Mrs Topham's Invention Brings No Work and Rice
The Tophams face renewed poverty as Samuel's latest invention fails and Sarah sells the boiled dinner to feed the family. Samuel vows to seek regular work while Sarah pursues bake shop income and imagines a future invention to save them. Eventually Samuel lands a bookkeeping job with Moses Bowman, while Sarah mulls a self named invention.
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Tophams
Samuel Topham
Mr. Topham
Samuel
Sarah
Sam
Sarah ‘Topham
Racuel
Bowman
Sarah Tophan
Samuel Gopham
New York
Topham
Sarah Topham
Mrs. Morris
Willian
William
Westlake
Samuel Lapham
Moses Bowmann
Moses Bowman
O Yio
Sye
Sarah ‘Tophan
Sarah Toplaur
Tony
Impulse drives hotel caper ends in telegram
Garble and Rockton, in a Chicago hotel, seize rival’s bags after a bellboy reveals a theft. Garble detains Rockton with a police station delay, then returns to their luncheon plan with Miss Alice Nedden thwarted by a delayed police inquiry.
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Garbie
Garble
Mackton
Chicago
Rockton
House
Miss Nedden
Alice Nedden
Marble
Gerbie
Alice
Polia
Adventures of a Hat In June Andrews buys straw derby then loses and finds it
A family joke centers on Andrews plans for an updated summer straw hat. A box arrives containing his old derby, which Dan the furniture man lent to a friend. After delays and rain the hat is recovered, and Andrews jokes about keeping the old hat over the new.
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Andrews
Lucy Andrewa
Lucy
Dan
Mrs. Andrews
Mr. Andrews
Halla
Ite Kind. Dynamite remark arouses Massachusetts factory feud
A tongue in cheek exchange questions how manufacturers in Massachusetts could prove an exploded charge. The quip implies a dispute over dynamite use, reflecting regional tensions and humorous wit in the period.
Keep Chiggera From Straving
Joliet Herald reports a playful estimate that nine million picnics this year served a simple purpose, hinting at shared meals and communal outdoors as a social staple and morale booster for the public.
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Joliet
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Addison Hickox
Indiana Hardware Co
Parcel Post
Indiana Hardware Company
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Wallace Dry Goods Company
J. C. Wallace & Son, Proprietors
Daugherty
Philadelphia
Detmer
Chas
F. Pauch
Carpenter Avenue
Indiana, Pa
Ohio
Godfrey Marshall
Japan
Saidiera
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