Whimsical Quips From 19th Century Papers
A collage of humorous exchanges and wry witticisms from various papers. A Frankfort resident hosts a phantom party with guests leaving under spirits, while others joke about officers, scolds, and social plots.
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Crimsnbesk
Yonkers Statesman
Anxious Inquirer
L. A. W. Bulletin
Tom
van Dyke
Jack
Harvard Lampoon
Frankfort
Philadelphia Record
Hoston Transcript
Kansas City Independent
Hallis Salmon Stage Co. schedule and connections
Hallis Salmon Stage Co. operates mail express and passenger service twice weekly on Saturdays and Tuesdays between Allis and Salmon. Connections at Salmon to Red Ix, Gibbonsville, and other Custer county towns. W. Radicker, proprietor. Almon, 5 Ipauo.
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Allis
Salmon
Redix
Gibbonsville
Femhi
Custer County
W. Raddicker
Almon
C and C Stage Line Ad Promote Route to Local Towns
The ad from C. C. Stage Line run by C. H. Poppy touts the cheapest, shortest, and oft direct service to Bayhorse Layton Banana Custer Stanasin Seafoam and Sheeptain. It notes carrying U.S. mail pagers and express with Boalding as agent in Challis.
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Bayhorse
Layton
Bananna
Custer
Stanasin
Seafoam
Sheeptain
U.S
Challis
Foreign Servants and Cosmopolitan Household Life
A nostalgic survey contrasts American tastes with imported domestic help from China Japan East Indian and Turkish origins. It notes cooks valets and butlers from distant lands in elite homes and ends with a humorous anecdote about a Hungarian king and a blacksmith obtaining autographs and signatures during a royal audience.
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California
New York
St. Louis Republic
Danube
Francis Joseph
Hungary
Smith
San
San Francisco
Reba Tricks the Gunours with a Cornered Ruse
A satirical note from the Phoenix mocks legal students and rivals, describing a Wily Tindoo law student who, famed for cleverness, supposedly secures scholarships at Lincoln's Ten and contemplates adopting a series of consonants to resemble a gentleman in a roler scheme while passing bar examinations.
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Reba
Council of the Bar
Phoenix
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