Love in the Wilds Leads to a Wilderness Engagement
In a New York family tale, four sisters face debt and boredom. Gladys volunteers to live with Uncle Paul at Lake Molechunkamunk after declaring independence from a life of creditor pressure. There she meets Darrell Mandeville, a wounded Wall Street broker, who recovers under Uncle Paul’s care and declares his love.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juliet
Dora
Mrs. Temple
Frank
Stefani
Rosie
Paul
Maine
Rangeley Lakes
Jake
Gladys
Julie
Lake Molechunkamunk
New York
Darrell Mandeville
Miss Dorrance
Wall Street
Miss Garland
Mr. Mandeville
Glen
Ulysses and
The
Mra. Temple
Midnight Bridge Laughs and Cracked Grammar Jests
A collage of jokes and light verse from a late 19th or early 20th century paper. Bits include a midnight bridge scene about losing money, quips on deafness from bee stings, schoolhouse humor, a debate on knickerbockers, and playful wordplay about agnostics and yellocation. Strong names not clearly identified.
No Importance Official What’s that Beer Wagon Incident
A fragment collection presents a series of quick vignettes and quips. Observations range from a mistaken alert about a bicycle incident to a running gag about a beer wagon. The tone echoes a light newspaper humor page with dialogue snippets.
Dinner and dessert jokes and wedding views in clippings
A collage of light jokes and social glimpses: dinner bans, London dining fads, dessert musings, a mother asking about suffrage and registration, and gossip from Detroit papers. It weaves humor with small domestic scenes and eve of change reflections.
Almanac and Hostetter’s Bitters Promoted in 1885 Ads
A 19th century pamphlet note highlights a yearly Hostetter Company almanac from Pittsburg describing its contents including calendar, astronomical calculations, verses, and statistics. It claims multilingual printing and free distribution through grocers and dealers, with preparations by hands in the company’s mechanical department. The piece also mentions a flower show prize chrysanthemum image and a blue corner mark for identification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hostetter
Hostetter Company
Pittsburg
Also Mentioned on This Page
Love IN the
Wilds
Juliet Garland
Juanita
Dot—Mamma
Roy
Grrandma
Johnny
Ethel
Tye
Dubuque
Ike Tommy
Sons of Toil
Papa
West
Mr. Newedd
New York Weekly
Nancipal
Inet
John Jones
Detroit Tribune
Mr. Winsome
Mr. Gabay
Mia
Detroit
Jaowock
Scrofula
Hood
Ela
Mars
John Carle & Sons
Schrage
M. D
Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co
Dearborn St
Chicago
Colchester
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!