Jokes and quips from a bygone era amuse at modest rail and hotel stops
A collection of light anecdotes from wartime veterans and rail stations. A Civil War veteran recounts a humorous hotel billing exchange about being a private. A brakeman jokes about direction to New York. Fragments touch on Friday superstition, slang evolution, Napoleon impersonation, and a maid shuffling breakfast napkins.
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