Ismay Journal Humorous Bits and Social Quips
The Ismay Journal offers a collection of witty lines on war cholera love and daily life. It features quips about baseball farmers rain crime and fashion plus playful asides about tobacco love and society. The item reads as a lighthearted collage of jokes and observations.
Baby's Cry Spooks Man Into Sudden Waking
A man awakens quickly after hearing a baby's cry at night, startling his wife with abrupt movement and concern. The fragment suggests a domestic scene highlighting the impact of infant sound on sleep.
Fashionable Dress Trends Stay Elusive, Report Warns
The report on extravagance in women's dress may not align with observed behavior as fashion continues to show signs of persistent flourish and high style.
The Pay-As-You-Go Path in a Cautious Life
A reflective note suggests that paying as you go may limit distance but suits a cautious person, implying steady progress over risky leaps. The quote frames financial or life choices as prudent small steps rather than bold, high-stake gambits.
Miscellany of Joy and Modern Mirth in 1920s Life
A collage of light newspaper gibes and curious notes from the era. Topics include a Nebraska man’s hospital visit after a sixteenth operation, a banquet for 1,000 on the Woolworth Building’s 27th floor, self administering laughing gas, serums for joyriding, a streetcar collision pun, theatergoing annoyances, navy term changes, a Columbia professor urging teachers to unionize, fears of strikes, New York building fronts shaved for clearance, hats and hatpins, a ruby in an egg rumor to boost REESE, and a humorous Rome street scrimmage between two admirals.
Niagara to sail again this summer for Perry centennial
The Niagara is raised from Erie harbor mud and prepared for a Lake Erie voyage this summer to mark Oliver Hazard Perry’s 1813 victory. The historic brig, 110 feet long and 30 feet beam, will be rebuilt at a shipyard and visit principal Great Lakes ports decked with flags. Perry’s rise from lieutenant to Commodore, his victory on September 13, 1813, and the planned Perry memorial at Put-in-Bay are highlighted along with funding from multiple states and the national arts commission.
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Niagara
Oliver Hazard Perry
Lake Erie
Perry
United States
Erie Harbor
Great Lakes
W. L. Morrison
Wolverine
Interstate Board of the Centennial Celebration
Commodore Perry
Watch Hill
R. I
Chauncey
Pennsylvania
Lawrence
Alexander
Erie
Noah Brown
Dobbins
Philadelphia
Barclay
Nelson
Kentucky
Britain
Secretary of the Navy
William H. Harrison
Congress
Boston
Baltimore
Mediterranean
Java
John Adams
West Indies
Orinoco
Put-in-Bay
Bass Island
New York
Ohio
Wisconsin
Michigan
Illinois
Rhode Island
Minnesota
National Commissioners of Fine Arts
J. H. Freedlander
A. D. Seymour, Jr
Canada
National Commission of Fine Arts
Perry Memorial
Daniel H. Burnham
Daniel C. French
Thomas Hastings
Frederick Law Olmsted
Charles Moore
Cass Gilbert
Francis D. Miller
George H. Worthington
Nelson A. Miles
Col
Henry Watterson
Interstate Board
Little Surprises in Everyday Dialogues
A collection of short, witty exchanges highlights ordinary life. Children, parents, and professionals speak candidly about church, marriage, medical bills, and affection, revealing humorous and endearing moments in common conversations.
Burial ground of long ago in Bunhill Fields creates quaint tombstone lore
In Bunhill Fields near Petticoat Lane lies a graveyard unused for over a century. The piece notes humorous inscriptions and lists famed interments such as Daniel Defoe John Bunyan Isaac Watts and William Blake. It reflects nostalgia for Chelsea and Cheyne Walk with references to Whistler Rosetti Eliot Turner More and Leigh Hunt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Petticoat Lane
Bunhill Fields
Whitechapel
Daniel Defoe
John Bunyan
Isaac
Watts
William Blake
Dame Mare Page
Chelsea
Cheyne
Thames
Battersea
Whistler
Rosetti
Cheyne Row
George Eliot
Count D’orsay
Sir Thomas More
Williiam Turner
Walter Crane
Leigh Hunt
Katharine Parr
Maine Relics Cast Into Memorial Tablets By Congress Act
Six thousand pounds of U S S Maine relics have arrived at John Williams bronze foundry to be cast into a fitting memorial. The brass and bronze fittings from the sunken battleship are melted into thirty pound ingots in compliance with a congressional act. One thousand tablets designed by Charles Keck will be distributed to patriotic societies. two hundred requests have already been filed with the Navy Office.
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New York
U. S. S. Maine
Havana
John Williams
Congress
Washington
Maine
Charles Keck
Williams Foundry
Legless Farm Boy Learns to Work on Missouri Farm
Paris Missouri reports Earl Craft aged twelve lost both legs to bone necrosis and after six weeks of bed rest began walking with his hands. In under three years he farmed, hooking and unhooking teams, plowing, cultivating, and operating harvesters and binders. He recently built and roofed a henhouse unaided.
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Paris
Earl Craft
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