Miss Della Smock Visits Franklin Then Home
The Columbus Herald notes a flurry of social travel with Miss Della Smock of Indianapolis visiting Mrs. Coutler and proceeding to Franklin for further visits before returning. Additional brief notices include Mrs. Jesse Overstreet and Mrs. F ST Crump returning to Indianapolis, and various residents visiting relatives in Edinburg Seymour Indianapolis Walesboro and other nearby locales. Widespread local activity includes council and court items and a public notice of a house rental and land for sale.
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Della Smock
Indianapolis
Coutler
Franklin
Jesse Overstreet
F.st. Crump
What Shall We Have for Dessert
A family question answered with a Jell-O dessert pitch. It promises no baking, two minutes prep, hot water to set, and cooling in lemon orange raspberry or strawberry flavors at grocers for 10 cents.
Society notes and club events fill Columbus dispatch
The page lists social happenings in Columbus including the Vesta Club dance at Lucas Propylaeum. Euchre Club gathering at Miss Elizabeth Jackson’s home. a surprise masquerade for Bertha Stadler on Second Street. and entertaining frocks at Mrs. Ed Rector and Mrs. John Perry’s homes. Also reported are officers elected for Columbus Commandery Knights Templar, health and county commissioner notes, and a note on John Ott appointed supervisor of the poor farm.
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Euchre Club
Elizabeth Jackson
Jackson Street
Gertrude Doty
Mary Mahoney
Mary Ardery
Greensburg
McFarland
Indianapolis
Bertha Stadler
Second Street
Ed Rector
Messrs. McDorman and
Harmen
Moonlight Proposal Sparks Quip in Yonkers Statesman
A humorous exchange quotes Mr. and Mrs. Bacon discussing belief in moonlight and its effects. The vignette notes a proposal made under the moon, reflecting lighthearted social chatter from Yonkers.
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Mrs. Bacon
Mr. Bacon
Yonkers Statesman
Two Humorous Exchanges From Early Comics
A Judge quips about ambition ending in firing after loading a gun. In another strip an applicant seeks a place while a lady tests character by demanding every overheard utterance from Mrs Flighty. Ally Sloper features a cheeky back and forth on secrecy and disclosure.
Witty Exchanges Sparked by Matrimonial Quips Across Papers
A collection of 1920s style quips frames marriage, death, and temper as humorous prompts. The Port Clerk asks about overconfidence while the Henpecked Boarder jokes on marriage. The Chief Mourner quips about remarriage and consolation, contrasting temper and fascination.
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Syracuse Herald
Harlem Lite
Townsend Named President of Passenger Agents Association
Henry C Townsend elected head of the American Association of Passenger Agents succeeding George H Daniels at the Buffalo meeting He has spent 30 years as general passenger and ticket agent for western lines starting with the Toledo Peoria and Warsaw and including the Wabash and Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain system based in St Louis since 1883 He is a western man with a long railroad career.
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American Association of General Passenger
United States
Canada
Buffalo
N. Y
Georeg H. Daniels
New York Central
Hudson River Railroad
Henry C. Townsend
Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain System
Townsend
Western Lines
Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw Railway
Wabash
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific
St. Louis
Philadelphia capitalist widener aims to challenge Quay for Senate
Peter A. B. Widener, a wealthy Philadelphia financier, is reported to seek the United States Senate seat against Mr. Quay before the Pennsylvania legislature. Backed by May or Ashbridge, Widener is noted for philanthropy after gifting his city residence and art collection to the public library valued around 1 million dollars. He is 60, with broad financial interests, especially in street railways, and recently shifted focus from business to public service and philanthropy.
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Peter A. B. Widener
United States Senate
Quay
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Ashbridge
Widener
Getting Along with Culture and Antiquing Themed Quips
A collection of humorous lines from newspapers featuring Mr Came rox describing slow progress in culture while avoiding bric-a-brac judgments and a father decrying a man with black cosmetic on a mustache, calling him conceited.
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Philadelphia Press
The Reason Why Marriage Returns to Family Ties
A clipped exchange shows humor about remarriage to a sister in law with motives hinted as avoiding multiple in laws. The dialogue contrasts wealth and appearance with practical aims, highlighting quirks of social expectations. A brief farcical vignette from urban humor tradition.
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Heire West
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