Spring House Cleaning Fiasco Besets Mr Wadso
In a humorous slice of life a man named Wadso returns home to find his wife conducting a feverish spring house cleaning. Furniture is piled, soap and soot fly, the stove backfires, and a chaotic night ends with his vow to divorce if the cleaning continues. Neighbors observe the uproar as Wadso battles the mess and his temper.
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Simon Wadso
Maria
Annie
Wadso
Mrs. W
Waldo
Summer in thy heart and winter on thy cheeks
A lyrical reminiscence of a youth's unrequited courtship. The speaker compares seasons to emotions, recalling a beloved who fled with a playful curtsy. He vows devotion despite repeated rejections and a longing to linger close. The poem hints at resilience after heartbreak.
A Catastrophe by Peleyt Arkwright begins tragedy
The piece depicts a three story high window scene where a baby reaches for a butterfly and falls. A crowd gasps as a passerby saves the infant by catching it with an awning. The onlookers react in shock and loud relief, praising the improvised safety measure.
A Considerate Lover Aboard a Mild Plea
A fragmentary dialogue shows Alfred pressing Mary with hesitant pleas and garbled speech. The couple exchanges clumsy lines about love and consent, with a lisping insistence that tests affection. The scene reads as a lightly humorous vignette of courtship mispronunciations and awkward tenderness.
Laying For Him Abootnickel Plan By Bootblack
Detroit Free Press text describes Big English a bootblack with nineteen bad nickels. He boasts of setting a trap to wed a nameless rich man’s daughter, planning to confront him with forged coins and threaten arrest as a ruse. The tale mixes bravado and a schemed social maneuver.
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United States
Big English
Detroit Free Press
Sheridan Twins Prompt Army Officer Dreams
The Washington Star and Chicago papers note General Sheridan jokes his twins are girls not boys, quipping they could still join officers. He mocks intermarrying within the service and warns of a rising shoulder-strap aristocracy in America, while predicting the Sheridan girls will be fine if they live long enough.
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Washington Star
Sheridan
Chicago
Army
Navy
Public Service
America
Europe
Left Stocking Logic Sparks Reader Uproar
In Providence a newspaper editor claimed ladies always pull off the left stocking first. Readers denied the statement and called him un gentleman, while he argued with a brief syllogism: when one stocking comes off another remains, thus the left stocking is always last.
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Providence
Moody converts secret restitution and a plan to pay debt
In Boston one of Moody's converts has secretly returned 813 000 dollars. The Cincinnati Enquirer proposes Moody preach to federal officials from the past eight years as a swift method to raise funds to repay the national debt.
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Moody
Boston
Cincinnati Finquirer
Spirit Bride and the Stillman tale of a soul wedding
A Memphis Avalanche item reports on the sensational tale of a medium Alice Roberts and her spirit bridegroom Mr. Stillman, with the couple discussing their courtship and seances on St Martin Street. The report notes his promise of future interviews and remarks on the spiritual marriage and a place prepared on the other side.
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Hhad
Jenkins
OC. A. Stiltman
Amiles
St. Martin Street
Mr. Stillman
Mrs. Stillman
Accident in Atlanta Parish Church Hurls Shotgun Footward
An elderly Atlanta woman praying was struck in the foot when a shotgun fell and discharged. The incident occurred indoors prompting warnings about unsafe storage of firearms near living spaces.
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Atlanta
Paragraphist Triumphs with Amusing Column Headings
A critic notes how a skilled para graphist baitingly leads readers to ads for a best family soap by using a few witty items at the column head. The device compels attention and showcases the art of drawing interest through clever openings.
Pair's playful riddle on beds and worms
A young woman and man quarrel over a topic and the woman concedes they cannot agree. He asks which bed partner she would choose in a room with a man and a woman in separate beds. She answers the woman, and he agrees. The exchange ends with a humorous twist.
Modest Lady Requests Part for Dressers Bustle
A modest young lady asks for the leg of a chicken saying she wants the part that should be dressed in drawers. A gentleman across replies he will have the part that ought to wear the bustle. Uarfshorn was immediately administered to the lady.
German Husband Plans Triplets Over Glass Window
A mangled OCR style line describes a German man with blue glass in his window and his wife gifting him trips. Hans remarks that the foolish plan with blue glass must be stopped, and he smashes it out quickly to end the matter.
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Katrina
Hans
Foundry M. K. B. Church gets President Hayes pledge
President Hayes informs church elders he will subscribe as much as any member. The most liberal pledge noted amounts to about $300 annually.
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Hayes
M. KB. Church
Bismarck Ponders Retirement and the Wild Boar
In a fable like remark, Prince Bismarck jokes about early morning hunts opening with quail or partridge, then avoids lesser game as day wears on. He notes a wild boar would draw him back to the field, asking if the wild boar is another name for the Russian bear.
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Mrs. W
Wadso
Mra. W
Bismarck
Prince Bismarck
Bulow
Camphausen
No Need of Change Gent Bears Costume Comment
A humorous exchange features Gent who plans to attend a masque as a bear and his wife quipping that the customer cannot come. She suggests going as a bear with fur overcoat and cap, noting he has always been a good growler.
Witty French Lady Refuses Smoked Joke About Regiment
A witty French lady described as an adopted member of a famous military corps responded to a cigar lighting under the jest I suppose they smoke in your regiment with the retort Yes, but not in my company, highlighting quick wit and social banter.
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Blackstone
Coke
Bacon
Hey
Paradise
Israel
Red Sea
Titus
Kingdom of Israel
Jerusalem
David
Goliath
Joshua
Moses
Earth
New York Graphic
Gar
Wanted a Piano by a Young Lady with Carved Mahogany Legs
A rejected contribution to the Literary Casket, Springfield Reading Club organ, labeled as a tale. The editor rejected it as narrative prose, noting its tone and subject centered on a piano request by a young woman with carved mahogany legs.
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Literary Casket
Springfield Reading Club
Nebraska Legislature Sits to Guard Against Bare Feet
A Western editor notes the Nebraska Legislature sits in winter to keep members from attending the session in shirt sleeves and bare feet, implying a formal effort to preserve decorum and rebuke informal dress.
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Nebraska
Tts
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