Dooner Fired Over Square Meal Menu and Graft Doubts
In Croker era New York, John A. Dooner published a lavish square meal menu while foreman of laborers earning 2000 a year. Mayor Gaynor investigated and dismissed him for lack of work, reflecting reform pressure on public officials and shifting attitudes toward corruption and accountability.
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Richard Croker
John A. Dooner
New York
Gaynor
Dooner
Croker
John
Translator Avoids French Menu For Farmer Lunch
A farmer enters a fancy restaurant and finds the bill of fare printed only in French. He asks the waiter for explanations and learns the dish Sorbet au Kirsch costs 35 cents, illustrating a humorous miscommunication over the menu.
Blinks ridicules Blanks over flashy jewelry choice
Blinks mocks Blanks for wearing simple boiled eggs on a street outing, contrasting with Blanks previous diamond studs and ostentatious displays. The exchange highlights class tensions as Blinks accuses Blanks of rubbing wealth in the proletariat.
Patchwork of Quin stories and odd quotes in papers
A jumble of fragmented quotes from multiple papers includes lines about a social cannibal, a man living on friends and relatives, a misfired joke about lockjaw and a man with teeth in a safe. The text also mentions a "Lady of the House" and a reference to an auto phile drawing, with terse city-source tags.
Egg Club Holds Eggless Banquet in Illinois
In Upper Aston Illinois the Hard Haired Eye club ended nine years of weekly egg suppers after a treasury report showed only 863 dollars. The February banquet featured Florida strawberries and terrapin in place of eggs while funds are built for a future egg feast in 1915.
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United Press
Upper Aston
Ill
Florida
Dilemmas and Dangers in Everyday Advice
The Chicago News remarks on prudence in friendships and marriage, noting fast friends misjudge each other, women hunting husbands use powder, and a man fails in business despite advice. It also jokes that only the obese coal dealer can be blameless in weight loss and that the matrimonial prize often goes to the man who marries a homely girl.
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Chicago News
Eggslatence and eggapress an eggsception in fortitude
The fragment hints at egg related urgency and courage shown by people who defy egg scrutiny. It references eggstras ordinary fortitude and an extraordinary example of resolve amid eggarbitrary constraints.
Oscar And Adolf And Food Problem Scene
In Adolf a delicatessen Ongar asks for edible crackers that double as soap. They offer pulverised cork floats, self rising flour, wood pulp cream, wax beans, and other odd items as substitutes. A humorously grim menu lists fake dishes like Perch Planked Shoe Sole and Chipped Leg of Piano.
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Adolf
Liven Atmosphere
Blue Point
Tabor
A Cold Storage Feast of Fowl and Fish
The speaker savors aged meats and preserved produce from cold storage. A nibbled steak appears fifteen years chilled, venison from bygone days, a trout aged forty years, and aged cheeses from eras past. The prose celebrates cold storage as a foe of germ and preserver of perpetual youth for food and worm alike.
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Gaul
The Story Teller in a Southern Town
An old darky in a southern town walks the plain street in a black suit with a white rose. A storekeeper teases him about holidays and his wife. A schoolhouse dispute leads to a joke about a sleight of hand professor. Ten Danish children count holes in the sand to reveal their number.
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Darky
Moss
Meneses
This Happened to Oscar and Adolf
Adolf lies ill and lonely when Osgar arrives with bundles of food and flowers. Osgar mispronounces items as he presents gifts while Adolf reacts with curious scents and a puzzled question about tuberones, ending with a strange aside about a thin girl’s ankle.
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Adolf
Osgar
Feller
Fletcherizing Third Generation Represents The Health Fad
A humorous piece notes a man from the Fletcher family born in 1875 and his distinctive lower jaw, joking that his appearance results from the Fletcherizing method of chewing food.
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Endorsed For Coughs And Colds
A seventy year record endorses Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for coughs colds bronchitis and weak lungs. It says the medicine prevents protects soothes and heals and recommends keeping a bottle at home.
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Ayer
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