Worry and Rain in Yakima Orchards and Folk Wit
A Denver Republic quotation on worry contrasts with Yakima valley farming where orchards yield $1,000 an acre. Rain is scarce, irrigation is common, and water is rationed by acreage. A hired man jokes about dew while the rancher insists water must stay on the land.
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Washington
Let Us Tap Your Hides Sign Scares Child Visitor
A countrywoman and her young son explore city sights and pass a taxidermist shop window. The boy spots the door sign Let us tap your hides and pleads to avoid entering, recalling a line he heard at home.
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Willie
National Monthly
Difference Between a Mulatto Captain and a Gum Drops Boy
A comic exchange contrasts a mulatto infantry captain with a boy buying gum drops for his girl. The joke labels the captain as a chocolate soldier and the boy as a candy kid, followed by a stage cue for a performer in a Chicago Tribune strip.
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George
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Clarence
Chicago Tribune
The Stomach and Its Power to Resist Digestive Juices
The article explores why the stomach does not digest itself, detailing gastric juice effects, experiments on digestion in living beings, and the conclusion that the stomach may slowly digest itself only as it is rebuilt. credits Lawrence Hodges from the New York Tribune.
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New York Tribune
In Doubt. Editor Look Here What Sort Of Writing Is This
A witty quip from the New York Journal on the mislabeling of a social event as a housecleaning exhibition. The editors question whether the report describes a party or a cleaning-themed display and highlight the timid guest who withdrew.
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New York Journal
Crystal Theatre Passes to New Management
On Tuesday the Crystal Theatre came under Edgar Dedrick and Howard Adams. Tickets stay 5 and 10 cents with 5 cent children under twelve. Mack and Bennett performed a vaudeville sketch The Maid and the Tooth-pick, to a large audience. Virginia Warblers delivered a strong Lecture Course closing, with Old Black Joe and a calliope quartet, despite rainy weather.
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The Inspiring Bagpipes at a Seaside Boardwalk
Robert M. Gay's Atlantic letter judges a band of Highland bagpipers as formidable yet jarringly wild. He links their music to ferocious war imagery, claiming it stirs patriotic fervor and a sense of doom, likening it to wheels of fortune and mills of the gods.
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Robert M. Gay
Atlantic
Mice in the House Spark Suspicions in Philadelphia
In a Philadelphia Press excerpt, Miss Grossip and Miss Kidder discuss a couple's devotion, suggesting distrust. They reveal last night a trap was set, implying hidden troubles and likely infidelity, with the line about there being mice in the house underscoring suspicion.
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Miss Grossip
Miss Kidder
Philadelphia Press
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