Train Train Wedding Fable on the Moving Car
Lieut Warry Mallory and Marjorie Newton plot to wed aboard a passenger train as chaos and disguises swirl. Ira Lathrop fends off a divorcing plot, while a fake minister’s arrival promises a quick ceremony virally interrupted by a series of comic mishaps and false starts.
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Warry Mallory
Philippines
Marjorie Newton
Porter
Ira Lathrop
Elopers
Jimmie
Wellington
Henu
Mra
Sammy Whitcomb
Mallory
Marjorie
Ira Tathrop
Mattle
Vernly Hunte
Little Jimmie
Mra. Whitcomb
Martens
Mallory Egale
Dr. Temple
Temple
Adop
Marjourie
Dug
Quarrel
Ira
Ashton
Malory
Utah
Lathrop
Mr. Lathrop
Tallory
The Woman-Hater's Relapse Chapter XXVIII
In a lonely observation room Marjorie eyes Snoozieuma as the Trans American stops. The conductor returns with the prodigal and Marjorie uses a quiet smile to thank him. She remarks the conductor is the best she has met and hints her father may secure him another post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marjorie
Snoozieuma
Kateer
Rew Sr
Aqndneter Syallewes
Achievements In Art Delights In Odd Anecdotes
Brian G. Hughes notes that he tolerates practical jokes on people but draws the line with animals. He recalls two artists boasting of their tricks one made pig iron resemble cork and float in the East River, the other painted pig to look like roast beef and a dog devoured most of it before noticing the ruse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brian G. Hughes
Mr. Hughes
Good Roads Hint in Fragmented Debate
A fragmented quote discusses opposition to machine methods in elections. Palmer Corntessel jokes about rolling the steam roller out of politics while the group debates reforms and political tactics.
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Palmer Corntessel
Woman Overcomes Twelve Year Illness with Pinkham Remedy
Mrs. Bertha Murr of Louisiana Missouri describes twelve years of sickness with cramps and dragging pains after eleven doctors. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with rapid improvement and urges other women to seek the same help. The Pinkham Company notes the remedy is made from native roots and herbs and contains no narcotics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana
Lydia E. Pinkham
Bentha Murr
4Th Street
Pinkham Laboratory
Lynn
Mass
Steamboat Memories and Century Celebration
London Olinton notes the centenary celebration of the steamboat. He recalls the British Admiralty’s dismissal of paddle wheel propulsion as useless for navigation and mentions Dr. Lardner’s claim that steam vessels could not cross the Atlantic. He adds an anecdote of Lardner escaping to America aboard a steamer with another man’s wife.
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London
Olinton
Lardner
Atlantic
America
Sprinter tale and other items from Rose Matilda read aloud
A fragmented column shows Rose Matilda narrating about a sprinter injured while Alva and Mrs Green extract the splinter with tweezers. The text includes playful banter, ads for CAETORIA Castoria, Fletcher's Castoria, and Ned Cross Dall blue, plus notes on aviating meet outcomes and beauty ideals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alva
Financial Genius or Not A Man’s Ring Trick
Reader quotes and a Wisconsin courtroom anecdote illustrate the notion of financial genius. A jewelers’ son in law consents to a ring at cost and later leverages interest to profit, while a separate tale shows a lawyer jokingly pleading for a writ of habeas corpus to extract an idea from solitary confinement.
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Wisconsin
George B. Smith
Sloan
Smith
Not a Dry Look Ad Warns on Watered Blue Cloth
An advertising blurb touts a laundry blueing product claiming to resist adulteration and keep whites whiter than snow. It contrasts a lachrymose novel about a grieving heroine with the idea of a dry book. The ad links water and blueing to Maay Red Creek Hall Blue.
Unfolding bed demo and patent medicine ad
Customer discusses an unfolding bed while a merchant demonstrates Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup. The ad touts teeth gum relief and wind colic cure priced at 2 cents a bottle, signaling a mixed old time sales pitch.
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Hughes
Maljorie
Harry Mallory
Tiwe
Mr. Mallory
Miss Newton
Hut
Hamlet
Yorick
Snoozie
Walter
Jimmie Wellington
Dig Sanctum
Doc
Walimost
Wedgewood
Green River
Brattleboro
Anne
China
Charile Det
Lis
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynnn
Esc
Nirteh Feather Ca, Inc
Fitte Ave
Ostrick Ume
Rose Matilda
Kindred Association
Fletcher
Ng Wall
Eddie
Larters
Lae
Ptr
Hai
Dacres
Rove House
Blo
Stock Farm Pear An Eaddeck Bao
U.K
Port Mer
Hiessingsa
Hever
N. Y
Cincinnati
Ana
Book Okie
Spomn Medical 60
Gosnem
W.l.douglas
W. L. Deugiss Shoes Fameons
W.L
Bernscheld
Brockton
Mase
Resing Chemical Co
Baltimore
Canada
Mantinbe
Goskawan
Alberts
Nettlewen
Gardner
Ottawa
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