Adventurous Hausa Language Lesson and a Deserted Village
Mrs. Constance Larymore recounts a Nigeria voyage where interpreters misled villagers, goats were killed, and later the village vanished. The couple learned Hausa, faced theft and dishonesty, and vowed language mastery for justice. An Osborn episode ends with a surreal display titled Osborn's Treat.
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Constance Larymore
Nigeria
Africa
Joshimnio
Paul
Lokoa
Lokoja
Indian Attack Mixes Custer with a New York Broker
An account describes Charles Osborn a New York broker and General Custer as hallmates and friends. Osborn joined a Kansas buffalo hunt during a Plains campaign and attended by a party of friends, with a novel arrangement following the hunt.
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Charles Oxburn
New York
Custer
Osborn
Plains
Kansas
A Strong Maid Cooking Tale From A Dining Scene
A cooking expert recalls a dinner where a maid dropped a platter with two roast canvas back ducks. The host calmed the mishap and joked the maid has a recurring fault he calls a disease. He suggested she formerly worked with dairy cattle before losing that occupation due to clumsy handling of cows and horns.
Beware the French Tabac For Smokers Touring France
A note warns American travelers to bring their own tobacco and pipes or cigars when visiting France. Cigars are scarce outside large cities and smoking tobacco varies in quality by country. smokers may smoke in one country and smell it in the next, according to Outling Magazine.
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France
Ouling Magazine
Popping the Question from Bohemian Magazine
Humorous exchange frames a whimsical moment where corn speaks and wind responds. A lighthearted anecdote from Bohemian Magazine presents a playful personification of nature.
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Bohemian Magazine
Office Boy Hire Doubted by Lawyer in Chicago News
A lawyer asks an applicant for a position if he is truthful and the boy replies that he is truthful enough not to harm the business. The exchange appears in the Chicago News.
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Chicago News
When Baths Were Rare in the Fifteenth Century
The article notes how a wife protected her husband from fleas and how cleanliness was viewed as dangerous or sinful in earlier times. It traces shifts in bathing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, nose blowing as a lost art, snuff taking, and etiquette quirks such as silent doors, chairs with backs, and a witty supper fork exchange.
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France
England
M. Franklin
Steele
Duchesse de Montpensier
Tart Answer Sparks Mocked Couple in Social Gathering
A young couple hosting a party faced ridicule as a guest with a classless demeanor made the event tense. The atmosphere shifted as friends commented on the inappropriate behavior disrupting the gathering.
The Deacon and the Prayer Prank
A fault finding deacon mocks a minister by criticizing a morning prayer. The minister replies that the prayer was not addressed to the deacon, implying the deacon's disapproval is misplaced and has no bearing on the prayer’s purpose.
Belief in Fairies Through Ages Cited by Era
The New York Amerixin notes that Greeks Romans and medieval common folk widely believed in fairies gnomes and similar beings. It compares these legends to a childlike faith in Santa Claus and Jack Frost across cultures and eras.
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Santa Claus
Jack Frost
New York
Railway directors joke from London Mail
A London Mail item mocks railway directors by noting each has a task. Higgins acts as secretary, the speaker as treasurer, and Spriggs as Griggs. Spriggs is said to be deaf yet listens to all complaints, highlighting a humorous misfit in duties.
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Higgins
Spriggs
Griggs
London Mail
Triumph of Science in Rural Life Quip
A Louisville Courier Journal cartoon caption plays on science and farming life as a farmer asks if the hired man is captured in motion. The dialogue humorously asserts science can do anything these days with moving pictures of life on the farm.
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Sciente
Louisville Courier-Journal
A Popular Act Encore Draws Token Reward
In a brief theatrical exchange Pathfinder records Mr Grampus giving Mrs G ten dollars and demand for applause as a playful encore line. The fragment hints at a stage moment with humor and payback.
Cult Mystery Sparks Local Curiosity
A fragment from the Chicago Record-Herald notes a passerby’s question about cults and a cryptic reply describing it as a craze in its serraecy, reflecting era shorthand and city gossip.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Obedience to Merit and Habeas Corpus History
The passage notes that merit earns recognition and recounts how the habeas corpus act became law in England. It cites Bishop Burnet on an "odd artifice" to pass the bill with Lords Grey and Norris, Grey’s miscount, and a reported majority for the measure in the house.
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England
Bishop Burnet
Grey
Norris
Lord Norris
Lord Grey
Londono Chronicle
Three Great Rivers and Their Great Cities
The Thames in London, the Hudson at New York, and the Seine at Paris are cited as the world’s most commercial rivers. London hosts 6,000,000 people, the Hudson mouth is near New York with 4,000,000, and Paris on the Seine counts 2,000,000. Distances given are 215 miles for the Thames, about 350 mailles for the Hudson, and 497 miles for the Seine.
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Thames
London
Hudson
New York
Seine
Paris
New York Tribune
Why She Couldn't and a Wigged Romance
Comic exchange unfolds as a woman cites a wig as reason against love. She insists she cannot love him because of his wig, then theatrically discards two rats puffs coronet braid pompadour and switch before sitting to read a novel in a satirical vignette from the St. Louis Republic.
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St. Louis Republic
Like a Dog and The Cloak of Religion Jokes
A Washington Star joke contrasts a husband who works like a dog with muddy feet by the fire and being fed. A St. Louis Globe-Democrat remark asserts that cloaked religion is a misfit on most people.
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Washington Star
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Santa Ana Valley Gossip and Local Visits Thrive
Miss Nieves Peralta of Yorba visits Miss Ines Chaves. Mrs. M C Mayberry returns from Santa Ana with Miss Minnie Clark who had eye surgery by Dr. Dobson, a successful and painless procedure. Santa Fe stop Skully near Alice Vista ranch draws praise and visitors. local families plan moves and extended stays while alfalfa fields occupy Serrano Bros. A Riverside outing, an Ontario camping party of 16 boys, and a wager tale color the social scene as Yorba and Cota families host relatives and friends.
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M.C. Mayberry
Santa Ana
Minnie Clark
Dobson
Skully
Alice Vista Ranch
Ontario
Santa Ana River
Gibbs
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Tie
London Graphic
Corona
Milwaukee
Nieves Peralta of
Yorba
Ines Chaves
Offquily
California
G. B. Davis
Upland
Clint Davis
Telephone Company
Robt. Wardlow
Huntington Beach
Mrs
Swift
J. G. Cota
Serrano Bros
Mrs. Meridith of
Artinetun
Victoria
Inez Cota
Ap Riverside
Mrs. Mosago of
Santa Ana River Bridge
Nelson Teeter
W Smith
Teeter
Buster
rRaocmaadd
Gore
Childrens Rompers
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