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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1885
Page
5
The notice catalogs items such as silk suspenders and mullers, silk handkerchiefs, Teck and Puff Scarfs, braces, silk wrists, linen collars and cuffs, velvet scarfs, earmuffs, string ties, silk bows, cashmere mufflers, nit jackets, celluloid collars and cuffs, kid lined gloves, hem stitched handkerchiefs, cuff buttons, scarf pins, collar studs, and fine camel hair underclothing.
The piece argues jokes are a serious scientific subject with distinct races and developments. It traces the chestnut joke’s rise and predicted extinction within months, contrasts it with paint the town red, and notes other writers and couples in a reflective, period-voice aside from a Philadelphia Times excerpt.
A correspondent reports a Scot land stalker with a cub fox chained near his cottage. He fed the fox a dead crow, then dug a burial hole, laid the bird on its back, covered it, and the fox’s attempts to push down the legs ended with him biting them off. Also mentioned are odd Scottish curiosities and a Vienna theatre ban on certain female dress.
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