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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1899
Page
2
A five year old colored boy Larney Lawrence Dennis from Atlanta preaches in New York churches amid crowds. His mother acts as business manager collecting funds and selling photographs as the boy recites Bible stories and answers questions about salvation.
Charlemagne Tower, elevated from Austria minister to United States ambassador to Russia, excels as a public servant. Born in Philadelphia in 1848, Harvard graduate, later Duluth railroad president, married Helen Smith in Oakland, with five children. He holds a fortune of about 10 million and has published historical works including The Marquis de Lafayette in the American Revolution. He serves as trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and leader in historical circles.
Mrs Elizabeth O Tiller of Chicago runs a chafing dish class in a dining room setting with ten society members. Couples work at five dishes each forming an eight course feast while one housekeeper is chosen weekly to handle menus and shopping.
An old Griswold Street lawyer recalls a quirky case where a man bought real estate for his wife as a birthday gift but could not recall her full name. The client fretted over whether to use Pet, Mamma, or her surname, and returned with the correct full name after the paper on the deed was nearly done. The anecdote is paired with a separate remark about Miss Flyppe and a shoe purchase observation.
Comic exchanges unfold as a chaperon’s presence, a seat shift, and a wittily turned remark deflate a flirtatious threat. A playful dialogue spans Mrs Passee and the elder gentleman with the young ladies nearby, followed by a quip about a homey honesty.
In a jocular exchange from Jewelers' Weekly and Chicago News, a narrator riffs on a diamond stud joke while editors ponder poets born. The Browne note suggests a past prosperity followed by failure due to neglect, echoed by Towne.
A humorous exchange features Ally Sloper joking that a rider seeks a exceptionally calm, patient horse and is advised that such a creature would be a clotheshorse, highlighting the cartoonish wit of the character.
A returning serviceman, once counted among the immunes, endures lumbago after a first voyage to Santiago and sixteen weeks of fever in Havana. He sang patriotic tunes amid triumph but now seeks discharge as the measles chills and fever linger.
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