Plutoocrat to Finish Expensive Mansion
The fragmentary clipping notes a plutocrat planning to complete an expensive mansion amid a broader salon of verses and quips. It references Vanity Fair tone, with lines about sun and sea, dreams and ironies, and a playful debate between a visitor and librarian about Arctic literature.
The Senator Confesses
A joke about Senator Daniel and his negotiable instruments treatise. The senator explains researching night drafts bearing interest to answer a friend. In the end he admits uncertainty about whether a wide draft bears interest.
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Lippincott's
Daniel
How to Become a Cowboy in Richmond Times Dispatch
A humorous dated missive explores paths to becoming a cowboy in Richmond. It suggests joining a Wild West show, studying dime novels, and learning rope work while lampooning outlaw lore. The piece humorously notes the best outcome is not to become a cowboy, echoing Punch magazine.
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Miehmond Times
Dispatch
The
Times
Punch
Kansas Governor a Fighter in Garden City Parade Incident
A Kansas City Journal snippet recalls a Garden City celebration when Governor John A. Martin, present to open festivities, rode with Mayor Holmes. An in front of the carriage a blacksmith refused to move. Holmes ordered him aside and Martin stepped out to discipline the man, prompting humor about the state and city’s peace officers.
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Topeka
Garden City
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John A. Martin Wie
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Or. Holmes
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Holmes
Enigmatic Exchange Reveals Society Gossips and Scandals
A fragmented dialogue shows Mrs Passay and others debating appearances and age as a prominent divorce lawyer husband and a New York woman's spending habits become focal points. The overheard snippets hint at social tensions and gossip in a high society setting.
The Man Who Saw Aaron Burr Cry
E J Edwards recalls Parke Goodwin stating he is likely the last living person to have talked with Aaron Burr. The anecdote recounts Burr visiting Princeton Cemetery, tears on his cheeks as he gazed at graves of his father and Jonathan Edwards. Burr quietly left, later joining his father beside them in the burial ground.
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E. J. Edwards
Parke Goodwin
Iman
William Cullen Bryant
Aron Burr
Goodwin
Tam
Agron Burr
Burr
Princeton
Aaron Burr
Toin
Iwan
Jonathan Edwards
EB. J. Edwards
A Houseful of Reasons from Succesa Magazine
Bishop Mallalieu recalls a young minister who rose in Boston after leaving the church to run a wholesale hat business. When asked why he left, the man lists seven reasons. A wife and six children were among them.
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Succesa
Mallalieu
Methodist Episcopal Church
Boston
Perey and Regey Bear Hunt Misfortune Report
In a terse account Perey laments terrible luck on a bear hunting expedition with Regey. The pair exchange frustrated remarks as the trip ends without success, reflecting a notably disappointing outing.
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Perey
Regey
Epitaph Fragments From A Ligntantwythyl Graveyard
Epitaphs describe the last maker buried at Ligntantwythyl parish churchyard. A correspondent recalls Billy Jones the ballad singer slain by the devil. Another epitaph notes Marsha Snell who died from a bad cough, with a line on her legs being carried away.
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Sheffield
Vontura
Billy Jones
Ballitt
Tun
Marsha Snell
Two of a Kind from The Argonaut
The Argonaut recounts a humorous episode at Western University where students criticize the cook for poor meals. The dean punishes the cook, who fires back that students complain about lectures as well. The exchange highlights campus humor and role reversals between students and faculty.
Fractured View of Seward and Fillmore’s Hold on Power
Historian Noah Davis recalls William H. Seward’s near resignation after feeling ignored by the new administration in 1849. Seward learned he and Thurlow Weed were bypassed for federal appointments as President Fillmore captivated the cabinet and reshaped New York patronage, with Collamer’s blunt denial of influence.
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E. J. Edwards
William H. Seward
Senate
Noah Davis
Whig Party
Tweed
Seward
New York State
Zachary Taylor
New York
Washington
Thurlow Weed
Mr. Weed
General Taylor
Jacob Collamer
Vermont
Senator Seward
Mr. Collamer
Rapid Transit From Success Magogne
Henry Kitchell Webster author of The Big Man goes to his father's house to borrow a high chair and talk it home by hand. He waits for the car, meets a humorous conductor who jokes about his size as he admits he grew up while waiting.
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Webster
Fragmented OCR tale of a peculiar exchange
An unclear historical snippet presents a dialog-like scene with garbled names and phrases. A speaker asks about a term then replies with a polite simile and bows as a feast unfolds in a bashful, partly decipherable manner.
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