Two Lovers on a Monument Tour in Washington
A young South Carolina teacher and a westward bound man meet by chance on a Washington monument bench. They share loneliness and budding affection as they plan to tour Arlington and the river view, then face a hopeful farewell with a four leaf clover wish.
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Washington Monument
Rhoda Jamison
Rhoda
Washington
Congressional Library
Capitol
White House
Tam
Carson City
South Carolina
Rome
Wwe
Strich
Ike
Washigvine
Arlington
Petomar
Usl
Tier
Fox and Gibbon at Auction Inspire Remarkable Bidding
A sale of Charles James Fox furniture revealed a gift copy of Gibbon’s Roman history. The note, penned by Gibbon, accused ministers of treachery, sparking bidders to push the book’s price to 3 guineas.
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Heman
Anyious
Times
Better Than the Music in a Remote Australian Camp
Fragmentary text recalls a dusted Australian mining camp era with no families, only hard men and itinerant musicians. A scattered line mentions a baby and a wandering band, hinting at harsh frontier life and cultural intrusion amid rugged labor.
Napoleon and Josephine and the doomed marriage
The Saint James Gazette argues Napoleon chose a Russian princess as wife to secure a dynasty but warns the match doomed France. It notes a cascade from the Vienna triumph to a Russian campaign, claiming the union began with the hope of saving France but led to empire’s ruin.
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Josephine
Napoleon
France
Europe
Wagram
Austria
Vienna
Marie Antoinette
Russia
St. Petersburg
St. James
Birds eggs and nesting notes from a newspaper excerpt
The passage catalogs hummingbird phoebe bobolink mockingbird and oriole nests with four to six blue green or white eggs, plus a joke about a real estate broker and a repeated mishearing during a handshake, illustrating oddball animal lore and a light anecdote.
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St. Louis Republic
Two Irish Brothers and a Shared Whisky Bottle
In a London Answers item, two sons of Erin sleep side by side and share a bottle of whisky. Pat waits for Mike to sleep, then quietly drains the bottle. Mike wakes, searches in the dark, and is teased about what he seeks, with the punchline about the bottle found in the corner.
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Erin
Pat
Mike
London
Veracious Verger: guessing who lies in the corner
A Skeptical Tourist questions a guidebook about who lies in the corner and the figures named William the Cenker Guy Fox Robin Hood and Wolsey are mentioned in a playful exchange set in London.
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William the Cenker
Guy Fox
Robin ‘God
Carolinal Wolsey
London
Canary Eater Recalled During Absence in Chicago News
A dialogue about feeding the cat while mistress is away surfaces in a Chicago News item. The servant and mistress debate whether the cat was well supplied, with a playful aside about someone who ate the canary.
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Lovato
Chicago News
Penalty of Loaning Umbrella Sparks Local Quip
A humorous exchange about a loaned umbrella appears in a Milwaukee Sentinel item. A resident asks why the umbrella was not returned after being lent to a neighbor named Tompkins, noting the mislaid item and the playful blame in the neighborhood anecdote.
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Tompkins
Milwaukee Sentinel
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Mary McKeon
Caidebook
Mills County
Malvern, Iowa
J. T. Ward
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