Remarkable feints and jokes in The Scrap Book tale
A humorous exchange on Broadway features Dixey training as a thief by eating thirty chickens in thirty days while his stage chickens seem to cheer his bid. A separate verse invokes the castle in the air as a warning against overreaching dreams, and a royal tour anecdote ends with a cowboy interpreter quipping about a whiskered runt becoming king of England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry
Dixey
Broadway
Scott
Lippincott's
Duke of York
England
British Columbia
Philadelphia
Saturday Evening Post
Will Against Will in a Physics Lecture Clash
A misanthropic physics professor deliberately schedules lectures on days students least want to attend. He touts will power as supreme, challenging anyone to cite a counterexample. A witty student retorts with a comic exchange showing the lecture will not end.
Bids Sought for Saloon Business of August Hintze
Private bids will be received for the saloon building stock fixtures and business of the late August Hintze in Eureka. Dated September 29 1916. M Schfe line administrator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hintze
Eureka
M. Schfeline
Local hauling and wood sale offered by R A Baird
Dreying and all kinds of hauling at reasonable rates. Wood, coal and hay for sale in large or small quantities at reduced prices, delivered in any part of Eureka. Leave orders at Otto Maues on Main Street and Local Railway Depot, Kurks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eureka
R. A. Baird
Otto Mau'e
Kureks
An Eighteenth Century Hymn and a Track of Laughter
A collection of light anecdotes from a church service and social observations recounts a tuxedoed prankster blowing wax matches, a Scottish vicar’s paper notice misread, and a Georgia hog theft lesson. The scenes shift to a humorous fossil of Horace Furness facing a deaf German scholar, a chaotic chase around an ottoman, and a tease about legal blanks for sale at the Sentinel office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Furnes
Harvard
Owen Wister
Horace Howard Furness
Knvek
Furness
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The
Scrap
Floyd P. Wagama
Draying
Georgia
Daddy Stepney
Jose
Old Stepney
Marne Joe
New York
Sentinel
Srwido
Bis
FORD
Detroit
Eureka Garage & Supply Co
Eureka, Nevada
the Brown Hotel
Main
Station Touring Club of America
Daniel Morrison
Henderson Banking Company
Elko, Nevada
Jonnx Hexperson
Haypen Hexpenson
L. C. Hexpenson
Lampent Henpensos
Arst
Cahier
Schesline Banking & Trust Co
Reno, Nevada
General Banking
Trust Company
Business Exchange
Savings Department
United States Federal Reserve Bank
U. S. Postal Savings Depository
First National Bank
Hike
Nevada
A. E Enanat
J. A. Sewell
E. E. Exxon
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