Spring tidbits and whimsical lines from a late issue
A collage of humorous notes and observations on spring fashions food oddities and society trends from a Choteau Acantha page. It ranges from rhubarb pie and strawberry shortcake to Sphinx columns and playful jests about love sports and science. A New York snippet comments on a bicycle accident and nursemaid fashion while Hungarian deputies fling objects in a moving picture era scene.
War Imaginations Stirred by After-Dinner Speakers
Count Komura notes a war between the United States and Japan is conceivable yet Grossly overestimates the power of after-dinner speakers to shape foreign policy. The remark reflects humorous but provocative misgivings about international tension.
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Komura
Japan
New York Gives Car Load of Babies to New Orleans
A humorous remark asserts New York recently distributed a car load of babies to residents of New Orleans. The quip links the event to a well known saying that generosity means gifting what one does not desire oneself.
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New York
New Orleans
Mauretania Sails Amid Cream Shortage and Soaring Jokes
A wry column notes the Mauretania delays caused by missing cream cans and jokes about the ship lacking a dairy. It then mocks the appendix disease craze naming it appendicular gastralgia, predicting it will spread among the health‑conscious.
Instruction trains gain popularity for farmers in New Jersey
The State agricultural department runs an instruction train touring New Jersey as farmers gather at stops to hear lectures and see demonstrations. The move shows farmers seeking up to date practices and efficient use of resources. The New York collector reports corporations largely comply with new federal tax return requirements, signaling improved corporate governance and public interest.
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State Agricultural Department
New Jersey
United States Collector of Internal Revenue
New York
Chicago Telephone Girls Must Be Over Five Feet High
A wartime era rule requires Chicago telephone girls to stand at least five feet tall and warns them against talking back, reflecting strict workplace discipline and gender norms of the period.
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Chicago
Police Halt 13 Hour San Francisco Marathon Dance
Police stopped an endurance dance after 13 hours as medics advised. A dancer pushed himself to the limit while spectators resented the humane intervention, exposing the persistent clash between civilization and brutality in public life.
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San Francisco
Umderneath
The Royal Northwest Mounted Police and the Canadian Frontier
A nostalgic tribute to the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, tracing their role in shaping western Canada. It highlights their frontier duties from 1874 to 1911, their mix of law enforcement and civil service, interactions with Indigenous peoples, and notable actions from Sitting Bull to the Yukon. The piece celebrates discipline, courage, and the force’s lasting impact on Canada’s development.
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Resal Northwest Mounted Portico
Tre Mounted Police
Grney
Well Torlo
North- West Mounted Police
Red Gods
Singland
Regina
Edmonton
John Smith
London
Arctic Circle
Mrishmeen Af Kipling
Northwest
Winnier
Gerry
Canada
United States
Mounted
America
Union Pacific
Plains
Uncle Sam
West
North Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan
Grand Trunk Pacific
New Canada
Peace River
Coast Range
Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Perry
Red River
Revenue and Customs
British Empire
Wolfer
Alaska
Yukon
Hmit
Arctic
Mexico
Jamaica
Halifax
Mounted Police
Bismarck
North Dakota
Scott
Murray
Pie-a-pot
Sergt. Colebrook
Almighty Voice
Colebrook
Mecasto
Macleod
Fort
Sitting Bull
Custer
England
Riel
Canadian Mounted Police
None Knew Better The Major’s Wife Runs The Town Hotel
A Galveston News reader tale depicts a traveler seeking lodging in a town with one hotel the major’s wife controls. The bemused informant, a truck sitter, reveals the wife’s probing questions and the rough, dull hospitality, ending with the revelation that the sitter is the major.
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Cgalveston News
The Substituted Egg
Lew Fields recalled a prank at Cafe de l Opera about an Albany reporter who hid a hard boiled egg in his hat during a long session. Easter April Fools led colleagues to replace it with a raw egg, causing a mess as the debate continued.
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Lew Fields
Cafe de l’Opera
New York
Albany
Ghosts and high incomes in French fiction reveal industry underpaid
In La Revue de Paris a writer notes that France’s rank and file novelists average about 100 per book with many glad to take half. Top authors earn much more and hire ghostwriters to handle extra commissions, sometimes altering names to dodge plagiarism claims.
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la Revue
Paris
France
Mme. Bovary
Sand Grains Travel Across Coasts Revealed
Harper's Weekly notes long standing records show grains of sand travel great distances from Brittany to Pas de Calais and chalk dust found on the Danish coast originates from Normandy cliffs.
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Harper’s Weekly
Pas de Calais
Brittany
Denmark
Normandy
Wanted. Knicker There is room for a new mention
The fragment notes a request or hint of a new reference and an alarm track to strike the psychological moment. It suggests a prompt for inserting a mention and an unsettling cue within a broader narrative. The exact subjects or names are not specified in the readable text.
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Bocker
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