Printing Office Dispute Over Word Usage Sparks Feud
In a fragment from a manuscript exchange, Ellis Yorke and a compositor clash over spelling and punctuation. Yorke defends words likewonderous and overripe, while the compositor condemns illegibility and crude corrections amid tense editor notes. A narrative section hints at an encounter with a drama figure in a printing shop.
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Ellis Yorke
Posthaste Institut
The
New York
Tory
Hugh Basset
Winona
End of It Married April 30th In Quiet Ceremony
A whimsical fragment shows a writer praising a lover’s stories while a dispute over authorship arises. The ending notes a wedding, Married April 30th, by Reverend Cease, Ellis Yorke to Hugh Basset, with odd salutations and a surreal flourish.
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Darwin
Ellis Yorke
Megatherion Bluno
A. B. Cease
Hugh Basset
Mancarer Evytinoe
The Spiral Shirt Stud of Satire
A humorous critique of the spiral shirt stud versus a proposed snap-in design, describing the old screw-in studs as painful and troublesome. The piece mocks the suffering of wearers, lampoons government pensioning inventors, and contrasts male discomfort with female indifference, ending with a Far Western punchline about exercise.
A Story of Miller Jim and His Daughter in Sugar Valley
A narrator recalls Miller Jim and his daughter from a rural mill town. The tale describes the mill life, a painter suitor, and a vanished love. It contrasts youthful romance with the miller family’s hardship and a mysterious disappearance. The piece closes with sermons on diligence and thrift.
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Sugar Valley
Miller Jim
Wimmen
Miller Jim’s
Rice pounding and grain milling in village scenes
The narrative describes villages aligned along fields with laborers living in huts. Women pound rice in wooden mortars, draw grain by hand, and wind-driven sieving separates chaff. Some houses grind grain into flour using pestles and mortars, though flour-making is rare for personal use.
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Detroit Free Press
Missouri Pacific R y Starts From Texas to St Louis and Kansas City
The Missouri Pacific Railway runs from Texas through Indian Territory to St Louis and Hannibal and Kansas City, with connections to cities nationwide. Tickets offer routes such as Houston to St Louis and Dallas to Sedalia, plus Pullman sleepers and modern air brakes. Free maps and time tables are mailed upon request to Chandler, Kinnan, Talmage, Hughes and related agents.
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Texas
Indian Territory
Kansas
Missouri
Mississippi River
St. Louis
Hannibal
Kansas City
Union
Railwa
Missouri Pacific Railway
Houston
Dallas
Sedalia
Fort Scott
Denison
St- Louis
San Antonio
Austin
Fort Worth
St. Joseph
Missouri Pacific
Ther
Chandler
Pass
CU. B. Kinnan
B. W. McCulavan
T. Marshall
Tex
F. Chandler
B. Kinnan
H. M. Hoxie
Pullman’s Palace
Sedana
Denison and Missouri Pacific Railway
Klueas City
Via
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Jeditor 70
Ellis York
Sike
Ellis Orke
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Detroit
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Miller
Pasinter
Burlington Hawkeye
Gifford
Quarterly Review
Ben Johnson
John Banyan
Shakespear
Gerald Masey
Caxton
England
John Adams
President Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Grant
Garfield
Sexton
Olen
R’y
Pullman
Trnas & Pacific Railway
New Mexico
California
Pullman Palace
Dallas, PT. Worth
EL Paso and Deming
N. M
Longview
Minneola
Houston, Galveston, Austin, San Antonio and Laredo
Texas Central
State of
Chicago
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New Orleans
Houston & New Orleans
Great Britain
Europe
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White Star
Inman
Rotterdam
Mississippi & Dominion and
Generale Transatlantique
Seener
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