Family plots and a Irish wedding in a playful tale
The Wheat family faces a comical dilemma as Billy teases a new sweetheart named Sarah Susan Gunn. Mammy Tuffle devises a ruse to test Billy’s heart, staging a marriage to salvage pride and money while Larry covertly arranges a dramatic reveal at a hotel. In the end Billy accepts, Tim returns, and Sarah Susan confronts the deception with a bold stand about duplicity.
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Billy
Susan
Sally
Sue
Mrs. Wheat
Connors
Fim
Mammy Wheat
Tim
Mammy
Tie
Manny
Larry
Agame
Tom
Henry
Viethn
Manmiuny
Ummimy
Ireland
Hinself
Gunma
Timothy O'Toole
Smith
Jones
Brown
Robinson
Mummy
Billy Rose
Mommy
David
Hho
Fernbrook
Tarry
Imost
Fly
O'Toole-Merrion
Mount Merrion
County Meath
Sarah Susan
Tha
Jilly
Sidan
Golf described in quaint colonial style piece
An Ineglish paper writer compares golf to a quirky sport using humor and odd phrases. He notes the game uses odd equipment, a river, sand, various tools, a strange jargon, and old clothes with many oaths, satirically downplaying its seriousness.
Relic swap ruse ends as aged lord fleeced by Nile hunter
London’s Hon. Charles Bingham, a seventy year old relic collector, is lured to a garret by American explorer Blake seeking £5000 for Nile artifacts. After days of confinement and a manipulative ransom, a thirteen year old girl rescues him with a rope, and the explorer is not pursued.
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London
Charles Bingham
Bingham
Globe
Egypt
Charles Hingham
Europe
Nile
Tie
Iie
Ife
Jion
Charles
Siake
New York Museum of Natural History
Esplorer Blake
Explorer
Cosme
Thomas
Charles Binghan
Cock of the Rock Courtship Dances in South American Mountains
A detailed description of the cock of the rock, a blood red South American bird, its crest and tail display during mating. Males perform a sequenced dance in a cleared arena to attract females, who then pair off for nesting.
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South America
Button Future Power Joke Reflects Household Banter
A humorous dialogue envisions a world where touching a button could provide all desires as a wife teases a husband about never touching a button. The exchange pivots on the husband's self critique and a light joke about being wiser today than yesterday.
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John
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Josefh H. Derxarn
Greensboro
R. Owens
Denton
Albert W. Sisk
Preston
Roper Jar Rees
Goldsboro
Thomas L. Day
Ridgely
Albert G. Towers
Frank P. Corry
Paul Harsischer
Henry T. Nurtie
Andersontown
Winniam C. Topp
Williston
K. Chay Hopns
Holds
J. FL Jaxexson
HE Peoples National Bank
Caroline
Lorain Steel Range
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Main Street
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Terminal Market
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THE
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Cashier
Commerce Street
South Holliday St
Baltimore
Maryland
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Baltimore St
Baltimore, MD
Bertin
Berlin
New York
Leslie's Weekly
Holy Land
Sheriffs’ Court
Lowie
Muan
Niewspapr
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