Elevator Boy’s Dining Day In A Chicago Tenement
In a Chicago Tribune note, William the elevator boy catalogs residents on different floors. Each day a family or several households cook distinct meals from cabbage to fish, mutton to soap scent, revealing a humorous, time-stretched glimpse of urban living. The piece ends with a tease about tomorrow’s menu.
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Ferguson’s
Welkersons
Clappinses
Atmpoperes William
Brinkmeyers
Swallingers
Biddlecombes
Shadowells
Jordleses
Chicago Tribune
Umbrella Thief Traced by Quick Bellboy Gag
A famed drummer on holiday in New Orleans left a bone handled umbrella in a hotel lobby. A sharp bellboy kept it for three days and the owner joked he deserved a tonic instead of money, handing a quinine capsule as payment.
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New Orleans
Baton Rouge
Pye
N. QO
Times-Democrat
A Louisville Girl Teaches a Comic English Officer About Ladies
A Louisville girl recently in Germany met a young English officer staying in the same house. He assumed American girls smoke like men and offered a cigarette. She refused and offered a pipe, turning the joke into a lesson that a lady is a lady the world over.
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Louisville
Germany
United States
England
Louisville Courier- Journal
Paradise Gates Open as Father Relents in Poker Debt
A dignified old man frees the bridegroom after confessing a poker debt risks his business. The hopeful daughter hails the change of heart and plans for happiness as she learns the couple can wed now. The tale centers on family, romance, and a high stakes gamble.
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Briteley
Paradise
Chicago
Fimes Herald
England Trails in China Shipments Say Critics
The text notes England cannot compete with the U S in shipping goods to China and that trade with China rose by about forty percent in a year. It then advertises Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a longstanding superior remedy for constipation indigestion dyspepsia and biliousness. It ends with scattered humorous quotations about social life and satire.
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England
China
Spinster Hetty Dryden Chooses Jared Lawson in Hebron
Hetty Dryden resists a former suitor and discovers a romantic note from Jared Lawson. She confirms his disguise writing matches a Christmas poem, and at eight o’clock he arrives with a light in her window, confessing his love and asking companionship.
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Miss Dryden
Miss Hetty
Mai
Hiram Dyer
Hetty Dryden
Valentine
Tye
Byron
Jared H. Lawson
Hetty
Hetty Had Not Looked At It For At Least Haalf
Jared Lawson
Hebron
Jared
Metty
Morris Wade
Detroit Free Press
An Old Superstition and Valentine Traditions
A 1745 6 Connoisseur essay recalls Valentine customs from a young woman who used leaves five days before Friday and a boiled hollow egg to forecast marriage with her sweetheart Betty. She folds lovers names in clay and weighs the rising token, while praising Mr Blossom as her master. The note then cites Shakespeare Chaucer and Lydgate mentioning Saint Valentine.
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Valentine
Mr. Blossom
Mani
Shakespeare
Chaucer
Lydgate
Valentine envelopes cause domestic mix up in humor sketch
Jokes mingle as a man sends valentines to both a lover and a cook. The mix up reveals the cook’s disappointment while the romance survives. A Charleston Daily News style quip contrasts economy with sentiment and social mores in light verse. The piece includes comic bits about cheap valentines and a salesman debate.
Former American describes life thriving in Northern Alberta
A letter from John Cummings of Wetaskiwin Alberta recounts moving from Farmington Washington to northern Alberta. He details building a log house and stables, dairy and horse care, doubled cultivated land, rising crops, and friendly prosperity with debt reduction and good prices, noting unexpected farming results and robust conditions through winter.
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Wetaskiwin
Alberta
Canada
Washington
United States
Cummings
Dominion
Farmington
Florida
Klondike
Acre
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad and Family Humor Snippet
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward and endorsements from Toledo druggists. The piece also includes a string of jokes about social nights and a Memphis Scimitar pun, ending with Grain-O coffee substitute pitches for health.
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Hall
P. J. Cheney & Co
Props
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
West & Truax
O. Walding
Teacher-What happens when a man's temperature goes down as far as it can go
A quip from a Boston Christian Register issue notes a joke about a man’s temperature reaching the coldest point. The line plays on the phrase cold feet as a pun in a church publication.
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Boston Christian Register
Cough Remedy Kemp’s Balanam Promises Quick Relief
An advertisement urges readers to visit a druggist for a free sample of Kemp’s Balanam to stop coughing immediately. It promises large 25 and 60 cent bottle sizes and warns that delays are dangerous.
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Kemp’s Balanam
Promises of a Lover and Politician Seem Unreliable
A Philadelphia Record quotation portrays a sick maid begging for medicine while a lover’s promises echo a politician’s unreliability, as an Atchison Globe reflection notes. The lines illustrate distrust in assurances from both lovers and public figures.
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Atchison Globe
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