Jumble of Humorous Fragments From Historic Page
A collage of old joke snippets and light gossip pieces, featuring a golemn nature taker retelling a bizarre fish tale on a stage, a verse about flying, clothing and courtship jokes, family quips, a doctor pun about marriage, and light neighborly banter. Names and dates are era specific but fragmentary. The tone echoes early 20th century humor columns in Chicago papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
Ontaldo
Chicago Daily News
Coldly Considered Among Friends in Newspapers
A fragmented exchange notes a statesman denying graft and a senator weighing honesty against rejection. The Washington Star quote blurs with Peggy’s gaze and Yonkers Statesman remarks about her aloof airs. The dialogue hints at political tension and public perception across papers.
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Sorghan
Washington Star
Patience
Peggy
Mll
Patrige
Yonkers Statesman
Imp wasity: comic snippets from New York and Chicago papers
A collage of humorous quotes and misread dialogue from Mrs. Gabb and Mrs. Gadd in a New York Weekly item, plus observations from Chicago Tribune and Succinctly Stated. The piece lampoons shopping, mispronunciations, and a stockholder’s quip about maximizing nickels with minimal cost.
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Chicago Tribune
Whimsical Fragments From The Chicago Daily News Style Talk
A mosaic of quirky quotes and banter from the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Daily News. Witty exchanges touch on buzzing rumors and mistaken voices. Suspected mishearing provokes laughter as characters discuss flying wings and domestic chatter.
Rhubarb Uses and Dishes From Early Home Recipes
Rhubarb is described as healthful for digestion skin and blood with tonic effects. It notes stalk acidity and small sugar content two percent and includes recipes such as rhubarb and fig jam rhubarb Charlotte rhubarb mold and chocolate pudding with steps and ingredients.
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Charlotte
Colored Lace Curtains Cleaning Method
Cleaning colored lace curtains involves removing them, brushing dust, and laying on a sheet. Use a cornmeal treatment with gasoline dampened cloth to brush the meal into the fabric, dry, then air out, shake out cornmeal, press, and hang for bright results.
Sewing Tip for Delicate Amichine Materials
For Thin Seame, when stitching on delicate fabric, place a long strip of newspaper beside the feed to prevent puckering and snarling. The paper also helps keep a bias seam from stretching during stitching.
Eggs a la Queen and related egg dishes with garnish
Recipe notes describe elaborate egg preparations including Eggs a la Ross style and a crusted bread cup method. It outlines making yolk butter caviar dressing, tomato slices with vinaigrette, and assembling hollow bread cases filled with cream and egg then baked. Garnishes include cress parsley and piccalilli-like accents.
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la Ross
Secure Air in Homes With Simple Vent Gratings
Suburban Life urges constant room ventilation in steam heated houses without flues. Installopen gratings at top of rooms with a tap to act as inlet and prevent drafts. Also suggests a lower sash-ribbon outlet to draw fresh air without causing discomfort. Includes a lemon rind candying method using orange peels and rind for desserts.
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Oures
Maple Sugar Shortcake and Brown Mushroom Sauce
Rich shortcake dough combines flour sour cream soda salt and maple sugar baked with butter and maple syrup poured over hot. Mushroom sauce steeps mushrooms in stock with lemon juice and browned butter thickened with flour then seasoned. Ironing tips suggest folding a towel to press and smooth fabric edges for shirt waist stitching.
Inverted Stove Top Trick Sparks Cabbage Chopper Tale
A fragmented note describes an improvised vegetable chopper using a can heated on a stove. The top is inverted and crowned with a sharpened edge, holes bored in the bottom, creating a crude tool for slicing.
Gentle Hints and Patent Remedies in a Public Notice
A fragmentary 19th century clipping quotes a moralizing bachelor and a girl, interspersed with advertisements for Allen’s Foot-Easer and Potter’s Eye Salve. It references life and folly, warns against idleness, and promotes cigars and remedies sold by druggists and factories.
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Tall Fish Story
Dolly
Polly
Mami
Jasper
Mammi
Higs
Tribune
Jonesby
Chicago
Smithson
Jinke
Blake
Utica Observer
Mr. MeMicken
Miss Wearle
Parente
Venus
Mary
Yonkere Statesman
Wareham
Binks
Wicka
Clark
Miss de Swalla
Miss da Swelle
Sraith House
Walste
Une Allen
al Druggista
Olmsted
le Rox
Potti
Agg Gute
Howard
Lewis
Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
Samuel Pvtgrer
Fimphis Saed - Aisdeane Claro’ Sheng Sieve
the Centaur Company
New York
Eee Tones
Fooday
Bears
USA
Castoria
Messere
Beverly
California
N.k—A
Cay
W.l.douglas
South Dakota
New Empire
le Real
Splandid Oppertoniden
CUTTS
Garavanza Mining & Milling Co
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Treasury
Grant
Usab
Leda Sbelly
Chen Zasit
Ang Arbor
Godfrey
Darling
Ornamantala
Cemeterien
Parka
Perm
Fisid
L. Bondy
Er Tron
Dearborn Street
Iate
Denon
Dimwit County
Texas
Denton
Ban Auvtonio
Rugean
Mars
Florida
Owaur
Tul Ieud Dow
Western
Canada
Alberta
C.J. Brodorton
W. HM. Rogers
Anaentacas
Batinie
Anakesis
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