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Anecdotes and quips from a bustling old time column
A collection of humorous scraps and satirical notes from a 19th century paper. The piece recounts a clergyman’s misadventure with kept pets, a bachelor editor, a mother’s lost item mistaken for a handkerchief, Southern visitors in Boston, a celestially inspired prayer remark, a St. Louis City Council anti vice ordinance, and a joking Sherman quip about Grant.
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