A W estern Wedding Serenade and Plymouth Wilderness
A Cassville Wis wedding serenade ends in comic hospitality and a third night repeat, with bull dogs and guns used as refreshments. A Plymouth Wilderness portrait reviews South Shore coast from Hull to Plymouth, its pine lands, Mayflower lore, Billington Sea, and regional wildlife.
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New York
James Peters
Cassville
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Mr. Peters
Peters
Wagner
Gilmore
Ecarsey
Ogether
Neraoka
Plymouth
Plymouth County
Massachusetts
Hull
Massachusetts Bay
New England
Billington Sea
Massasoit
Philip
Plymouth Woods
Maine
Marshpee
J. G. W. Benjamin
Harper's Magazine Forune
The Backward Habit of the JapaneseExploration of reversed customs in Japan and Europe
A reflective column discusses how the Japanese reverse common practices from planning to penmanship. It contrasts sit versus stand work, left handed tools, and language quirks, noting blunt differences and asking paradoxical questions about truth, direction, and orientation between cultures.
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Mr. Griffith
Cooper
Jeff Davin Costume and City Derrick in Odd Pageant
A fragmented newspaper item notes Jeff Davin and a city Derrick figure in a curious display. The prose references Joaquin Miller and a stance for the weak, mentioning a brown bonnet and a silk cloak carried under an arm.
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Jeff Davin
City
Derrick
Davis Bride Like Finery in Confederate Display
An account describes a Confederate event where Mr. Davis wore an elaborate costume with a front and side arm design, a center-piece, and a $25 bomnet created for the occasion. The attire included mignonette, roses, bluebells, barebells, silver thistles, and seven trunks of dresses and linens.
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Mr. Davis
A Child's Imitation of Wicked World Lessons
An article recounts a Sabbath school exchange where a four year old imitates elders by role playing a lie. A nurse calls Mrs Smith to boast of ten children and a carriage, while the teacher warns that a lie endures beyond wealth. A newsboy scene underscores the danger of lying for a penny. The piece closes with a comparison: a lie stays with you as a heavy load.
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Mamma
Mitheth Dones
Mitheth Smith
Mr. Smith
Tetty
Tank Yen
Allie
Lobster Laughs From an Irish Waiter in Boston Tale
An Irish waiter with a Boston guest exchanges jokes about lobsters in Ireland. The humorous exchange features playful mispronunciations, wildly estimated creek widths, and the claim of leaping over streams as lobsters are described as red before boiling. The scene preserves a light, comical cross cultural misunderstanding.
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Boston
Mike
Faix
Ireland
Begorra
Sur
Sheriff Fixes Jail After Hen Theft Escapades
A beleaguered sheriff struggles as prisoners repeatedly escape a weak jail selling and stealing hens. After repainting the jail the paint is licked away by cows, allowing more escapes. The sheriff then orders the inmates to better themselves or face harsher consequences.
Fragmentary 19th Century Speech Passages in Private Home
A garbled excerpt presents a distorted 19th century voice arguing about appeals to finer feelings and indefinable presence. The text suggests a private discussion where one speaker tries to silence another so a man in the house can hear the speaker more clearly.
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Fredalle
Atraugle
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