Sailor’s Revelation on a Fractious Fall River Voyage
An eyewitness recounts a gale aboard a Fall River steamer where a Boston clothier advises taking the first lifeboat to ensure survival. He boasts of tailoring work for Alderman Grady and offers to provide pants if he lives, adding a sly warning about a half wool pantaloons with no buckle.
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Boston
Grady
Joe Kerr
How to Handle a Hot Day Like a Western Outsider
A humorous guide by Joe Kerr on enduring heat and thirst. It advises crowding a drugstore soda counter, ordering lemon vanilla syrup, savoring the drink slowly, and delivering a burlesque closing line to a friend about frost and overcoats.
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Billy
Joe Kerr
Royal Elevator Gaffe Delights City Newspaper
The Prince’s secretary refused a suite on the nineteenth floor the hotel clerk recalls. The clerk explains the decline by saying the descent in the elevator would be too much of a come down for a royal personage.
A Dishonored Man by Joe Kerr
A man refuses to fault the streetcar conductor for requesting fare and explains past thefts. He recalls paying a bottle deposit late, losing a returned bottle to the junk man, and being called a robber by acquaintances. He concludes he is dishonored and would have avoided paying if trusted.
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McCarthy
Jimmy O’brien
Tommy Whalen
Con
Joe Kerr
Where to vacation According to a Rule
Bronson says the best place to spend a vacation is the one you don’t hear about until after it ends. Woodson adds the humor that hidden places remain unsung until you’ve left. The exchange lightly riffs on travel choices.
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Bronson
Woodson
Uncle John Sits Unmoved as Town Jokester Spreads Calamities
A group of villagers waits for the mail when a joker lists disasters from Vermont to Pennsylvania. Uncle John yawns through the doomful tales, then bursts into action grabbing a club and tearing down a lumber pile to chase away a rat.
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Uncle John
Vermont
Connecticut
Ohio
Cincinnati
John
Pennsylvania
Andy Jue
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