The Little Blind God and Golf
Grace and Jack, rivals in golf, wager marriage on a match with a fairy tale task. He changes balls to bluff, she wins with a lucky shot, and the trick backfires when she hides her deception about the ball, risking their engagement.
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Jack
Jack Hower
Brie
Grace
Tack
Riverton
Betty
Wally
Will It Pay Will Home Trade Outlast Catalogues
An 1906 essay argues two core questions for thrifty households: moral obligation to support home merchants and whether buying locally pays off. It contrasts catalogues with the local merchant, notes home-town advantages such as schooling and mail routes, and warns of distant, monopsony risks if rural trade departs town.
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Alfred C. Clark
Aqusebold
Department
Lfe
Lves
Slamanen
Mr. Merchant
Issist
Fragments From a Night of Gossip and Jokes
A garbled page of anecdotes and dialogue pieces features misquoted names and comical exchanges. The text centers on social embarrassment, money woes, and humorous quips about lovers and spouses, attributed to various newspapers and jokes from Chicago outlets.
Wordplay and quips in a cabinet of newspaper phrases
A collage of humorous lines and snippets from various publications. The text presents quick jokes and parlor commentary featuring milk quality, court dialogue, travel references, and era slang. Notable bits include San Remo, a joke about death rates, a boy’s face, and Wall Street panics.
No Murray and Young Bird Banter on Escape From Gun Threat
A fragmentary dialogue depicts a chase with a boy named Murray and Young Bird fleeing a pursuing gun, an old bird warning of a fence escape, and a judge and others defining a scientist as one who seeks to measure germs amid spilled milk in a weekly scene.
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Jobn
Jobn G
Denkruptcy
Young Bird
Old Bird
Bocker
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Little Blind God
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Joseph B. Bow
Arles Bradshaw
Bowse
Dewberry
Chicago Daily News
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Wall Street
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Puck