Emphatic Scrap Book and a Bee Trade Tale
The piece recounts John Barrett of the International Bureau of American Republics advancing a trade idea by touting stingless Mexican bees as safe and docile. A Missouri farmer responds with a biting letter mocking the claim, highlighting tensions in cross border commerce. Marcus Fetersen’s poem urges broad charity and aid beyond kin.
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John Barrett
International Bureau of American Republics
Barrett
Tie
Mexico Ts
United States
Missouri
Mexico
Pittsburg
A Judge's Ruse Ends Prolonged Courtroom Oration
In a humorous anecdote from the Washington Star, Judge Ballard and his brother John suppress a long winded speaker Lawyer Lawless. John writes a note inviting him to a bourbon at the Revere House. Lawless halts mid argument, reads the note, then leaves the case to proceed to the bar.
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John Ballard
Lawless
Revere House
Washington Star
Not Guilty in Ditchwater Street Crowd Charge
Tweedledum faced a magistrate after being accused of obstructing traffic by drawing a large crowd in Ditchwater Street on the 20th inst. He claimed he merely appeared in his front garden wearing a birthday tie and that the gathering was for a conte entertainment.
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Tweedledum
Mumbledon
Ditchwater Treet
Twee- Wedum
A Match For the Bishop in Welsh Disestablishment Debates
In Flintshire a Welsh Democrat introduces David Lloyd George as the match for the bishop of St. Asaph in debates over Welsh disestablishment. The chair quotes the bishop as a “Mars Increasion” and Lloyd George notes the crowd’s roar of applause after the remark.
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Wales
Lloyd George
St. Asaph
Flintshire
Carnarvon Boroughs
Wealthy widow and servant tale with a witty comeback
A rich widow asks her Scottish servant William why a handsome colonel married her. He replies it was heaven's will. The piece blends humor with a courtroom quip about talents and fees and a comical accidental injury as a flowerpot falls on a man.
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William
Wiliam
Colonel S
Ma- Jolica
Calloway’s Code and the Office Goat Jest
A war correspondent’s coded message baffles editors until Heffelbauer recalls a long-mistory code. The scene shifts to a private code kept in a room behind the library and ends with a punchline revealing the goat as the source of the confusion.
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O. Henry
Deffelbauer
M. E
Fleeing men recall bullets as gunman opens fire
Two Black men on a Louisiana plantation fled after a confrontation with a bundled Ethiopian armed with a gun. As they ran about 100 yards, a dialogue ensued about hearing bullets, with one man describing hearing the shot twice as it passed and then when he passed it, in terse, breathless exchanges.
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Bundy
Sam
A Bold Umpire Story From Norfolk Club Leader
Manager Wht Clark of the Norfolk team relays a humorous umpiring tale about J. Ira Davis, a ten year minor league umpire known for eccentricities. Davis once shifted positions from behind the bat to the pitcher and then behind second base amid a dispute. Fans jeered, prompting a jab about umpiring from the right field while insisting if fans can judge from the stands, so can he.
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Wht Clark
Norfolk
J. Ira Davis
Stats
Davis
Clark
Blenacherites
Tillman recalls old man and the sin of drunkenness
Senator Tillman recounts a former acquaintance who drank heavily. He describes him as a fine man otherwise, pitied for his disgrace. A long lecture on temperance ends with a joke about water, noting a Bible verse where no man asked for water.
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Tillman
Janes
Splurge Dream Turns on Luxuries and Inheritance
A girl inherits twelve thousand dollars and plans lavish yearly income gains. An uncle guides prudent investment yet the tale shifts to curious dialogue. A Richmond driver tours a cemetery as a side note and the scene wanders through garbled lines about rooms and a judge.
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Uncle Jim
Richmond
Misburg
Women in Portugal Share Heavy Farm and City Labor
The article notes women perform much farm work alongside men in Portugal, with wives and daughters managing cultivation while husbands work as carpenters or in trades. Women also hold jobs as hotel staff, dock laborers, market workers, and even Fisherwomen and sailors. They endure long hours with strength and cheerfulness, challenging romantic stereotypes.
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Christian Therald
White House jest about monuments to West and Lincoln
General Harrison objects to too many West busts in the White House. A wife’s plan to rearrange rooms prompts laughter when the president notes spaces for Lincoln and Grant and three places labeled West. The term West is clarified as vestibu le.
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Harrison
White House
Wiliam T. Crock
Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post
Uarrison
Lincoln
Grant
West
A Fierce Anathema Attributed To A Woman’s Tongue
A contentious scene features a woman hurling a scathing curse at Jean Paul Richter. The remark targets his command style and mockingly wishes misfortune on his personal and professional life, ending with a caricatured portrait of a lonely, diminished bachelor.
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Jean Paul Richter
High Sounding Names Across The Parisian Press
In a Paris paper Clement Yautel critiques the trend of parents giving children grand names. He cites a deputy named Franklin with brothers Voltaire and Socrates, describing nursery antics where the names spark jokes. He recalls a Marseille street spanking for Epaminondes, ending with a laugh at Theban general Epaminondas.
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Paris
Clement Yautel
Anacreon
Zipparchus
Franklin
Voltaire
Socrates
Marseilles
London Censors Restrict Plays From Richard III to Lear
London’s dramatic censors, rivaling Vienna, excised Act I of Richard III for fear of Tibary VII recalling King James. Shakespeare works faced bans, with Lear suppressed during George II’s era. George Colman, as reader of plays, banned words like angel and heaven.
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London
Vienna
Colley Cibber
Revels
James
France
Lear
George II
George Colman
Angel
Hearen
London Chronicle
Insomnia Cop Won't Sleep on Duty Suggestion
A New York policeman judged unfit for duty due to insomnia receives unusual guidance from Inspector Byrnes. The officer is told to wear uniform at midnight and lean against a corner house to induce sleep. Meanwhile, Sir Edwin Landseer reacts to Solomon's Waiting For the Verdict with playful comments about the painting.
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New York
Inspector Byrnes
Iean
New York ‘Tribune
Piano hardware and home piano repair trends
The New York Sun notes that piano hardware includes casters hinges screws and specialized wires sold to private owners who repair pianos themselves. It cites a buyer who replaced a worn secondhand piano’s humanizers and says skilled amateurs in towns of this size make retail piano hardware profitable.
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New York Sun
Island of Fire and Lake of Snow Amid Global Oddities
A vivid foreign landscape contrasts two natural oddities. The Island of Ire in Java sits in a boiling mud sea where five to six foot bubbles rise and burst with loud blasts. Nearby, the largest snow lake spans over 300 square miles seen from Karakoram range, while in Switzerland solar heat fractures the Sea of Ice into a snowlike mosaic.
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Ire
Java
Jspar Pass
Karakoran Range
Switzerland
Purse Finding Notices Spark Street Recognition Confusion
An English paper advertised a purse found on Burford street and asked the finder to deliver it to the Joser. A subsequent reply claimed she recognized the person who picked up the purse on Durford street and urged the owner to call at the discoverer’s house.
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Burford Street
Joser
Petiticwan
Durford Street
What makes you think she's uncul tured
A quote from Cleveland Lender about a woman who critiques Ibsen noting she claims plays are stupid and others think so but she says so.
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Ibsen
Cleveland
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Boston Transcript
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Boyd
Effelbauer
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Detroit
Harr
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Mullin's
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Frank L. Roberts
Succeseor
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Washington & Dover Sts
Easton, MD
Fitea
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BK DC
Bullock's Cheap Store
Carter Block
San Jose
A. G. Gelletty
A. G. Gelletly
A.G
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Gelletly, Maryland
Murderhill River
Philadelphia
NEW Steam
Prederica
Mathan H. Maxsoa
Wil
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Webb’s
Dawsis
Pier 3
Edica
Swaan
Wedl
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Yoo
Eave
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Neal
Consumers' Tee Co
Chester
Pula
Keystone
Philadelph
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Ladelphia Navigation Co
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Caroline County
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Somers Hlakh
Windsor Hotel
W. T. Brubaker
Broad Street
Station
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Crystalite
Texas Company
C. H. Stewart
Venton
G. T. Redden & Co
A. T. Carter
Journal
County News
Lewis F. Eckhart
Denton, Maryland
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Duyer
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Halsey
Sparks
Deaton
W. A. West
Tai
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Andersontown, Md
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Landreth
Lanpreth
Landreth Seed Company
Bristol
Pennsylvania
Frantz Bros
Produce Commission
Terminal
Ball Journal Office
Second Street
B. Towers
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