Philosophical vagabond pays crowd with odd lecture on Fourth Street
A disorderly poet on a beer box near the old Tribune building entertained about 50 listeners with a rambling talk titled The Morr obliquity and Pantomim Ge lunatico. He joked of Ninety cents meals, mocked authorities, and performed a shabby verse about a possum before a police interruption and a dramatic fall.
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Fourth St
Tribune
Minneapolis Times
Bill Nye
Merve
Dagin
Tekken
Jay “Gould
Nicollet
Ave
Bismarck
Fritz Gailerup
Evert Nymanover
Nymanover
Nemanover
David James Burrell
Kerplonk
Bea
Eaddy
Parental memories mix with quirky child questions
A collage of jokes and children asks about aging, politics, and music. It recalls a father teaching trains, a mother grieving a lost Willie, and a boy named Johnny debating grandfathers. It ends with Fritz asking who Beethoven is as an organ plays outside.
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Fritz
Beethoven
Bose
World News Snippets From A Busy Year
A ragbag of items notes sky high tariffs on cigars driving cravings, rising opiate use among negro communities, Fresno County’s vast newly discovered area, and a rope spanning 129 feet. It mentions wedding gifts, ornate marriap jars, luxurious carriages with thick rubber tires, and a Creston Iowa wedding where Corn married Alado, with the choir singing What shall the harvest be.
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Louisville
Fresno County
California
New York
Alado
Creston
Iowa
Ritter and Denny Favor Enforcing Liquor Laws in Election
A letter urges support for Col. E F Ritter and Robert Denny, praising their energy and courage to enforce liquor laws. It argues those backed by whisky delegates would weaken the laws, while Ritter and Denny would protect the community and uphold law and order. The writer, Q F Cumback, condemns anti enforcement nominees.
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Col. E. F. Ritter
Robert Denny
E. F. Ritter
Q. F. Cumback
Haunted belief and practical evidence in old letters
An elderly correspondent remarks that belief in spirits exists but practical concerns drive behavior. The piece notes rental practices, moral choices, and the appeal of medical cures, citing a June 1890 letter from W. O. Higging of Fair Haven, Conn, praising Warner’s Safe Cure after kidney and liver troubles.
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W. O. Higging
Ferry Street
Fatr Haver
Conn
Warner
Fair Haven
Frivolities and fashion notes from a distant era
A column catalogues fashion absurdities such as ostrich feather fans and fur canes, and parodies behavior with quips from various papers. It mentions an Atabison Kane cook baking bread from flour, and jokes about secret keeping and waiting four hours for trains in a country town.
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Atabison
Kane
St. Joseph
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