Art Letter Pranks Turn Into Farce From New York to Cottonwood
Allex E Sweet narrates a comic exchange over a sent landscape oil painting from Satterlee V Jones of Cottonwood Arkansas. A Harlem doorstep misdelivery sparks a hunt for $1.50 unpaid express charges, with absurd critiques by Prof Mahlstick and a running jab at the Grant monument fundraising.
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Mr. Sweet
New York
Harlem
Arkansaw
Per Simmons
Sutterlee V. Jones
Cottonwood, Ark
Mr. Jones
Cottonwood
Alex. E. Sweet
New York City
Sir
Hudson
Satterlee V. Jones
E. Sweet
Prof
Mahlstick
National Academy of Design
Charles I
Satterlee
Pelea
Vermilion Factory
Grant Monument
Grant
Grant Monument Fund
Allex. E. Sweet
Facts Worth Knowing From The Old Manuscripts And Inscriptions
This compendium notes ancient manuscript finds in Upper Egypt from the Iliad, the origin of epigrams on tombs, medieval slave labor norms, Prussian origins from Thasillo and Hohenzollern, Paout-she’s Chinese dictionary, Alexander Anderson the first American wood engraver born 1775, Plymouth’s 1691 charter change, Nelson at the Nile 1798, Civil War prison statistics at Andersonville, and ballooning milestones from Cavendish 1776 to Green 1821.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Upper
Egypt
Hohenzollerns
Prussia
Thasillo
Hohenzollern
Swabia
Pa-out-she
B. C
Alexander Anderson
M. D
New York
Jersey City
N. J
Plymouth Colony
Massachusetts
the Nile
Brueys
Nelson
Westminster Abbey
Andersonville
Henry Cavendish
Joseph Mongoltier
Charles Green
Ingenious Settee Hidden Under Mantel Piece
An artful pine box four feet long becomes a hidden settee topped with a cushion and back panel. Finished with plush ends and an afghan, the project hides seating beneath a mantel, while notes praise writer Donn Platt’s alternation between sense and nonsense.
Undertakerspropits and shady pricing tricks exposed
A Chicago News report quotes a South Side undertaker criticizing the funeral trade. He cites variable profits, nonuniform pricing, use of inferior fittings, and price discrimination by wealthier patrons. Embalming costs and practices are described as professionalized and profit-driven.
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South Side
Fraid
Chicago News
The Novel Reader And The Danger Of Dram Drinking
The article argues that readers crave constant thrills from sensational novels and that such habits dull real life. It likens excessive imaginative excitement to fatty degeneration of the literary mind and heart and suggests a moral shock as the only cure, though painful, to expose the hollowness of unreal interests.
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Almont
The Prince Imperial and a Tragedy of Loss
The reminiscences recount the Prince Imperial's bond with Louis Conneau and a dinner quarrel over strawberry cream. It then details the Empress of France learning of the prince's death from the Due de Bassano, and her anguished reaction as the news unfolds during Zululand events.
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Eugenie
Louis Conneau
Doctor Conneau
Napoleon III
Madame Carette
Tuileries
Conneau
Due de Bassano
Lord Sydney
Prince Imperial
Zululand
Louis
Due
London
Suez
Lack of a Proper Utensil in Castle Garden Tale
Dialogue follows a mistress and new girl about a butcher’s delivery and a meal. The mistress questions arrivals of a sirloin roast and various vegetables while noting the lack of a pot large enough to cook them. A New York Weekly aside mentions a college student called the probable mullediectarian of his class.
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Castle Garden
N. Y
Honest Doctor Recommends Golden Medical Discovery
An honest physician prescribes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for bilious dyspepsia and torpid liver. The remedy purports to purify blood, aid kidneys and excretory organs, improve digestion, and build strength with a guaranteed benefit or money refunded.
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Wormn
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Donn Platt
Washington City
Undertaker
the Prince Imperial
State
Western
Western Steam
Indianapolis A
Hood
Fred J. M. Webber
Lincoln
Mass
William Lansing
Post 49
Neenah
Wis
Missouri Pacific R. R
Iron Mountain
Oklahoma
Arkansas City
Winfield, Anthony & Kiowa
Kansas
Ft. Smith and Wagoner
Arkansas
Indian Territory
H. C. Townsend
St. Louis
L’art de la Mode
Paris
W. J. Morse
East 19Th St
Patercy
North Market
Ontario Sta
Chicago
P. H. Fitzgerald, A. & Claim Agency
Indianapolis
P.W. Ziegler & CO
Thestaut St
Philadelphia
Brewster Safety Rein Holder CO
Holly, Mies
Law
Washington, D. C
Camasrenes
GEO
A. Scott
Laws
A. W. McCormick & Sons
Cincinnati
Washington
L Manfg, CO
Erie
Joseph H. Hunter
Washington, D.C
Douglas
Broceheton
Coney Con
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