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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1899
Page
11
A New Orleans Times-Democrat report recalls a clerk misusing a memo pad as a tip jar and time sheet. A drummer’s costly miscalculations, mistaken beer order, and a late night scramble for wakeful patrons unfold with farcical chaos. The tale ends with the editor noting the absurdity and readers recalling prior gaffes.
An absent minded Cincinnati lawyer left a door note saying he would return at 10:30 and to sit down and wait. He forgot something, climbed back up, and saw the same notice on his door as he waited for his own return.
In Paris at the Jardin des Plantes a young camel was born drawing visitors while an elephant showed discontent and sprayed water over onlookers. A separate New Jersey note mentions a Whooping Cough Party where only afflicted children attended and had a rough time between coughs.
A quirky reflection questions wealth and envy, noting some men gain riches while others, childless or blessed with twink, face fate and curses for sins, as readers wonder about what truly matters in life.
A collage of light verse and dialogue from old magazines and papers. Snippets feature street talk and comic missteps about marriage, rheumatism, education, and counterfeiters with slang and quaint spellings. Names and places recur in a breezy, fragmentary style.
The notice lists daily and special rail schedules from San Antonio ports and neighboring lines including G H & S A Ry, L&G.N Ry, and S A & ALP Ry with north and south departures at various times. It also mentions Stagh routes to Uleaxanton and surrounding ranch areas, and a promotional fare offer for a Cincinnati trip tied to the American Christian Missionary Association meeting.
An American patent medicine blurb markets Hall's Great Discovery for bladder kidney and other troubles with claims it cures diabetes stone and related conditions for men and women. Testimonies promise cures after one bottle and two months of use, with purchase via druggists and mail order from Temple Texas and St Louis Missouri.
A mosaic of humorous lines, misheard phrases, and collage-like quips from Dimeunter, Puck, Boston Transcript, Chicago Daily News, and other papers. Jokes about dress buys, rain storms, and odd schoolyard banter mix with punchlines from a humor page across several periodicals.
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