Miranda Sings in Old Time Melodies from Roy Greene
Detroit Free Press column recalls Mirandy's cracked yet heartfelt singing of classics like Hard Times Come Again No More and When You and I Were Young. The narrator prefers aged tunes over ragtime and operatic styles, valuing a familiar voice over modern showpieces.
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Mirandy
Miranda
John Anderson
Tom
Ben Bolt
Lorena
Bobby Burns
Hannah Girler
Love Yes
Maggie
Patti
Melba
Roy Farrell Greene
Detroit Free Press
Capitan Americano's Death and a Manila Tea Time Duel
In a ManilaFront scene near a stone bridge over the Pasig a Filipino captain lies mortally wounded as fellow officers and troops react to a deserter thought to be Capitan Americano. Stuyvesant and Miss Maidie Ray face a tense moment when a marriage truth threatens their budding romance as Brent returns from frontline action.
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Pasig
Capitan Americano
Tagal
Army of the United States
Aguinaldo
Lieut
Stuyvesant
Victoria
Honolulu
Sackett
Nevada
Johnny Filipino
Sam
Sandy Ray
Manila
Farquhar
Foster
Wally
Ray
Mellen
Connelly
Sackett-Murray
Benton
Miss Ray
Red Cross
Dr. Wells
Miss Porter
Maidie
Malate
Mrs. Brent
Colonel
Marion
Mac
Caloocan
Col. Martindale
Sonoma
Mr. Stuyvesant
San Pedro Macau
San Pedro
Sing
Monsieur
Mir. Stuyvesant
Luneta
Maidie Ray
Prince Consort’s Lack of Humor Surprises Landseer Story
The Rochester Press notes Queen Victoria enjoyed a tale by Sir Edwin Landseer while Prince Albert remained unimpressed. Landseer tested a dog’s recall with a five-pound bet in Windsor Park, the dog returning with five sovereigns after visiting Windsor and the bank at Virginia Water. The queen laughed. the prince stayed silent and the equerry conveyed the sovereigns’ doubts.
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Prince Albert
Sir Edwin Landseer
Rochester Post-Express
Edwin Landseer
Prince Consort
Lanseer
Landseer
Windsor
Windsor Park
Virginia Water
Child Dares to Cook Clothes for Dinner
A three year old Edith volunteers to supervise the family wash. Jane, surprised by Edith’s claim, runs to mother shouting that Jane is cooking the clothes for dinner. The anecdote appears in the Chicago Daily News.
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Edith
Jane
Chicago Daily News
Startling Facts About Sugar From Willett and Gray
A reprint lists sugar consumption in 1900 and 1901 with totals of 2 360 585 tons and 84 981 060 dollars in duties. It cites annual consumption growth, duties paid by Louisiana and Porto Rico planters and domestic beet producers, and Cuba centrifugal sugar pricing with a high ad valorem equivalent.
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U. S
Willett and Gray
Hawaii
Porto Rico
Louisiana
Cownees
Cuba
Willett & Gray
Wall Street
New York
Doctor Recalls Patient Quinine Prank
A Philadelphia Public Ledger item recounts a physician praising a patient who, while recovering from malaria, kept the four grain quinine capsules and returned the empty bottles. The patient attempted to wash the powder down with water, prompting the doctor to consider giving quinine in a different form next time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Willing to Go and the Mockingly Harsh Exit
A Chicago Tribune quip recalls regulators tar and feathering a man and driving him from town with a threat of hanging if he returns, while Indianapolis News notes a tired citizen chasing an organ grinder away. A Hartford Courant poke critiques literature needing a man to argue an undramatizable novel.
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Chicago Tribune
Indianapolis News
Engraver Sculpts Alphabet on Pin Head
Baltimore engraver Harry A Houseal proved the claim by engraving all capital letters on a pin head in about ninety minutes. He ground the head to a flat surface and carved two concentric circles with A to Q in the first and A to Z in the second, leaving the center space for the ampersand. Houseal, 25, is described as an expert in his craft.
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Harry A. Houseal
Baltimore
Houseal
The Real Thing Quote Appears in Detroit Free Press
A Detroit Free Press excerpt features a witty exchange on charity between Uncle Tom and Tommy. The quip defines charity as making excuses for faults in people we dislike.
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Uncle Tom
Charity
Tommy
Detroit Free Press
Cascarets Candy Cathartic Promises Health Restorative Claim
An old advertisement touts Cascarets Candy Cathartic as the cure for all ailments from headaches to cancer by regulating the bowels. It claims natural relief, no pain, and a 10 cent start, warning to beware of imitations and noting the metal box packaging and C. C. C. stamp.
Popular Belle in Four Pillow Hair Story
A Philadelphia Record item notes a woman famed as a belle and jokes that she owns four silk pillows stuffed with hair from four football players, highlighting playful local gossip about social standings.
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Tom
Jack
Philadelphia
Free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease powder offer
You can get a free sample by writing to Allen S. Olmsted in Le Roy New York. The ad touts Allen's Foot-Ease as curing sweating damp swollen and aching feet and making new or tight shoes comfortable. Sold at druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents.
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Hall
Ruckeel
New York
Eamnes Bedoth
Y.l. Douglas
W. L. Douglas
W. Dousias
W. L. Douzlas
Frez
Douglas
Cave
Brockton
Mass
Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Fragmented Humorous Ads and Quips From an Old Paper
Otage snippets include a quip about organ starts after sermons and a mock dialogue between Jaggles and Waggles. An ad promotes Hoxsie’s Croup Cure for coughs and croup with no opium, priced 50 cents. A quote contrasts wealth with appearance from the New York Herald. A testimonial touts Piso’s Cure for Consumption by John Tek Boyer of Trinity Springs, Ind., in February.
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John Tek - Boyer
Trinity Springs
Ind
Puck Ad Ends With Chicago Daily News Quote
An old-time ad fragment features a Puck quip and a Chicago Daily News slogan about a home run in time saves the nine. It promotes a laxative cold remedy with a 25 cent price and refund offer.
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Nine
Chicago Daily News
Quotable Quips and Comic Vines From Early Columns
A collage of witty lines and humorous exchanges reads like a vintage column mix. The snippets feature pithy maxims from classic authors and playful banter about flowers and letters, capturing a lighthearted newsroom mood and social chatter.
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J. B. Lippincott Co
San Luis
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Bendick
Merci DU
Queen Victoria
Messrs. Willett and Gray
Weekly
Statistical Sugar Trade Journal
Midas
Hartford
Ost
St.Jacobs Oil
Price
Voor
Wk. J. Tower CO
Boston
President McKinley
McKinley
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Zangwill
Israel Zangewil
Henry Tyrrell
Judge
Gertrude Potter Daniels
Warners
Martha McCulloch Williams
Tagens Sara Beaumont Kennedy
Julia Truitt Bishop
Dearborn Street
Chicago
P.I
McCarrick & Cinnati, O
Washington, D. C
Stark Bros
Louisiana, Mo
Ave
H. H. Green
Rez
Atlanta
OPIA
F M. Woolley
Mex
Atlanta, Ga
Taos
Razor Strop
Piper Heidsieck
Drummond Natural Leaf
Erice
Greenville
Tage
Buster Anika “Rocers
Sugar Snell Rogers
SALY
Wickel
Sickle
Neptune
Our New Illustrated
Continental Tobacco Company
C. Hy. Brown
Folsons, Ave
St. Louis, Mo
Remington
Mars Macalime Bufles
Taci
Hoxsie
Noopium
Agnes
Puck
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Putnam
Confucius
Jane Porter
United Presbyterian
Jeremy Taylor
Johnson
Atchison Globe
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