Time Tables for Clothes Spark Controversy in City
A City Times article recounts a confrontation on a Washington street at high noon between a man and a well known figure about appearance in black face attire. The unidentified speaker defends his dress claiming others should not dictate his timetable for life.
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Joenneylvania
Washington
City Times
Hicks
Mrs. Grouch
Mr. Grouch
Pen Cammet
Pen Cammet Get Employment?” A Lady Med A Tramp. the Mendicant
Daily Comic Snippets and Witty Exchanges Across Papers
A collage of jokes and witticisms from various 19th and early 20th century papers. It features humor about aging, courtship, misheard phrases, and social quips, with lines from Brooklyn Life, Puck, Puck again, Somerville Journal, Town and Country, Philadelphia Press, Catholic Standard and Times, and more.
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Jack
Baby
Brooklyn
Sabbath
Bobby Thickneck
Puck
George
Somerville Journal
Furnishing a Big City Hotel Costs Run High
The article explains that three large city hotels with 800 to 400 rooms each face immense furnishing costs. Rooms range from 200 to 1500 dollars to furnish, with high end suites demanding costly carpets, china, and silverware. A small dining room needs about 1600 pieces of china and 6000 tablecloths, while banquet demand strains inventory. Wholesale firms specialize in hotel furnishings.
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Kanaeas Clty
Becades
The Road to Fortune A Yard Cleanup Inspires Hiring
A store manager recalls a boy who swept a sidewalk thoroughly and mindfully. He impressed by cleaning corners, staying quick and considerate of others. Three months later the same boy applied for a job and was hired based on that visible effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arts
York Sun
Wisdom and Walter Debate Change of Mind
A brief exchange quotes Wisdom and Walter on recognizing when to shift views and owning up to a brave cause once it is achieved, attributed to the Washington Star.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisdom
Walter
Washington
The Mite and the Misras? A Quirk in a Twofold Page
A garbled text fragment blends dialogue on musical comedy with stray notices and sentimental tributes. It mentions Washington Herald humor and mothers, with a brief anecdote about a New York pastor struck by paralysis while reading a hymn stanza, followed by a similar earlier incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Herald
New York State
Buet
Word Etiquette Origins and Moralist Debate
An excerpt contrasts a mor alist urging uplifting others with a machine inventor noting the difficulty of preventing a man from regressing. It traces the term etiquette from a Beets gardener incident at Versailles and its evolving meaning among courtiers and officials.
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Versailes
Bouis XIV
Parier Magic Misstep in Parjer Scene
Mr Kybosh, seeking a monthly magazine, accidentally enters a parlor and watches a young man quickly move his arm from a chair where Miss Kitty sits. He mutters a correction and recalls being a young man long ago as he steps back into the room.
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Parier Magic
Kybosh
Miss Kitty
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Jim Johnson
Waterville Hove Co
Woolsey
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Fortune
Stockman, Neb
S.S.S
Castoria
Washington Star
Toom Troubles
Roe Eam Rieanhers
Hicks-Chatten Parts
Oregon
Hak
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HALL
Uymp Coats
Loitland Business
Cottec
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Armstrong
Rapid
Legthla
Benetifel
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