Quips and quiddities from a busy Boston column
A collage of jokes and anecdotes from Boston newspapers including witticisms about absinthe love, wedding rings, a polite hotel clerk, and the Leftenant pun. It notes habits of legistlators, a Western humorist, and practical poultry lore, ending with farmyard remedies and fowl feeding tips.
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Barnum
William Marry
Tur Richmond Erquirer
Powhattan
Boston
The
Boston Transcript
United States
Kentucky
How to Clean Feathers by Limewater and Soap
Cleaning feathers involves two methods. For oily feathers mix one pound of quicklime with one gallon of water, let the lime settle, use the clear limewater to soak the feathers for three to four days, rinse, and air dry. then shake and collect the dried feathers. White brown or fawn feathers are treated with a soap solution made from fine white soap and pearlash, soaked and rinsed, then dried and pressed to set curl.
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Farmens Home Journal
Expansion of the Chest Exercise for Tuberculosis Prevention
Dr. Lewis advocates a swinging chest expansion method using a rope and wooden stick to train the upper body. He claims this daily exercise enlarges the chest, expands lung capacity, purifies blood, and helps prevent consumption while offering pleasant, low cost equipment for all ages.
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Lewis
Employment for Fowls Scratching as a Labor Trick
Advice on keeping confined poultry busy to reduce feather and egg eating. Suggests covering yards with litter and scattering grain to induce scratching, using available materials like straw leaves corn stalks hay or seaweed to provide mental and physical stimulation for birds.
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In. Y
Muggins Family Leaves for Europe to Learn for Foreign Ways
Silvester Muggins and kin sail for Europe leaving cheese prices, mispronounced words, and comic mishaps behind. The family plans grand travels through Scotland England Ireland France Germany and Switzerland in search of adventure while Reuben enters summer school and the others anticipate foreign manners and languages.
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Tie
Yewrupp
Sketland
Ingland
Ireland
France
Gide
Germany
Switzerland
Naples
Silvester Muggins
Pilaster Muggins
Muggins
Reuben Mugging
Summerman Skool
Silvester
Reuben
Kammill
Chiceze
Hig Nat
Whitch
Mississippi River
Falls of
Niagara
Enny Buddy
Rome
Keokuk
Ombigbee Kuver
Nu H Hamshire
Becauze
Paris
Josh Billings
Lost Patient Ends Patient-Physician Rift in Costume Deception
A wealthy lady distraught over declining vision fakes a disguise to test a famed oculist. Posing in old clothes with a hood and umbrella she endures a long treatment routine, pretends blindness, and confronts the doctor on amaurosis. The ruse backfires as he fails to recognize her. She leaves and never returns.
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Maedame
Murder by the Evil Spirit Case Stirring The Nation
A young man Waltz confesses to killing Harmon Hulcher near Catskill New York claiming the devil forced him to commit the crime. He describes hiding the body and praying afterward while using the victim’s money. The piece questions insanity and punishment, noting the man’s calm recounting and relief in prayer.
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Waltz
Harmon Hulcher
Catskill
New York
Hulcher
Hutcher
Father
Iuldier
Chicago
Intern Ocean
Bowing to Fashion Defines Women’s Taste in Dress
Forney's Press laments that women defer to fashion authorities, letting mills and stores dictate beauty rather than personal judgment. It argues true beauty endures beyond trends, warning that a nation of barbarians emerges when fashion overrides innate taste.
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Forney
Heroism Begins at Home
The piece argues true bravery comes from a person’s deep character, not a sudden surge in crisis. It states a brave man asserts himself, with his core values guiding action, and that the occasion only reveals preexisting, long-prepared capacity.
The Future America Lies in These Little Hands
The piece urges daily habits shape character for emergencies. It compares resilient growth to an oak facing whirlwinds, warning selfishness undermines duty. It stresses parental influence and training children to prepare for a changing world and an uncertain future.
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America
Scribner’s
Mozart and Haydn in Vienna A Storied Rivalry
The tale recalls Mozart's uphill struggle in Vienna and reception of his works. Haydn praises Mozart while critics doubt and emperors consider rewards. Beethoven's Fifth Symphony earns awe as the deaf composer is consoled by his orchestra and audience.
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Mozart
Vienna
Metastasio
New York
Abbe de Ponte
Prague
Joseph
Haydn
Frederick the Great
Berlin
Joseph II
Beethoven
Frase
Patience With Little Ones Guides Growth
A reflective piece urges parents to patiently teach and foster curiosity in children. It warns against harsh reproach and instead champions gentle, gradual instruction to shape thoughtful, lifelong learners. The author, Hachange, frames childhood as a path to future happiness and usefulness.
Urgent talk of annexing Canada to save Niagara Falls
A historic and urgent argument cites Professor Tyndall and Lyell predicting Niagara Falls could drain and vanish on the American side within millennia. The piece warns of losing rights and asserts bold actions to annex Canada, while noting Siamese harem fashion shifting to European dress in the same report.
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T'nenn
Canada
Tyndall
Niagara Falls
Sam
Professor Ryndall
Charles Lyell
Goat Island
Niagara
Appletons’ Journal
Odd Home Cures and Patched Remedies From Old Times
A compendium of domestic tips includes a good condition powder for powdering, a warning that bright green copper admixtures in pickles are unsafe, and methods for imitating alabaster finishes. It also describes hair coloring with bay rum and olive oil, potato preservation with lime, a stam merer’s singing technique, tanning processes, and medical patent remedies such as Allen’s Lung Balsam and Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery.
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Lancet
London
Plaster of Paris
Bottger
Church
Cirencester
Eneg
StammzKind
Leander
Hellespont
Eran
Le-an-der
Hel-les-pont
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Standing Stone
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Shallenberger
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PO Iles
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Mualphis
BOF Rees
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Thia
Perry Davis
Fraime Sleer
Titan
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A. Coulter .& Co
Charlotte
Mich
Latham & CO
Washington St
Mass
Transatlantic
K. A. Scott &C
Sansom Street
Philadelphia
Drew
Syruffon
Wire
Partle
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Samson& Go
Ported
Maine
Paddack & Hunt
Marsis
F. Ed. Marsh
Peninsular Dispensary
Quincy
Fagan & Hamlin
Mason & Hamlin Organ CO
Opfurs
Walt Aena
J. G
Tileon
Pittsburgh
Earle
Moston
Agoc
Ins
Aki
Suri
Houghton
Howard
South Ninth Street
Bole &Co
Medford
Mase
Fe Wilton Carr
Baltimore
Herofnte
T.¢. Pugh
Abney Ball
Baltimore NM
Craven & Co
Druggirts
Gordonsville
McFadden
Clements & CO
Commerce
Dallmore
Art
Manet
Wirtun
Great Platte Valley
Nebraska
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Colorado
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Radway
Rapway
BR. Radway
Radwat & CO
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Gondrier
Broadway
OI Reese
DE Sboe
Vil Son
Swingin Bevela
Esau
Agenta Sasi
Bert Lon
Willson
Willeson
Ollis Nature
J. . Wriuussown
Joh Street
Waters
Horace Barees Claus
T Waters
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le Staal
Lodges
Elas Agen Rs
Larges Tea Company
Eircular
Robert Wells
Vesey Street
Chenier Tool
SMILE
Orvier
Dearborn Street
John Street
Rio Amp
Kearney Jineton
Gitalo Co
Nobraakiy
S17
Louis Miplaand
Rowman. & Matthews
Third Street
St. Louie
West
J. H. Beadle
Pacific
Beadle
Great West
Atantic and
Pactite Pea Co
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P.O
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Providence
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Blair & Co
U.sarlem
Louis
Freo
Jo Worth
St Louis
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