Her Bad Break and Other Wit Amid Oddities
A humorous fragment set mixes a birthday gift mishap with a vesiiarian joke about Noahs Ark. The text shifts to satirical lines on morality and religion, ending with a quip about card players.
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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1907
Page
3
Ostend Quips About Pre Dinner Speeches
A visitor jokes Ostend by noting a father’s prominence leads to many after dinner speeches. Ostend replies that his father speaks before dinner, since that is when he begins to critique the cooking.
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Ostend
Fall Millinery: Mushroom Shape Hats Gain Popularity
Throughout the Northwest the Progressive Millinery House of Milywaken, known as Bumnfeld Locher Brown Coy, promotes fashionable trimmed hats with velvet edges and ostrich plumes. The firm claims hats are latest style, real millinery, yet priced to suit the general public, featuring BL 1 Monogram Label.
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Wull
Abd
Hey Guy
Bumnfeld, Locher & Brown Coy
Milywaken
Unappreciative Exchange Sparks Back Alley Joke
A quip about a sister sparks a boy named Tommy to retort that his sister sings poorly around him. The exchange features a young man teasing and Tommy replying with a sharp, crude joke set in a back alley context.
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Tommy
Patents Issued Last Week To Northwestern Inventors
List of patents issued last week to Northwestern inventors reported by Lothrop and Johnson patent lawyers at the Pioneer Press building in St. Paul Minnesota. Names include George C Andrews of Minneapolis for boiler Charles J Bender Fergus Falls Minn for washing machine Isaac L Ross Bowbells ND for feed box William C Vague Brooks Minn for snow plow John H White Kennedy Minn for spark arrester Dennis Donahue Lions City SD for ice washer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northwestern
Lothrop & Johnson
Pioneer Press
St. Paul
Minn
George C Andrews
Minneapolis
Charles J. Bender
Fergus Falls
Gottlieb W. Froelich
St. Paul Minn
Isaac L Ross
N. D
William C. Vague
Brooks
John
Renowned Actor Richard Mansfield Dies in Connecticut
New London reports the death of Richard Mansfield at Seven Oaks Urban Avenue due to liver disease with complications. The famed stage star, born 1867 on Heligoland, rose from street-potato warmth tales to lead roles such as Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Cyrano de Bergerac and Beow Bram mel amid a celebrated American career.
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New London
Conn
Richard Mansfield
Seven Oaks
Urban Avenue
A. H. Allen
Mansfield
Saranac Lake N. Y
Felix
Gibbs
England
Heligoland
Mme. Mansfield Rufersdorf
Mansfeld
London
Mr. Mansfield
Smart
Baron Chevrial
Pitlyre
Prince Karl
Dr. Jekyll
Mr. Hyde
Ivan the Terrible
Henry V
Shylock
Beau Brammel
Ibsen
Interior Department to undergo drastic changes
Washington Sept 1 A sweeping reform in personnel and business methods will be put into effect within six weeks to two months at the Department of the Interior. The plan aims to save over 200000 a year by transferring clerks consolidating two bureaus moving a large bureau to the pension office building standardizing blanks and storing patent office models. No dismissals are planned though vacancies will reduce total staff gradually as offices empty.
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Department of Interior
Washington
Department of the Interior
Department
Pension Office
Land Office
Patent Office
Secretary of the Interior
Garfield
Nothing Slow About Him Borrows to Slow Pay
Manchuria is described as a good customer with a history of large purchases. Last year Manchuria bought goods from the United States totaling 12 million dollars.
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Biggs
Diggs
Manchuria
United States
Meanly and Mrs Meanly Card Plot in Waste Not Play
A dialogue from the stage spoof reveals Mr Meanly promising a future marriage and Mrs Meanly planning to print visiting cards reading Mrs Meanly to avoid waste. The comic sharpens about social names and quick remarriage.
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Mr. Meanly
Menly
Mrs. Meanly
It Cures While You Walk Allen's Foot-Ease Cure
It cures while you walk says Allen's Foot-Ease for rough corns and aching feet. Sold by druggists at two shillings. Address provided for samples and inquiries.
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Allen
All Drugeists
le Roy
Tricks In Every Trade and Odd Advertisements
A collage of quips on craftiness and marriage notices, followed by dubious medicine and patent remedies. The page parodies social chatter and promotes various goods from healing tonics to domestic trinkets, ending with a moral about postponing regrets.
The Value of Time in a Brief Exchange
An exchanged quip contrasts careful timing with haste. A pragmatic citizen warns against overanalyzing time when a friend recalls the danger of delaying progress by studying a timetable too long.
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Ike
From His Point of View in Hazy Courtroom Echoes
Fragmentary dialogue reveals a quirky exchange about a hit and run. A lawyer and witness dispute the vehicle number, the car’s plate, and the accident’s details amid a surreal courtroom mood. The misread numbers and upside down alto create comic confusion in a tense scene.
All Needed Confusion Over Lemons For Canton Merchant
A city salesman questions a local deal about a 100 dozen lemons for a small fruit stand near the West Side ball park. The exchange suggests a misunderstanding between a merchant and buyer regarding a large citrus order.
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South Water
West Side Ball Park
Cubs
Courier Journal fire causes $200000 loss in Louisville plant
The Courier-Journal plant in Louisville was gutted by a blaze shortly after midnight. Estimated loss runs about $200000 with machinery damaged by water but salvageable. officials suspect the fire started from defective insulation on electric wires.
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Ouisville
Courier-Journal
Louisville
Auto Turns Somersault Injures Five Near Lafayette
Five persons were injured in a Dayton crash eight miles east of Lafayette Indiana when a touring car carrying Mr and Mrs Don Hawkins Mr and Mrs Osterdorf and a chauffeur from Indianapolis skidded across a bridge. The car turned a complete somersault landing bottom side up in soft gravel at the foot of an embankment.
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Ind
Dayton
Here
Don Hawkins
Osterdorf
Indianapolis
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