Jumbled Bits on News and Nonsense From a Turbulent Era
A collage of quips and observations spans politics, science, and society. It jokes about wireless telegraphy, the coal strike cost, Pituitary concepts, and famed figures while poking at court rulings, public figures, and cultural quirks with a satirical, metropolitan voice.
Life of College Men at Columbia Moves Up to Morningside Heights
Columbia students celebrate a reborn campus life after moving to Morningside Heights in 1898. The shift spurred dorm culture, Greek houses by Riverside Drive, larger student body of about 5,400, and a cosmopolitan mix. Boating and indoor sports gain traction, a university tavern opens, and new societies form while old ones adapt to campus life beyond Forty-ninth Street.
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Columbia
Morningside Heights
Forty-ninth Street
Psi Upsilon
Delta Pal
Riverside Drive
The
Phi
Alte
New York
Kappa Beta
Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Kappa Beta
Deutscher Verein
Societe Francaise
George I of England
Stenily Hse
the Heights
Forty- Ninth Street
College
Taverp
Mike
Buckingham
Overcoming Troubles Through Cheer and Resolve
St. Joseph Gazette urges readers to face misfortune with cheer and courage. It notes that everyone has troubles, but joy and solidarity with comrades can lift hearts. The piece encourages studying souls with trouble and choosing optimism over persistent groaning.
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St. Joseph
Billionaire Jaynes Bypasses Time in Luxury Tube Prank
Jaynes, head of the Cake Trust, uses a suspended animation device to travel from Fifth Avenue to his Chicago area home, then via club tubes to London and Johannesburg for a party with the Baroness Arethusa von Ochsenreiter. He contemplates proposing to her after a grand opera in Paris and a planned supper in London.
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Keyworth Jaynes
Cake Trust
Fifth Avenue
Sixty-sixth Street
Chicago
Great Lakes
Joynes
Jaynes
Mississippi
Billonaire
Midas Club
London
Truats
Baroness von Oeisenrelter
Thuringia
Mela Herr
Aller-Kuchen-Handlung- Gesellschafts
Jayne
Arethusa von
Hofbrau
Rome
Cairo
Johannesburg
Grand Opera House
The
Baronosa
Paris
Ochsenreiter
le von Ochgenrelter
Ochsenretter
Arethusa
Shea
Parla
Arethusa and the Baroness in Paris Opera Night
After an opera the scene shifts to Paris where Jaynes courts Arethusa in the private cafe of Baroness von Ochsenrolter. He proclaims love and a life of wealth from the Cako Trust, while the Baroness yields to the moment amid dramatic dialogue and ornate setting. The exchange ends with Arethusa as the centerpiece of courtship and fortune.
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Paris
Mont Brievant
Arethusa
Bil
Ionarie
Cako
Keyworth
Baroness von Ochsenrolter
Jaynes
H. L Brock
New York Times
Unrehearsed tableau at Bougereau studio shocks visitors
A Boston woman and a New York widow, staying in Paris with an American friend and two daughters, visited Bougereau's atelier through a French guide. Entering the studio, the group encountered several men smoking and a model. startled, they departed, later returning to find the room empty and the artist calm.
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Paris
Boston
New York
Primmrest
Studin
Bougereau
Persian Solomon and Sadi Writings Quoted in English Reader
A Persian Solomon noted for wide popularity after Sadi is discussed as traveler and observer. Mr Robinson cites Sadi’s tales on human folly including a pupil asking how to handle constant interruptions and a farrier remedy leading to an appeal to the magistrate. The magistrate dismisses damages.
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Solomon
Persia
Sadi
Robinson
Girl and Grammar. Kentucky editor notes grammar and chickens
A Kentucky editor jokes that locals use different English from Boston. A Hub woman visits a farm and ties six chickens feet first to a sack in a store, asking if they will lay there. The merchant asks about her education and she replies they are al roost orn. The tale ends with urging better schooling and language care.
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Kentucky
Boston
Oll
Ahé
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