Selections from the Writings of the Best Known Maker of Mirth
A compact collection highlights jokes and humorous sketches from a famed humorist. Readers encounter witty vignettes reflecting early 20th century comic style and social commentary.
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Newspaper
Ismay
Location
Ismay, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1909
Page
7
Strange Origin of Proverbs By Stanley Waterloo
A lighthearted tale tracing the first proverb to ancient cave life. Moss the hairy hunter, his wives, and a fatal boulder incident yield the quip rolling stone gathers no Moss. Copyright 1909 by W. G. Chapman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abou Ben
Little Ear
Sabre Tooth
Roarer
Old Moss
W. G. Chapman
Hard Luck Bass Tale with Telescope Warden Twist
A traveler recalls a fishing misadventure at a southern Minnesota lake where a wary observer with a telescope seems to film every move. After a comical series of catches the narrator discovers the observer is not a warden, and the bass mysteriously accompanies him to shore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
Vay
It Comes in Pieces A Mysterious Furniture Gift
Mrs. Ganson and her husband Mr. Ganson react to a shipped item described as a chair or table that arrives in many parts with instructions. He happily assembles the pieces, teasing Mrs. Ganson about the confusion and joking that the mysterious sender may be behind the prank as they prepare to test the contraption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kerswish
Gangon
W. G. Chapman
Australians recall old OC VS stories from war memory
A Melbourne Times anecdote recalls a WWI era Stock Exchange member guarding a wagon in unheating night. He asks the colonel for the wagon’s rough value, learns about £200, and jokes he will collect the money in person rather than risk illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OC. S. V's
Stockxchange
Melbourne Times
Catarrh Cure Promises Cure For All Stages
A health advertisement touts Hall and Wall’s Catarrh Cures as the only positive remedies for catarrh, a constitutional disease. It claims cures through internal use affecting blood and mucous surfaces, offers 100 dollars to any case that fails, and cites testimonials, with sales through druggists and a mail order pitch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Wall
Forest of
J Cheney & CO
Toledo
All Druguista
Mall
No Temperament in Marital Matchups, Byline of Houston Post
A dialog contrasts a daughter's artist husband who abuses her with the sister married to a gentle coal heaver who never speaks ill. The exchange mocks the myth of artistic temperament through a blunt, domestic vignette from the Houston Post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston Post
Earthquake Panic Amid Crowded Churches Reported
The New York Weekly notes a powerful quake in Mexico causing rapid evacuations from churches as frightened crowds rushed outside. A visitor recalls noticing a contribution box in use during the commotion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Weekly
Various Advertisements and Quotations in 19th Century Paper
A collage of ad promos and pithy quotes including medical cures for piles and coughs, prices for hides and furs, dairy buyer notices, and literary snippets. It lists Brown’s Bronchial Troches 25 cents a box, Pazo Ointment for piles with 6 to 14 day cure guarantee, Allen’s Foot Ease at 25 cents, and dairy and fur trade mentions from Miller Holmes and N. W. Hide & Fur Co. Includes quotations from Samuel Smiles Montaigne Socrates Euripides and Livy as teaser lines.
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Big Club
Fit
Norman H. Crowell
Thomas L. Masson
Brown
I. ‘Brown & Son
Boston
Mass
Samuel
Bishop Broecks
Allen
N. W. Hide & Fur Co
Minneapolis, Minn
Montaigue
Crescent Creamery CQ
ST. Paul
Socrates
Price Miller & Holmes
St. Paul, Minn
Livy
Milton Dairy Co
Euripides
Dodds
Ney
Aznsk—G
D. Bergman & CO
ST. Meine
Mohroe
the Centaur Companyy
NEW _ YORK
Bears
Castoria
Crescent Mfg. Con
Seattle
Milwaukee
Northwest
Pickands, Brown & Company Dolby-Abbott Bidg
Milwaukee, Wie
Europe
Emperor William Oats
Germany
Valley of the Rhine
Balzer
Pe Ee Pha
Agricultural College
Wisconsin
Oderbrucker
North Dakota
America
Mii Rae
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