Arizona Kicker: We Vow No Swindle and Clean Up Town
The Kicker declares it is not in it for money and outlines its town cleanups. It recounts encounters with Idaho Sam, attorney J. Flint, Dr. Barnes, J. Taylor, lawyer Jim Wheelan, Debeory Mason, and Joseph as they warn or remove disruptive figures. The piece lampoons local wrongdoing and asserts editorial independence while describing confrontations and departures.
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Jim Wheelan
Wheelan
Milwaukee
Mason
Card to the Club Ends With a Grin Over Barber Death
Old Colonel Dick Bright recalls a long life shaved by a negro barber who dies. At the funeral Bright places his visiting card in the barber's coffin. He explains at dinner, If he goes to heaven he won t need it, but in hell it will introduce him to good fellows.
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Dick Bright
Washington
Bright
Daring Spaniards and Odd Plant Feats Highlighted
A fragmentary historical survey lists famed conquerors with brutal fates and executions. It then shifts to John Burroughs in Atlantic Monthly describing a wild sunflower breaking through asphalt, followed by Somerset mentions of eight daily meals from Mrs. Andrew Crosse.
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John Burroughs
Atlantic Monthly
Somerset
England
Andrew Crosse
Somersetshire
Moisture of the Eye Solvent for Irritation
The moisture of the eye acts as a genuine solvent dissolving foreign matter in the eye overnight. A nurse remarks on a baby’s hair resemblance causing a light moment as a mistress reads, asking the nurse to remove the child from the nursery.
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Tim
Bow in a Funny Paper Editor Recalled in Joke Tale
A brief, playful note recalls a newspaper editor known for humor. A chap offered money yesterday for a joke, sparking a minor exchange about supporting traditions and staying put. The snippet hints at social dynamics around humor and city life.
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Magazine of Fun
Grandson challenges visitor in tense family moment
In a Harper’s Bazaar scene Young Jack confronts a new arrival, sizing her up. He coldly asks if she is his grandmother and, after a whispered confirmation, retorts that she’s on the wrong side, implying a hidden family rift.
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Jack
Lear
Harper
Profitable Begging Exchange Dialogue
A humorous exchange depicts a rich eccentric urging a clerk to answer begging letters with evasive responses on postal cards and to encourage further mail. The dialogue highlights a cyclical, profitable scheme through small stamps and repeated requests.
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Scribble
Willionaire
The Necessary Wife Joke on the Barber
A garbled London Opinion snippet reports a flirtatious quarrel over love and money. The heiress and a duke trade witticisms about life costs while a barber scene and bystander remark echo the humor.
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Trine
London
Wily Woman Royall and the Adams Interview Story
Anne Royall, pioneering journalist and mother of modern interviewing, pressured President John Quincy Adams for the Cherokee bill stance. She famously sat on the Potomac bank with ink and notes, refusing to leave until she secured the information she sought.
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Potomac Park
Waebingtom
Anne Ftugall
White House
Anne Royat
John Quincy Adame
Washington
Anne Royall
Journalia
Steele
Addison
Paul Pry
Huntress
John Quincy Adams
Adams
Anne
The
Potomac
Uttle
New Laureate Vision Amid Tedious Royal Praise
Richard Linthicum in the New York World invokes Milton as a counterweight to royal praise for a laureate. He declares music and verse should pierce corruption and expose ancient pretensions, urging fearless diction to awaken a newer morning of justice and truth for Britain.
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Milton
Richard Linthicum
New York World
Ex-President Taft Lookalike to Lecture on Rum
Thomas J. Morley a Pittsburgh ex police sergeant who resembles William H Taft will lecture railroad workers on the dangers of alcohol. He describes his career fighting drunks and vows to wrestle the evil itself. The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie railroad sponsors the talk for safety campaigns.
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Thomas J. Morley
Pittsburgh
Wiliam H. Taft
Morley
Yohe
Pittsburgh and
Lake Erie
L. H. Burner
Motive Power of the Road
Tom Morley
Kétire
Road
Groveton
Courthouse Finds Long-Forgotten Federal Land Patents
A cache of old papers unearthed in the Greeley Colorado courthouse by County Clerk J. E. Snook includes land patents issued under presidents Jackson Grant Arthur and Chester A. Arthur. Patents list Jeremiah Williams Elizabeth Cochran James Russell Samuel Roberts Michael Carey and John Benson with dates ranging 1874 to 1887.
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Presid Jackson
Arthur
Grant
Greeley
Colo
J. E. Snook
Jeremiah Williams
Clum
Andrew Jackson
Elizabeth Cochran
United States
James Russell
Samuel Roberts
Chester A. Arthur
Michael Carey
John Benson
Cards in Capitol Pillar Found at Jefferson City
A deck of playing cards, well preserved, was found buried eighty one years ago between sandstone blocks forming pillars at the entrance of the old Missouri state capital in Jefferson City. The cards were discovered in a hole used to hoist the stones and bear no names or inscriptions.
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Jefferson City
Jefferson
Suffragists to Storm Resorts This Summer
The equal suffrage movement plans summer campaigns at mountain and seaside resorts. Hundreds of suffrage orators will tour Bar Harbor to the Pacific coast urging support. Anticipation builds for a final push in Washington as the house combat looms.
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Bar Harbor
Pacific Coast
Washington
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