Bernhardt to Perform Extra Matinee Friday
Margaret tells how Sarah Bernhardt agreed to an extra Friday matinee in America to suit a Philadelphia company. The diva normally rests Fridays but consented after her manager sought approval, allowing a rare afternoon performance amid constant daily shows. The ticket seller jokes about the workload.
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Margaret [Lington
Sarah Bernhardt
America
Madame Vs
Philadelphia
Madame X
Bernhardt
Sarah
Bernhard
Green Book Magazine
Jovial suitor parried livery-stable dig
A witty exchange where a stern parent asks if the young man can support his daughter in the lifestyle she is used to. The suitor boasts he can keep three horses, prompting a quip about not boarding her at a livery stable.
A Chicken Fancier Presents A Marital Elation
In a rustic exchange Dinah confirms marriage with a former cook. She says he is a good provider yet fears he may be captured by the bottle or other temptations, reflecting rural colloquial fears around matrimony and male virtues.
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Dinah
Yassum
Gwyne Ter
Low Speed Quip Sparks Talk on Chuggs Traffic Record
In a clipped exchange, one asks if Chuggs has ever been arrested for speeding. The reply: never. The curious implication follows about his driving pace, noting he cruises at about eight miles an hour.
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Chuggs
Deuce
Downpour Interlude Reflects Household Strife
A terse dialogue depicts a husband facing a wife’s tears as she begs, noting she is taller than Tam and cries openly. The speaker contemplates stepping aside to avoid confrontation, implying household strain and defensive posture in a moment of emotional distress.
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Tam
Bold banter on guns sparks a western quip
A snappy exchange contrasts a six-shooter with a six-foot figure as a bold robber joke. The dialogue hints at frontier toughness and comic bravado without graphic detail. The line showcases period voice and social attitudes in a compact quip.
Easily Pleased Jing Says He Can Marry Any Woman
In a sharp exchange, Jing asserts he may marry any woman he pleases. The counterpart replies that anyone should be able to marry a woman Jing pleases, highlighting a provocative claim about consent and social expectations.
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Jing
Gotrox’s Loss Traced To Heart Failure
A quip about Gotrox’s fortune ends in a pun on his demise. The speaker notes that Gotrox lost every dollar, and a listener asks if the failure was financial. The reply confirms the misfortune stemmed from heart failure.
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Gotrox
Sizing Him Up and The Warded Heiress
A humorous exchange features Judge sizing up a dubious young rider and Hyker-Doolittle condemning a rank failure turning into success. Pyker reframes the idea as a grand opposite, while a young heiress ward asks guidance from a local politician guardian who must protect her interests.
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Hyker
Doolittle
Pyker
Business Advice: My Face Is My Fortune
A quoted exchange on reputational risk notes that beauty or presentation can be an asset yet warns that such an investment may carry negative features. The dialogue contrasts public appeal with caution about long term costs in personal branding and commerce.
Not Conducive to Old Age Ninety-Two Says He Won’t Live Old
A Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph item recalls a West Point meeting between John Bigelow aged ninety two and Dr. S Weir Mitchell aged eighty. Bigelow credits abstinence sparing diet and no tobacco for long life while Mitchell claims heavy eating tobacco use and much exercise. Ninety two tells Eighty that he will never reach old age.
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John Bigelow
S. Weir Mitchell
West Point
Doctor Bigelow
Doctor Mitchell
Hearty Welcome At Pearly Gate Meets Fresh Arrival
Saint Peter greets a college graduate who declares himself “earth earthy” and is invited inside to help run the celestial realm offering his advice. The whimsical exchange frames new ideas entering a storied gate.
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St. Peter
The Hospitable Board Dinner Parties Comment
A dialogue from The Hospitable Board shows Mr Comrox noting guests initially avoided his wife's dinner parties, suggesting rising living costs influence attendance and perception of hospitality.
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Mr. Comrox
Would for Nothing Pup Tricks Gent to Kiss Scene
A comic exchange unfolds as a dog named Fido is ordered to sit up and demonstrate a kiss to a gentleman, who then offers dinner as a reward. The dialogue echoes playful bargaining and light domestic humor.
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Fido
What He Would Like
A brief overheard exchange shows a hobo asking for a nickel from an old lady. The woman questions his shame, and the hobo protests that he would like to own something, implying he has little. The scene captures a moment of street theater or social friction.
Manipulating the Scales and a Family Joke
A professor notes the daughter’s music progress while the mother quips that running scales may be an inherited trait. She remarks the father made his money in the grocery business, adding a humorous family tone to the exchange.
Had Practice with Chaucer Opinion at Harvard Lampoon
A humorous fragment shows the Harvard Lampoon mockingly praising a professor of English who claims to read Chaucer easily. The exchange mentions queer spellings and experience grading sophomores' papers, reflecting campus satire.
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Chaucer
Harvard Lampoon
No Diplomatic Concession in Eye Incident
A small boy’s father describes Willie Binks blocking the eye and notes there has been no apology. He refuses to call the incident an unfortunate accident, insisting on direct accountability.
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Willie Binks
Great Men in Town Seen in Patent Medicine Ad
A Detroit Free Press quip notes three local citizens appear in daily patent medicine advertisements, suggesting their pictures in public promotions while poking fun at perceived local fame. The item reflects humorous social commentary on advertising and local notoriety.
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Detroit Free Press
Not Safe Burglars Boast About Their Work
A witty aphorism on burglars who boast of their deeds. The quip notes that safe burglars avoid bragging since boasting would expose their methods and invite trouble. It reflects a noirish streetwise irony about crime and discretion.
Classy Conversation Turns Golf Talk At Barber Shop
A barber shop encounter turns into a golf conversation as a fashionable patron mocks small talk and leans into a talk about golf. The exchange highlights casual chatter and unexpected topics in a neighborhood setting.
Brown's Home Life Revealed in Quiet Domestic Scene
In a brief domestic vignette Mrs Brown explains her husband now stays home and enjoys life in his own way as she directs. The exchange centers on Mrs Brown’s comment about his absence from the club and her wish for his current lifestyle.
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Brown
Jones
Mrs. Brown
Parlor Carpet Accusation Cited As Sweeping Arraign ment
A speaker quips about a neighbor who never touches her parlor carpet, while the other retorts that such claim is a sweeping arraign ment. The exchange hints at domestic gossip framed as a legal entendre.
Of Course Paw Knew Little Lemuel Say
A playful dialogue about an upstart, defined by a self made paw as a pianist with no friendship. The verse uses a mock wisdom tone to describe an ambitious youth and social climb.
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Lemuel
Lemuel Learns What an Auction Means
Lemuel asks what an auction is and his father explains an auction as a place where items are sold to the highest bidder. The exchange frames auctioning as a learning moment in a family setting.
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Lemuel
Littie Lemuel
Destructive Heresies Sermon Examines False Teachers
A sermon discusses the meaning of heresy within early Christian communities, noting that destructive heresies deny Jesus Christ or distort his work. It warns that many modern teachers mix Bible content with omissions, and stresses defender duty regarding the person and work of Christ as central to the faith.
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Peter
Paul
Ephesus
Jesus Christ
Christ
God
Church
Virgin Mary
Pontius Pilate
David Brainerd on supreme love for God and readiness
A quote from David Brainerd asserting that true love for God unites God’s interests with the believer’s. He says it matters not when or where Christ sends him or what trials he endures if he is prepared for God’s work and will.
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Christ
David Brainerd
Tesla Sees Vision of Multitalker Wireless World
Nikola Tesla announced a patent for an invention that would eliminate static interference in wireless telephony and allow thousands to talk simultaneously between wireless stations. He envisaged users seeing each other by wireless regardless of distance and aimed to make New York a central exchange in a world system of wireless telephony with a station on Long Island.
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New York
Nikola Tesla
Long Island
Tesla
Electrical World
Hawaii
Arlington
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Naval Radio Station
Pearl Harbor
Miss Molen Namur Aims To Help Belgium War Effort
Miss Namur a popular leader and sought after girl in New York longs to be a nurse or relief worker for Belgium. She offers to aid war widows and children and has long participated in relief movements for the kingdom fighting in a war that has pained her ancestors. Her parents moved to the United States 49 years ago and she was born in New York.
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Miss Molen
Namur
Albert
Wartorn
Belgium
Miss Namur
United States
New York
Cats for food in Hungary spark price controls
Paris reports from The Figaro via Budapest on cats slain and dressed for food in the Biharkenszteser district where Italian residents are interned. Officials set a maximum price of three crowns per kilo after demand pushed prices to a prohibitive level, about 25 cents a pound.
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Paris
the Figaro
Budapest
Frankfurter Zeitung
Biharkenszteser
Hungary
Survivor recalls bark Egypt wreck and five day ordeal
The lone survivor, now visiting Kay county relatives, recounts the 66 year old Egypt tragedy. Sheridan, an 89 year old “sea dog,” describes drifting entombed in rigging after a September gale near the Bahama Bank. Thirteen crew survived five days with no food or fresh water before a New York bound vessel spotted them.
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Blackwell
Okla
Egypt
Kay County
Thin Earth
Sheridan
The
Dark
Portland
Gulf Stream
Banka of Bahama
New York
Brother Williamford’s Dorm Bakery Milestones at Notre Dame
In South Bend Indiana Brother William ford marks his fifteenth year heading the Notre Dame bakery. He estimates totals for the eatables baked since starting including 92 560 barrels of flour used 642 500 five pound loaves 16 425 000 cookies and nearly 20 000 000 buns for breakfast Pleas for the school come from the sisters at St Mary’s college.
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South Bend
Ind
Williamford
University of Notre Dame
St. Mary's College
Rockefeller and granddaughter alight at Tarrytown train
Oil magnate John D. Rockefeller and his granddaughter Madeline Prentice were seen alighting from a train at Tarrytown New York, receiving attention from onlookers as they exited together.
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John D. Rockefeller
Madeline Prentice
Tarrytown, N. Y
Lon ely Supper Marks 105th Birthday in Jeffersonville
Mrs Susan Quinlan, aged 105, celebrated at home in Jeffersonville Indiana with her son Charles present. Born in France to Frans Antoine who reportedly served Emperor Napoleon as a chef, she immigrated at 26 and has been married three times. Her last husband was Patrick Quinlan, a cafe proprietor, who died years ago.
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Jeffersonville
Ind—Mre
Susan Quinlan
Charles
Mrs. Quinlan
France
Frans Antoine
Napoleon
Patrick Quinlan
Wife Sues for Divorce Over Husband's Piety
In Everett Washington Mrs Pattison alleges Roy Pattison became consecrated to God in January 1913 and quit his wife. She asserts he hired her as a hired girl to manage the household and declared he no longer needed her as his wife due to his religious consecration.
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Washington
Everett, Wash
Roy Pattison
Remarkable Experience in Texas Storm Rescue
Houston Tex Minole Florea seventeen was carried sixty miles to safety on a door and log during the recent coastal storm that swept the area revealing remarkable endurance and local peril faced by residents.
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Houston
Tex
Minole Florea
Four-Leafed Clover Hobby Found in Iowa Visit
Shenandoah Ia reports J L Bader of Monticello Ia visiting and claiming five hundred four leaf clovers found in three weeks as his hobby. He spends spare time seeking them and on a Yorktown business trip found 100 in one day.
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Shenandoah
J. L. Bader
Monticello
Thia
Mr. Bader
Yorktown
Seized Dyed Codfish Painted to Look Like Salmon
Health officers seized dyed codfish painted to imitate salmon in New York, halting distribution of the misleading seafood. The action targets deceptive labeling and protects consumers from fraud.
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New York
Joash Reforms Temple and Calls for Liberality
A lesson from 878 B C recalls Joash fixing lethargic priestly neglect of the temple. He initiates reform, rallies generous giving, and restores worship, with Jehoiada guiding the effort. The text urges persistent, systematic church support and warns against self‑indulgent stewardship.
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Joash
House of God
Judah
Moses
Luther
Wesley
Cary
Thia
Israel
Hezekiah
Josiah
Jeholiada
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