Music Box Prank Leaves Church Guests Shocked
A Milwaukee husband swapped cylinders in his wife s music box to replace sacred tunes with comic songs upsetting the minister and church members. When guests gathered the altered box played humorous titles while the hostess fainted and the minister grew pale. The prank ended with the cylinders swapped again before the couple retires for the night.
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Milwaukee
Tommy
Denny McGunnigan
Mary Ann
Hanging Called Off in South Carolina Town
Crowds gathered for a planned hanging when a reprieve was announced leaving about 1500 spectators disappointed. A sheriff faced demands for vengeance as onlookers accused Governor Renfoe and warned of damages while tensions cooled after the stay.
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South Carolina
Ian
Jim Reeves
Jim Renfoe Gwine
Song Famous in Spanish Town Court Inspires Recounted Tale
In a Spanish Town Police Court the scene grew chaotic before order returned. Archpole was fined ten shillings and costs and jailed twenty days. He paid the fine and lived years more, never serenading Maggie Judah again, yet singing the song to his horses. Maggie Judah has since died, but memories linger of the amusement the song sparked.
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Margie Judah
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Jamaica
West Indies
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Alexander Archpole
Maeei Judah
Magpie Judah
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Archpole
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Pall Mall Gazette
Which of Three Young Ladies Was the Prettiest
In the Georgia mountains at Catoosa Springs General Pierce Yonge asks an old trooper to name the prettiest of three young ladies. The trooper cites the one with the fuller figure, and the three, wearing colored sashes, rush from the scene in blush and alarm. Washington Post.
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Georgia Mountains
Catoosa Springs
Savannah
Atlanta
Pierce Yonge
Jake
Dake Dorridge
General Young
Cineral Young
Young
Waller
Washington Post
Extraordinary Feat by Two Jugglers in Jep pore
An American traveler recalls two young jugglers in India. The older girl, perhaps 15, performs feats with sand in water and lifts a heavy chair with eyelid wires, about which the observer quails. They earn about two rupees for the show, while a local preacher misreads a Bible page mischief.
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Tsaw
Jeppore
Tnidia
Edison’s new machine shows faces miles away
A fragment from a Life note praises Edison’s invention to project a distant face for theatergoing plans. A hotel clerk quips about special rates for anonymous gospel visitors, while a punchy aside about conscientious mechanics and vises rounds out the jumbled wit.
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Anon of
Get the Facts First in Murder Reporting Primer
The piece emphasizes the reporter's duty to gather essential facts without speculation. Start with the known act of killing, collect all attainable data, interview knowledgeable sources, and deduce the most supported conclusion from facts rather than theory. It contrasts reporting with detective conjecture in murder cases.
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Dove
New York
Sti
Academy Box Mixup Sparks Schoolroom Jest
A campus tale recalls a young man who sent a box of dainties to his lady-love. Teachers intercepted it, a note was written, but the box was tampered with by the girls replacing contents with old shoes. The box was resent to the young man and then redirected to an older brother at college, leaving the final feelings of the brother unknown.
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Noah
Academy
Shane
Dadorar Leller
Drummer’s double team scheme at Bangor livery fails
A traveler from abroad tries to hire a double team for a ten day trip. The livery stable refuses, the man buys the team for 450 dollars for the return, then demands a refund upon arrival. The driver quips the property remains his own. Also a picnic moment over pond lilies and a hammock missing.
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Drumoer
Jim
Bangor Commercial
Diamond sale inquiry and barter discussion at hotel
A friend invites a dealer to buy a large diamond via a barter. The negotiator mentions paying last week and purchasing a three thousand dollar item. The hotel clerk is queried about residency, and the reply references a toller.
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Haluf
The Luck of an Arkansas Druggist
A traveler recalls an Arkansas general store near Memphis where the merchant sold quack remedies to customers including a Black man and a White woman. The sharecropped dealer boasts five years as a prescription clerk and confesses careless mislabeling, while a moral sermon promotes Hostetter’s Bitters as a cure all.
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Memphis
How Tea Reached China From Assam Discoveries
A Buddhist mission from northern India carried dried tea leaves and cuttings of a shrub to China. The decoction pleased the priests, who drank and planted it. Though it grew less vigorous in China, tea became a favored drink, later spreading to Europe as a universal beverage.
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India
China
Assam
Europe
Rough on His Substitute and Curious Snippets
A Hartford clergyman dozes during a sermon then botches the closing prayer. The note remarks on a tide in affairs and urges readers to contact B. J. Johnson & Co. for money plans. An ad column mocks a Pitysgonomist and touts Doxsume Electric Soap for salt rheum, clothes, and hands. A quip about wanting to be Prince of Wales ends with a light joke about seeing a baseball game for free.
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Hartford
B. J. Johnson & Co
Main St
Richmond, Va
Swarm Invasion Plagues Reno Town Livelihoods
Bees invade homes in Reno and surrounding valley, turning Rufus Kinney’s Truckee Meadows residence into a hive. Colonies fill walls and chambers, forcing residents to vacate parts of the house as new swarms arrive daily. Similar scenes reported at Frank Bell’s, Jones, Al Lyman, and others.
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Rufus Kinney
Truckee Meadows
Mr. Kinney
Garret
Dawson
Prank Bell
Jones
al Lyman
Reno
Neer) Guectle
Golden Medical Discovery claims universal cure for blood taints
Confidence regales the public with Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a cure all for blood taints skin diseases and a wide range of ailments. It promises satisfaction or money back under a severe guarantee and asserts success in cases from skin eruptions to glandular swelling and lung issues.
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Pierce
Golden
Discoger
Delicacy Itself and the Jiggs News
The passage lauds Jiggs as an ingenious fellow who informed Mrs. Spooner of her husband s sudden death with delicate tact. Diggs recounts hiring Dr Palate s worst stammering patient to gradually break the news, a grimly humorous misdirection. The piece notes that a haunted house is not always haunted, a quip about spirit proof.
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Diggs
Jiggs
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