North Port News
The North Port News sketches a town scene with barrooms, clever talkers, gossips, a cautions woman, street remarks, and blunt men who discuss others while failing in their own affairs. The piece offers a vivid slice of small town social life and characters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northport News
Strong Men Photographs and a Family Deadline
A Cincinnati Enquirer claim on strong man photography contrasts staged poses with real strength. A London Answers anecdote follows a business dinner where a daughter eavesdrops as her suitor finally faces a proposal, provoking a blush and a retreat.
Martello Towers Lose Defense Role Across English Coasts
A London Chronicle piece notes martello towers once thought essential for coast defense now serve mainly coastguard needs. It recalls their origin from Italian towers and cites a 1794 action at Martella with 38 men against combined land and sea attack led by Lord Hood and Major General Dundas.
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Essex
Suffolk
Kent
Sussex
le Tellier
Tower of Martella
Lord Hood
Dundas
Boney
London Chronicle
Decree of the Venetian Council on Glassmaking Abroad
The council of ten in Venice issues a decree forbidding workers to take their craft beyond national borders. Those who defy the order face imprisonment for their relatives. If the artisan persists abroad, an emissary will be instructed to kill him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
Indiana Territory
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
Council of Ten
Venice
French Humor Exchange at the Doorbell
A brief comic sketch where a mistress and her chambermaid joke about a doorbell and a clock. The servant suggests the doorbell, the mistress notes the clock may be fast, and they joke about the time. The line ends with humor on misreading time.
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Madame
Jaustine
Echo de Paris
Japanese Drinking Habits Described in Assisted Language
A historical note claims Japanese people are notably free of drunkenness and that the native beverage sake is rarely consumed abroad, described as only mildly intoxicating compared to other liquors.
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F. W. Cregor
Anco Surgery
Carthage
Indiana
J. A. Sipe
Ind
Johnson Bros
Mill
Herkless & Bretz
Rushville
U, BD. Cole
Kushuville, Mnd
Bliss’ Clothing Store
Faling Evernlit
Ww. M. Edwards
Knights Town
Weaver
Knightstown, Ind
Carthage Building Loan
Ale M. Stevens
J. A. Titsworth
AvCnithare
Srpe
George W. Osborne
Sextion & Sparks’ Abstraet Books
Rush County
Roo Onew Court House
West Endiance
J.H. Jones
Carthage, Mnd
R.E. Henley's
J. H. Binford
Binford Block
Greenfield, Ind
Gates Sexton
M. Sparks
Sexton & Sparks
Attorneys AT Law
Rushville, Ind
Butler, Holden & Churchill’s
Frank Wilson
Dr. Cottin
Henley
F.G. Hackleman
Post Office
Stair
Main Street
Allen Wo Newson
la Grippe
Jas
A Jones
Mexia
Texas
Chamberlain
O. S. Coffin & Co
Bloodhounda
New York Sun
Espada
Saturday Review
Green
Prief
Watkins
Harlem
Love
Tipples
Emerald Isle
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Semne
Enos Henley
George Dillman
Mercer, Henley & Company
Horse Shoe Brand
Henley & Dillman
Philadelphia Times
Bjornstjorne Djornson
Pen
Dillman
Leslie Bundy
Bacco
Ginebksa
Charles Thillman
Landmarks
Hercules
England
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