Enterprising Book Agent Pressures Householder
In Chicago Daily News style a cautious householder debates an encyclopedia sales pitch. The agent promises time savings and a lavish set including Balzac Brownlog and Dickens while the householder balks at time and cost, offering a tentative Monday after the second Friday in December to decide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sin
Ayself
Uless
Howe
Lou
Gil
Browning
Badgag
Thackeray
Dickens
Buckle
Ilely
Maciully
Harvey
Chicago Daily News
Odd Anecdotes Parade Cultural Humor and War Echoes
A collection of humorous vignettes and anecdotes drawn from literature, war, and society. Includes a German lecture critique, a Han River siege quip, a Shaw remark, a Philadelphia dining room scene with a Black servant, Browning bookshop banter, and a Sacramento political figure joke. Also recalls McKinley and a child correcting a mess in a San Francisco era setting.
Madge Leads Escape From Rising River to Castle Dangerous
The Vance cousins Madge Jack and Ray endure a flood that swallows their farm. Madge outwits danger directing a rope line and oilcloth shelter, guiding the group to Castle Dangerous as relief boat Dixie reaches their tree-top refuge. Madge earns praise as the decisive organizer.
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Raymond Vance
Madge
Jack
Vance
Raymond
Vener
Inderd
Haymond
Sind
the Hille
Ray
the Hilla
Touway
Castle Dangerous
Dixie
Vance Homestead
Castle Danjgrous
Cousin Lois Adventuring Finds Long Lost Lines
In a country journey, Cousin Lois meets a girl traveling to teach, daughter of Mary Eunice Stone. Sidney longs for adventure as Lois befriends travelers, the two share stories, and a forget-me-nots moment ties past and present.
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Lois Holloway
Sidney
Lois
Tench
Mary Eunice Stone
Shiney
Lola
Romeboy
One Man's Way
A dramatic exchange ends with a woman accepting marriage as a man asserts mutual love and forces a binding union. James T. White records a tale of insistence and fate culminating in an arranged marriage.
Reunion for anxious parents as Dixie reaches Memphis
The narrative describes a boy handing a kitten to a girl treated like a queen, and a full recounting of events to officers and reporters. The Dixie then reaches Memphis, prompting a joyous reunion for a distraught father and mother who feared their children would not return.
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Jack
Castle Dangerous
Madge
Castle Danserous
Ray
Clay
Dixie
Memphis
Chicago Daily News
Franklin’s Sawdust Pudding Story Recalls Independence Values
A fragment from American Illustrated Magazine recounts Benjamin Franklin’s defense of free competition and independence in business. Franklin invites critics to dinner, serves a coarse sawdust pudding with a jug of water, and declares that one who can subsist on sawdust needs no a patronage.
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Franklin
The
Gazette
Oman
Riddling Exchange Sparks Postal Clerk Banter
A tiresome funny man quips about money and letters while the Catholic Standard and Times notes a postal clerk’s sharp reply. The amused exchange centers on wordplay about money and letters leaving nothing.
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Yeu
Catholic Standard and ‘Times
Leet and Found in a Detroit Free Press Item
A Detroit Free Press snippet notes dialogue about a “fine art” conversation and calls it pretty good business as an insurance man comments. The piece ends with a quip about a woman not deceitful and walking without implying corns.
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Detroit Free Press
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Gas Log Gazette
Tam
Germany
Heidelbere
Vt Rently
Port Arthur
Oe Roy
Nogi
Gener
Hegro Kervant
Virginia
Edith
Brown Ing
Sacramento
San Priecisco
Siermernte
James
Laneh
Gaines
Tennessee
Mamiphis
Anc
Oon
Ol. Ves
McKinley
Boxy
Thad
Datek
Lois’ Adventures
James T. White
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