Maid of Two and the Earth People in a Dream
A fragment filled with fanciful verses and tales of children and animals. It shifts from a moonlit dream about Earth people and stars to a Plymouth byways tale of two American boys posing as English citizens, then to Aunt Chloe counting toy clothes and a loyal dog Rover rescuing a sinking boat, ending with a vivid stock show report.
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Wittie
Kittie
Moe
Mamma
Chloe
Ely
Dollie
Kitty
Dolly
Missie
Detroit Free Press
Labour News and Oddities From The Era
The Labor World reports eight hour demands and wages like 3.25 in Boston, a San Francisco cooperative shoe factory, strikes by New South Wales shearers and Queensland workers, 64 cent yard cuts for silk plush in Carasataqua Pennsylvania, and wage shifts in Great Western England. It notes 200000 Italians in cells, low daily pay, and historic Maltsters wages with 14 hour days. It includes harsh Russia labor anecdotes, child labor limits, and bans on night work for women. a joke about an Irish beggar and a nose loss, and Stanley’s Nile finding the river’s length at 4100 miles.
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Boston
Oue
San Francisco
New South Wales
Queensland
Carasataqua
Great Western
England
Italy
New York
Maur, Txarcurri
Russia
Jokes and Quips From Jesters of the Era
A collage of light anecdotes from preachers lawyers doctors and editors with jokes on digestion oysters dancing love and everyday foibles. Bits include a fish store clerk shell confusion a shy suitor and a caricature of social manners in brief comic vignettes.
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Ned
Detroit Free Press
A Rising Author Shuns Autographs for Sale
A young writer, seeing his name among a display of autographs for sale, asks how Blank's autographs are sold. The clerk offers two for 3 cents, prompting the author to leave, lamenting the odd pricing as akin to overripe fruit and vowing to abandon popular applause.
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Blank
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Earth
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Arthur
Old England
London
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Papa
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Charli
Charlie
Roger
Milldam
Uncle John
Stiller
Bow Wow
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Col
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Newman, Ill
Adam Earle
Lafayette
Ind
Fowler & Bassett
Gnayell & Simpson
George W. Henry
M. E. Jones & Bro
Williamsville
Jrl
W. H. Rennick
Austerlitz
M. L. Sweet
Grand Rapids
Mich
B. Waddell
Marion
A. Sandusky
Leslie Burwell
Cottage Grove
Wis
Aberdeen Angus Cattle
Scotland
Mr. Harvey
Peoria
Devons
GC. M. Culbertson
Tom
Spot
Daisy
F. M. Strout
McLean
Ill
Nasby
Berkshire
Welch
E. J. Hollenbeck
A. I. Chapman & Co
Sugar Grove
Plymouth Rocks
M. Munger
Eureka Poultry Company
T. W. Hervey
Turlington, Neb
Black Knight
Old Progress
Aberdeen Angus
Harvey
Progress
Leslie & Burwell
William Watson
the Labor World
Stanley
Minnie
Tommy Fizzletop
Einstein
Leah
George
Darling
McDaffrey
Bekae
Noife
Blaggyard
New York Herald
Lauve
Jay
Mr. Gould
John
Mr. Mannish
Louise
Buyalo
F. L
I. L
S. L
Rosalie
Munsey
Feller
Jones
Cape Cod
Peckley
Oll
Doubley
Silas Hangee
Silas
Tommy Judkins
Judkins, Sr
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