Reign of Terror and Robespierre in the French Revolution
A historical account recalls Maximilien Robespierre and the Mountain versus Girondists clash. It describes the Revolutionary Tribunal’s role in executions, the fall of Robespierre, and the brutal excesses of the period, including Marie Antoinette and Marat.
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Maximilien Robertaerte
Danton
Marat
France
Mountain Party
Robespierre
Marst
Vergniaud
Girondiat
Revolutionary Tribunal
Robspierre
Vietina
Marie Autoinette
Alison
Europe
Antoine
Charlotte Corday
Guarding an Actress Jewels in a Stage Sketch
Miss Fanny Ward the English actress wears jewels valued at 2 500 000 on stage nightly at the Palace Shaftesbury avenue in the sketch An Unlucky Star. An armed detective guards her jewels from dressing room to bank depository after shows.
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Fanny Ward
Palace Theatre
Shaftesbury Avenue
Miss Ward
Oak Forest Gift Proposal Sparks Town Promenade Plan
A town council debate reveals Mr Muller funds a new promenade while Mr Skinflint offers to donate an oak forest, promising acorns for seed if land is provided. The exchange shows civic generosity versus private philanthropy as the town weighs green space expansion.
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Skinflint
Muller
Startling Reply From Neighborhood Terror Owner
A gentleman with defective hearing, owner of a terror of the neighborhood dog, responds to a friend's remark about his wife with shockingly jealous intent. He says he will chain her up in future to prevent such calls.
Bonus grant offered for Irish grown tobacco experiments
A state program awards 250 dollars per acre to fund experiments in Irish grown tobacco. The grant aims to promote cultivation methods and improve crop quality through research and field trials.
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Wbacw
Auctioneer Sells Fiddles With Fabled Fire Touch
A battered violin captivates bidders as the auctioneer extols its mythic past. A skeptical spectator offers thirty cents, and the crowd erupts in cheer as the instrument finds a new owner.
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Versailles
Nero
Rome
Uncle Jonas Known for Thrift and Quick Hand
A Cleveland Leader quip recalls Uncle Jonas as tight with money yet generous when needed. A neighbor jokes about borrowing five dollars, noting Jonas’ shrewdness and surprising willingness to help beyond appearances.
I Know a Guy in Jail Says He’s Out
An irate Bowery denizen recounts how he funded burglar Jim Burke’s witnesses and urges the warden to release him. He visits Sing Sing and learns Burke insists he is not in. The tale ends with the prisoner denying any release to the informer.
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Jim Burke
Jim Brake
Sucess Magazine
Englishmen marvel at Stratford print claiming Shakespeare birthplace
In Stratford on Avon two Englishmen in the R1 Horse Inn examined a print showing “The Horse in Which Shakespeare was born.” They debated its accuracy with a waiter, one remarking that they thought he was born in a manger.
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Stratford On Avon
Shakespeare
Success Magazine
Question on sending a boy to college sparks debate
Binks argues sending a boy to college fosters independence while Rippleton worries about severing home influences. Binks concedes some influence remains as education shapes character beyond home.
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Binks
Rippleton
Lipincott’s
Humorous Vignettes and a Dental Billing Quarrel
A montage of quips from Tit-Bits and Boston Transcript. A near sighted man bores a gunpowder barrel with a pipe. A waiter jokes about beef a la mode while a diner waits for fashion changes. A dentist recalls a yearlong unpaid bill and the debtor gnashing his teeth with the dentures in.
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Boston Transcript
Umbrella Thief Believes in Rainy Day Security
A playful quip suggests the umbrella thief keeps a rainy day stash. Mrs Henpeck jokes with Mr Henpeck about dangers at home as a cartoonish line from Puck echoes the wit. The brief exchange frames domestic humor and domestic mishap.
Extraordinary Yate Timber Brings World Strength Claims
Harpers Weekly notes Western Australia yate timber as the strongest wood known with undreamed strengths of up to 24,000 pounds per square inch and sometimes higher. The timber’s immense diameter and length are described, alongside a humorous letter from a family offering board and music in exchange for room.
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Harper's Weekly
Western Australia
Zam-Buk Promises Quick Relief For Skin Ailments
An advertisement extols Zam-Buk as a universal remedy for blisters, sunburns, insect stings and rashes, claiming antiseptic action and soothing healing for feet hands and babies while warning against substituting inferior products. It contrasts Zam-Buk with animal oil based ointments and cites druggists selling the product.
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Weunda
Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria in Jocular Note
Reported line from the Catholic Standard and Times features a humorous exchange about a child. The playful quip centers on a remedy claim for diphtheria and a poet husband reacting to a noisy child in a domestic scene.
Foolish Questions and Tiny Follies at Courtroom
A magistrate questions a chauffeur about past arrests while joking about cupposing fines. A playful exchange follows on speed and a wheelbarrow. A medical professor asks about a patient’s temperature dropping to its limit and a student quips about cold feet.
Magistrate Probing Remark About Old Fool Comment
A courtroom exchange finds a magistrate questioning a prisoner who admits the more he contemplates the incident the likelier it seems he did call the man an old fool last night. The dialogue reveals tension over memory and propriety in the improvised trial.
Philadelphia’s Slow Town Quip Echoes in TJ Note Tale
A Lippincott’s Magazine quip recalls a dealer named TJ who discounted a thirty day note. The speaker, Dobleigh, claims Philadelphia moves slowly yet thirty days pass as quickly there as elsewhere, underscoring a wry comparison of pace.
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Philadelphia
Dobleigh
Sirree
Lippincott’s Magazine
Dining Car Declared Most Dangerous by Nervous Man
A nervous man asks what part of a railway train is most dangerous. The typtic replies the dining car, highlighting a sharp joke about travel hazards.
Sweet Chili Exchange Reveals Hidden Strength
Dialogue shows Sweet Child praising a man for lifting a heavy load without showing strain. Pa remarks the man is fairly strong, recalling an uncle’s praise of his effort on a recent night out.
Proposer T Recounts Dream of Asking Metta Girl
In a Buffalo Express anecdote, T recalls dreaming he proposed to a girl named Metta. The tellers describe the moment as dramatic as the question is asked and the response left in suspense.
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Buffalo Express
A Hard Heart
Judge Ben B Lindsey cites charity talk on youth by words from the prodigal son parable. A Detroit Free Press report recounts the story of a cowboy who would shoot the prodigal and raise the calf rather than welcome him home.
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Ben B. Lindsey
Denver
Detroit Free Press
Controversy Over Masters’ Horses Sparks Civil War-Era Tale
A veteran Times-Star reporter recalls a heated exchange between President Cleveland's colored man and Hoke Smith's colored man over which is best in the world. They bet a dollar, the argument centers on peas and sweet potatoes, leading to a scuffle as Cleveland's man drags Smith's man and strikes.
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Cincinati Times-Star
Cleveland
Hoke Smith
Important Lesson on Oiling the Car and License
A dialogue warns the driver Giles to oil every part of the machine including the license plate to deter dust and make it unreadable. An unrelated advertisement touts Dr Thomas Electric Oil as a remedy for pain colds wounds lumbago and rheumatism for home and travel use.
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Giles
Newark News
Thomas
Wooden Soldiers Echo in Drillmaster Tale
A sergeant recalls his boyhood tale of a dozen wood soldiers he drilled and lost, then discovers the recruits echo his earlier failure, calling them wooden duffers. The anecdote lands as a humorous moral about persistence and impostor-like effort.
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Sergeent
Minardi Liniment Cures Garget in Cows
A quirky note from the Chicago Record Herald recounts a novelist bragging of a new work finally finished and ready for submission while the joke mocks a subscription payment as the prize. The line underscores literary ambitions amid humorous banter.
Bride Seeks Trade of Vase for Frying Pan After Wedding
A June bride asks if she must exchange wedding gifts at the purchasing department. The floor walker answers no, and she thanks him. The humorous dialogue closes with her wish to trade a china vase for a frying pan.
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Kansas City Journal
Holloway's Corn Cure Promoted as Simple Remedy
An advertisement extols Holloway's Corn Cure as the simplest and best public remedy for corn treatment, applicable to both old and new growth.
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Holloway
Counting too Soon in a Political Club Incident
A man walking near a neighborhood sees a door open and a striding figure tumble onto the sidewalk. Inside the club nine Jones men backed Smith, but the entrant returns outside claiming to clean them all. A bystander counts one, then discovers it is the same person reemerging.
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Jones
Smith
Family conflict prompts shift toward independence
A fractured dialogue shows Bob pressuring his father to let him work and stand on his own. The exchange hints at generational tension as the son seeks autonomy after years of parental effort.
Ministers Blaming Automobiles For Low Church Attendance
A humorous quip from Hank Stubbs notes ministers blame automobiles for waning churchgoers while Big Miller dismisses cars as not preaching. The brief reflects a light civic chatter tone.
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Hank Stubbs
Pshaw
The Bachelor's Warning and Proposals
A New York Times item contrasts marriage proposals by letters versus speech and notes a joke about a hotel clerk. It includes remarks on a clerk's patience with many women and a teacher’s comment on two daughters' singing talents.
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Epara
Melloneal
Ameda, Limited
Moeoetreel
Uncle Jonas
Jonas
Mrs. Henpeck
Charles
Mr. Henpeck
Puck
Henry
Lim
Musical
America
Timrod
Susie
Tim
Chicago News
Minard
Eliza
Catholic Standard and Times
Dodds
Chicago Record Herald
Bob
Mme
J. B. Renaud
Montana St
Montreal
Charles Sparrow
Virginia St
Belfast
Ireland
Fim
M. C. Maitland Jasper
Ontario
Edward Nenning
Lansing Bik
Watertown
N. Y
Potter Drug & Chem Corp
Columbus Ave
Boston
USA
Rego Lee Ha
Cuitairen
TRE
Massachusetts
Ror
Times
Youngleigh
Mamie
Maude
the Doctor
Luke Fildes
Tate Gallery
London
Winnipeg
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