Remove This Cheese Mystery At The Hotel Table
A hotel dining tale features a puzzled diner demanding the plate of Stilton and bread be removed, fearing the cheese is spoiling his meal. A nervous waiter offers alternatives as the guest grows irate. Interwoven is Amos Riggs’s humorous Boston trip as a fellow traveler probes strangers’ names and origins on a first journey from Plumtown.
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Walter
Amos ‘Riggs
Plumtown
Riggs
Mm. Riggs
Boston
Nashuy
Mr. Riggs
Canada
Rules for Guests and Odd Instructions
Guests are urged not to speak to the dumb wast er. Some odd directions mention self rising flour for supper and cemeteries supporting hotels with hearses for hire. Instructions cover tile driving gear in closets and opening windows for fire escapes. The lamp burning unevenly prompts removing a feather for light. A nightmare sufferer may find a halter on the bedpost. The note ends with a quip about the house being supported by the foundation.
All Depends Joke Between John and Pat
Two workmen John and Pat banter about measurement and yardage. John asks how many shirts fit from a yard, Pat counters that it depends on whose yard they entered, delivering a playful paradox.
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John
Pat
Johan
Where to Apply It and Natural Selection Humor
An elderly man on a street car witnesses a laughing boy. The boy’s mother quips that she does not believe in spanking on an empty stomach, prompting the man to declare that they do not turn him over. A Scribbler joke follows about poets wearing collars from editors.
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Scribbler
Editora
Little Boston Girl and Harlem Boy Dialogue Snippet
A fragmentary exchange shows a Boston girl asking if a boy is a note taker and a Harlem boy denying, with a mother instructing that if a proposal occurs he must speak to her, else she wants to speak to him.
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Boston
Harlem
Japanese Baroness Advocates Domestic Duty And Seclusion
Baroness Goto argues that in American homes wives must balance care with discretion. She cautions against public visibility for wives and mothers, urging steadfast duty, and notes Baron Shinpsl Goto’s rise in Japan’s transport sectors after the Russo Japanese War.
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Tokio
Baron Goto
Baroness Goto
Goto
Shinps
Japan
Katsura
Which one did she finally take engagement tale
Holiday outing reveals a wife’s tactful diplomacy about Julia Margaret and Bessie engagements. The husband realizes her scheme to curry favors by praising the girls as popular, while she privately detests the ongoing scramble for husbands and hopes to secure influence through compliments.
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Julia
Margaret
Bessie
MadleGot Floor Tacking and Dumplings Note
In laying MadleGot on the floor care should elim inate tacking. Edges should be fat so it does not touch and has room to spread. Constant treading tends to spread it. Pears yield dumplings as good as apples when covered with crust and baked or served on fritters fried in fat.
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Southside
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Wory
Bettling
Jap Women's Idea
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Richmond
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Richa
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Goulder
Peterviang
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Dally—Pillman
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Westhoard
St, Louis
AMD Obicago Aproial
Cincinnati
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Pullman
Roanoke
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Lynchburg
Bedford
Pullmen
Bristol
Pullman Blaepers
Peteraburg
Columb
City Point
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Norfolk & Western
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