Duel at Dawn Ends In Eloping Mistress
In the dawn duel turns into a comic pursuit as Sir Phelim and Lord Harry aid an eloping couple. A runaway post chaise, a bloodied horse, and Mistress Doreen Fewlass trigger a makeshift resolution with a tilbury, ending with mutual smiles and a wedding-day sentiment.
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Harry Wimster
Mr.Tirebrush
Phelim
Sir Phelim
Harry
Lord Harry
Lord Harry Wimster
Tilbury
Mistress Fewlass
Size of it Hyker Money conundrum in Chicago News
Hyker money is presented as a conundrum with Pyker guidance provoking questions. Hyker notes everyone must contribute something while Chicago News frames the issue as a collective toll or obligation.
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Hyker
Pyker
Chicago News
Sharp Folk Do Joneses Play The Carving Set Jest
A quip on family feuding as sharp folk joke about the Joneses using the carving set to knife each other while a judge comments on the scene.
King Edward the First Gentleman of Europe in Fashion
The article describes King Edward as Europe’s premier fashion leader observed during his Marienbad visit. Tailors from major capitals study his clothing choices for three weeks, noting his preference for red accents, colored shirts with matching collars, and coordinated hats with suits. He rotates outfits from over 100 trunks, wearing gray or blue morning and evening dress, and attends church in formal black attire on Sundays.
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Edward
England
Europe
London
Paris
Berlin
Vienna
Rome
St. Petersburg
Budapest
Marienbaz
Marienbad
A Word From the Landlady
A Kansas City Times inspired reflection on landladies and boarding-house life. The landlady warns that appearances mislead, noting sly boarders and vanity in housing, while urging fairness and caution in money and behavior at Saturday payments.
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Kansas City Times
The Queerest Salad from Greenland Inuits
A gourmet cites a North Greenland Inuit dish as the world’s queerest salad. He describes a salad of undigested moss from a freshly killed reindeer stomach, praised for its sharp digestion aid and claimed to be coveted and fought over like firewater by the Indians.
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Northwest
Greenland
The Real Trouble and a Wartime Theater Tale
William Clyde Fitch discusses his historical play Nathan Hale and recalls a wartime theater reception. He recalls a New York critic’s remark that the trouble is not the war but the piece, in a reminiscence from the Saturday Evening Post.
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William Clyde Fitch
New York
Fitch
Saturday Evening Post
A Murderous Maid First Admirer
A cryptic verse recalls a maid who looked daggers and cut the speaker dead. The first admirer notes her glare, the second says she cut him dead, and the fourth calls her killing. The item preserves the Baltimore American’s quoted quip style.
Origin of the Word Bogus Traced to Swindler or French Roots
The Kansas City Journal notes multiple theories for the origin of bogus. Dr Ogilvie links it to Boghese, an American swindler who flooded western states with counterfeit bills in 1835. Other theories derive from bogy, bogasse, or French bo gasee, suggesting fake or hollow notions.
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Kansas City Journal
Two Wives for Fifty Years A Utah Trio's Golden Wedding
Absolom Woolf of Hyde Park Utah lived fifty years with two wives Lucy Ann Hambleton and Harriet Wood married on the same day in 1857. The trio shared one home raised twelve and ten children, sixty grandchildren and twenty six great grandchildren. They never showed jealousy and remained devoted despite Mormon polygamy era. Now Woolf lives with Lucy Ann while Harriet visits, and the family plans Thanksgiving gathering.
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Absolom Woolf
Utah
Mr. Woolf
Woolfs
Hyde Park
Salt Lake City
Lucy Ann Hambleton
Harriet Wood
Miss Hambleton
Indiana
Miss Wood
Appy
Pelham
Westchester County
N. Y
Desert
California
Nephi
Woolf
Brigham Young
Zion
Cupid
Lucy Ann
Harriet
New York
Nauvoo
Joseph Smith
Absalom Woolf
Council Bluffs
Plains
West
Woodruff
Lucy
No Napkin for Roosevelt Dining Reform by Admiral Evans
Admiral Evans recalls a strict dining protocol aboard ships to ensure proper feeding of sailors. He required a week ahead bill of fare, then sampled meals on board incognito with officers present. He once dined with President Roosevelt and crew without a napkin, arguing the practice built discipline and reduced discontent.
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Admiral Evans
Broadway Magazine
Wild state camel debate rattles the nation
In a sharp exchange from the Yeast to Crimsonbeak, the Statesman notes a wild state debate over camel existence and a rider's disdain for a monopoly of the wild state. The dialogue hints at growing controversy and public interest in the issue.
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Crimsonbeak
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E. Grogan
Doreen
Mister Waves
Debonair
Mister Wakes
Picquet
Bedfine
Tirebroch
Spendell
Mr. Spendell
Major Ettrington
Lee
Miter
Lord Harry Wimstead
Weekes
Roosevelt
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