Death by a Sham Execution in Chinatown Tale
Helen Inglehart recounts Lang Ting Fung, a San Francisco Chinese man known as Charlie Fu, condemned by the Ti Whang society for revealing underground railroad methods. The mock beheading ends with Fung dead in spirit and postered across Chinatown, as he returns to a life of oblivion and thirst.
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Lang Ting Fung
San Francisco
Charlie Fu
Melican
Ti Whang Society
China
America
John Chinaman
Charlie Fung
Chinatown
Charlie
District
Helen Inglehart
Letting Go The Painter Ends In Aboard Misstep
A London Standard tale recalls a new boy aboard a West India ship who mistook the term boat painter for the rope securing the boat. He released the painter’s staging causing delay and a comic boast that the painter and his tools were gone.
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London Standard
Woman Buys Train Ticket and Seeks Color Pic Folder
A petite woman in a Wilton floral hat buys a ticket at the uptown Pennsylvania office for a destination downstate. She asks for a color picture folder, places the ticket in her purse and satchel, then asks City Passenger Agent Dillon about train start time. The train leaves Union Station in about seventeen minutes, and she asks whether that is Central or Eastern time.
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Pennsylvania
City
Dillon
Union Station
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Canine pampering mocks social pretensions in New York
A cynic notes the extravagant canine favors among the rich. He recalls expensive dog surgeries wardrobes and crowns. A butler named Harrison is pressed to walk Fido for two hours, then told to follow the dog.
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New York
Harrison
Fido
Rule of Three Riddle from the London Tatler
A governess poses a math puzzle about housework time. One servant needs nine hours for the full job. Three servants would take three times as long. The boy replies that it would take them three times longer, reflecting a humorous misunderstanding.
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Tommy
Mamma
London Tatler
Treason and Reason in Irish Absentee Context
A Cleveland Leader remark recalls Archbishop Ryan defending the Irish cause after a listener called Ireland treasonous. The archbishop notes that treason abroad can seem reasonable in Ireland due to the absentee issue.
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Ryan
Ireland
Cleveland
Getting Along in a Comic Exchange
Miss Goodley and Miss Knox exchange quips from Catholic Standard and Times. Knox admits she is growing wider while Goodley probes what she is doing most steadily.
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Miss Goodley
Miss Hussle
Miss Knoxr
Miss Knox
Catholic Standard and Times
Trade Talk at Cleaver’s Ends in Credit Dispute
A back-and-forth exchange reveals that the speaker stopped trading with Cleaver’s after a credit dispute. The other party, Gray, asserts the cause was Cleaver’s refusal to extend credit, while the reply from Greene counters that Cleaver actually did deny credit.
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Greene
Cleaver's
Gray
Boston Transcript
Tommies Leeson Collides With Mamma Over Pleas
Yonkers Statesman reports a playful exchange where a boy debates spelling and manners with his mother, highlighting a family moment of humor and language play.
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Tommy
Leeson
Tommie
Yonkers Statesman
Not Very Well Put at the Opera Party
A fragment from the Tatler where a French suitor insists both he and a madame will join a party at the opera while a matron begs passage for her daughter. The exchange hints at social intrigue and romantic resistance.
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Madame
Monsieur
Tatler
In Good Spirits Cousin Faces a Sad Predicament
A brief exchange notes a relative in a troubled situation but expresses resilience. The dialogue hints at ongoing personal tension while maintaining a hopeful mood.
Not Hinting
A dialogue between Cleveland Lender and Mrs Beard reveals superstition about singing before breakfast. The late stayer asks for a song while she declines, citing unluckiness and morning routines as reasons.
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Cleveland
Awful toothache joke in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch snippet
A fragment from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch mocks a joke about a toothache and a character named Axld, noting poverty and not having pockets to carry money during a month. The language mimics a regional speech pattern and appears to be a light humorous aside in a newspaper excerpt.
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Axld
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Breakfast food line sparks a smuggling joke in New York World
A humorous New York World piece cites a street dialogue about breakfast food used to fill a pipe. The quip suggests theft or improvised use in a cheeky urban prank.
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New York World
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Cilent
St. Louis Post- Dispatch
Studies Ir Natural History
Harvard Lampoon
Browning
Brother Lion
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