Jester Carl Dunder Foils Counterfeit Scheme at Woodbridge
In Detroit Free Press style humor, Carl Dunder walks into Woodbridge Street station with a grin and pits an unsteady traveler in a counterfeit sting. A Toledo train misdirection and a ten dollar bluff reveal the man's confusion and a comic misidentification as Smith.
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Gome
Sergeant Bendall
Carl Dunger
Woodbridge Street
Third Street
Depot
Toledo
Gellal Smith
Podunk
Smith
Mith
Carl Dunder
Mr. Dann
C. O
Detroit Free Press
Dinner at Chamberlains Impresses A Critic
The writer recalls dining at Chamberlains with connoisseurship and good judgment. The meal featured creme of asparagus soup, broiled shad, spring chicken fried Maryland style, lettuce and tomato salad, and coffee. The tone reflects satisfaction with the dinner and a nod to Ward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain’s
Sam
Ward
Washington
Dead Postmortem Purchase Lights Up Funeral Folly
A tale of a cynical old man in a tenement district who staged a postmortem joke by paying for a pompous funeral. Anonymously rich in death, he left no family or friends, yet his sendoff featured hired pallbearers, luxury hearse, and a church filled with for show mementos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schopenhauer
One-Horse
Fock Suti
How Roses Broom Hybrid Perpetual Roses Bloom
Hybrid perpetual roses bloom most on shoots from old wood. Each spring cut out canes that have wasted a season. Pegging down sends remaining canes toward the ground to slow sap flow and boost buds and flowers. Upright growth benefits from cutting canes in half. Seed production favors less rich soil to improve seed quality. Ensure sun and wind protection for all roses.
Anti-Male Social Club Promises Glorious Meeting
A lively note recalls Miss Antique organizing an Anti-Male Social Club with over fifty young ladies ready to attend. The first event features Miss Highnote singing and Miss Ivory playing, with recitations by Miss Totter and readers bringing works. A companion reports a canceled turnout due to an invitation to the theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antique
Ynan
Separation of Partners Ends Dramatic Stage Alliance
A Broadway style stage farewell unfolds as Mr Bonstammer and Mr Hahm announce the dissolution of their partnership. Each praises the other’s virtues, with feigned sorrow and enthusiastic audience acclaim, before veteran actors depart amid applause and joking quips.
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Bonstammer
Hahim
Hahm
Mr. Hahm
Bonstemmer
Monotony in love ends with a gentle refusal
In a hushed exchange, Harry recalls asking Mande to marry him over three weeks, two weeks, and a week earlier, all answered with no. She fears monotony but finally concedes, and Harry remains silent as the moment ends.
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Mande
Harry
Stomach Bitters Promises Vitality and Digestive Aid
An advertisement extols Stomach Bitters as a potent remedy to overcome digestive and assimilative faults. It claims to restore vigor, regulate digestion, and improve brain and nervous function, noting benefits for malaria, dyspeptic, rheumatic, and kidney-affected individuals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Answered His Own Question in German Banker Scene
A German newspaper recounts an incident where Banker Rosenthal directs a book keeper to write a sharp note to Baron Y who repeatedly promised payment and failed. Rosenthal grows exasperated and writes a sarcastic reply identifying the baron as the one who broke promises, signing as his own servant.
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Anerch
Rosenthal
Baron Y
Baron
Messs Rosenthal
New York Graphic
Distanced in the Race and patent medicine blurbs
A jumble of ad copy and crude anecdotes circulates about patent medicines, cures for liver and digestion along with jokes and notices. It markets Dr Pierce and Sage remedies, a boy swallowing coins, a coroner editor confrontation, a seven year labor case, Lane’s Family Medicine, and promotional travel pitches, all in breezy, sensational tones.
Born Females and their Birthplaces Listed
A compilation notes birthplaces and dates for Julia Ward Howe Louisa M Alcott Helen Hunt Jackson Rose Terry Cook Harrist G Hosmer Frances E Willard Harriet Beecher Stown Louisa Chandler Moulton with a fragmentary humorous dialogue about engagements and a New York Weekly mention.
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Julia Ward Howe
New York
Louisa M. Alcott
Germantown
Helen Hunt Jackson
Amherst
Mans
Rose Terry Cook
Hartford
Conn
Harrist G. Hosmer
Watertown
Frances E. Willard
Churchville
N. Y
Harriet Beech
Noose and bacon at the market echoes race sway
A Detroit Free Press excerpt records a butcher joking with white washers about laws affecting Black folks. The exchange touches on oppression, crime talk, and two fingers lost in a chicken trap, as the speaker refuses to follow laws seen as targeting him, choosing bacon and potatoes instead.
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Detroit Free Press
Water as Beverage Mentioned by Temperance Advocate
Garbled text notes a temperance figure urging water consumption, with stray phrases about water being healthy and a character named Brther Bill. The fragment references a practice or exhortation, but coherent details or events are unclear.
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Wis
Brther
Bill
Rheumatic Cure Promised By Dr Hibbar d Syrup
A Jackson Michigan resident recounts a long battle with disposed stomach rheumatism. After years of illness and failed cures, he credits Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup and Pidsters with restoring his health, saying he has used thirteen bottles and is now well. He urges others with similar sickness to try the remedy.
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B. F. Johnson & Co
Richmond
Thad
Felora
America
Jackson, Mich
Gunrue
Soward Baker
Jackson Street
A Great Man of Six Feet Two Inches
A lively quip panel depicts Smith as “every inch a man” and jokingly notes he stands six feet two, prompting a playful remark that he is “a host in himself.”
National Educational Association Meeting to Nashville
National Educational Association holds annual meeting in Nashville from July 16 to 31 with travel on the Chicago and Nashville line via the Evansville route. The service promises through cars, deluxe Pullman palaces, and side trips to Mammoth Cave plus Louisville options. tickets go on sale July 1.
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National Educational Association
Nashville
Chicago
Ita
Mammoth Cave
Louisville
Dearborn
Chicnzo
Clark Street
Chhenga
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