Cards and Death at a Deserter’s Execution
A veteran recalls a desertion case in the Army of the Potomac where Thompson, accused of desertion and spy risk, was executed after a gambling card game with his guard. He paid $600 to the firing squad, and the coffin bore him as the muskets fired, the shot heard after the coffin toppled back. Also notes a walnut threading trick using a fine hair through tiny through-holes.
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Politician Joke Sparks Hard Truth in Newspapers
A Chicago News quip notes no politician is certain while the Chicago Record-Herald recalls Adam’s luck in raising boys without meddling friends. The snippets read as a light aside on political certainty and parenting.
Soothing Shopping at East Norley General Emporium
A weary shopper laments city shopping and recalls a tranquil scene at East Norley where a store clerk overcomes delays to provide ribbon. The tale humorously details a long ribbon purchase, a missing ladder, an ax in the shed, and a calm, restorative shopping experience as the narrator vows to finish Christmas errand at the Norley emporium.
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Boston
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Norley General Empoorium
Fruits and Flowers Gardening Tips and a Lawyer Joke
The article offers garden advice on keeping orchard variety, soil use for pot plants, watering with liquid manure for weak roses, and avoiding rows in borders. It notes small fruits supply before trees bear fruit and stresses proper drainage with broken pot pieces. A lawyer recounts a Vermont man claiming owed money and a quip about suing for more.
Frugal quarrel over storage and money
A husband boasts he has no place for his books as the storage room is reserved for his wife. She retorts that she keeps things too good to destroy yet not useful. In another note a wife interrupts a husband with a shopping run and money trouble.
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Brooklyn
Iron-willed Stavers earns praise amid hard knocks
In a dialogue from the Boston Transcript and Chicago News exchanges a robust view of Stavers emerges as a man of iron who faces life’s knocks while critics debate illness and rust. The quip about grandmothers as mothers-in-law adds a humorous aside.
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Howes
Boston Transcript
Round Trip Tickets On Clover Leaf Route In 1902
Thanksgiving Day travel on the Clover Leaf Route from Toledo Ohio offers round trip tickets on sale November 26 with a 1 1/3 fare for travel within 150 miles of the starting point. No sales to points west of St Louis or via Pennsylvania Lines or to Michigan. Contact ticket agents for details. correspondence to GC D Whitney General Traffic Manager Toledo Ohio.
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Michigan
D. Whitney
Toledo
Ohio
Excursions to the South by Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad
The Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad offers a series of excursions to the South with options for homeseekers colonists and tourists. Fares vary by trip length with liberal stopovers and daily through trains via southern connections. Details available from nearest ticket agent or W H Richardson. Hunters’ excursion fares via Clover Leaf Route during 1902 hunting season. Also notices tout Foley’s Kidney Cure and De Wit Witch Hazel Salve with endorsements from LeRoy Allen, W A Herren, and J F Backner.
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Chicago & Eastern Illinois R. R
Ito Southern
W.H Richardson
Passgr. Agt
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