Hobo Harmonies Engaged as Vocal Teacher
A hobo is lured into a farmer's plan to train three farm daughters in singing. The farmer, proud of Ann Susan and Hanner, disguises the job as teaching voice while hinting at romance. The narrator agrees to the soft-pay role, with a comic clash over Shakespeare.
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Ann
Susan
Hanner
Europe
Waal
Professor Delainey
Captain
Morgan
America
Albery Horse Hospital
Saving His Money
A brief exchange between Owens and Bowens about borrowing money to save funds. Owens asks for a loan from Bowens, Bowens admonishes saving one’s own money, Owens replies borrowing is for saving. The dialogue reflects frugality and interlinked attitudes toward finance.
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Owens
Bowens
Boston Transcript
Adaptability in Fate and Friendship Reflects Marcus Aurelius
A reflection on how one should mold themselves to circumstances and cherish comrades. The passage urges sincere love for those paired with fate, emphasizing virtue over shiftable fortune.
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Marcus Aurelius
Levi Trost Fumbles To Gather Seed and Fish in Sudden Illness
In a spring day scene, Levi Trost grows sick and wanders to the barn. He returns with a box of fish and seeds, muttering of six fat pumpkin seeds and four trout as his wife watches in mounting concern.
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Levi
Chicago News
A Lively Corpse in a Night Plunder
A country doctor in the era of body snatchers witnesses two men disinterring a corpse at a burial ground. They place the body in a trap to look like a passenger, then drive away. The doctor swaps the living man into the coffin, but the body reanimates with a quip about warmth, and the thieves flee in fright.
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Alony Thebody
Diplomatic Distinction in a Witty Footwear Exchange
A humorous exchange from Journal Amusant features a shoe dealer and a customer debating foot size with witty misdirection. The cartoonish dialogue reflects social satire and clever wordplay.
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Journal Amusant
An Annual Custom. First Ply-Eh, Second Fly-Why
A brief humorous note in the Cleveland Plain Dealer questions a recurring uproar over an annual custom. The column hints at planned extermination themes but remains quizzical about the tradition and its reception.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Eyes Beget Poetic Longing Across Ages
A brief meditation on poets from Shelley to Burns who celebrated a lady’s eyes. The speaker admires elder bards’ visual muse while confessing his own sleepless thrall to the beloved gaze of a named lady, as quoted from P. Adams in Century.
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P. Adams
Century
Breakfast Time Lyric and Humorous Snippets
A Baltimore Evening Sun excerpt celebrates morning ham and eggs with vivid kitchen imagery. It contrasts domestic bliss with Parisian haute cuisine while imagining heaven at 6 to 7 AM. Other excerpts include a London Answers quip about a “professional burglar” and a Harper’s Magazine anecdote on a potato death scene.
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Paris
Lucullus
Baltimore
Mezzo Soprano Chosen For Carnegie Hall Program
In a brief exchange Mrs. Cumrox plans a musical program and her husband suggests consulting an architect. The Washington Star notes the couple’s lighthearted decision making while the Baltimore American shares a snappy quip on critics and objectivity.
How He Does It Prizefighter Makes Money
A Detroit Free Press remark notes a fighter reputed to be earning money rapidly while the surrounding commentary cites Goethe on severity love and justice. The exchange hints at public interest in a prizefighter and his methods.
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Detroit Free Press
Goethe
Avery
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HOBO
M. Quad
Associated Literary Press
Cleveland
George
Shelley
Tennyson
Keats
Swinburne
Byron
Moore
Burns
Justice Lawrence
London
Harper's Magazine
Baltimore American
Rojas
E. L. Himebaugh
Scotch Grove
Iowa
M. G Allever
Center Junction
Towa
Kodak
Eastman Kodak Company
Hyanal
Rochester
N. Y
C. N. Patrick
Bell Telephone
Bell
Rye Pyeeso
Iowa Telephone Company
Toma Atc
Efregera
Ricklefs & McNeill
Monticel To Produce Co. Altman
First Street
James McAleer
Jack
Albery Farm
Fair Grounds
Ethan
Baby Joy
Samuel Albery
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