Newsboy explains bank prize scam in street exchange
A Buffalo man tries to hire a newsboy to direct him to a big bank and pays a dollar for the tip. The boy quips that bank directors are well paid in New York. The scene ends with a joke about bribery and bribed informants.
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Buffalo
New York
National Bank
Exchange
Canada
Montreal
Red Cross Ball Blue Bleaches Clothes White as Snow
Advert suggests Red Cross Ball Blue makes garments whiter than snow and brightens a house with cleaning power. Large packages priced at six cents at all good grocers.
The Best Passage in The Pulpit Vestry Room
A witty remark contrasts a clergyman famed for long sermons with Father Healy who notes he favors one passage. The humor highlights that the passage Healy admired came from the vestry room pulpit, lampooning pretentious preaching.
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Father Healy
Battle Hymns and Song Traditions in American Wars
The piece traces how soldiers used marching songs from Yankee Doodle to The Battle Hymn of the Republic and Star Spangled Banner origins. It notes bands and troops adapting tunes across Revolutionary, Civil, and Spanish-American eras, and contemplates what tune a modern 1914 army might adopt.
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Heaven
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Key
Johnny
Babylon
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Dixie
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Mason and Dison
Lorena
James R. Randall
New Orleans
Richmond
Leke
Confederacy
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