Maria Worried by Housewife Duties In Vermont Tale
A Vermont governor tells a after dinner story about a rural couple in Montpelier who admire a cuckoo clock in a jeweler window. The farmer asks to buy it, but Maria resists, saying she has plenty to care for with chickens ducks geese and turkeys. The tale, cited from the Philadelphia Telegraph, satirizes domestic burden.
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Fletcher
Vermont
Montpelier
Maria
Hezekiah
Philadelphia Telegraph
Voices of the Night Interrupted by Noisy Street Scene
Readable dialogue captures a sleepless night with a busted tire, coal order worries, a wary neighbor, a distant motorcycle, and a baby needing a walk. Miscellaneous exclamations include a cat and a thwarted dream of an earthquake. A fragmentary slice of urban life reported in terse, period voice.
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Marin
John
George
Duckie
A Look Beyond
A brief dialogue reveals a tense exchange where one speaker claims deep happiness while the other cautions there is no happiness to come, hinting at an unresolved romance. The fragment hints at contrasting desires and emotional stakes between two unnamed speakers.
Fine Distinctions in Rich Families Speech
A quip contrasts two daughters of millionaires who do not speak, explaining the rift via legal clauses. One father earned money in refined sugar, the other in crude oil, illustrating social and financial divides through a pun on inheritance and contracts.
Drifted Apart Engagement Fell Amid Self Doubt
Dialogue reveals a couple drifting after a confession of unworthiness. He says he felt unworthy and she agrees, causing their courtship to languish as their two loving hearts drift apart.
A Woman's Question About a Bank Check
A humorous exchange unfolds as a woman asks to cash a check and the paying teller replies there is not enough money to cover it. She then proposes meeting it halfway, highlighting a witty moment about finance and negotiation.
Some Weight Injury Report Mentioned in Cob Web Corner
A fragment notes Cholly complaining about something on his mind and JT observing him strike his head against a cobwebbed corner, suggesting a troubling incident or moment captured in a terse report. The sparse text focuses on internal distress and a physical action inferred in a confined space.
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Cholly
Fond Wife Talks Practical Budget In Early Married Life
In a humorous scene from the Cleveland Plain Dealer a young couple to plan a weekly allowance. The groom earns $3,000 yearly while the bride with her mother proposes a $5 weekly budget for groceries meals and car fare. She argues it will cover essentials and leave room for happiness.
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Mamma
Mammal
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Money Wasted Yawn Named in Living Costs
Harold laments the high cost of living costing him ten thousand a year while Evelyn criticizes the expense as foolish and unnecessary, highlighting a casual exchange over money.
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Harold
Evelyn
Those Gift Cigars Confess A Christmas Mixup
Hemmenhaw shares a joke with his best friend about a box of cigars given by his wife for Christmas. He reveals he has handed them out all day and saved the last one for his friend, who discovers the cigars were the best he could find in town.
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Hemmenhaw
Rapid Descent at New York Art Exhibition
Two Boston men debate a post-impressionist canvas in an New York exhibition. One calls it the worst yet, a tangled mass of streaks and splotches. The other suggests the fault lies in the title, proposing a specific scene of a figure descending stairs after a scrub woman left soap on the top step.
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New York
Boston
Proving It on Misplaced Propositions
A dialogue shows a misunderstanding about English phrasing as a traveler discusses living with the old man versus living on the old man. The exchange highlights how foreign speakers misplace propositions, causing humorous or awkward intent.
Aldrich Missed and the Elastic Currency Debate
A dialogue unfolds about character and stability with a joke on currency. The Old Fogg questions elasticity while the Grouch replies the currency is elastic enough and jokes about making it more adhesive. A poor woman comments on her husband in jail and his hustler image.
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Aldrich
Compensations in a Black Humor Exchange
A fragment portrays a grim speculative line about "killing idiots" as a scientific idea, followed by a wry counterpoint that erases any few remaining minds to stop any further trouble. The exchange hints at satire on eugenic or utilitarian notions without naming persons or places.
Element of Uncertainty in Tariff Debate
Senator Sorghum comments on tariffs as a vote getter before an election but warns it may cost votes in the next cycle. He notes the tariff’s political risk and implies caution in policy banking on short term gains.
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Sorghum
Kitty’s Candidate shows reform clash in political family
Carl Agnew, a young lawyer urged as reform candidate, wins trust of Kitty St. Clair and her boss father Boss St. Clair, who plans to mold him. The pair debate integrity versus influence as Agnew pledges reform while St. Clair pressures ties to the K and C railroad, risking his edge with voters. Kitty asserts her independence and vows to support integrity over manipulation.
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John Philip Orth
Carl Agnew
Reform
Kitty St. Clair
Miss Kitty Way
Mr. Agnew
Boss St. Clair
Agnew
Court House
Lere
Doss St. Clair
Misa Kitty
St. Clair
K. of C
Miss Kitty
Lil
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
He Demande Protection Calls for Intervention in Mexico
A speaker asserts Mexican troubles hinder American business interests and urges intervention. He explains efforts to organize a racing meet blocked in the United States, prompting questions about which interests are involved.
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Mexico
United States
Greatest enemy of apple is moth in orchard guidance
This 1918 article explains the life cycle of the apple moth, from cocoon to winged moth, and outlines control methods. It notes timing for sprays with arsenate of lead, Paris green and Bordeaux mixture, and highlights woodpeckers and nuthatches as natural pest controllers.
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Paris
Bordeaux
Early spring lettuce thrives with careful bed prep
A seasoned gardener describes raising the first lettuce of spring. She locates the bed south of a grape arbor in a sheltered dry spot, banks it with deep manure and poultry droppings, digs it in March, and covers with mats and carpets to buffer freezing. The result is lettuce ready for use earlier than other gardens.
Sunflower Seed For The Poultry And Home Gardens
Sunflower seed feeds poultry and blends with grains as winter food for laying hens, with Russian variety favored for higher yields. In Russia the seed is milled for bread and cake mixed with rye flour. Sunflower cake serves as cattle and horse feed, soil suitable as corn grows it. four quarts seed per acre, planted late April in four-foot rows. An acre yields 2 to 35 bushels. stalks make kindling. Deep rich soil recommended. Russian single-headed type outproduces American. One quarter acre can feed several hundred hens. Seed price about 18 cents per pound.
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Russia
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