How a Great City Feeds Night Hawks
A vivid item on urban dining shows small eateries where hoboes and business men share the same counters and booths. The piece highlights street level meals and the everyday rhythm of night life in the city.
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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1906
Page
3
Waiters' Vocabulary Described in Dining Nomenclature
An old description notes that waiters once used distinct terms for dishes to guide hungry patrons. It reflects a bygone dining culture where language shaped service at night resorts and eateries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn Bridge
All Night Brooklyn Restaurants and the Tramp Folklore
A Brooklyn correspondent describes the boroughs nearly hundred all night restaurants open after midnight. The piece centers on working-class hunger after visits to beaches and transfer points, with a traveling hobo recounting meal prices and comparisons to Cincinnati New Orleans and San Francisco. The hobo and a traveler share a 20 cent supper and discuss eggs and pie while observing nightlife. The tone notes changing times with fewer tough waiters and a fading Bowery scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Cincinnati
New Orleans
San Francisco
Fulton Street
East New York
Broadway
Williamsburg
Nostrand
Flushing
Franklin Avenues
Washington, Sands
Brooklyn Bridge
Delmonico’s
New York
Oriental Woman as Ideal Wise Woman of the Orient
A critical portrait argues the oriental woman embodies restfulness and spiritual education, contrasting Western stereotypes. It claims her lifelong reverence and seclusion shape a divine, yet constrained, role for women in marriage, while warning against forcing equality or loosening cultural norms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen of Troy
Uncle Peter and Osler Letter in satirical reminiscence
A humorous reminiscence features Uncle Peter reacting to Dr. Osler and a Johns Hopkins letter. It recounts Peter’s nerves from medical talk, his quips about aging and fame, and a mock correspondence with Admiral Togo offering cautionary hero etiquette. The piece closes with a quip about laughter and a Puck verse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Peter
Dr. Osler
Doc Osler
Peter
Johns Hopkins
Baltimore
Andy Carnegie
Oxford
Knowledge Factory
London
United States
Togo
New York
William Duffy Togo
Togie
Tokio
Yokohama
Mikado
Bugs
The Cobbler Barber of a Mountain Town
A week’s killing in a Kentucky mountain town becomes a barber shop tale when a talkative court stenographer seeks a shave. Uncle Joe the cobbler barber, with a calm blue eye, admits to shaving the stenographer as a man admits to shooting another in the square last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky Mountains
Uncle Joe
Dog Remembered Errand in Continental Village
A village innkeeper trains a dog to fetch the master's paper daily. After a fight with an old enemy the paper is torn. A visiting gentleman with a foreign paper is courted by the dog who retrieves it, leaving the master amused and proud at the bizarre rescue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Togie
Ninth Street
House
Peter
G. W. Dillingham Co
Entitled to More Ease Tit Bits note
A Tit Bits quip ponders why Browne added an e to his name after inheritance. Myer jokes that rich people seek more ease than the poor, reflecting social attitudes of the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myer
Browne
Arsenical Coloring in Foods Exposed by Wiley
Washington report by Prof. H W Wiley reveals extensive food adulteration with colorants containing arsenic. Coal tar colors are cheaper and more stable than vegetable dyes, and often include arsenic through preparation, though small coloring amounts keep health risk from being overstated. Fraud concerns persist as colors masquerade inferior products as premium goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
H. W. Wiley
Bureau of Chemistry
The
Agricultural Department
Street music clash in Spain guitarists licensed organ grinders banned
Spain licenses guitar street performers while organ grinders face suppression. The policy marks a clash between musical traditions with authorities regulating public performances and licensing rules affecting street culture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spain
Fisherman’s Tall Tale Defies Count in Court of Laughter
A village joke centers on a fisherman who cannot count his catch. The exchange with a boy, joking about zero fish, becomes a humorous parable on abundance and belief.
Fragmented timetable fragment shows rail car listings and names
The text lists multiple station names such as Ottawa Columbus Grove Piqua Sidney and Wapakoneta with time entries and codes. It ends with a signature D. G. Edwards, under a kitchen business note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ar Deshier
Deshier
Leipsiere
Ottawa
Columbus Grove
Sidney
Wapakoneta
Oss D. G. Edwards
Ender Xra Cocina
Obie
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