Experience as Stage Manager Recounted in Droll Exchange
A theater owner asks for a stage manager and hears a candidate claim seven years of daily experience driving the stage between Podunk and Fersimmonville. The anecdote appears in the Louisville Courier Journal with a humorous Irish remark. The clipped snippets include a Greenland joke about long days and a pig-driving tale from the Richmond Dispatch.
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Podunk
Fersimmonville
Louisville Courier
Reading on Coe Chainness Bicycles Raises Question
The Chicago Evening Post notes a lack of information on whether injuries from a chainless bicycle lead to better outcomes than injuries from traditional wheels. The exchange highlights uncertainty in safety comparisons between bicycle designs.
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Chicago Evening Post
The Witen was All Right
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip notes a widow’s stove misfortune, joking she can switch to a gas range after moving to a new house and offering “itty cents a ticket” to take chances on her cook stove.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Ceopit's Pressing Recacement
A whimsical note from Chicago Times-Herald describes an autumn girl roaming woodland fields pretending to press leaves and unexpectedly being pressed herself by playful woodland elves.
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Ceopit
Humorous Exchanges in Chicago Papers
Dialog snippets from Chicago Tribune Chicago News and Chicago Evening Post reveal playful quips about burglary fooling imitates and social courtesies. Lines include Mrs Go on plated ware tricks and Miss Cutting advising silence.
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Mr. Borem
Miss Cuting
Miss Cutting
Chicago News
Boon for Sufferers Promotes "5 Drops" Remedy
An advertisement touts "5 Drops" as a guaranteed cure for rheumatism neuralgia catarrh asthma grip and related ailments. It claims thousands of grateful letters and offers 100000 sample bottles for 25 cents by mail plus large bottles priced at 1 and 2.50 for multi-bottle orders with Chicago address Swanson Rheumatic Cure company 167 169 Dearborn Street. A stray line notes a pedestrian setting a footrace record in seven German states.
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James Williams
Regent
Swanson Rheumatic Cure Company
Dearborn Street
Chicago
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablet Ad Cures Cold Next Day
An advertisement claims to cure a cold in one day with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets and offers a refund if it fails. It also includes a short, misspelled joke about Lentgert and Mrs. Lent rt Christmas necktie.
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Lentgert
No To Bacc for Fifty Cent Offers Cure All
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure promises to make weak men strong and purify blood. Dr. H. H. Green's Sons of Atlanta offer dropsy treatments with free examination. The ad notes limited provincial sales and a cryptic reference to Korean coins for currency.
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H. H. Green
Atlanta. Ga
Beauty Fades and Courage Grows for Wives
A call to strengthen women before marriage as beauty fades and maternity strains nerves. An anonymous 19 year old letters recounts relief from Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after suffering from painful menstruation and related symptoms. The writer credits Mrs Pinkham and shares address in Chambersburg Pa.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Chambersburg
Lydia B. Pinkham
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Greenland
Begorra
Pat
Richmond Dispatch
Chicago Times
Hersid
Ines
Har Neler
Castoria
Samuel Pitcher
Ayannis
Massachusetts
Mothers of America
Centaur Company
Chas. H. Fletcher
Ferry
D. M. Ferry & CO
Detroit, Mich
Alaska Outfitter
Jones’ Cash Store
Front Street
Portland
Ore
Southern Homeseekers
Merry
A. G
Manchester
Iowa
W. Kellond
Louisville
Or & Hatch
D. P
Cincinnati
Illinois Central
Southern
Haswell Drug Co
Denver, Cole
Omaha
Neb
Denver
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