Joan's Ride to Bodmin and the Battle Seen from the Moor
The narrator wakes to Joan’s lone act of courage guiding him to warn Cornwall’s forces. She delivers the king’s message, rides into the night, and the next day the rebel army rout is seen from the moors as dragoons and broken carriages scatter toward Bodmin.
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Joan
Jack
Grey Robin
Warlesgan
Braddoes
Braddock
Lord Mohun
Boconnoc
Bodmin
Cornwall
Lord Stamford
Launceston
Ruthen
Liskeard
Molly
Bristol
Ralph Hop
Church and King Bloodied Day in Cornish Skirmish
A narrator recounts a small siege in Cornwall where a larger rout occurred east of Liskeard. Two wounded men arrive through a gap in the wall, one begging for water, the other slain by an old savage and a cat. Joan returns with a naked sword, declaring the day’s bloody work.
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Jan Tergagle
Jack
Church
Joan
Scratch
Sir John Berkeley
Liskeard
Vie
Deliver me from the snare of the fowler
A bishop and a rival clergyman clashed in a church conference with a sharp exchange. The opponent, lifting his arm and rolling his eyes, cried a mock prayer for deliverance while the bishop quickly mimicked the gesture and text. The quip circulates from the Philadelphia Ledger.
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Fowler
Methodist Church
Philadelphia Ledger
Nervy man ignores bill after tonic advice
A nervy man seeks medical advice and is told to take a tonic and dismiss worry. Months later he receives an $18 bill and replies that he has taken the tonic and dismissed the worry, so the bill itself is dismissed. The tale ends with the moral that advice sometimes defeats its giver.
Did Not Know His Peril Frailman Comedy Exchange
In a Boston Courier vignette Frailman asks a doctor for his bill during illness. The doctor plans to present a mere three hundred dollars, prompting Frailman to exclaim that knowing the amount would have killed him.
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Boston Courier
Roosevelt backs Bowers despite past clash
President Roosevelt defended W. W. Bowers after a 12 year old dispute during Bowers's civil service commission days. Bowers had called Roosevelt a faker in an interview but was later appointed collector of San Diego by McKinley and retained by Roosevelt who said his views then do not affect the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Roosevelt
Civil Service Commission
W. W. Bowers
California
Mr. Roosevelt
Monument for Levi Coffin in Indianapolis Movement
A campaign to erect a monument to Levi Coffin grows in Indianapolis. Coffin led Indiana's Underground Railroad network before the Civil War and helped many enslaved people reach the North. He died near Cincinnati in 1877 and aided Eliza Harris in Newport.
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Indianapolis
Levi Coffin
Indiana
Underground Railroad
Mr. Coffin
Cincinnati
Newport
Eliza Harris
Benevolent Associations Endorse Peruna Remedy
Mrs Henrietta A Marsh and Mrs T W Collins testify to Peruna curing grippe and dyspepsia with rapid improvement and lasting strength. The notices urge readers to write Dr Hartman in Columbus for free medical advice if Verona fails to deliver prompt results.
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Woman’s Benevolent Association of
Henrietta A. Marsh
Woman's Beneeonae Association
Jackson Park Terrace
Woodlawn
Chicago
Henrietta A. S. Marsh
Order of Good Templars
Washington
T. W. Collins
Wash
Peruna
Verona
Kartman
Dr. Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
First Pianist Recital Noted For Dedicated Audience
The Boston Transcript recounts a pianist's afternoon recital with two men, three women, and a boy in attendance. The boy worked at the venue and the men sought shelter from rain, while the three women attended for the performer, receiving passes directly from the pianist.
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Boston Transcript
Night Wind Moans Echo Through Dark Night
A father tells a child to listen to the moaning night wind as trees sigh and shriek. The child, wide eyed, asks if the night wind ate too much turkey, a line from a Chicago Tribune item.
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Chicago Tribune
Hambu ops Promised Cure for Liver Disorders
Readers are urged to try Hambu ops by Dr. August Koones. The ad claims it cures liver disorders and improves overall health, presenting a tonic benefit to the whole system.
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August Kooenig
Correction: Sleeplessness of the baby noted by Jeroloman
A Correction notes a quip about a baby and sleeplessness. Mr Jeroloman appears haggard and hollow eyed but says the child does not suffer, claiming it enjoys the sleepless condition. The remark is attributed to a Chicago Tribune context.
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Jeroloman
Chicago Tribune
The Rewards in Brooklyn Life satire
In Brooklyn Life a speaker scorns established literary clubs and metaphysical circles, while Mrs. Kingsley retorts she knows everyone. The exchange satirizes culture and social circles developed over years.
She'll Reform Him. Minister and Mrs Talking Reform
A dialogue notes a woman planning to marry a man to reform him. Miss Beauti identifies the suitor as young Mr Band clipper. Friends say he is becoming quite miserly and the minister questions the story.
Teaches His Children Trades
Dr. C. H. Roberts of Poughkeepsie New York, a retired millionaire, lived by the maxim no man has a right to consume more than he produces and educated his children to work by teaching them a trade before they left school
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C. H. Roberts
Poughkeepsie, N. Y
Greyhound Is Declared Fastest Four-Looted Animal
A correspondent reports experiments with precise timing showing the greyhound as the fastest four footed animal. At full gallop it covers twenty yards per second about one mile in a minute twenty eight seconds, nearing the pace of a carrier pigeon.
A Deserted Country Describes Spitzbergen's Status
Spitzbergen belongs to no country and remains desolate after whaling ends. Summer activity is limited and despite coal and phosphates deposits, none are developed.
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Spitzbergen
The Gunnery Discipline Tales From a Connecticut School
Frederick W. Gunn founder of The Gunnery used inventive punishments for boisterous pupils. Tales include four mile walks with a chip clenched in the mouth and running around the church with a dinner horn, boys sitting in each other laps, log beating, and birthday and sign post penances.
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Frederick W. Gunn
Connecticut
William Hamilton Gibson
TWO WIDOWS OF NOTE IN CANADIAN RETREAT
The widows of General Grant and Jefferson Davis shared a quiet summer in Cobourg Ontario. They stayed in adjacent cottages, spent mornings in steamer chairs by a tranquil lake, and kept to themselves as they pondered their husbands’ Civil War era.
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General Grant
Jefferson Davis
Cobourg
Ontario
Niagara-on-the- Lae
Grant
Davis
Chicago Chronicle
Earned Wages Joke From Professor Skinner
A clerk pleads for training promising $100 weekly pay but receives $10. The professor challenges the clerk to feel he earns $190, illustrating a common gag about clerk wages and self perception. The bit appears in the Philadelphia Press.
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Professor Skinner
Philadelphia Press
Fifty Dollars to Sit Down in Carmel
Joseph L. Duffy recalls a health episode on his farm where extreme weakness kept him from reaching the house. He credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with restoring strength and appetite and says he will continue using them, noting many locals have found cures from kidney related ailments.
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Carmel
Ind
Joseph L. Duffey
Duffey
Dodd
Love Letter Trouble and a Blurred Tale
A fragment describes a man who wrote a love letter and faced trouble, with a conversational aside about marriage. It mentionsPutnam dyes for carpet coloring and a remark on temper. The note shifts to silver production, a Buckwheat cake brand, and Routt County Colorado dimensions as an odd closing fact.
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Hojack
Tomdik
Massive Mineral Yields Reported In One Year
A report shows 95 tons of gold and 520 tons of silver extracted in a single year. The figures highlight substantial mining activity and metal output by the industry.
Big Four Route Attracts Winter Resort Visitors
The Big Four Route offers 2500 feet elevation at Chesapeake and Ohio railway access to a year round resort with the Homestead Hotel managed by Fred Sterry. The brick hotel has 460 rooms 209 baths long distance phone direct New York wire bath house waters for rheumatism gout obesity and nerves golf squash tennis and other amusements orchestra extensive train service dining cars and reduced rate tickets now on sale via agents.
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Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
New Homestead
Iotel
Fred Sterry
New York
Home Seekers Excursions at Very Low Rates Across the Midwest
Travel agents advertise multiple sell dates for excursions to Alabama Arizona Arkansas Colorado Florida Georgia Indian Territory Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Nebraska New Mexico North and South Dakota Oklahoma South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming. Big Four Route. For full information call Big Four Route agents or write Warren J. Lynch Cincinnati Ohio.
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Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Indian Territory
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
New Mexico
North Carolina
North Dakota
Oklahoma
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Big Four
Warren J. Lynch
Gen
Tkt. Agt
W. P. Deppe
Asst
G. P
T. A
Cincinnati
Priest's First Sermon Describes Church as Ship on Ocean
A young Irish priest in his first sermon likens the Roman Catholic church to a grand full rigged ship gliding over the deep. He says it rides every wave and tide and asks why it floats for it is founded upon a rock.
Mrs Winslow Child Teething Syrup Sold for 25 Cents
An old advertisement notes Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup for teething pains. It claims gums soften reduce inflammation lessen day’s pain and cure wind colic. Price listed as 25 cents per bottle.
Cocoanut Milk and Rum Drink Popular in St Pierre
In St Pierre cocoanut milk and rum served in the shell remains a loved beverage. Mrs. Austins Cereals claim the largest sale among similar goods, inviting customers to try them and understand their popularity.
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St. Pierre
Adams Claims Hobos Favor Literature and Soap
In the Forum Charles Ely Adams suggests that the American hobo patronizes literature and soap. His remark highlights a curious cultural image in a postwar context.
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Charles Ely Adams
Accident Report Echoes From The Alley
Phrase from Puck hints at a minor incident with two pedestrians killed and the automobile unscathed. The quotation contrasts public concern with the trivial outcome, suggesting a lighthearted take on a fatal event.
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Puck
Zulu Women Use Head Dress to Signal Married Status
Traditional Zulu practice marks married and unmarried women by color and style of their head dress. The head wear provides social cues within communities and reflects cultural norms surrounding marriage status.
A Fair Proposition Dialogue
A humorous exchange shows a merchant offering to charge for all mistakes and an applicant replying that he would be paid for the mistakes he avoids. The quip captures business wit and job-hunting irony of the period.
Free Silk Dress Offer From Wright & Leece
Five patterns sold entitle ladies to a free black silk dress during a 30 day period. Send for particulars from Wright and Leece at 194 Broadway New York City.
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Wright & Leece
Broadway
N. Y. City
First Post-Prandial Effort Joke Quip
A quip from the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune ponders who gave the first after dinner speech. The philosopher asks, and the wiseguy answers Adam as the first speaker after eating the apple. The joke ends with the line about temptation.
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Adam
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Holiday Excursions via Monon Route Fare Notice
One and one third fare for round trips offered with tickets sold December 24 25 21 and January 1. Final return by January 2. Similar rates to students during vacation period upon proper certificate. See agents or address D P Algeo D P A.
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Monon
D. P. Algeo
Mt Pelee Split by 1000 Yard Fissure
Workmen report a massive fissure running from peak to base of Mt Pelee, extending about 1000 yards and indicating a dramatic volcanic rift in the mountain.
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Mt. Pelee
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Army of the West
Jean
Butte Feren Coulness
Benevolent Associations
of America
Henrietta A. S. Marsii
Putnam
Chicago News
United States
Routt County
Boston
Hayes
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
E. F. Hayes
Dudley St
Roxbury
Boston, Mass
I. F. Hayes
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn, Mass
St. Kline’s
Ats
Dr. Caldwell
Pepsin Syrup CO
Monticello, Ills
Catarre
Ely
ELY Brothers
Warren
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