Four-Ply Slam and Kayo Shakespeare Inside a Boston Paper
A humorous collage shows editors debating inverted headlines and coded sports lingo. McNally’s three round trip slam, a helmet of slang, and a breakfast ad theory swirl through a mock conversation reflecting press banter and home hunting humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Telegraph
McNaily Kaye Blow
Sporting
McNally
Bod
Society Reporter
Gerri
Brockton Enterprise
A Good Prescription
A tramp offers a free cure for indigestion by living on plain food and sending rich dishes to the poor. The housewife agrees with caution, noting the surprising prescription from the visitor. The exchange ends with the tramp declaring himself the pauper beneficiary.
Misquoted Quip Sparks Odd Vegetarian Health Claim
A quirky exchange mentions mistaken calls and a vegetarian asserting his good health comes from meat and chewing it well, prompting puzzled laughter over the odd dietary claim. The dialogue mixes a mistaken personal moment with a muddled health assertion about meat consumption.
Means Death of Grammar Englis as Commonly Written
The Spokane Review laments the decline of pure grammar and elevated prose. It notes marks of deterioration from Cobbe to Hazlitt as journalism shifts toward concise everyday speech amid electric age readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane Spokesman Review
Cobbe
Coleridge
DeCuincey
Hazlitt
Steard
Lindley Murray
Couldn't Hear Him Grow Baby Marie Osborne Feature
A fragment from East side theater coverage notes Baby Marie Osborne being featured in a show tailored for headline performers. A rooster on a fence disrupted the crowd, crowing as a child voice plead for mercy, creating a brief moment of hush before the scene continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie Osborne
Ap East Side Theater
Ndlunapulis News
How He Judged Mr Bicon From Clothes
A witty exchange on judging people by appearances unfolds with Mrs Jacon declaring she never judges a man by his clothes while suggesting the true measure lies in his wife’s attire, delivered in Bon's Weekly style.
Proving It a Catastrophe in Local Chronicle Parody
The Francisco Chronicle quotes a phrasing about “Pussrfooting” as a calamity and calls it a cat astrophe in a witty aside. The note plays on punning language to describe a humorous disaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sen Francisco Chronicle
Devastation in France and American relief plans
Washington sees wide inquiry into France reconstruction. Soldiers and veterans may join American efforts to rebuild devastated towns like Varenne and Sermaize. Officials discuss army reorganization, while a new American Warran'e Legion of the Great War seeks female kinship support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward B. Clark
Washington
Profesmonal
Businessen Oa
France
United States
Fair
Germany
Varennes
Varenne
Argonne Forest
Louise
Marie Antoinette
Paris
Sermaize
Bermalze
Roth
Soellins
Plana
General Staff
Ring
Women's Legion of Great War
Columbia
American Warran'e Legion of
Friends
Movement
Amercan’ Legion
Sr. 1 Owls
Gernaby
American Legion
Inter
Bopetomnartts
Howe Nest Werd
We Can't Now On Bold Marriage Bill History
A disjointed reminiscence recalls a past bill to require universal physical and mental eligibility for marriage that failed in committee. An onlookers’ aside notes a groom‑to‑be confessing he might soon wed as a humorous aside amid a Main Street car scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
United States
Gyaree
Sf Fa
Pian
Army Departmenty
Bhe Feaua
Diaos
Congress
J . Aroy
Staf Dan
Benedictine
Buffiia News
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Libby
M¢Neill
Chicago
Everybody's Magazine
Frange
Sormaize
Chading
Yeats
League of Nation
Eis
Gonstipatis
Jus Garri
Perea iPos
Weapyar
Udeeeinnad
Buffald Express
Errae
Caen Gane
Geo. A. Mall
Lead St
Milwaukee
Wis
Bess
Eon Beilding, Eh
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