05 Jun 1881
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Newspaper
Morning Appeal
Location
Carson City, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1881
Page
1
The Morning Appeal announces publication details with editor Henry R Mighels and manager P Davis. It lists subscription prices by mail and weekly carrier, advertising rates, and delivery terms for Carson City readers.
A collage of quips and skits lampoons politics and society. Items reference Paris Militia, private views, McClellan transit plan, Beecher criticism, garbled proofs, weather omens, and a haunted Montreal house. The piece blends jokes, misprints, and satirical jabs across figures and events.
An Idaho letter from the Cincinnati Commercial extols the tin can as a remarkable Western object. It describes piles of tomato and corn cans at dumps, houses shingled with cans, and chimneys built from sheet metal kegs. The piece humorously ponders life without the tin can and comments on mischievous Dres tiskers.
In Hawkeye Burdette style a traveler feigns shock about a fatal accident to a fat passenger and then to the thin man on the woodbox revealing the grim rumor. The scene escalates with faux horror as each minds the spreading tragedy amid a lodge closing.
The San Francisco Exchange reports Rev Hemphill received a Chicago call with a salary offer of 1000 dollars a year. It notes US editors' pay varies from 40 to 50 dollars weekly locally, higher in the East, and argues San Francisco editors are underpaid and might seek pulpit income.
A Detroit Free Press note recalls a man told a policeman he belonged to a Michgan avenue lodge. He joked about being misreported drowned in Toledo and described a lodge resolution praising him. He admits he cannot reach the top, joking he “weaken[s]” at the fish stair.
The Washington Letter discusses a "life class" for art students, noting model secrecy and a fainting incident involving a widow of a Union Army general. It also surveys Empress Josephine’s extravagant wardrobe, wealth, and devotion to fashion, contrasting her private life with public etiquette. The piece closes with a poetic fragment attributed to George Eliot.
A collection of humorous mishearings and odd translations from theatrical circles. Jokes about Stetson and friends spark comic misunderstandings such as misinterpreting initials M E R and the line My soul be on thy guard. The piece notes camp meeting miscues and the humor of everyday mispronunciations.
W G Green quotes the Chicago Inter Ocean on Lincoln once loving Mary Owens and a tale of Mary’s sister Nancy and a baby. The piece also notes a Nature article on fascination and a Chilean wood snipe hunting method with riders circling to stun and capture the bird.
In the Hois de Vincennes a shooting duel unfolds when a challenger taunts the marksman with a claim of facing him. The crowd watches as the hero fires, misses, and the other man fires in the air, then walks away amid amusement and disbelief.
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