Two Tales of Dress Codes and School Bench Wit
New short stories present a district delegate's awkward debut in evening attire beside Mr. Reed during a club dinner. The tale contrasts the delegate's sheepish pride with Reed's silent wit as he fumes at the suit. A second vignette recalls Harvard freshman Norris sparring with an amused instructor over a window view and bench refusals.
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Southwest
Congress
Territorial
Texas
Mr. Teed
Frank Norris
Harvard
Young Norris
Mr. Norris
Norris
Mr. Blank
From War Memoir to Sentry Brains in War Office Joke
A tale connects General Plumer’s 1806 Matabeleland defense at Bulawayo to a peacetime butcher turned soldier. It recalls a sentry who warned a smoking guard and quipped about meat. The piece then shifts to Conan Doyle recounting a wounded officer and a surgeon who preserved brains in a bottle, joked as a war office position.
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Plumer
Matabeleland
Bulawayo
London
Conan Doyle
South Africa
War Office
Bismarck teased by Kruger recounts Berlin visit
In Kruger’s memoirs a single Berlin 1884 anecdote is told: Bismarck trips on palace stairs and the emperor jokes that the rider ages before the horse. Bismarck answers that the horse often grows old first. Chicago News notes the quip.
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Bismarck
Kruger
Berlin
Prince
Chicago News
Educational notes on teachers and school matters
Miss Dora Robb acts as assistant clerk of the circuit court. Several teachers finish terms and join new posts while others face illnesses. The passage covers school census deadlines, loan negotiations, state certification gains, and ongoing school district bond limits. A 1903 Lisbon warrant dispute is noted with a scheduled court continuation.
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Dora Robb
Agnes Schaub
Tobin No
H. G. Coursey
Vickie Waugh
Mae Lewis
Perry Township
Abbie M. Pearson
Peek
Badger Township
S. S. Pound
Union No. 9
Belle Spink
J. B. Wells
Effie Rand
Hanson County
Indiana
Nash
VA. D. Stearns
Edith Noble
South Dakota
Ethan
South Dakota Educational Association
Mitchell
Department of Education
Association
School Board of
Lisbon
Parker
Wilson Griffith
Washington
Carl Murner
The Captain of the Battleship and His Absolute Authority
A detailed portrait of a naval captain as supreme commander and legal authority aboard a battleship. The captain directs all ship maneuvers, makes final professional judgments, and acts as judge, clergyman, and occasionally bishop within the ship’s vast, disciplined structure.
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Ile
Gleaves
A Case of Interpretation
A mob demands action on a prisoner. The royal chamberlain pleads the king’s pleasure and returns with a cryptic reply, the king saying only it was a way with him. The misdeed prisoner is released as the chamberlain loses his head trying to explain the joke.
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Baltimore American
Color of Judas Hair Prefers Red Locks Across Ages
Early depictions of Judas show bright red hair, fueling medieval superstition and danger for red haired individuals. Writers later rebut prejudice, with Cyrano de Bergerac praising lively hair as sunlike brilliance and valor.
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Judas
Cyrano de Bergerac
Nerve Letters Stir Libel Case Jury Foreman
A jury foreman in a major libel suit received a letter from a publican urging a verdict for the defendant due to a heavy bet. The message was read in court, and the writer still lost the stake. In another note, a request to Mr. Balfour during his premiership urged ousting a justly imprisoned ruffian from the peace commission.
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Balfour
Commission of the Peace
London
Washington Letter highlights Civil War relics and White House life
Captain Joe Reisinger’s bullets from Gettysburg are sent to Senator Penrose as potential medals of honor. Mrs Cortelyou jokes about her husband’s hours in the White House. Justice Holmes takes the walk with the court. Justice Day plans to join. Seth Bullock attends a White House musicale, and Roosevelt jokes about shooting a fiddler. Bar on von Sternburg greeted with warm white House welcome. Golden invitation to Lead mining congress. General Miles returns from world tour for a military report. Four colonels confuse visitors at the House sergeant-at-arms office.
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Joe Reisinger
Franklin
Gettysburg
Keystone
Reisinger
One Hundred and Fifth
Pennsylvania Volunteers
Washington
Cortelyou
Secretary of Commerce
Depew
Post Office Department
Department
Justice Holmes
United States Supreme Court
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Capitol
Fourteenth Street
Justice Day
Justice Brown
Justice Harlan
Seth Bullock
Roosevelt
White House
Seth
Deadwood
Whits House
Baron von Sternburg
Black Hills Mining Men’s Association
Lead
S. D
Black Hills
South Dakota
Miles
Maus
United States
Mites
Carl Schofield
Fixed Dates in Russia Dictate Daily Life Across Seasons
The article notes rigid calendar rules in rural Russia from bathing after a certain June day to eating apples only after August 6, and delaying travel on Mondays or Fridays. It cites Herbert Barry’s Ivan at Home to illustrate how peasants observe such fixed dates governing various daily tasks.
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Russia
Ivan
Herbert Barry
Forefather of Railroads Quits Law After Mock Court Scene
A Missouri village case ends with a judge father asking if the son will make a living in law. The young attorney storms out in disgrace, declaring he will not practice before such a fool court. He then abandons law for a successful railroad career, as noted in Green Bag.
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Missouri
Bluff That Worked by Peter Newell in Tent Vigil
Artist Peter Newell camped in Colorado in a tent when a nocturnal murder sparked family unease. He cut silhouettes of rough western men with pistols, placed them inside the tent, and the shadows suggested a poker play scene. The family then slept in pastoral peace.
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Peter Newell
Colorado
Newell
There Is Often a Lot in a Name
An old tale notes a creditor sues a debtor only to find the assets are all in the wife’s name. The creditor’s wrath ends with no payment, illustrating a moral about the power of a name and ownership.
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New York Herald
Scottish house motto ends in den of thieves
A Westminster Gazette correspondent reports a Scotsman wanted the door inscription My house shall be called a house of prayer but returned to find the verse completed with But ye have made it a den of thieves. The men added a shortened ending to fit the space.
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Westminster Gazette
Scotland
Long Hymns and Pipes in Hatton Vestry Drama
A London Telegraph note recalls Rev Dr Parr, once perpetual curate of Hatton Warwickshire from 1783 to 1790, smoking in the vestry before sermons as long hymns were sung. He quipped that his people like long hymns, but he prefers a long pipe. A string of quips about widowhood and domestic life follow from periodical humor pages.
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Parr
Hatton
Warwickshire
London Telegraph
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