Marriage secret revealed by New York office prank
In New York on December 17, Ralph Cenci, the four foot six inch office boy for Charles Dillingham, was revealed to be married to Burdine Belmont of the Red Mill chorus. A telephone girl found him opening letters addressed to Mrs Ralph Cenci, prompting him to boast of his wife before staff. The scene explains his confident parade around the Knickerbocker theater building.
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Pineapple Debate Ends With Dextra, Says Waiter
In a restaurant two men argued whether a pineapple is a fruit or a vegetable. They asked the waiter to decide. The waiter declared it neither, calling it a dextra in a humorous Harper's Weekly note.
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One Telephone With Regulation By City
City council debates independent telephone proposals while urging unified service under strict public regulation. Chicago should keep one system under strong control, citing the Illinois Tunnel Company's franchise and the public interest in orderly, well-regulated telephony.
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Nellie Bly Yearns for Old Newspaper Life
Nellie Bly now Mrs Elizabeth Seaman widow of a wealthy ironclad maker recalls her sensational twenties in a New York World expose while visiting her home at 15 West Thirty seventh Street She describes returning to police forensics and courthouse scenes and watching a gas thief be identified by a crowded room of women at Mulberry Street She longs to be back in journalism and recounts familiar faces and precincts from her earlier career with wit and irony
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The Balloon Treatment and Aeronaut Homes
A Harper's Weekly idea imagines balloon living as a hygienic summer habit. Princess Marie of Roumania owns a two room cottage perched among four fir trees to ease aeronaut launches. A future practice could treat invalids with prescribed hours at altitude in a balloon with a library recreation hall and portable laboratory.
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Development of Envy in the Minds of the Lower Grade of Bipeds
A Baltimore American quip imagines a professor amused by jealousy after his wife complains the hens scratched up egg plant seed. The professor then writes a 20 page article titled Development of Envy in the Minds of the Lower Grade of Bipeds.
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Baltimore American
Blactter Quip Sparks Chief Lecture in Odd Exchange
A terse exchange unfolds as a chief confronts a speaker about a sudden bland remark. The reply humorously notes a slip of the tongue and a dazed reaction, capturing a brief, peculiar moment in the scene.
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