Portland sees two Seattle boomers in tale told by local man
Wateh Hee Grow Daniel O'Connell Lively of Portland Oregon recounts a Seattle encounter in a Portland tale. The two Seattle boomers meet in Portland with chat about travel and a joke exchange ends with a prompting to “ace her now” in a Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post style anecdote.
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Wateh Hee Grow
Daniel O'Connell Lively
Portland
Ore
Seattle
Seattler
Philadelphia
Saturday Evening Post
Diverse snippets and quips echoing daily life
A collage of humorous exchanges and oddities spans cartoons, cancer cures, restaurant chatter, and workplace notes. It covers a gardener chatting with children about “little Aigners,” Dr Doyen’s heat therapy claimed to cure cancer, a restaurant table banter about aging beef, a teen commenter mishearing items, a child asking about a typewriter, and a Baltimore and Ohio report noting reduced female worker productivity leading to a male-only hiring plan.
Suffrage lecturer stalls audience with witty quip
A woman in England, a lecturer on suffrage, delivered a sharp retort about voting rights. The audience, including figures like Mr. Jones and a remark about a groom, sparked laughter. The exchange touched on respect, opportunity, and the question of enterprise versus insomnia in public discourse.
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Jabe Ad the
Mranchion
England
When Your Meals Disagree Take Immediate Action
An ad urges prompt use of Hoatetter's Stomach Bitters to prevent worsening digestive issues. It claims hundreds of cases improved when treated early and warns that delaying relief makes recovery harder, listing indigestion and dyspepsia as conditions helped.
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Hoatetter
Misplaced steak leads to nickel surprise joke
A Kansas City Star joke recounts a man who bought 20 crates of steak and received nickel change. Returning home he mislaid the meat, found the nickel in his coat pocket, and later discovered the steak in his purse, a humorous mix up.
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Guy
Norburos
Kansas City Star
Growth of the United States Postal Service since 1847
The article tracks postal growth from 1847 to 1889 and beyond, noting 8.96 billion pieces in 1889 rising to over 19.17 billion twenty years later. It credits rural delivery with much of the increase, citing 40,000 carriers delivering mail to farms and a daily travel of over a million miles. It mentions a proposed parcels post and merchant opposition.
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United States
Postoffice Department
Kept Her Promise and Other Whimsical Exchanges
A collage of social snippets and dialogue humor from letters and humor columns. It features a wife coaxing a password from her husband, a bird in a tale about a pearl necklace, milliner quips on headwear, and streetwise asides, with jests attributed to sources like Louis Star and Chicago Tribune.
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Reglater
Ypsilanti
Oshkowh
Chicago Tribune
Billy
Biddy Beech
Era Edi Ape Rempeeaaris
Enyana
Mrs. Wheedle
John
Mr. Wheedle
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