Valentine Aide Sparks Romance In City Sketch
In a bustling avenue setting, Dick the newsboy sparks a romance between Miss Pet Lathram and a struggling artist Richard Slastings. A heartfelt valentine contest unfolds with Jack Windsor guiding introductions while Miss Lathram learns the true story behind the art inspired by love and class ascent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Pet
Jack
Richard Slastings
Valentine
Miss Lathram
Sears
Mr. Hastings
Papa
Comic Valentine Foolery in Narrow Village
Zachariah Skinner, a frugal ruralist, writes a cheeky Valentine to widow Martha Bee. The missive praises thrift and asks for marriage, but Martha replies with a formal rebuke about cash and mortgage, naming him the Comic Valentine as gossip spreads through the countryside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zachariah
Ilyien
Martha Bee
Skinner
Dan Cupid
Martha
Zachariah Skinner
Jachariah Skinner
Valentine
Dolly's Chaperone Sparks Secret Suitor in Detroit
In Roy Farrell Greene's verse from the Detroit Free Press a narrator muses on Dolly's pretty chaperone. He notes Dolly's youth and blue eyes and hints at pursuing the chaperone alone now that "three's a crowd" applies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dolly
Roy Farrell Greene
Detroit Free Press
A Tender Heart Behind Lord Lawrence’s Sea Voyage
The tale portrays Lord Lawrence viceroy of India as a blunt, action minded ruler with a tender side. On departure from London to govern Lodia he gathers his family and consoles a crying baby aboard the steamer. He reveals the child is the only being on board who cannot exploit him.
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Lord Lawrence
India
Loidon
Lodia
Bertie
May Hord
Pastines
Left stocking lore and bedtime superstitions from border folklore
A Notes and Queries excerpt recalls Welsh border beliefs that wearing the left stocking inside out or crossing stockings with a pin at the foot wards off cramps nightmares and toothache. It treats such superstitions as quaint folk lore amid broader talk of remedies and fear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare
Barns
Woman recovers sixpence from wrong church visit
A Glasgow woman, misled by group seating, drops sixpence at the door of an unintended church. After learning her error she descends to retrieve the coin from the elder, keeping the funds she intended to give to the preacher she expected to hear.
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Glasgow
Dr A
Broken Commandments and Childrens Lesson Misunderstanding
A preacher contentionsly tests a five year old Elsie on commandments while waiting for her mother at a Cass avenue house. The child suggests there are seven or eight commandments though the preacher corrects her there are ten. The dialogue shows a humorous exchange about moral rules in a church setting.
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Cass Avenue
Elsie
Papa
Manana
Fragmentary 1900s Excerpts on Donkeys and Horses in Egypt
The readable lines discuss a donkey ownership joke and a note on horses in ancient Egypt. It mentions donkey tenure, lack of horse figures in early monuments, and a nod to women sharpening pencils in a curious turn of phrases. The text mixes comic aside with antiquarian claims.
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Egypt
Vath Bec
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WSR
Rocio Admorsda
Rosa Geichorn
Jonathan Lathram
Alice Lathram
Textral
Pet
North Knickerbocker Square
Cupid
Mercury
No. 11
Jack Windsor
Mrgicoert
Hastings
Cope
P. S
Tvé
Asca
Dtidia
Miss Matilda Snowflake
Zeke Darkteigh
Miss Snowflake
Miss Matilda
Baltimore
America
Cordova Canles
Madeio
Dillon, Montana
Jay Vee
Cole Jiead
ELY
ELY Brothers
Witten St
New Yorks City
Kansas
Giry
Cory
Mining
Scientific Press
Market ST
San Francisco, Cal
New York City
Plano
Gentlewoman Publishing Company
Gentlewoman Building
N. Y
Oas
Metropolitan- National Bank
Chicago
Continental National Bank
Deseret National Bank
Salt Lake
Utah
People's National Bank
Rock Island
Jll
Iowa National Bank
Ottumwa
Iowa
Montgomery Ward & CO
Nelson Morris & CO
Rosenbaum Bros. & CO
Union Stock
Clay, Robinson & CO
Union Stock Yards
Silberman Brothers
Michigan St
Chloagéd
Ill
Montana Music Co
Tribune Pub. CO
Dillon, Mont
Main Street
Butte
Montana
Tribune Fub. CO
Dillon
Mon
Chicago News
B.c.dake's
AGEN
the Wernicke
Tribune Publishing Company
Ee Ee Western Railway
Great Western
Limited
Kansas. City
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