Saved from Bankruptcy Ends in Delicatisstore Dream
Edith Lee and Arthur, newlyweds on a tight budget, face a warned collapse as an old maid predicts a nationwide downturn and urges a shift to thrift. Edith fails to start painting or mail envelopes, but pursues a corset canvassing job and piano lessons finding only snubs and rejections until the couple discovers a thriving sausages and salads business is not needed.
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DE Laval
DI Laval
Arthur Lee
Edith Session
Edith
Arthur
Miss Hlendly
Hho
Lee
Mrs. Lee
Lfe
Pet
Rock of Gibraltar
Dust Gloried Housekeeper Finds No Dust at Chatsworth
An elderly estate owner tours Chatsworth with friends and his housekeeper Martha. While the guests scrutinize priceless pictures, Martha scans the rooms and declares, I canna see ya speck o’ dust any where, much to everyone’s amusement.
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Duke of Devonshire
Hhm
Martha
Chatsworth
Lippicott
Wires Fail in Chicago Telegraph Lines Due to Language
A Chicago telephone system suffers repeated outages blamed on multilingual traffic. An expert jokes that barbed wire should replace wires to resolve the problem, suggesting the language onslaught as the root cause. The humor reflects early 20th century newsroom wit.
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Chicago
Philadelphia Ledger
A Courteous Boy and Coin Flipping Irony
A Birmingham Age-Nerald quip notes a boy asking whether to whip him or mother. Tiny Clarence suggests leaving a coin flip to settle the dispute, while a London Punch joke imagines coins on a wooden leg provoking scorn as a natural outcome.
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Wttle
Clarence
Birmingham
Nerald
London Punch
A Dear Victory in Family Quarrels
A quaint reflection on arguments within a small family. The speaker recalls successful but regrettable moments when convincing a spouse she is wrong. Additional aphorisms note that clear thought translates into easy speech and fluent expression, attributed to Bolleau.
The Separation in a Lodge Hall
A Brother recounts a tale of a purported seer who charged two bits admission and 10 cents for children to witness a supposed separation of souls and bodies in a lodge hall. Lights go out, the crowd sits in silence, and the man vanishes with the decoupled people and children, leaving lingering suspicions.
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Smathers
Buckaloo
Lodge Hall
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Visiting Cards Through History and Social Etiquette
The article traces the evolution of visiting cards from early credit to modern carte de visite. It notes 17th and 18th century society as exclusive and formal, with names and addresses scribbled on backs of common cards and pages delivering invitations.
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Mary Wortley Montagu
Nia
Comtesse de Bolgne
Lady Harington
Bond Street
Plucking Bats In Paris A French Food Tale
A Cinelinnan Enquirer piece recounts a sailor describing bat plucking in Paris during winter. Bats hang in caves or chimneys and are sold to restorateurs as a possible dinner ingredient. Boss and workers discuss bat meat as an alternative to venison, noting its use in one franc dishes and soup.
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Paris
Latin Quarter
Ife
Shay
Boulevard Michel
Jacques
Cafe Anglais
Lincoln Irony and Lincoln's humor on pardons and courts
Boston citizens petitioned President Lincoln for clemency for a boy jailed for theft from an employer’s letters. Lincoln quipped about abolishing courts or they would be the death of them, noting courts often send up exemplary men and now the boys too. He urged mercy and delivered a cautionary joke on justice.
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Alexander J. Rice
Lincoln
Boston
Mr. Rice
Mr. Nice
Lincoln E
Beccause
Bis
Massachusetts
Boaton
What is the matter with the hack driver
A playfully phrased quip notes a hack driver suffering a hacking cough as a humorous situational joke.
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Denton Journal
Howard Melvin Ben. Hl
Johnson
Melvin & Johnson, Publishers
Prige
Faneh
Facbort
Froorltc
Norway Carriage
Frena
Coryion Carrhae Iadtstrom
Colte
Deirborn
Dearborn
Drishove
Lotet
PonterCtunas
Burrsville, Md
Redden & Downes
Denton, Maryland
Mrs. Boone
Dr. Gray
Redden
Dr. George
Steamer
Vesper B., E. 8. Transportation Co
Witsicly Trips
Baltimore
Hughes Avenue
At & P.m
Clark's
Kingston
Turkey Creel
Gilpins Paint
Todd's
Downes
Towers
Williston
Lyford
Denton
Vatsapac's
Greensboro
C.D. Bennett, L
BL Towers
Feed and Sale
A. E. Cooper
Maryland
Teppei
Tapa
Geo. C. Skirven
Carter Block
Vicinity
Mai
Ani Mai
Systumr
Syssem
A. W. Houchin
Main Street
Hydnfurg
Leweparr Reh Hin
W. W. Dukes
Concord
ACME
Duees
P. O. Hobbs
Concord, MD
Box
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Hughes Lumber and Coal Co
Fdenton, Maryland
J. Frank Booth
Sunnyside Dairy Farm
P. O. Denton
Or Nuttle Hardware Company
Denton, Md
Coon
Patapsco Guano Company
Harvey L. Cooper
A. BR. Wright
Ernest G. Cooper
Cooper, Wright & Cooper
Law Building
Organic
North British and Mercantile Insurance Co Insurance Company of North America
Farmers’ Fire Insurance Co
German Alliance Insurance Co
Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance Co
Phoenix Insurance Co
Hartford
Fairbanks-Morse
Jack of All
Itas
W. H. T. Wilson
N. Howard St
Baltimore, Md
Axminster
W. H. T. Wilson Furniture Co
N. Howard Bt
Mulberry Street
KING
Hammond
AYARS
A. K. RobIns & Co
E. Pratt St
S. M. Sindall
Incore Orathd
WM. Denney
Sec
Treas
Jams J. Ross
Kendounty Mutual Insurance Co
Dover
Delaware
Mutual
John T. Carter, Jr
L. Irving Jones
Alex. Noble
Preston, Md
Dolly Madison
J. W. Warren
James LT
Cooper & CO
Undertakers
DOD
Toa
Mr. Cooper
Elena Sie
the Savings Department of
the Peoples
BANK
Estelle Clairmont
Associated Literary Press
Eben D. Sexford
Bolleau
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