Swiss Fashion and Dress Laws in a Medieval Court
The London Express notes Swiss regulations limiting wedding guests to twenty and prohibiting wedding processions from hiring more than two singers two fiddlers and two trumpeters. Married women could not wear silk or ornate hoods while necklines and shoe styles faced strict rules. Minor boys must wear knee-length coats and outfits barred color slashing. In 1470 a council fined shoemakers and wearers for long shoe points.
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Switzerland
London Express
Shakespeare a Bad Sleeper
F I Montague in the London Saturday Review argues Shakespeare suffered from insomnia. He cites Henry IV lines and Lucrece imagery as portrayals of a restless night, noting the twenty seventh sonnet where weary toil ends and mental travel begins. The piece suggests Shakespeare’s sonnets are autobiographical in this sleep troubled view.
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Shakespeare
F. I’. Montague
London Saturday Review
London
Lucrece
Epitaph Question Prompts Life Plan Talk
A uncle asks his nephew to consider the future and the inscription on his tombstone as a measure of life choices. The exchange frames ambition and self direction in a candid, humorous way.
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Horace
Chicago Tribune
French coin mischief as man denies son
A Pittsburg Post quip notes Jack Ardupp attempting to borrow a dollar. The speaker insists he has no son and questions whether the dollar is a French coin, claiming no son exists. The exchange plays on truth and coins in a humorous exchange.
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Jack Ardupp
Pittsburg Post
A Subtle Distinction About a Parvenu Financier
A quotation from Journal Amusant notes the mother presenting photographs of her son in various stages from child to baron, a subtle distinction in status as seen by a visiting visitor.
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Parvenu Financier
Journal Amusant
Nothing to $1 Joke Quips Judge’s Wry Comment
A judge quips that the clever joke is one that makes you laugh even when you know there is nothing to count as a dollar. The remark casts light humor on value and certainty in a courtroom banter.
Sidney Telegraph and Inter Ocean Clubbing Offer
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Pelearapn
Tepeanarpa
Hisself
Tee ‘Feceoram
Seaside California Mission Town Draws Tourists
The quaint mission town on California's coast is highlighted as a lovely resort. It notes centuries of Christian preaching by Spanish friars and that the old mission remains a seasonal visitor site reached by Union Pacific trains. Inquiries about low travel rates are directed to ALVA B. Capy and partners at SCANLON'S.
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Union Passenger Station
Chicago
Union Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
California
Alva B. Capy
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Fishman Dry Goods Store
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M. H. Tobin
Schlitz Beer
Telephone
Neb
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M. E. Washburn
Fcr Nmbs
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway
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Omaha
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Sidney Telegraph
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National Biscuit Company
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