Victorian Poem and Jocular Anecdotes in Public Life
A miscellany blends a lament on memory and death with a flood of boyish quips and moralizing anecdotes. The piece opens with a lyrical meditation on loss and Fate, then shifts to humorous vignettes from a Rochester street and a Little Rock Gazette style exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Zeb Wilson
Lemmy
Oman
Ike
Jim
Judas
Catt
Joshua
Abel
Cain
Chicago
Poem Fragments on Faith and Integrity
A fragmentary verse voice comforts amid stormy doubts. It affirms steady faith and truth telling, valuing love over spite and neighborliness over spying as anchors against the gale.
Out-of-doors Hop Bitters Promoted for Factory Ailments
The text extols Hop Bitters as the best remedy for factory workers with pallid faces poor appetite and urinary troubles, claiming health and rosy cheeks with outdoor access. It also notes a humorous Albany railway incident involving two Vassar College girls and a brakeman, and ends with scattershot jokes about Boratab and Tina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Recorder
Albany Argus
Vassar College
Albany and Susquehanna
Wa Station
Larg Land
Uncle Ham on Jury Bias in Arnold Murder Case
The Newport State Journal quotes Uncle Ham arguing the jury verdict was foregone due to constitutional fails. He contends Kentucky juries require a sprinkling of honesty from both races and urges mixed juries to ensure justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
State Journal
Old Ham
Arnold
Uncle Ham
Kaintuck
Day Kidney Pad touted as remedy for kidney disease
The article lauds the Day's Kidney Pad as a superior remedy for kidney disease, claiming its vegetable content and curative merits have impressed the medical profession and many patients, though the text ends with an incomplete quote about fortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bright
DAY Kidney Pad Co
Toledo
Ohio
H. C. Firth
Bevolke rang der Erde and the old store memory tale
A fragmented reminiscence recalls boyhood near a tearing old building and a store man with beans in a cup. It shifts to a Pall Mall Gazette feature on Behm and Wagner about world population, census data, and African area estimates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pall Mall Gasette
Behm and
Wagner
Bevolkerang der Erde
Behm
Spain
Portugal
Greece
Bosnia and Herzegovina
New Zealand
Peru
Denmark
Europe
Asia
Africa
America
Australia
Polynesia
North Polar
Iceland
Greenland
United States
Herren Behm
South America
A New Negro Type. satirical notes on labor and social change
The Griffin Georgia paper comments on a nascent “new cotton-field darkey” stereotype observed in Bibb county, joking that workers will demand umbrellas ice water and fly protections. It mocks fashionably minded attitudes, hints at political campaigning, and lampoons social fantasies with thinly veiled caricatures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Darkey
Bibb County
Macon
Antiquity beliefs and modern quips mingle in early superstitions
A Balwin's Monthly writer traces Celtic effigies and metal nimbus charms linked to luck, horse shoe symbolism, and doorway protection. The piece shifts to humorous quotes from Artemus Ward and Edward Evarts, mentions Hall's hair product, and ends with moral homilies about doing good despite worldly ingratitude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Balwin
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Eque Terry Cooke
H ‘Wigkeat Ei Hg
Mike Ee’ Gong Ral
Papa
Nix
Johnny
Ned
Brooklyn
Ultima Veritas
Faith
Him
Nat
Lawson
Boratab
Tina
Little Rock (Ark
Sassafras, Kent Co
Dr. Bull
J. E. Hartley
Ware
Griffin (Ga
Galveston
Gilheoly
Asthe
Eta
Evarts
Artemus Ward
Hall
Heaven
C. C. Cornett’s
St. Madison, Ind
Madison Herald
Bill Heads
Main Street
American Newspaper Directory
Edistor
Beat
GEO. P. Rowell & Co., Publishers
Spruce St
New York
W T. Friedley
Madison, Ind
Masonic Temple
J. B. Weber
Main Cross
Second Sts
Madison
Endiana
Indiana
Jefferyonville
Madis
Maison
North Vernon
Columbaz
Accommodation
Indianapolis
Columbus
Veruca
ST. Louis
West
Kansas
Cincinnati
Louieville
Hare
Puinte
Pepot
R. P. Gahr
F.& M. Ins. Co
Second Stret
Mulberry
N. R. Dering
Louisville
W. McKensa
Eup
U. S
Louinville
Sandzys
Williams & Barton
Louis A. Sherley
Pike
Sbanday
Thomas Sherlock
Carrollton
Louisville Packet
Maggie Harper
R. Humphrey
J. M. Gittyer
Qerk
Madigen
Pamengera
Williams, Barton & Co
Daily Mania
Clowca
J. RB. R
M. KR. R
Stony Point
Mad Lick
Bryantsburg
Rexville
St. Magdalene
New Marion
Titusville
Canaan
Haney’s
Barboursville
Versailles
Manville
Moorefield
Home
Craig
Long Run
Vevay
F. Harper
Main and
Main Cross St
Helman
Humphrey
Brown
Bartlett & Mason
J.B
PF. Harper
A. D. Vanosbol
Attorney At Law
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