Crabbing Tales and Treasure Ghost on Little Quince Island
Captain Barnabas Fish recalls a crabbing day at Quince Haven with Miss Maria Weeks lunch of club sandwiches and gingerbread. They chase a treasure island ghost tale on a moonlit shore and escape a pirate legend, later learning a rival found the treasure.
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Maria Weeks
Quince Haven
Marrow Channel
Little Quince Harbor
Little Quince Hills
Barnabas Fish
Barnabas
Captain Barnabas
Ananias Sline
Central America
Jerles
Captain Kidd
San Francisco
Valparaiso
Louis Franck
Finn
Franck
Miss Telham
Tony Laconti
Indus
Sackville
Quince Haven Harbor
Sweeney
Humor of the Day and Miscellany Snippets
A collage of jokes and clippings from humor magazines. Bits include Kahn's comeback tale, Ed Howe quips, spring car humor from Massachusetts drivers, battlefields humor from General Miles, a Georgia court anecdote about a thief, and a clerical mishearing about a mother.
Fragmented Punchlike Snippets From 19th Century Gossip Panel
Jumbled humor and anecdotes travel through a miscellany of items. The text mixes jokes about clergy and surgery with wedding customs in Barcelona and nautical terms. It resembles a compact humor collage drawn from periodical snippets and captions.
Very Extraordinary. A Scottish Town’s Remark on Shakespeare
A Glasgowish or Scottish town guilie tells a friend that Shakespeare may have been an extraordinary man, noting ideas that have not occurred to him before. The quotation comes from a fragmentary British source referencing Oblivion and a strange line about humanity and fame.
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Guilie
Good Reason Mrs Wright to vicars wife
A humorous verse quarrel shows Mrs Wright questioning why her husband begs money from the vicar and his wife responds that he never gets any. The exchange highlights domestic strain and financial frustration in light verse form.
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Mrs. Wright
Vicars
Wheelbarrow Theft Sparks City Laughs
A playful scold from the New York World mocks a petty theft aboard a wheelbarrow. The cartoonish tirade questions the motives and the crowd reaction to the incident, highlighting urban humor in a lighthearted record.
Man of 66 runs ten miles in bold relay display
Colonel J L Smith of Highland Park Michigan aged sixty six dominates a ten mile race finishing in 1 hour 22 minutes 14 seconds. He led a relay team of three veterans off their feet and beat opponents by three miles. Smith plans to defend his title at the Grand Army of the Republic encampment in Los Angeles next September.
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Detroit
J. L. Smith
Highland Park
Mich
Army of the Republic
National Grand Army of the Republic
Los Angeles
Smith
Colonel 8. G. Barnes
Pittsburgh
George W. Howe
Port Huron
Wakeman Bradley
Colonelmith
Colonel Smith
Boston plans stammerers classes at Roxbury Howe school
A new program to aid stammerers in Boston will establish daily classes at the Roxbury Ward Howe schoolhouse, beginning soon. Sessions run 10 to 12 in the morning and 2 to 4 in the afternoon on school days for the next two weeks.
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Boston
Jot Ward Howe
Roxbury
Maas
Where Romance Failed in Curious Item About Fairy Tale Author
A Cleveland Pisin Dealer fragment recalls an item about a famed fairy tale author who died recently. It claims, after late nights with friends, he would stumble home and recount his entire tale to his wife exactly as it happened.
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Louis Franck
East
Niagara Falls
Ed Howe
Georgia
Cleveland Pisin Dealer
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Treasure Island
England
Mullins
Harper's Magazine
THE
Daily Record
Kahn
Julius Kaho
Congress
Saturday Evening Post
Massachusetts
Lippincott's Magazine
Nelson A. Miles
Popular
Jersey
Jacob Steinbach
Grand Rapids Furniture
Atlantic Highlands
Point Pleasant
Enial
Washington Herald
Gotrox
Job
Boston Transcript
R. Beoth
Barcelona
Spain
London Telegraph
New York World
Plaza Air
West End, N. J
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