The Bellboy’s Big Chicago Hotel Fantasy
A Blossom House bell boy imagines a day of hotel whimsy in Chicago or St. Louis. He plans to have a bellboy haul all three grips, fetch endless ice water, cocktails, a Turkish bath, and a running chase through floors, rewarding the helper with a dollar after facing daily grind realities.
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Our County Court
Elizabeth Richtner
Couny
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Elo Paso
Texas
Park W. Pitman
Hi Paso
Ark W. Pitman
Blossom House
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Kansas City Times
A Playful Dilemma on Sleep and Sleepers
A verbose definition queries the nature of a sleeper and the act of sleeping. The paradoxical sequence describes a sleeper and a sleeper within a sleeper while a sleeper carries and wakes another sleeper. The text ends with a sleeper waking the sleeper in the sleeper under the sleeper.
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Peter Piper
Catherine the Greats Succession Question Divides the Court
The article discusses whether any of the czar’s daughters can succeed to the throne, citing Catherine the Great as exemplary, while Emperor Paul's edict to discredit his mother's memory blocks the line of succession and raises questions about lineage and legitimacy.
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Catherine
Paul
Catherine the Great
Woman’s Search For Gold Ends In Savings Bank Irony
A Saunterer tale recounts a wife who saved forty dollars and sought gold. After mint and bank refusals over imperfect notes she swapped for four ten dollar gold pieces, then two new double eagles, only to deposit the coins in a savings bank. The punchline finds her humorously exposing bank rules.
The Force of Habit in a War Correspondent
A Saturday Evening Post anecdote recalls war correspondent Frederick Villiers under fire in London. While strolling the Strand he flings himself to the ground upon hearing a cart dump gravel, mistaking the muffled thud for a shell and waiting for an explosion.
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Saturday Evening Post
Frederick Villiers
Villiers
London
Strand
Whitaker’s Almanack and the salaries tale
An English paper recounts Joseph Whitaker publisher of Whitaker’s Almanack altering salary figures for civil servants. Officials refused to confirm, so the Almanack listed imaginary sums. Readers protested, prompting corrections from those underpaid and inland revenue authorities disputing any excess claims.
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Joseph Whitaker
Inland Revenue Authorities
Tiny Bibles Worn as Watch Charms In Russia
A Bostonian owns a one inch by three quarters by three eighths inch miniature Bible from Russia. It holds the first five books of the Old Testament in Hebrew with Latin titles and requires a powerful magnifying glass to read.
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Russia
His Line of Criticism
A neighbor remarks on a husband as a dramatic critic. The wife counters that he is worse, calling him a household critic in a blunt Chicago Post quip.
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Chicago Post
Umbrella Confusion Sparks Quip in Ohio State Journal
Wiggins asks whose umbrella is this claiming it resembles the one he lost. Higgins retorts that he cannot see how it could be the same since he scraped the handle and altered it generally.
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