Adventure at Valparaiso Opens With a Distant Escape
In 1879 at Valparaiso a narrator dining in a fashionable hotel watches Chilean troops and a cosmopolitan crowd as he contemplates a forced stay. A fugitive Massachusetts native, now officer and mine investor, hides from authorities while plotting escape amid Bolivian-Chilean tensions and a cautious hotel life. He notices a striking young woman among a dignified English family and becomes consumed by her elusive charm as the scene unfolds.
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The Mother and the Boy and Hidden Confidences
A mother should listen and encourage a boy who confides in her with patience and empathy. Insightful maternal guidance can solve many problems, support his interests, and help choose good companions. Also includes a mock legal text and a joke about Jerry’s grand voice.
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Opinion on rocking babies sparks debate in magazine
A letter in Lippincott's Magazine argues against rocking babies, calling it a brutal practice. The writer, a father of many children, says he never rocked his infants and jokes about arrest for expressing harsher views about women who rock babies.
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Lippincott
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The End Not Yet Key to Success Joke
A Chicago Record-Herald cartoon caption shows a man claiming to have found the key to success and his wife warning that his habit of fumbling with the right key will cause a long wait.
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Chicago Record-Herald
The Other Kind and Weather Jokes in Print
A brief Washington Herald quip about teaching with the Golden Rule versus a plain wooden tool and a line about weighing a newborn, followed by a Don Vivant joke where a wife asks about the weather and a husband references rain hail and thunder storms.
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Don Vivant
Politician Denies Bribe Claim Amid Rally Outburst
A Duffalo Express report quotes a politician denying any bribe offer while an audience member in the front row proclaims cheerfully that luck may change. The exchange captures a tense moment at a public event.
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Duffalo Express
Inheritance Rumors Circulate Around Knicker Jones
The clipping notes Knicker Jones repeatedly seeking more money, with a jab that his father was a college president and his mother a woman, reflecting a sharp social critique from a New York Sun viewpoint.
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Locker
New York Sun
How it was and the pig thief courtroom quip
A judge questions an old Georgia man accused of stealing a pig. The defendant replies his family was starving. The judge notes the man kept five dogs and asks why they could not eat them. The man retorts that no one would expect his family to eat the dogs.
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Darkey
Harper's Magazine
Mysterious Billiard Table Teaches Shape Clue
Two traveling salesmen detained in a village hotel meet a bizarre billiard table and gray balls. The landlord explains you can distinguish red from white by their shape, a curious bit from Success Magazine.
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Bsuccess Magazine
Tiresome Chap Broggie Attracts Gibe In Doston Transcript
A Doston Transcript humor column quotes a reader calling Broggie tiresome for talking about his blow-out and what he blew in at the event. The snippet captures local sharp wit about a public incident.
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Doston Transcript
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