The Mule School of Uncle Dan Boyington
In a village visit, Uncle Dan Boyington, famed horse and mule trainer, defends mules as intelligent and patient teachers. He describes his lifelong study of animal minds, his reward based training, and his experimental mule school where twenty mules demonstrate coordinated tricks and staunch reliability without anywhip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan” Boyington
Great West
Mr. Boyington
Barnum and Bailey Circus
Missourian
Froebel
Laughing Girl Boosts Profits in Carpenter’s Factories
Charles Underwood Carpenter, head of several corporations, values a cheerful worker who laughs. A new employee was nearly fired for laughter but kept at $7 weekly. Her irrepressible smile lifted morale and, to the manager’s surprise, she became one of the best workers in her department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Underwood Carpenter
Mr. Carpenter
Carpenter
Royal highness shares cordial wit with coxswain
The Queen pins a guinea to a coxswain at Cowes and insists on a drink. He elects a dram first, then grog and punch as she prepares them, saying it would be improper to decline while sharing a drink with royalty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward
Cowes
Alexandra
Jack
Old Farmer Seeks Cattle Pen During Campus Tour
After touring the college grounds an old farmer asks to see the cattle pen. The guide is surprised, then the farmer explains his son Ezra wrote that all the boys here were buying Boston bulls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ezra
Boston
Guess of Baby’s Gender Based on Hair Color
A conversation suggests a baby has golden hair. Mr. Sirius Barker infers the child is a girl, arguing that only girls have golden locks. The verdict hinges on hair color as a gender clue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Briggins
Mr. Sirius Barker
Love-its Way in Verse Pondered in Historic Page
A fragment from a 19th or early 20th century text contemplates love moving where sent and sea as an expression of proper speech. The lines suggest poetry on language and affection rendered in period style.
Panic at Western Penitentiary Fires Inspires Prison Hymn
At Western Penitentiary in Pittsburgh 800 inmates in the chapel remained calm as a fire broke out in the nearby stocking factory. Prison pianist Walter Dorman led a hymn with the Kennedy Glee Club as guards controlled the scene and two bankers sprinted to claim their books amid the crisis.
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Walter Dorman
Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Western Penitentiary
Miller
Kennedy Glee Club of
New Kensington
Biddle Brothers
Banditti
Dorman
Rinehart and
Ramsey
Waynesburg
Motive Hinted in Golf Tale by Dorothy Campbell
Dorothy Campbell, the Scottish golf champion, shared humorous golf stories at a Merion Cricket Club luncheon in Philadelphia. She recalled a caddie remark from North Berwick about a laird and his son, noting the son’s ball whizzing past the father’s ear and the quip Ye munna kill pa. He then added Maybe ye'll be the eldest son.
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Dorothy Campbell
Philadelphia
Merion Cricket Club
North Berwick
Submerged Tenth Narrates Harsh Family Judgment
A stern matron gives a boy a plate of beans and berates him for being the youngest of ten. He explains he was labeled the submerged tenth and reflects on his mother's lack of time to care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goodman Gonrong
Modified Approval and the Unreasonable Codicils
A statesman concedes respect for majority will but warns that some wills arrive with unreasonable codicils. The remark frames a debate over overriding or honoring extraordinary stipulations within legal documents.
Uncle Joe Cannon and the Western Canada land lure
The piece notes Joseph Cannon may influence opinion and recalls his Canada interview. It highlights Americans moving to Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta or British Columbia for 160 acre homesteads with pre emption of 60 more. It praises homestead life with social services and higher crop returns and cites Cannons remark about coveting neighbor land.
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Joseph' Cannon
United States
Canada
Winnipeg
Rockies
Great West
Virginia
Cannon
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Joe Cannon
Shaw
Unitedates
Anitoba
Chewan
Reveyend Land Companies
Fortlers
Immison
Ottawa
W. V. Bennett
Bee Bidg
Ousha, Heb
His Views on Suffrage from a Farmers Quip
An old farmer rejects a woman suffrage petition with wary humor. He nods to a domestic dispute stereotype and quips that a constantly moving woman brings trouble, offering to sign only if given something to keep her quiet.
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Ladies Home Journal
Algy Explains the Salt Ocean Joke
A short quote features Algernon and a young woman joking about why the ocean is salty. Algy quips that it has many salt fish, delivering a light humorous exchange from the Success publication.
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Algy
Algernon
Allen's Foot Ease Advertisement for Foot Comfort
When rubbers pinch and shoes pinch use Allen s Foot Ease antiseptic powder for the feet. Cures tired feet and eases corns and bunions. Use it to break in new shoes and for dancing parties. Sold everywhere 25c. Sample mailed free. Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy New York.
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Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Landlady and Former Mistress Exchange Honest Reproach
A courtroom scene unfolds with a judge noting the landlady’s honesty and the former mistress insisting she never accepts even a single order from the judge. The exchange highlights distrust and propriety in petty disputes.
Doctor Yourself When You Feel a Cold Coming On
A remedy touts Perry Davis Painkiller as a safer better option than quinine. Larger bottles are advertised as the cheapest choice for treating early cold symptoms.
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Perry Davis
Advertisements and aphorisms from a bygone era
An assortment of lines touting remedies and comments on money and tobacco. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup promises teething relief for children, while a 3c bottle price is noted. A quip asserts caution about others expenses, and Lewis' Single Binder cigar is promoted as natural tobacco. A sharp remark imagines a foolkiller depopulating the world.
Andrew Carnegie on dying rich epigram at Washington dinner
Carnegie ridicules dying rich with a Washington dinner quip. He notes no pockets in a shroud and that money cannot follow the dead, even if one could carry it, it would melt.
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Andrew Carnegie
Rich
Washington
Nature's Remedy NR tablets promise quick rheumatic cure
Advertises NR tablets from A HL Lewis Medicine Co claiming to cure rheumatism and cleanse kidneys liver and digestive system. Uses testimonials of rapid relief with a 25 cent box marketed through All Druggists in St. Louis Missouri.
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A, HL
Lewis Medicine.Co
St. Louis
Paxton Toilet Co
Boston
Mass
Foolish Loiterers Miss Small Moments
A reflective note contrasts idle waiting with appreciating small moments. It suggests the woman who loses hearing might be relieved her own voice is spared, implying a wry view on fortune and perception.
No problem of higher food cost from eating more
A reader argues that increasing food intake does not raise overall expenses, claiming cost per unit of food remains stable with larger consumption and that budget impact depends on choices and portioning.
Quaker Oats Endorsement Praises Its Value
An ad style endorsement claims Quaker Oats is ideal food since it is delicious appetizing and strengthening. It states compared with other foods Quaker Oats costs almost nothing and yet it builds the best.
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Idieirgairttien
JLES
Desperado
Long
Uncle Joe Cannon
ADA
Samuel Moner
the Centaur Company
New York
Foodan
Castoria
Bears
Pink Eye
Goshen
Indiana
Spohn Medical CO
Standard Oil Co
Pettit
Howard Bros
Buffalo
Dodds
Guara
Lincoln
Pierce
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo, N. Y
Paxtine
Western
Idaho
Valiey
Payette Valley
Great Northwest
ITT Land CO
Payette
Parker
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