A Joke on Field and a President's Quiet Humor
President Harrison enjoyed a joke about Justice Field and would often share it. A western marshal complained when Field’s carriage from his hotel to court was disallowed, while another marshal's similar charge was approved. The secretary uncovered the rule that allowed the expense when labeled for care and transportation of prisoners, a detail Field did not find amusing.
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Harrison
Saturday Evening Post
Field
Hs Hotel
Harrigan
Two Abused Words In English Writer's View On Former Latter
London Speaker argues against using former and latter and offers examples from poets and prose. He praises clarity and criticizes repetition, urging writers to prefer direct phrasing such as shareholders placing interests in the board or directors, to avoid confusion.
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Dinas Vawr
London
It Never Did Run Smooth
A clipped collection of quips and anecdotes from newspapers. A minister recalls a tale of a married couple, a trolley motorman groom and a pretty bride, with a joke about how he found time to court her. A professor and doctor exchange intellectual jests about medical practice and billing.
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John
Philadelphia Telegraph
Why Does The Gray Squirrel Lift Its Left Fore Foot
A New Orleans Times-Democrat observer notes that gray squirrels often lift the left fore foot when listening and proposes possible reasons. The piece discusses instinct, heredity, and sensory adaptation, suggesting the behavior may aid hearing or reflect primitive evolution before ear development.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Dandy of Slocum-on-Mud Studies London Fashions
A humorous tale from Slocum-on-Mud features Chick chasing London style, requesting three gloves in a shop and provoking the astonished clerk by insisting on three single gloves. The piece contrasts foreign and domestic language quirks with a German town nursery anecdote about a boy eager to see a crack on his sister’s head.
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Chick
London
Piccadilly
IL Racwneres
Leahner
Germantown
Robbie
Philadelphia Press
Education and Business in the Modern Era
The piece argues that college education should develop the person and widen horizons while imparting business skills. It warns against business narrowing focus to mere profit and asserts education should enhance citizenship and broad understanding, citing that successful businessmen send their sons to college. Kansas City Star is cited.
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Kansas City Star
May vineyard labor in East Finchley and Barnet England
In May, vineries around East Finchley and Barnet employ hundreds of unemployed London clerks and salesmen to trim vines and prune tainted fruit. They earn about 6.75 dollars a week, paying their own board and lodging. The work, done in high heat, is deemed too delicate for rough labor.
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East Finchley
Barnet
England
London
Ysobel Brisket and Lawrence Lier Wurst Caprice
In Chicago area suburbs Ysobel Brisket, famed queen of the smart set, listens coldly as Lawrence Lier Wurst proclaims his love. She retorts about his amateur standing and he concedes he married for money before he was old enough to know better, through a Puck quotation.
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Ysobel Brisket
Chicago
Lawrence Lierwurst
Puck
Zoological Sharps Then
A McClure's magazine extract recounts humorous answers from job candidates for zoo positions. Applicants describe handling visitors, feeding tigers, and distinguishing circuses from city menageries with comical, often literal, responses. The piece notes a fish inspector candidate praising scallops while lamenting missing their savory juice.
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A. M. Jones
McClure’s
Cost of Clothes In Russia
The article explains that average Russian attire is very inexpensive. Men's clothing costs about ten rubles or seven fifty, while women's costs under three dollars. Descriptions cover coarse cotton trousers, leather boots, cotton shirts, sheepskin coats, and caftans for men, with sarefans, chimes, kerchiefs, and simple footwear for women. It attributes basic dress to harsh living conditions, not lack of vanity.
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Russia
History of a Phrase Robbing Peter to pay Paul origin story
The saying allegedly began in London in the 1540s when the Abbey of St Peter in Westminster became a cathedral then was joined again to the diocese of London. Its property funded repairs at St Paul’s, forcing Peter to suffer, giving rise to the proverb.
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Peter
Paul
London
St. Peter
Westminster
Proof Positive in 1776 Mass Bay Dawn
An early opening day encounter in Massachusetts Bay has a Marshfield farmer greeting the village clergyman with a cheerful good morning. The farmer jokes that while common talk says the earth moves and the sun stands still, they both rise early to witness the sun as it climbs over a cloudless horizon.
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Parson
Massachusetts Bay
The Way He Get In Ball Match Incident
After a match a boy tried to exit by climbing the boarding. A policeman told him to use the exit. The boy retorted and amid laughter the policeman collapsed, and the boy vanished into the crowd.
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Tam
Puddenhead
peUneeer
Dress Suit Desert Shooting by a French Doctor
A story from a French novelist follows a young army doctor in Algeria who, poor and without a dress suit, uses his evening attire to surprise natives when out in the desert. He dons full dress with opera hat for a shooting excursion at a frontier post.
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Algeria
Artificial and imitation in material definitions
An essay contrasts artificial versus imitation items. It explains true artificial objects would be alive or grow, while most man made substances like imitation stone and artificial dyes merely copy natural products. It notes diamonds and wine can be real yet produced by art, while stone substitutes are not truly artificial.
Rapid Yeast Growth Described By Microscope Observation
The article explains yeast growth with buds forming on parent cells and sometimes detaching to create free cell masses. It outlines exponential cell division, predicting 2 after one minute, 4 after two, 8 after three, 32 after five, 1,024 after ten, and 32,768 after fifteen minutes, noting the rapid development observed in hospital notes.
Bad Mix Causes Health Certificates Mix Up
A post office sorter was found in his diggings looking rueful after admitting he mixed two doctors certificates. One certificate showed illness for a life insurer, the other health for his leave request, leading to a comic mix up between the insurance company and the chief.
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London Standard
Charcoal Promoted As Teeth Brightener And Breath Freshener
An article extols charcoal as a beneficial aid for teeth and gums claiming it whitens teeth, removes tartar, relieves toothache, and freshens breath. It advises rubbing a minuscule amount into each tooth at night and rinsing in the morning, noting grittiness as a drawback and suggesting it be ground to a fine powder. It also mentions purifying qualities and a belief it may cure indigestion if swallowed.
The Family Cheese in Swiss Wedding Traditions
Journal de Vienne notes Swiss custom where a bride receives a whole Gruyere cheese at marriage. The cheese is kept and marked with notches to record births marriages deaths within the family, serving as a provision for a rainy day.
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Switzerland
Gruyere
Journal de Vienne
A Quart Baby and Dr Pierce Remedies Claim
A historic note praises Dr Pierce Favorite Prescription as boosting a mother's health and easing childbirth. It quotes Mrs J W G Stephens praising a prior birth and endorses a $500 reward for cures of leucorrhea weak womb issues. The doctor offers a 1008 page medical adviser and books for stamps from Buffalo NY.
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Dr. Pierce
Pierce
United States
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