Lost Revenge in a Prison of Desire and Death
A jilted wife, newly wed to a controlling husband, endures travel and social scrutiny as she grieves him. After his death she falls for a lover, but discovers the dead husband’s unbroken hold, leading to a fatal, ironic conclusion where revenge and fate intertwine.
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Ife
Veese
Lord Warden
Dover
Switzerland
Italy
Nile
Damascus
England
Victoria
Erin
Cents for a Cent? Comic Exchange at Yonkers
A Yonkers cartoon-style quip features a boy and a girl trading a joke about swallowing a cent and a dollar. The doctor asks for payment, and the girl laughs that she cannot cough up another cent.
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Bill
Jill
Yonkers
Still as a Mouse An Adage Questioned In Fact
An essay argues the saying still as a mouse is misnamed since mice awaken and act, gnaw and move quickly. It notes the mouse’s agility against cats, questions the adage’s meaning, and cites Clement Moore and common human expectations of stillness.
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Clement C. Moore
Timing an Egg and the Aunt Dinah Egg Tale
A London Trail humor item recalls Aunt Dinah singing Rock of Ages while boiling eggs to suit desired doneness. Mr. Paul questions verses of the hymn. Another tale notes Ife on a Pennsylvania railway asking the cook for longer boiling as the train speeds a mile a minute.
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Dinah
Howard Paul
Mr. Paul
Ife
London Trail
Fish Locomotion and Buoyancy in Water
Fish closely match water density to move with ease. Most possess an air bladder that lets them ascend or descend. To dive, they expel air from the bladder with muscles increasing body density. to rise, reducing pressure fills the bladder with air making the body buoyant.
Fisherman and wife quarrel over late return
Ife shows his day’s catch to his wife who frets over the late hour fearing the fish markets would close. He reassures her with affectionate teasing.
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Ife
John
Dr Splinter Audacious Surgeon Earns Local Praise
A playful exchange on a city street extols Dr Splinter as the most expert surgeon, praised for flawless fracture setting. The punchline imagines whether he could set a broken egg, prompting mild humor from onlookers including a man with an iron dog on his lawn. Judge.
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Splinter
Bell boy rumor of white haired guest paralyzing
Philadelphia Press notes a tale of a bell boy claiming a guest awakened with a white hair and paralysis. The anecdote is framed as a factual rumor, contrasting disbelief with the reported event involving a hotel bell boy and a guest.
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Jolkley
Polkley
Philadelphia Press
Curious Pitfalls With English Language Puzzles
A New Orleans Times-Democrat letter laments odd English usages and figures of speech. The writer notes phrases like day breaks but never falls and night falls but never break, questioning why such expressions exist and how they shape writing and understanding.
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Hunelih
New Orleans Times-Democrat
First Aid Lesson From a Mule in the Army
A lively exchange between a grass widow and a colonel on a lonely road prompts a quip about not worrying before a mule gets sick. The Chicago Record-Herald quotes the line about first aid learned in the army.
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Colone
Chicago Record-Herald
Noise and Its Harmful Effects on Nerve Centers
A London Family Doctor warns that persistent noise damages the brain and impairs mental processes. It exhausts the brain, dulls perception, and can shorten life by causing irritability neurasthenia insomnia and other symptoms.
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London
Amatuer cornet player hired. quick end to fiasco
A loud neighbor burdened cornet player sought theater work. The conductor, pressed for a man, hired him for the night and the overture l anhauner collapsed. The irate conductor accused him, and the lad retorted that they were both sold, then vanished in a hurry.
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L'Anhaurer
London Standard
The Sale of Cut Flowers In The United States
The sale of cut roses in the United States amounts to about 6 million dollars per year, carnations about 80 million, violets 750 thousand, chrysanthemums a short season crop 700 thousand. Annual production is about 100 million roses and carnations each, and 500 million violets. These four leading flowers dominate the market, with carnations leading on account of lower production cost and superior keeping qualities.
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United States
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