Portraits of Victor Dubreuil and His Currency Art
A New York artist and ex-financier Victor Dubreuil, living on West Forty fourth Street, paints currency themed works including Barrels o Money. His major piece A Prediction For 1900 or a Warning to Capitalists links his life as soldier, banker, socialist, and artist to Rabelais studies and his plan to fund a future return to France and reform African ventures.
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Victor Dubreuil
Forty-fourth Street
United States
Seventh Avenue
United States Treasury
Victor Dubrenil
Vairsateel
Anyzing Vatevare
Amerique
Monnaie
Theophile Keech
Bankaire
Clinton Place
Mons
Dollairea Mons
Dollaire
Dubreuil
M. Dubreuil
Mexico
France
Africa
East India Company
England
India
la Politique d’Action
Rabelais
West Forty-fourth Street
New York Cor
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Married Life Joys Sparked By Wednesday Vows
A light exchange satirically notes happiness in marriage, with one speaker claiming contentment and the other quipping they wed “since last Wednesday.” The brief dialogue reflects humorous social wit rather than a full narrative.
Heights Neighbor Lesson in Courtesy
A Brooklyn woman visiting a sharp tongued eccentric neighbor was rebuffed when the servant fetched a book. The visitor noticed a dusted rosewood piano and overheard the word slattern. Days later the neighbor revealed the woman had left a card that she herself found on the piano.
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Brooklyn
Heights
New York Herald
Precocious Clifford Draws Praise From Mrs Twickenham
In a conversation from the New York Press Mr Tutter extols Clifford as a potential genius while Mrs Twickenham downplays any family inheritance. He argues that great minds can arise from ordinary origins.
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Tutter
New York Press
Marshal MacMahon Encourages Cadet With Harsh Racial Remark
The late Marshal MacMahon poorly spoke to a Saint Cyr cadet. When asked to address the black man, the marshal urged the cadet to "stand forth" and asked if he was a darky. The cadet truthfully answered yes, and the marshal replied "Well, keep it up."
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Marshal MacMahon
Saint Cyr
Has Bykins paid the $3 he owes you
A Washington Star item notes a man nicknamed Bykins who pays back $3 owed, earns a momentary praise for being a born financier after also lending $10 that afternoon following an early $5 repayment.
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Bykins
Washington Star
Early fruit in Eden fails in Texas Siftings joke
Mr Phoneyman jokes that the only fruit in the Garden of Eden that failed was the early pair, as told in Texas Siftings.
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Phoneyman
Garden of Eden
Texas Siftings
Auntie and Katie Cake Question Echoes Grandma
A brief exchange in a Chicago Inter Ocean item recalls a grandma who divided cake fairly. Auntie asks if the cake reminds Katie of grandma, who reportedly always gave two pieces to her.
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Katie
Mercy
Chicago
New boarder stunned by seventh breakfast of sausage
The Detroit Tribune quotes a new boarder saying he was unprepared for the worst as he faces his seventh consecutive sausage breakfast, reflecting on the unexpected meal streak and his unease.
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Detroit Tribune
Aunt’s mustache joke in Spoonamore aside
A playful quip from a Chicago Tribune anecdote has a young Spoonamore remarking that his aunt may not notice her own mustache, noting it has been under her nose for 25 years.
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Chicago Tribune
Wife John Reunion Echoes in Boston Tran Script
A fragment from a Boston Tran script hints at a domestic moment where a wife recalls coming home to her husband, expressing affection and reunion as the central scene. The wording centers on personal dialogue and emotional connection.
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John
Boston Transcript
The Body and the Mind in Physical Culture
The article argues that physical culture is neglected while mental pursuits dominate. It warns brain workers suffer indigestion, insomnia, and nervous prostration from overwork, urging daily bodily exercise to counter mental strain. It notes women especially need physical training to be strong and healthy for family life.
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Plato
Lippincott’s
Smuggling Parrot Cage Hides Whisky on Warship
Sailors hid liquor in a false bottom of a large birdcage aboard a warship during a naval review. Multiple birds died as officers watched revived drunken schemes, uncovering a stash of whisky in the cage and bar, with the men using new birds after the previous died.
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New York Sun
Shackles of John Brown Reach Livermore Falls Owner
In 1859 Rev Hezekiah Atwood of Livermore Mo visited Charleston Va and saw the leg irons used on John Brown at his capture. After seeking years to obtain them he bought a second pair for $8 and held them, later exhibited in Beecher lectures in Livermore Falls Maine.
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James N. Atwood
John Brown
Hezekiah Atwood
Livermore
Charleston
Brown
Mr. Atwood
Henry Ward Beecher
Livermore Falls
Gasless Services Prompted Humorous Local Mix Up
Reverend Thomas K. Beecher recalls a joke played on Elmira by Plympton who printed church notices during a gas outage as Services as usual excepting the gas. The incident nearly led to tar and feathering by the deacons who thought the note ridiculed the minister.
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Thomas K. Beecher
Plympton
Elmira
Tommy's Bad Lreak Pie Dinner Farce
Tommy Uptown tells a minister dinner will feature pie and jokes about humble pie. The minister laughs at the boy's witticisms as the family banters about parental plans and the chef's clever dinner twist.
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Tommy
Tammany Times
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