County ballot committee report cites flaws in referendum
A county Board committee on the e Coupon Ballot submitted its report to election officials but rejected the referendum outcome. It faulted the ballot for lacking perfection in initial details and noted promised cuts by Dunn did not extend to conclusions. The group warned improvements could be made without legislative action.
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Newspaper influence debated over coupon ballot referendum
The piece defends sound argument as the basis of public debate and criticizes a committee claim that editorials unfairly swayed election officials. It stresses newspapers’ duty to present honest, well reasoned arguments and notes voters hear competing positions before casting votes.
Judge Questions Referendum Weighing In Ballot Debate
An editorial heavy passage questions the committee's handling of the Coupon Ballot referendum amid public argument. It argues voters who read editorials should still have their say and defends the weight given to evidence while noting concerns about election official judgments.
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Tribune
Endum
Mehitable Ann and the Pry of Love
A verse from St. Nicholas about a narrator torn between Mehitable Ann and Princess Pry. The speaker praises Mehitable Ann despite rivals and flaws, noting affection persists even as rivals seem preferable in some lines.
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Princess Pry
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Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
St. Nicholas
Criticisms Meet Runs of Somerset Maugham Plays
Somerset Maugham reads aloud to a reporter from his pocketbook showing long runs for Mrs Dot Smith and Penelope among his works. He quips that only authorial box office and public reaction validate criticism and defers to figures over words.
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Somerset Maughan
New York
Mr. Maughan
Mrs. Dot
Smith
Penelope
New York Sun
No Such Luck Wilson-Do You Keep a Second to 14 Girl
A short dialogue quotes Wilson and Harper's Bazaar figures discussing keeping a forty-third and a second in a witty exchange. The line hints at fashion magazine humor and social media style dialogue of the era.
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Wilson
Harper’s Bazaar
Adaptability Tale From Duchess County Farmer Litigant
A New York lawyer recalls an old well to do Duchess County farmer known for lawsuits. The farmer visits his attorney and outlines his plan. the lawyer declares no case exists. The farmer quickly retorts he can tell the story another way.
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New York
Duchess County
Brooklyn
Too Smart for a Lawyer and a Clever Youths Quip
The passage notes B. Davis Noxon as one of Central New York’s ablest lawyers. It recalls a quip about a would be humorist, with Dumas noting the joke always wins in a witty remark.
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Dumas
B. Davis Noxon
New York
Baldness Cure Claim From Lime Spur Man
Nels Peterson of Lime Spur Montana says after six years of baldness and futile cures he used Herpicide starting November 16 1899 and within three months showed a full head of hair. He urges readers to ask their druggist for Herpicide and not to substitute. The Herpicide Co Detroit Mich guarantees one dollar bottles with Hoeschler Bros as special agents.
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Nels Peterson
Lime Spur
Mont
Herpicide Co
Detroit
Mich
Hoeschler Bros
Canvassers Stories From the Glasgow Herald
A Glasgow Herald piece recounts canvassers tales with a girl explaining her father’s absence and a reply about his color being ginger but bald. Another quip has a voter noting bread baked at home despite a corn tax affecting others.
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Glasgow Herald
Compromise Suitor Pleads Offer Help Up
A corpulent suitor on his knees implores acceptance of his offer or at least assistance to rise, in a Harper's Bazaar caption.
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Harper’s Bazar
The Play Was Too Open Says Thayer on New Rules
H. C. Thayer of Pennsylvania football fame argued at the Rittenhouse club in Philadelphia that the new football rules make the play too open and hamper tactics. He contrasted the old rules with a Swiss waiter tongue in cheek story to illustrate his point.
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H. C. Thayer
Pop” Thayer
Pennsylvania
Rittenhouse Club
Philadelphia
Bernese Oberland
Hans
Good Government in PlankVille Faces City Management Hints
A Louisville Courier Journal line cites residents of Plankville seeking new methods to run their city after attempts with a mayor and a commission. The piece suggests considering management by a magazine as a novel solution to local governance.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Mayor Gaynor Memorable Police Anecdote From Tribune
New York City Hall quotes Mayor Gaynor as having a humorous story about a sergeant and a patrolman. The joke centers on stripes earned by hard work and not loafing on the corners, ending with the patrolman quipping about becoming a zebra.
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Gaynor
New York City Hall
Sarge
New York Tribune
Twainisms potato speech prank stuns Virginia City
In Mark Twain's journalistic days a rival editor recalls a con by a speech claimed to be from a senator who spoke on the potato. Twain narrated a half column about the senator’s supposed agricultural science contribution. The bogus speech opened with Irish origins and a boastful image.
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Mark Twain
Virginia City
Ireland
Kitchen cabinet in miniature proves compact and handy
A business girl converted an old machine table into a tiny kitchen by removing the treadle and adding a small gas stove on the asbestos top. The drawers held knives forks and canisters while screw hooks beneath held pots and pans forming a compact useful device.
Poison Bottles Marked by Cork Pins Guide
Instructions describe placing common pins through the corks of bottles labeled poison so the pin tips show past the cork. The technique purportedly prevents picking up a poison bottle, even in darkness.
The Fortune Hunter in a Rural World
Kipling style ship and self finding themes frame Winchell Smith and Louis Joseph Vance tale Nat Duncan. A city youth fails at all in town then seeks wealth in rural districts with humor and charity lessons praised by a New York editor as essential reading for Americans.
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Rudyard Kipling
Nat Duncan
Winchell Smith
Louis Joseph Vance
New York
Spaulding Makes a Grim Business Plea to Duncan
Chapter R Eceiver at Spaulding receives Duncan after a long trip. Spaulding forces a private, inscrutable mien as he weighs whether to abandon his customers or dispatch a stronger salesman. The scene highlights Spaulding’s poker like calm and Duncan’s envy of his efficiency.
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Mr. Spaulding
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Downward spiral ends in cautious charity
Duncan confesses a string of failed menial jobs and grand failures, from a fish market starter to clerkship hopes, as he explains Kellogg’s faith and his own inability to earn wages. Spaulding offers a last chance through Atwater or a severance month, but Duncan refuses charity and seeks to leave with accounts settled.
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Duncan
Kellogg
Harry
Washington Square
Mr. Atwater
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