Mrs Collins Leaves Poorhouse For Richer Life At Hotel
Mrs Collins, a Greenhill poorhouse resident, receives a modest inheritance and moves to a hotel, leaving friends and routines behind. She vows to visit Letty and improve the inmates’ days, while Betsey and neighbors watch the departure with mixed feelings. Months pass with no word until a November return trip shows her determined to become a stable boarder and restore a sense of home for the poorhouse community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Collins
Getsey Tucker
Arend
Mr. Buck
Qnan
Collink
MR Chase
Mr. Thick
Mr. Buel
Mrs. Cotling
Letty
Betsey
William
Mia
Chase
Mrs. Chase
Greenhill
Callina
Huck
Poorhouse Hill
Auama
Mrs. Calling
Tye
Leslie's Weekly
Humorous snippets and witty exchanges from old papers
A collage of humorous quips and anecdotes from various journals. Jokes about marriage, laughter, salaries, college life, and prices mix with playful exchanges among friends and the public. Contains sly barbs on reporters and social mores with compact punchlines.
Blackwall tunnel becomes London East End promenade
The Blackwall tunnel has become a major social hub in London's East End, drawing thousands nightly for leisure. Promoters and residents praise its lighting and festive atmosphere while noting occasional dangers, including a recent fatality from a van accident.
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Dinckwall
London
East End
Blackwall
Hyde Park
the Prince of Wales
Blackwall Tunnel
Guili
Macdonald
Prince of Wales
Near East
Thames
Burk Knot in a Sycamore Discovery
A Manchester timber merchant cutting a sycamore into lengths found a snark knot about an inch and a half in diameter. When sliced, the knot revealed a clearly marked bird shape, deemed curious enough to be photographed, per Strand Magazine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
England
Strand Magazine
Weather Tales From Klondike Miner on Cold Jokes
A Klondike traveler recounts wildly exaggerated weather wonders and frosty mishaps. Tales include frozen flames used as candy, cows eating ice cream until death, diamonds in Yukon hotels, and a man breaking in two after a fall. The friend jokes about affidavits as the speaker jokes frozen truth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pass
Yukon
Chiikater
Washington Star
Parlor-Cafe Car Introduced on Daylight Special
Illinois Central debuts a composite parlor-cafe car for the Daylight Special from Chicago to St Louis. The Empire style car features mahogany finish with marquetry, revolving armchairs, pintech chandeliers, Wilton carpet, and a connected kitchen, with seats for four or tete-a-tete dining. A gentlemen's smoking room offers cigars and drinks. The eight hour run links with trains to Hot Springs via Union Station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitnojs Central
Chicago
St. Louis
Illinois Central
Pullman
Pintech
Hot Springs Ark
Union Station
Hot Springs
Motto on the Dentist's Wall Haunts a Fractured Jaw
An enraged patient torn between dental pain and a framed motto on the dentist wall erupts in anger. He says nothing about the extraction or price, but the phrase on the wall adds insult to injury and sparks a dramatic confrontation. The dentist observes as the man recalls army service and cannon fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Casey
Washington Star
Detroit Free Press
Chicago News
Moneyworth
Philadelphia North American
Thegentle Binetter
Singleton
Benedict
Chicago Evening Post
Suspender Peddler and Alaska Ads Amid Old Paper Sagas
Fragmentary clippings describe a peddler offering suspenders to a woman, a coy exchange about a missing husband, and an Alaska travel folder with maps and the Great Northern railway ad. Also mentions a humorous line about drawing on customers and an ad for Lane's Family Medicine claiming daily bowel movement benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaska
Land
Whitney, Gp, & T. A
Great Northern Railway
Brasdway
Paul
Minn
Glacier
Great Northern
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Seattle
Portland
Agki
Grain-O Coffee Substitute Promises Real Coffee Taste
An advertisement extols Grain-O as a pure grain beverage that closely resembles coffee in taste and is gentler on the stomach. It sells for 15 and 20 cents per package, claimed affordable and suitable for children, with testimonials and broader ad content referencing other products and humorous quips from various publications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goffen
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Relief for Longstanding Ailments
An advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a cure for years of distress from dyspepsia and poor health. It claims a husband improved after three bottles, enabling eating without distress and return to work. The ad also promotes Hood's Pills for constipation and notes Bansarna Reopens at 138 North Pearl Street, Green Bay, Wis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood
North
Pearl Street
Green Bay
Wis
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Mary E. Mitchell
Sven
H. Marshall Ward
Pasteur
Miguel
Martlnand
Guinti
Popular Science Monthly
The
Klondike
Hicago Times-Herald
Detroit
Reese
Ourahakye
Lane
Percy
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
H. A. Cherrier
N. Pass
Agt
Marquette Bldg
Seare
Bobbie
Poppa
Brooklyn
McVicker’s Theater
Altways
Denman Thompson
Washington Democrat
St. Jacobs
St. Jacobs Od
Devleca
Brammer
Aom
Davenport
Iowa
ESTEY
Esey Organ Company
Hratlaboeay
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