House on the Uplands Mystery in Tantremar Marsh
A traveler visits the white house on Tantremar’s uplands where an old man awaits his missing brother James. The host recalls past loyalties and a stormy voyage. A Halifax letter confirms James’s planned return, but a wreck years earlier leaves the tale haunted as night storms rise.
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Tantremar
Bay of Fundy
North America
Fundy
Nova Scotia
James
England
Halifay
Brother James
Lorge Montague
Jorge
James Montague
Halifax
Cunard
Scotia
Curley
Jarge
Uplands
Cunard Line
Laft
N. Y
Kitchen Kulchan and the Quiet Row
A comic collection features a maid narrator and mistress quarrel over a troubling household. The skivvy laments the mistress playing music, while Ally Sloper’s dialogue toys with illness and mercy. A separate strip mocks landlord and tenant tension with a rat-ridden house and ghosts.
Admirable Scheme Ends With Twenty Years Silence
A quirky Tit Bits note recalls a couple, the Jerkins, who agreed after their marriage that whenever either lost temper the other would stay silent. For twenty years, Jerkins kept silent, and the scheme admirably succeeded in avoiding quarrels.
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Jerkins
Perkins
Bob
Meaning of a single woman in Ally Sloper dialogue
A father explains to his son that a single woman is one with only a single idea in life a single ambition and a single desire and he defines that desire as to get married in the Ally Sloper comic dialogue.
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Ally Sloper
Affectionate Epistle Caught In Milwaukees Raffle Confusion
A playful clipping from the Milwaukee Sentinel features a romance flavored letter to an Irish maiden and a humorous aside about winning a Turk at a raffle. The note blends tender vows with lighthearted self mockery.
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Mr. Loafer
Odd Times and Miscellany in a Century-Old Column
A collage of light humor and social quips from various papers. Jests on marriage age and engagement rules mix with medical missteps and advice gags. Short snippets feature Puck style mischief, a doctor patient exchange about dosing, and a few urban one liners.
Suburban Amenities The Slavey at Laburnum Villa
A humorous dialogue shows a neighbor reporting washed laundry hung out and a breakfast carpet beaten, while Ally Sloper features flirtations, and Edyth Jack Nation jokes about engagement and kissing before a line about a hungry tramp and a benevolent housekeeper offering dried apples.
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Laburnum Villa
Ally Sloper
Man Wants But Little Here Below Refraint Refrain
A short verse note from the Herald quotes a classical line about human desire and longing. It reflects on how the hardest things to obtain are often the smallest pleasures in life.
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Herald
Taken the Wrong Way
Comic exchange shows Wiggin recommended a hair restorer. Patrick jokes about drinking three bottles, finding no effect, as Ally Sloper documents a humorous misunderstanding.
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Patrick
Ally Sloper
Dramatic Verse Fragment From a Boarding House Scene
A fragmentary verse passage features a speaker addressing a boarding house mistress and appealing for restraint over money. The tone suggests a stage or dramatic monologue with mock exhortations and a request to curb temper, ending with a quotation tag.
Variety of Humorous Snippets and Cartoon Quips
A collage of brief witticisms and dialogue from early 20th century papers. Excerpts feature Mr. Woozle debating tears, Rip Van Winkle waking to greetings, a mother’s praise of a baby, a humorous kitchen scene, a kerosene incident, and John Pew’s acting career joke.
New York Adopts Bertillon System for City Workers
The New York Civil Service Commission votes to require Bertillon measurements for street-cleaning laborers to curb fraud and impersonation. Indicia cards will record hair and eye color stature foot and limb measurements and any distinguishing marks. Violations lead to dismissal and a one year bar from city employment for both the impostor and the original holder.
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New York
Municipal Civil Service Commission of
Civil Service Commission
Northwestern coeds cautioned on profanity by professor
Northwestern University professor J Scott Clark warns coeds in sophomore composition to avoid the sacred name in vain noting great heavens is a profane expression. The class responds by adopting fudge as a milder substitute. The incident is reported alongside brief notes on a Northeast Harbor wedding veil mishap and a humorous radish column from the Star.
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Northwestern University
Evanston
Lil
J. Scott Clark
Clark
Prof. Clark
The Melancholy Season
A reflective piece notes bare trees and empty nests as signs of a quiet season. It evokes absence of birds and girls in hammocks, and coins missing from old nests, signaling change and stillness.
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Chicago Daily News
Questions of Conscience in Tit-Bits and Herald
In a dialogue from Tit-Bits and a remark in the N. Herald a husband laments wealth buys freedom from social shame while his wife jokes about summers in Europe and winters in Florida. The exchange notes whether a man should celebrate a marriage he cannot fully endorse and whether wealth alters family dynamics.
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Lorimer
Europe
Florida
Herald
Frail Patient Buries Tiny Bone Fragment at Hospital
A patient at a Ventnor hospital rents a small bone fragment from a splintered bone as curiosity. He shows it to doctors and fellow patients, prompting remarks about its chemical nature and a wry joke about a skeleton. The scene draws amused chatter among inmates and staff.
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Royal National Hospital
Ventnor
Recenty
Congultin
Philadelphia Inquirer
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A. B. DeMille
George
Uned
Glal
Topsy
Bridget
Puck
Yonkers Statesman
Kidleigh
Wilder
Swiggs
Briggs
Swigse
N. Edyth
Jack
Omar
Turkey
Rip van Winkle
Rip
Boston Post
Washington Star
Him
John Pew
Miss Soubrette
Milwaukee Sentinel
Northeast Harbor
Kennebec Journal
Kansas City Star
Chicago Journal
Infanis
Aix
Sears
Neik
Aaeae
Es Ppv
Cleveland Plain Dealer
ST. Jacobs
Security
Carter
Sewall
Picancer
Montgomery Ward & CO
Chicago
the Hous Thas Tells the
Bears
Castoria
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