Old General Kemmis and Irish Sergeant Tale
A Victorian miscellany recounts General Kemmis ordering a soldier to be saved in the Tagus and the sergeant’s Irish quip about his fate. The piece moves to a quip about O Connell and a Phoenix Park moment revealing a mistaken identity. It closes with a poem about finding blessing in daily work by Henry van Dyke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles H. Kelly
Kemmis
Tagus
Iord
O'Connell
O’connell
Phoenix Park
Fitzroy Stanhope
Reverena
Stanhope
Sweden
Seasickness cure tale aboard stalled voyage
Thomas Brown shuns the sea but tries a bunk sleep cure for seasickness claiming success. The voyage never left the dock as the ship’s machinery failed at departure, leaving passengers ashore and unaware of his presence. The captain quips about the delay while noting all aboard were transferred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Brown
Thomas
Ile
Prohibition debate and comic anecdotes in letters
A satirical collection discusses prohibition with Mark Twain quotes on its impracticality. It then presents humorous vignettes about Miss Prissy Allen described by Ika Bodwin, a joke about Rev Spurgeon and the sea, and a college pledge misstep in class, all framed as light anecdotal items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prissy Allen
Miss Allen
Ika Bodwin
Joseph C. Shicoln
Mr. Bodwin
Laverty’s Solemn Wish at the Green’s Hotel Bar
A seven year worker for United Gas Improvement finally enjoys a day off and mingles with the elite. Laverty orders a cocktail, lays a quarter on the bar, and waits as a bartender pockets his coin and later tells him drinks cost 25 cents. He leaves puzzled by the mistaken idea that he was treated as Dutch or Irish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Laverty
United Gas Improvement Company
Green's
Laverty
Philadelphia Times
New York Tribune
In a Quandary and Other Short Items
A satirical mix of comic sketches includes a doctor urging a wife to make her husband bathe daily, Mrs. Briggs walking twenty miles to hear a sermon and quip that it “it boofed it,” a German dignitary remark about decorations, and a tale of royal swine swindles linked to the king's pigs and a butcher's joke about legal “pigt.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Audionca
James KR
Keene
Saratoga
Edward
Sandringham
West End
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Denton Journal
Howard Melvin Bessy I Johnson
Melvin & Johnson, Publishers
Kernan
Plac
Ussiness Sectlor
Baltimore
Amt
Ba Yar Acre
Joseph L. Kernan
W. P. Carroll
Hobbs, MD
Hobbs, Maryland
Slo
Ernest D. Sturmer
Maryland
Gite
T. W. Smith CO
Denton
Howard and
Lexington
Best Store
Copenhagen
Lochischild, Kate Co
Lexington Sts
Baltimore, MD
Cooper
Wright E.G. Cooper
North British and Mercantile ‘Insurance Company of North America
Farmers’ Fire
German Alliance
Springfield Fire and Marine
the Girard Fire and Marine Phoenix
Hartford, Conn
Citizens
Missouri Union
Mestasa
Benno
Diamond Telephone
J. W. Wright & CO
Box
The
Hughes Lumber and Coal Co
Dean
Thomas P Fitzgerald
Cantrevelle Road
R. FL
Uaston
Mad
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Douan
West Nottingham Academy
F. Garey
Attorney-at-Law
E. Lexington ST
A.w.short
Vermont
New England
HOTEL
Junker
E. Fayette ST
Near
Charles
Eastern Shore
John A. Lewis
W. 8. Hoddinott
Sec
And
Treas
Cambridge Brick Company
Cambridge Brick Co
Cambridge, MD
J. Virgit, Moort
COOP
HE & Moore
Undertakers
Marya I
Moore
Lelte's College of
Rgsoh
Burrsville
Oliver
H. B. Davis
R.H. Stafford
Burravilie
James J. Ross
WM. Denny
Kent County Mutuae Insurance
Dover
Delaware
Mutual J
L. Irving Jones
Greensboro
John T. Carter, Sr
Denton, Md
Alex, Noble
Preston Md
Concord
W. W. Dukes
Henry van Dyke
Bobby
Bobbie
Pia
Mark Twain
Spurgeon
Trumor
C. H. Spurgeon
Mentone
Mr. Spurgeon
Hoe
Wit Jones
WL Jones
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