Cunard Lusitania Sets Speed Records on Trial Trip
The Lusitania, the Cunard Line’s quadruple screw turbine steamer of 43 000 tons, completed a 1200 mile trial averaging over 26 knots setting new speed marks. She will sail from New York on September 21 at 3 00 P M with subsequent sailings on October 5 November 15 and December 14.
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Liverrook
Cunard Line
Lusitania
New York
Ropert
Crata
Avent
Atain Street
For Sale House Barn and Lot in Clinton City
The ad offers 512 North Third Street property with 200 cash plus 500 loan at 6 percent and another house and lot at North Third Street and Vine, price 850. Craig of Brown’s Shoe Shop urges early response. A gray mare about nine years old with shaved mane, harness marks, and stiffness is missing from Oak Hill mine No. 9, found by Doc Whetford.
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North Third Street
Sreet
Corner Vine
Doc Whetford
Oak Hill Mine No. 9
The Cunning Actor and His Lockup Liquor Plot
A drama expert notes that a renowned actor once evaded strict confinement by bribing a pedestrian to buy brandy and a pipe. The plan used a pipe stem through a keyhole to pour alcohol into the bowl, enabling the actor to drink unseen and appear gloriously drunk when released by his manager.
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Gresham James
Pittsburg
All the Widows Along Main Street Need Washing Badly
A local editor’s lighthearted street column misreads a line, changing “windows” to “widows” after a hot day. Indignant townspeople confronted him, and he admitted the error and corrected the gaffe in the next issue.
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Littl
Simoom
Main Street
Barefoot Beginnings and a Mother's Ruse in Missouri
A Kansas City political figure recalls childhood in Johnson County Missouri. At six, he had no shoes on Sunday. his mother wrapped a cloth around his foot to hide it, but the rag slipped, exposing the ruse as a neighbor snickered.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Indiana
Johnson County
Hidden
Ruunsas City
Speechless Caricaturist Sketches Langham Street Steeple
A famed caricaturist, mute after a dance, drew a pencil sketch from his pocket while in a taxi. The diagram depicted a church steeple on Langhamn place, prompting recognition and laughter. The cabman confirmed Langhan street as the scene before driving away.
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Langhamn Place
Langhan Street
The Stage Doorkeeper
The article reflects on theater etiquette with a quip about actors greeting the stage doorkeeper. It notes that actors of all ranks, from leading stars to chorus girls, warmly greet the doorkeeper, while few returns are remembered.
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Charles Belmont Davis
Outing Magazine
Her Secret Sorrow in a Public Table Scene
A New York Press note describes a woman at a table with a silent face while her companion orders for her. Onlookers speculate the woman bears hidden sorrow and that her husband accompanies her, with one friend claiming she is bored.
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New York Press
Question For Question in Baltimore American
A witty exchange notes a suitor proposing marriage to the daughter and the test of cooking as a condition. The reply turns the question into a practical matter about supplying ingredients for a dinner and a partner’s readiness. The quip reflects domestic and courtship humor in a historical newspaper tone.
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Baltimore American
Oldest Game Known to Man Love and Loss in a Riga Patch
A collection of humorous verse and anecdotes from a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper, featuring quips about love, journalism, editors, and society. Includes lines on Thomas Jefferson Meek denying a St. Louis death report, wedding rings, and a rustic tale of a boy and a “sign of destiny” seen by a wise philosopher at a river.
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Thomas Jefferson Meek
St. Louis
Meek Cucht
Nicky Fassbinder
Nicky
Brudder Bill
Informal Functions Describe Time in Working Clothes
A fragment notes that attendees of loosely organized events, described as strictly informal, should understand time by simply attending in their work attire. The remark conveys casual, pragmatic scheduling without formal dress codes or rigid protocols.
Disbanding of New York Society Women and badge plan
A humorous exchange notes the Sisterhood of Society Women in New York City disbanding after a resolution to wear a heart badge failed because there was nothing to pin them to, ending the earnest cause with a joke about the missing insignia.
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Sisterhood of Society
New York City
Society
Quinine and Plum Pudding Hair Restorer Fire Incident
A Tennessee reader recounts using a rum quinine hair restorer as a beverage. At a Sunday dinner the cook poured about half a bottle on plum pudding and set it afire. Guests burned and wrinkled faces, as if tasting adversity’s bitter pill.
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Hardeman
Tenn
Free Press
New Pants for the Band Fund Receives Subscription
A subscription drive began to raise funds for new green band pants. The note from Grindstone South Dakota mentions the band’s current wear and the need for updated attire.
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Grindstone
S. D
Bea
Local Artists Targeted by Hoax Sketch Scheme in Indiana Bank Town
A Cleveland plate dealer reports a con artist in Indiana seeking sketches from US newspaper artists. The letter pretended a national collection of drawings, then revealed a plan to acquire real ten dollar bills from Ohio artists, asking for a ten dollar bill to be sent for “framing.”
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Indiama
Union
Indiana
Ohio
Cleveland Plata
Presence of Mind in a Clever Warning
A mother shows remarkable presence of mind when she, after taking her child’s medicine, forgets to shake the bottle and accidentally shakes her son instead. The boy endures a vigorous, unintended shake but remains unharmed as the mother resolves to mix it properly next time. Pearson's Weekly notes the incident as a striking example of quick thinking.
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Johnnie
Pearson’s Weekly
A Wardrobe In a Hat
A grandfather who is an artist gifts a lace hat to his grandchild. The young mother considers taking it back as the family deems it extravagant. The grandfather later visits and asks to see the baby in the hat and learns the family received two hats and two dresses with 60 cents in change.
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de Voes
Davghter
Elise
Signs of Long Life From Past Centenarians
The article discusses longevity ideas from Queen Elizabeth's era and cites a physician quoting Bacon on signs of long life and short life. It lists traits associated with long life such as slow growth and firm flesh and contrasts them with traits linked to shorter lifespans like coarse hair and deep wrinkles.
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Bacon
The Claw of the Devil and Hysteria Symptoms
A medieval method identifies the claws of the devil on the skin as areas where the subject does not react to touch. An expert would prick these spots with a needle while the patient sobbed at other pricks, signaling the claw’s presence per Pierre Janet.
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Pierre Janet
Learn to Be Genial and Open in Daily Life
The text argues that shyness is a habit, not a fate, and that people can learn warmth and easy manners through lifelong discipline. It compares social ease to skills like rowing, shorthand, or language learning, citing Ruskin as an example of approachable simplicity earned by practice.
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Lfe
The Unveiling of Hidden Courage and Weakness
A reflective quote notes that great moments reveal character, not create it. It speaks of gradual growth and decline until a crisis exposes who we are, as if fate lights what has long slept within.
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Canon Westcott
A Modern Heart and a Cousin's Fortune
A remark from Fliegende Blatter notes a man ends an engagement with a woman while his cousin inherits 200000 marks the day prior. The quip pairs romance with sudden wealth in a light reveal.
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Campbell
Clinton, Indiana
Cgal
Len Drake
Lyford
E. Ragan, M. D
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Morvan
South Third Street
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Pota P Sundars, & Topes Qo
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Clinton
IND
S. S. sEestranra
David R. Murray
KC. Craig
Office Brown's
J. .L Sanders
Blackman and Water Streets
California
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