Willie and the Spooney Infantum in the Veal Period
A humorous 1902 tale about a seventeen year old Lamb kin named Willie who swoons over next door’s gum-chewer girl. He withers on love notes while his mother and father watch a comic family clash end with a cautionary moral about neighborhood romance.
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Willie
Coe
Leo
First Presbyterian Church
Papa
Mamma
Fam Hy
Wi-se
Bantam
Higa
Vettr
Euiough
Sweetheart
Saw Her Twice as Love at First Sight Leaves Jack Confused
In a Chicago News item a conversation shows Tom recounting love at first sight with a woman, and Jack questioning why they did not wed. Tom explains he saw her again on several occasions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom
Jack
Chicago News
The Worse the Passage the More Welcomed the Port
A brief proverb notes the ironic patience born from hardship as waters calm after rough seas. It frames travel and return as hopeful relief and resilience amid trials.
Crabs Trigger Broadway Car Scare On Forty Sixth Street
In a northbound Broadway car near Forty sixth street, crabs from a bag caused panic as passengers fled and a man named John Gillon admitted buying 100 crabs for a party. The conductor halted the car and reassured frightened riders, while the owner collected his crustaceans and apologized for the commotion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Forty--sixth Street
John Gillon
Ninth Avenue
Fulton Market
Gillon
Fourteen year old hero saves drowning boy in LIC pool
George Halliday, fourteen, from 6 Green Street Long Island City, was rescued from a pool at Jackson Avenue and Anable Street by Charles Jones, fourteen, of 48 Academy Street LIC. Jones dived in, pulled the unconscious boy out, and Patronsman Robert Barman arrived to revive him and take him to St. John's Hospital.
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George Halliday
Green Street
Long Island City
Jackson Avenue
Anabale Street
Charles Jones
Accademy Street
Saintier
Jones
Robert Barman
St. John’s Hospital
Trenton Man Snores Loudly From Scaffold Rescue
John Thomas of Trenton climbed a high scaffold on Tabor day and fell asleep, waking a protesting officer. He was rescued from a near fall and fined five dollars for disturbing the peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Thomas
Trenton
N. J
Leen
Also Mentioned on This Page
George Ade Fables
Robert Howard Russell
Lambkin
Kobaks
L. C.smith & Bros
Nmiade
Bell Phone
Platen
Bryre
New York Street Railway
Sleeper
Lien
Viomen
Consid
Edison
McKinley
Century
Bell
Court House
the Holbrock Hardware Co
Sporting Goods
Main Street
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