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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1885
Page
4
A jumble of jokes and anecdotes with Mark Twain references and humorous vignettes. A drunken skit at a railway station, a rider’s rescue, a prank with letters, and a vendor’s tale mix with moral quips and light satire.
A fragmentary essay offers satirical observations on marriage heaven and gender. It jokes about love, wit, and social norms, noting women’s wit as bait, the power dynamics in relationships, and the idea of men making rulers while women shape exceptions. Themes touch on perception of women, love’s effects, and biblical references.
A colored elephant trainer Eph puts his elephant Sullivan through four round sparring in a circus ring, then the elephant rests, drinks, and munches cake. A second tale mocks a traveler claiming drowsiness on trains and notes conductors stay awake to finish the joke.
A study suggests married people suffer less illness and live longer, though Professor Pros tor cautions the sickly should not marry to burden healthy partners or risk passing ailments to children. A cynical anecdote ends with a Dallas pair joking about soothing a crying baby by feather distraction.
A chaotic column recalls a preacher shouting fire in Hawkinsville while deputies pursued him, a diverging note on cutting glass underwater, a Pittsburgh coke-oven resident, unpaid county taxes, steel nails plans, a Philadelphia shed tale, and a boatman’s confession about a fifty-year-old murder of Black Jack the fiddler.
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