Comic Snippets and Witty Exchanges From A Humorous Page
A collage of comic exchanges and quips with characters like Judge, Severe Critic, and Puck. Banter covers meals, cold treats, marriage, self praise, and political jests about Congress and newspapers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice
Tom
Grace
Puck
Jokes and Health Quips From A World Of Stray Stories
A collection of light humor and medical quips. A joke about marriage matching looks over ten years. Dr. Slack promotes two meals a day with occasional fasting noting it as health advice. A waiter is asked to wring a soft-boiled egg and grill it for a customer.
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Slack
Duluth
Walter
Coffee Heart Very Plain In Some People
A Brooklyn man describes relief from heart palpitations after giving up coffee and trying Postum. He learned to prepare it by boiling 15 to 20 minutes, finds it palatable and energizing, and notes no adverse stimulation. Battle Creek based Postum Co promotes the product with testimonials and the Road to Wellville book.
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Brooklyn
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Stee
Spring Guide Covers Farming Life and Horticulture
A compilation of agricultural tips from fertilization to poultry care. Topics include egg production milk handling incubators and dairy cattle breeding broccoli onion and potato farming. It emphasizes careful planning soil health tree care and seasonal planting practices.
Epilepsy Cured by Waterman Institute Treatments
New York physicians report remarkable epilepsy treatment from the Waterman Institute yielding great benefits and claimed cures. Patients are urged to write to 122 Hast 25th St Branch 63 New York for a gratis supply of the remedy.
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New York
Dr. Waterman Institute
25Th St
Woman Cures Psoriasis with Cuticura Remedies
Miss Sara Burnett of Philadelphia recounts relief from extensive psoriasis after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. She reports itching subsided after first use and disappearance of psoriasis, noting prior misdiagnoses and failed treatments by doctors and hospitals. Cuticura products marketed by Potter Drug & Chem Corp. free skin and scalp booklet offered.
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Sara Burnett
Fitzwater St
Philadelphia
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Sole Props
Columbus Ave
Boston
Saving Trouble at the Union League in Fashion Talks
A fashionable wife’s gowns draw admiration and envy as her husband jokes at the Union League about the cost and trouble of keeping her in style. He quips that without the effort the trouble would be worse, highlighting the social energy around attire.
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Union League
Last Lover Thrown Out After Football Player Incident
Fragmentary dialogue recounts an attempted expulsion of a football player by a man, with mentions of poetry and a character named Mabel in a casual, domestic scene. The tone hints at personal conflict and affectionate references within a family setting.
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Mabel
Unfortunate Allusion and Garfield Tea Ad Snippet
A clipped ad passage suggests gendered phrases about household management and a Garfield Tea claim. It contrasts a proverb about bricks and straw with a quip on wives and husbands. The tea line promises purification of blood and relief from rheumatism gout and other diseases.
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Garfield
Tuberculosis Fight Gains Steam in Japan
The Japan Health association with over 200000 local members leads lectures nationwide to combat tuberculosis. Prof S Kitasato warns rising TB driven by rapid industrialization and modern living, amid urbanization and intensified economic pressures.
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Japan
Japan Health Association
S. Kitasato
Tokyo
Samy
Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic Promises Healthier Teeth
An advertising blurb touts Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic as a germicide for mouth and teeth. It claims whitening tartar removal and dentist bill savings, urging use in water rinse and brushing with claims of superiority to liquid antiseptics. Available at 25 and 60 cents, or by mail from The Paxton Toilet Co. Boston. Sample offer included.
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Paxton Toilet Co
Boston
Mass
Miss Bangs
Miss Whiton
New York
Sargent
O Am Ze
New Hampshire
Techool
U. S
Mies Whiton
Mra
Taft
A. Fairbanks
Roosevelt
Chicken, All Right
A Camden lawyer entered a restaurant to order a chicken dinner. The waitress cheerfully asked how he was, and he replied I’m all right as she asked how he was doing.
Patent medicine promises and nostrums advertise cures
An advertisement page touts various patent medicines for children and adults. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children claims to prevent colds and teething disorders. Hamlins Wizard Oil markets relief for aches and pains. Garfield Tea is promoted as a mild laxative. Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething is advertised for gum inflammation and colic.
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Gurven Fic Sreur
Sensing Drug
Garfield Ten
Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
N.Y
Castoria
Congress
Ast
Russia
Great Britain
Cuba
Canada
Paris
Mexico
United States
Sweden
Finland
Cascarets
E. M. Dickson
Resiner St
Indianapolis
Putnam
Herdea Cmatn
Tay
Monroe Bhug Company
Guiner
C. W. Wendte
John Oliver Hobbes
Royston
Sloan
A. L. Hunter
Hunter, Ala
K. Gilman
Warren St
Roxbury, Mass
Sloan’s ‘Liniment
Earl 8. Sloan
Boston, Mass
Pink Eye
Spohn Medical
Goshen, Indiana
W. L. Douglas
W.l.douglas
Stcce
Weeter
Douglas
Spark ‘St. Brockton
Sportamen
Spoksman
Lesra
Field and Stream Pub. Company
East 21St Street
New York City