Trains Arrive From East and North Schedule
A busy railway notice outlines train arrivals and departures from the east and north with freight and passenger services. It lists specific departure times including 4:20 p m ex Sunday freight No 9 and 10:5 a m daily freight No 15, plus various north and south bound services and connections. The undersigned agent F Clare offers routing, rates, and insurance information and invites inquiries by mail or phone.
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Piase
Canada
Hideiite & Traveler's Insurance Co
Uni
Clare Gence
Ro Mitch
Puns and Punsters in British Wit A Brief History
A discussion of punning as a literary form with examples from Johnson, Lamb, Hood, Jerrold, Hall, and others. It contrasts wit and humor, notes that puns rely on sound and sense, and cites playful anecdotes from classical and contemporary writers highlighting the craft and limits of punning.
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Tom
Johnson Sald
Sydney Smith
Planchet
Brough
Gilbert
Capu
Quincey
Linus Lamia
Domitian
Cicero
Verres
Tennyson
Charles Lamb
Douglas Jerrold
Jerrold
Oxford
Prithee
Tom Hood
Theodore Hook
Hood
Hook
Frederick Locker
John Hill Burton
Lord Norbury
Bret Harte
Soapy
Sam
Scem
Philadelphia
Broken Hand Mirror Sparks Seven Years Of Sorrow
In a Detrait Free Press excerpt a girl frets after breaking her hand mirror and learns her friends insist seven years of bad luck follow. A friend dismisses the fracture as a mere moisture streak, and the group resolves to tell the girl the quarrel never happened to lift her spirits.
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Charlie
Trav
Sue Garland
Jeff
Sue
Sune
Humorous Kentucky Passages About Humphrey Marshall
An 19th century humorous sketch in The Century quotes Humphrey Marshall a Confederate general and Kentucky politician as a boastful, debating figure. It recounts his warnings to northern officers, his money troubles after the war, a stubborn debt collector, and a quip contrasting Mr. Blank’s evasive debating style to a bobolink zigzagging along a worm fence.
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Humphrey Marshall
Edward J. McDermott
Congress
Kentucky
Blank
Marshall
Priest’s Bold Request Shocks Delmonico’s Patrons
A New York World anecdote credits Father Ducey of St. Leo’s with persuading a table of wealthy non Catholics at Delmonico’s to donate $100 for a destitute family. The priest reportedly announced he had just visited a dying relative and needed funds, receiving contributions from each man at midnight.
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Father Ducey
St. Leo’s
Delmonico
New York
Warning to Kentucky parents over family naming trends
A Louisville Post note warns Knott county families on Caney Creek about naming children after relatives. The Sloan clan reportedly includes many variants such as Big Isom Sloan Hard's Isom Son's Isom Isom's Isom Jailer Isom Sorrel Head Isom Jim's Isom Little Isom Andys Isom Summ's Isom Jimbo's Isom Big Isom's Isom and Sorrel Head L Isom's Isom.
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Summ
Jimbo
Louisville Post
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