Midwinter Exposition Attracts World Wide Attention
The Midwinter Exposition completes its global display with Fresno county’s ornate exhibit under a courthouse replica. Visitors from England France Germany Austria India and Australia arrive while Sousa’s band draws crowds. Admission debates favor 50 cents over 25 but attendance remains high and activity broad.
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Wooing by Proxy in a bashful courtship tale
A Detroit Free Press poem recounts John Henry's shy love for Mary Ann. His father mediates the romance by kissing the bride, leading to an odd twist where Mary Ann becomes John’s mother and the courtship concludes.
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Detroit Free Press
Matrimony changes a man’s ideas says a Boston Transcript remark
Mrs Grames recalls a coal laden cellar scene and a husband who once thought her fan heavy now accepts a woman can carry a big hod of coal. The quote ends by noting how matrimony changes a man’s ideas.
A Verse To Thee From A Dear One In Love
A fragmentary verse exchange shows mutual affection with lines about loyal love and humble verse. A baldheaded man jokes about twenty years of marriage and a shared escape during a house fire, delivering a brief humorous punchline.
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Hailo
Belinda Jane a Rose In Summer Time
A poem fragment recalls Belinda Jane and a summer romance with roses and a winter shift in price. The speaker notes Belinda being twenty and twelve roses bought, while winter brings fewer blooms.
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Belinda Jane
Belinda
Wedding invitation mocks etiquette with odd age gap
Uncle Allen Sparks recounts receiving a wedding invitation noted for its fine engraving and taste but contains a comic flaw. The bride is 18, the groom 68, prompting a remark that the card should read Kindly omit flowers.
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Allen Sparks
Chicago ‘Tribune
Mary Wannah’s Dress Delights Neighbors at Walk
A light tale about Mary Wannah finishing a gown that astonishes neighbors with praise. The mild day and bright sun prompt her to wear the dress, but the sleeves prove too wide to pass through the door. She weeps from joy and the scene turns into a humorous mishap.
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Mary Wannah
Reading the Professor and Student Exchange in a Boarding School
A Seattle classroom scene features a kindly professor blessing the class with a joke about a tonic and appetite while a thoughtful girl with glasses ponders why pianos in boarding houses are never tuned. The playful dialogue hints at language slips and curiosities of the era.
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Indianapolis Journal
At Twenty and at Forty Riff on Lovers and Money
A brief verse sketch contrasts youthful romance with mature greed. A man of twenty cherishes love over wealth while a man of forty seeks money, ending with a jokey exchange about proposing on windy cliffs. A detached note mentions a baby show winner titled the cutest child of all.
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Washington Star
Prohibition of Sermon Length Met with Gallery Protests
A Scotch preacher quoted as saying he would not dwell longer on the subject, met by a shrill gallery voice from a woman who disapproved of written sermons exclaiming Ye canna for your paper's run out.
Editor Rejection Sparks Poetic Insight and Pie Banter
In a playful exchange a poet muses of dreams and his wife feeds him a mince pie before bed. The quip notes editors read articles before rejection and highlights lighthearted newsroom chatter in Washington notes.
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Washington News
Kate Field
Washington
Husband's Westward Journey Brings Comfort to Wife
In Detroit Free Press prose a worried wife finds solace as a friend reassures her that her husband, though distant in the far west, remains near in spirit and support.
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Detroit Free Press
A Promising Venture in Amateur Theatrics
In a brisk exchange Van Pelt acknowledges the show may earn money, joking that it could help pay for costumes. Puck notes the venture’s financial potential and practical aim to cover costs.
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van Pelt
Puck
Washington Bitar Casualty in Smoke Fueled Fallout
A clipped, fragmentary remark depicts an unnamed speaker lamenting cigars upsetting him as friends avoid paying the bill. The quoted line hints at a broader social or political irony surrounding tobacco and debt in a Washington setting.
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Washington Bitar
Tobacco, Enthusiasm, and the Gospel in a 19th Century Sermon
A sermon era critique links tobacco consumption to moral decay and church support to charity. It urges ministers to abandon smoking, praising zeal in religion and citing historical figures and events to stress the power of enthusiastic faith over apathy. Cardinal Manning’s farewell note closes the piece.
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American Inventors Sought By Dutch Society Prize
The Netherlands Society for the Promotion of Industry invites papers on wind energy capture storage and transportable transmission. Drawings on white paper scale 1 4. Prize is a gold medal and £30. Entries due before July 1 to F W Beden general secretary Haarlem Holland.
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London News
No successor planned for Tennyson under current doubt
A London journal states no appointment to succeed Tennyson is planned. It notes no poet now worthy to wear the laurel, citing Wordsworth and Tennyson, and suggests the government may leave the vacancy until a more worthy bard emerges.
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London Journal
Tennyson
Wordsworth
New Pension Commissioner Named And Advice To File Early
The notice announces the appointment of a new U S pension commissioner and urges soldiers and heirs to file early for benefits as legislation is rarely retroactive. It advises contacting Taz Press Claims Company in Washington DC for guidance and location assistance.
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