Silly Front Pages And Sage Advice From A Distant Era
A collection of witty aphorisms and social observations, ranging from marriage promises and political remarks to fashion and public health. Notable items include a quip on obedience in marriage, comments on Venezuela, Boers and British relations, Rockefeller investing in bicycles, and a critique of lynching. The piece ends with commentary on trees cooling urban air and New York City park policy to reduce heat-related deaths among children.
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New York City
New York
Village Play Delivers Curious Church Picnic Tale
A New York village stages a private play at a church picnic featuring a Baptist preacher as a rogue and an observant organist as a foil. The plot centers on love, temptation, and a jealous young man, with the preacher and his long winded musings driving the early scenes.
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New York
Love
Prieth
Achilles
Not Guilty Sequel Ends Comic Stage Duel in Court
A Sunday entertainment mocks a jealous lover and preacher with a curtain raiser in a police court. The crowd splits along creed lines while a prisoner proclaims not guilty and goes to jail rather than pay a fine as the minister and organist wed. James Laurier warns Britain and America over Alaska boundary fears, insisting US rights remain firm.
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Calaboose
Bella
Marquis Cordova Fears Death In Quest For Lost Papers
Carlo Cattapani Marquis de Cordova, now in New York, has faced repeated attacks while seeking papers to prove a claim to a 2.5 million Spanish estate. From London to Birmingham to South Ferry New York, he was drugged, bound, and nearly killed as conspirators pursued the missing documents, with police unable to solve the case.
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Carlo Cattapani
Marquis de Cordova
New York
Marquis
Italy
Marquis Cordova
Cattapani
London
Monte Carlo
Birmingham
Salling
New World
South Ferry
Prospect Park
Brooklyn
The Drug Store at Fault in Marriage License Demand
A laboring man entered a Milwaukee Eleventh avenue drug store asking for a marriage license. The clerk refused, directing him to City Hall, noting such licenses are not sold at drug stores. The man complained, claiming a justice wouldn’t marry him without a license, then left in anger.
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Eleventh Avenue
Milwaukee Sentinel
New Brand Say Calls Out Sandwich at Railway Restaurant
A traveler tells the hardware drummer to the proprietor that the sandwich is oddly soft and biteable, prompting a quip about the ineffectual bite. The line hints at peculiarities in fare and a reflection on ownership.
Westminster street sweepers wear grand uniforms
London borough officials boast the White Wings dress by Westminster street sweepers drawing praise and jokes. Maj. Gen. Trotter complains guardsmen are mistaken for dustmen, hurting feelings. The Mayor pledges a blue cape band to distinguish them from guardsmen.
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London
Borough of
Westminster
Trotter
Grenadier Guards
Old Kirkpatrick Mill Near Hodgerville Linked to Lincoln Birthplace
A preservation movement seeks to save the Kirkpatrick mill built in 1816 by the father of Abraham Lincoln near Hodgerville Kentucky. Lincoln once crossed the nearby stream with a corn sack, nearly drowning after a flood on Sandss. Austin Gallagher pulled him to safety with a pole.
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Kentucky
Lisémerk
Lincoln
Kirkpatrick Four Mil
Hodgerville
Abraham Lincoln
Abe
Fatrick Mill
Sandss
Austin Gallagher
Gallagher
Iron Man and Japanic Wildlife Tales Featured in Essay
A story writer recalls Hercules the Iron Man a towering eight foot automaton exhibited in an American park that ran amok after a valve leak. The piece also cites Prof Morse on Japan where animals roam freely in cities and people photograph birds offspring and deer as common sights.
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Hercules
Morse
Japan
Society For
Shaw and Shakspeare reading at Playgoers Club
A sharp scene unfolded at a Playgoers Club reading a paper titled The Superiority of Shaw to Shakspeare. The presiding Lady Colin Campbell opened with a telegram from Stratford-on-Avon noting Shakspeare’s inferiority.
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Shaw
Shakspeare
Bernard Shaw
William
Colin Campbel
Stratford-on-Avon
What They Eat and Feed Ratios in Livestock
A historical note explains animal feed consumption: a horse will eat in a year nine times its own weight, a cow nine dimes worth in feed, an ox many times, and a sheep a fraction of weight. The text uses archaic language to describe how livestock intake scales with body size.
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Venezuela
Saxony’s New King George Named King After Albert Death
Saxony, long a European throne hub, now sees George ascend after King Albert’s death. George, famed from the Frasco Prussian War, led German forces in 1870 as field marshal general. His children include Frederick Augustus heir, Maria Josepha married to Archduke Otto, and Maximilian a priest now teaching canon law in Fribourg.
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Royal House of
Saxony
Albert
George
Europe
Great Britain
Prussia
Portugal
Belgium
Bulgaria
Saxe-Weimar
Saxe-Altenburg
Saxe-Meiningen
Saxe-Coburg and
Gotha
Frederick Augustus
Maria Josepha
Archduke Otto
Austria
Maximilian
Max
London
Whitechapel
University of Fribourg
Switzerland
Honors For Widows In Southern China Arch Veneration
The widow’s arch is a southern China custom where a widow who never remarries earns special reverence. After her death, an imperial edict permits her relatives to erect a stone arch in memory. These arches cost thousands of dollars and bear inscriptions of her virtues. The family, from core to distant generations, gains post mortem glory.
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China
Lincoln's Hay Crop Tale Echoes Lincoln's Farm Fame
A brief 1857 vignette shows Abraham Lincoln humorously confirming to a neighbor that he farms by raising hay. The neighbor boasts his crops while Lincoln, modest, explains that hay was piled high and stored in the barn, highlighting Lincoln's plain, practical image.
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Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Simpson
Easy Enough. Andree’s Arctic voyage tale in a dinner quip
Harry de Windt recounts Andree the Arctic explorer in Fin lans It Is. A talkative neighbor at a dinner party distracts him before his last voyage. Andree responds with a humorous remark about a north wind and a south.
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Harry de Windt
Finlan
Andree
Ragson Tatters and Hungry Wiggins Tangle Over Cold Meats
Fragment from the Philadelphia Press describe a quarrel between Ragson Tatters and Hungry Wiggins over food and the threat of a dog, with a woman warning that cold meat and bread satisfaction would trigger action.
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Wiggins
Higgins
Philadelphia
Pacific Cable Deal Clears for United States Control
Roosevelt approves amended terms for a Pacific cable from San Francisco through Hawaii to China and Manila. Knox adds conditions ensuring government priority, rate control, wartime authority, and a dedicated line to Manila. Congress ratification expected. project seen as an American owned, government friendly link to the Orient. Failures for the week totaled 196 in the United States, 173 last year, 14 in Canada, 31 a year ago.
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Oyster Bay
Pacific
Phili Se
Attorne
Eee Knor
Mercial Cable Company
Sion
San Francisco
Julu
Guam
China
Philippines
Honolulu
United States
Roosevelt
Knox
Congress
Pacific Commercial Cable Company
Manila
Hong Kong
The
Orient
Canada
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Panama
Uncle Ban
Rockefeller
Turkey
England
Wilmington
Del
Wilfrid Laurier
Alaska
Paelie
Russia
State Department
W. Byron Coakley
Chicago
American Medical Association
Saratoga
Coakley
Mita
Kirkpatrick Mill
King George
Aik
Ater
Reachen
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