02 Mar 1876
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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1876
Page
1
A satirical portrait from the Indianapolis Sunday Herald argues that married men embody various flaws from egotism to hypocrisy. It compares male behavior to fearsome foibles and common vices, warning young women to beware and imitate caution from experience.
In Kentucky a gentleman traveling to Bowling Green by Green River boat meets another passenger who resembles his long lost brother. After Schroeder-like irony, the Texas visitor reveals they are brothers who had not seen each other for years. Both men had shared conversations and a day and night aboard the same boat without recognizing kin.
A readers’ clipping presents a mosaic of jokes, wordplay, and brief notices touching on tax puns, lovesickness, a Chinese minister, police force debate, and a mock statistic about ammunition losses with the caption Lead Astray.
A jumbled set of quips and vignettes includes a geologist remark about secondary formations, Sunday barber rules in Jersey City, foremen hammering coats hooks in Western newsrooms, a New Orleans boiler death with a macabre epitaph, and assorted banter on temperance, finance, and Parisian slang.
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