The Limit And The Laughable World Of Quips
A collage of verses and cartoons from early humor pages. It features rhymed observations about fashion mishaps and a playful tale of a porch court scene. Anecdotes about a maid mixing slippers and a milking device contrast everyday folly with sly social satire.
Her Feelings About the Engagement Ring Conflict
A reader dispute quotes a line about returning a diamond ring after breaking an engagement. The reply asserts continued feeling for the ring despite ending relations with Jack. The exchange appears in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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Jack
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Measles cure price joke and daylight burglary quip
A humorous exchange about curing a boy of measles ends with a physician offering no charge while earning 10 percent from every infected child. In a separate line, a magistrate questions a daylight burglary, and the accused jokes about others to cover that evening, in witty London chatter.
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Puck
London Evening Standard
Bacon-What did you give for that cigar you're smoking
Egbert-Nothing. Is it good. Well, it's good for nothing. YTon kers Statesman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silas
Youngstown
Egbert
Ytonkers Statesman
No Chance For an Argument in Chicago Tribune Scare
A humorous misquote about a waiter questions whether the meat is horse or beet. The lines reflect a grim, provocative exchange cited by the Chicago Tribune and Boston Transcript with references to silent women and a man lacking courage.
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Chicago Tribune
Bostor Transcript
Roughness of baseballs makes curves possible, study notes
A discussion explains that a baseball’s irregular surface creates air roughness that causes curvature in its flight. Even a perfect sphere could not be made to curve, and the same roughness principle applies to billiard balls and gas sphere experiments, underscoring limits of perfect spherical manufacture.
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Kpack
Alps
Yellowstone Park
New York American
Doomed to a Living Death in Cayenne Prison
Charles Wellington Furlong reports from Cayenne where French colonial convicts endure brutal conditions. Guards patrol barred dormitories as inmates clash with makeshift weapons, some die in the night while a tyrannical secret society holds power. Hope fades among the incarcerated Unsparing detail recalls a grim penal regime.
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Cayenne
Lange
Equatorial South America
Herve
Hoventida
Niet
Vreneh Cinland
Nourder
Charles Wellington Furlong
Harper's Magazine
Varicose Veins Causes and Treatments Explained
An overview explains varicose veins as enlarged twisted leg veins caused by blood stagnation, with hereditary factors and prolonged standing as typical triggers. Symptoms include leg weight and dull evening aches, sometimes cramps, and possible complications like thrombosis or phlebitis. milder cases respond to rest and bandaging, while severe cases may need surgery.
Eating and Talking Quote Collection
A compact quotation from New Orleans Picayune on excess in eating and talking. It contrasts abundant food with abundant conversation and reflects a Peabody saying about mastery of self and task.
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New Orleans Picayune
Eskimo Hospitality Described By Stefansson In Arctic Tale
In Harper's Magazine, Stefansson recounts Eskimo hospitality from My Quest In the Arctic. He describes first meetings with white visitors mistaken for spirits, and hosts who warmly welcome three guests among forty, sharing seal meat and fish soup served from a lamp-lit pot.
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Villijalhur Stefanesen
Arctic
Tlarper
Hiwself
Was Hamlet Fat In the London Express Opinion
The London Express asserts Hamlet’s fatness shaped his personality and fate, citing soliloquies and lines from the play. It argues fatness appears as a personal affliction influencing thoughts, actions, and vengeance, framing Hamlets as a lethargic, tortured prince.
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Hinnitet
Wien
Bethorgic
Thinlet
Mimlet
Tex
Polonius
Hariigue
Fattess
London Express
Local Gossip and Brides and Weddings in Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury notes tell of visitors and visits among Jed Dank Marlboro and Marlboro residents. Mentions include Mrs Howard Hateline and Helen Roberson visiting Mine Eva Green and relatives at Red Tank. Katherine Sickles wed Louise Dowling’s nuptials with Kenneth Parker at the Chapel.
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Mise
Helen Roberson
Jed Dank
Howard Hateline
Miew
Marion Stryker
Marlboro
Eva Green
William Whiter
Allen
Allentiwreat
Winter
Tink
Howard A. Gulliademu
Howard, Jr
Hirley
Givaree Weapel
Red Tank
Tavising
George Silver
Daniel Lane
Emma Morford
Winnepemikee
New Hampshire
John &. Utes
Long Uranch
Spens
Charles Th. Alurley
John Th van Vileh
Luarne Leat
Katherine Sickles
Louise Dowling
Kenneth Parker
Miss Sickles
Cocare
Doll Gift Persuades Apaches to Rejoin Reservation
Major Rourke aided General Crook by giving a papoose a doll from the adjutant’s wife. The Apache girl’s attachment triggered a shift, leading the Aywehes to return to the reservation and prompting favorable reception of the child’s mother at the fort. The doll’s influence helped reunite the band with their people.
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Major Rourke
Crook
Bin
Rourke
St. Louis Republic
Money and Poems of Tennyson by Strahan Co
The article notes Tennyson’s income from Strahan & Co after sixties arrangements paying £25,000 yearly for Looks and profits on new work, with about £30,000 per new volume and a long, steady annual figure around £50,160. It includes humorous quips and snippets about jokes and verses.
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Tennyson
Lord Tennyson
Strahan & Co
New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
7Th Avenue
32D
Cortlandt Street
Hudson Terminal
Church and
Cortlandt Streets
Central Railroad of
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Forty Street
West Leave
Long Branch
Wis
Hed Bank
Elizabet
Newark
Elizabeth
Red Rink
Flivats
Red Bank
Atawin
Perth Amboy
Amy
Matawan
Ashbury
Ocean Grove
Belmar
Burr Lake
Manasquan
Point Pleasant
Point Pendant
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Point Measant
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Mount Pleasant
Freehold
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Philadelphia
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Beneaves
L. W. Berry
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G. Wc. Hope
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A. Orr
Notable Creditors Barred in New Jersey Case
A Monmouth County case from New Jersey halts creditor claims. The docket notes a decision dated June 24 and involves estate administration and the New Jersey court system.
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Robert ©. Adamson, Sr
Dizzle
Adaisson
County of
Monmouth
Robert C. Adamson, SR
Henry
Terhune
Anwlin Wents
Margaret Bell
Tamhur Ambiaa Wenty
Amelia Wentz
Long Branch
N. J
New York
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Knave
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Fred
Anne Domini
Mother
Mary Parsons
Chicago
Ferald
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Baltimore American
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Stefansson
Long Branch Daily Record
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Shrewsbury News
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Chicago News
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Marion
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Record Building
William Asher Stevens
P.O. Building
J. W. Seaman
Commissioner of Deeds
Broadway
Clarence G. van. ‘Note
Chancery
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Henry 8. Terhune
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Post Office
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