Left Before Trouble Came In A Moving Picture Show
A spectator recalls leaving a moving picture early to avoid a domestic scandal. The account includes a flirtatious scene and a decision not to become involved, noting potential conflict between a husband and wife. This vignette frames caution about getting entangled in others affairs.
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Moving Picture
Youngstown Telegram
A Boy's Idea of Hell Skating Night
A Leavenworth Fest item reflects a boy’s humorous notion of hell as an empty wood or coal box when skating time arrives.
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Hell
Aarau Library Claims Miniature Athens Status
A learned capital Aarau in the Swiss canton Argovia boasts a compact library of 80 000 volumes amid a 10 000 population. With eight volumes per inhabitant the institution proclaims itself a miniature Athens in Kongoland. The more the reader learns, the more eager to discover more.
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Aarau
Argovia
United States
Athens
Diamond Dyes Promise Rich Fadeless Color for All Fabrics
An advertisement touts Diamond Dyes as a guaranteed way to color wool silk linen cotton and blends with a simple overdying process. It includes a direction book and a color card to match any material and suggests asking a dealer to select the right shade.
Reason in Lower Animals Shows Witty Hunters Use Deer Instinct
The piece notes male deer fight and the rattle of antlers draws rivals and may lure females. It explains hunters use this behavior to decoy bucks into range with rattling sets. It muses on animal reasoning, compares to human memory and imagines a Florida monkey colony by Garner.
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Garner
Florida
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promises Cure and Reward
A 19th century advertisement proclaims Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh by treating the condition constitutionally. It claims internal action through the blood and mucous surfaces, offers a $100 reward if it fails, and provides testimonials and pharmacy availability via B J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio.
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Hall
Nature
B. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Liver joke and old time sayings from Indianapolis News
A collection of brief, humorous or odd clippings including a doctor joke about John the pastor’s son and a quip about liver and constipation from Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills ads. It also notes a pun about selling pins and a joke about office seeking as a disease, with miscellaneous quotes and ad blurbs.
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John
Brightwood Methodist Church
W. C. Engle
Indianapolis News
Wright
Fragmented Humor From The Front Lines 1916 Clash
A satirical thread recalls crude guard duty during a 1916 border patrol with a lazy sentry who accepts a countersign from a guardhouse occupant. Jocular quips follow about bankers, married life, and mock wisdom, ending with a riff on biblical birthright.
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