Foraging Lessons and War Memorial Eminence
A Civil War diary excerpt recounts Col. L- rebuking foraging neglect by Gen. Ewing and Gen. Sherman clarifies the misread message about foraging. Pennsylvania’s 109th Regiment receives a granite monument at Orchard Knob, with Gov. Pennypacker praising soldiers from sergeant to private and noting troop courage at Wauhatchie.
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Sherman
Gen. Sherman
Gen. Ewing
Pennsylvania
Orchard Knob
Read House
Orchard Koo
Twelfth
U. S. Cavalry
Grant
Missionary Ridge
Rey
Timothy P. O'Keefe
Twelfth U. S. Cavalry
Fred le Gimber
George W. Skinner
State Commission
Gov. Pennypacker
Egypt
Paris
Sedan
von Moltke
Hyde Park
London
BE. A. Carman
National Commission
109Th Pennsylvania Infantry
Wauhatchle
Chatta
J. P. S. Gobin
Wauhatchie
Cumberland
Tennessee
Waubnatchie
Humorous Sketches and Witty Observations in One Page
A collection of compact jokes and vignettes featuring exchanges about money, romance, and everyday quirks. Bits include a would‑be suitor failing to interrupt, a misfit of scientific farming, a Santa beard mishap, a typewriter dictation quip, and a bank of quick one‑liners on work, marriage, and city life.
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Ofce Bay
de Gotham Life Insurance
Fragmented Humor Across Courtroom and Society
A string of short, satirical exchanges spans courtroom scenes, reform talk, alibis, and social foibles. Jokes touch on jury rights, ministerial troubles, vanity of reformers, alibis in alibis like appetizing chicken soup, misdirected gossip, and a punchy mix of quirky characters from a magistrate to a sultan, each delivering a brisk, humorous aside.
Obeying the Doctor's Orders at De Tanque
De Tanque notes his doctor forbids drinking with meals and hints Gus ler has stopped eating. O'Soaque comments on the difficulty. Scribbler replies a poem keeps the wolf away, while Wigwag exclaims.
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de Tanque
Guezler
Gusler
The Gentle One and a Fortune Teller's Bet
In a brief exchange Puck remarks on a fortune teller predicting luck for both the Gentleman and the Maid. The moment underscores a shared sense that fate may bind their futures together. Henry appears as the listener to this whimsical assurance.
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Henry
Puck
At the Concert and Along the Same Lines
A Victorian humor card features jokes about churchgoing snoring husbands, college fraternity initiations, and political job seekers. A quip contrasts religious calls with sleepy spouses, while another lampoons a boss dismissing a propagandist.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Far Eastern News Bits From The Korea Daily And Other Papers
A collage of brief notices cites Korea’s phantom warship rest ing twenty fathoms deep and a billed maintenance demand by Japan. It notes Tibet’s retreating Dalai Lama after Younghusband’s invasion, a Mongolian telegram, and Japan’s flag over the Commander Islands in the Bering Sea, valued mainly for fishing with no strategic edge.
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Korea Daily News
Korea
Noo
Koreas
Tibet
Col. Younghusband
Dalai Lama
Lassa
Tut
Pekin Times
Mongolia
Davit Lama
Chinghal
Manila
Commander Islands
Bering Sea
Kamchatka
Aleutian Islands
United States
Rusia
Trustful Frenchman and Dumas Tale At Frisco Cafe
The Vanderbilt cup winner Hemery recalls being betrayed by trusting crowds and a stranger in Marseilles while a diner in Frisco recounts the absurdity of string beans without strings. A reflective mix of anecdotes ends with a Portland tale of a waiter supplying strings separately.
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Bemery
Hemery
Marseilles
Alexander Dumas
Paris
Dumas
Mer Ae
Toot
Walter
San Francisco
Portland Oregonian
Frances Preyed on a Nursery Window Impulse
A young girl Frances, described as an old daughter architect, is seized by a spring morning urge to lean far from a nursery window. Her mother warns of danger, but Frances persists, saying no one who is nice should lean out.
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Charleston
D. C
B. Helmer
Kendalville
Ind
Urey
New York
Frances
Life Work of Lord Strathcona Highlighted at Eighty Five
Lord Strathcona is described as high commissioner of Canada who has just turned eighty five and remains active. Born a Scotch lad, Donald Smith joined the Hudson Bay Company long ago and rose to prominence in commerce and politics, remembered for shaping the development of the great northwest.
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Lord Strathcona
Canada
Donald Smith
Hudson Hay Company
Great Northwest
Hig
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Tind
Ernest Dowson
Se—'a
John L
Evn
Amer
Tom
Yeu
Benedict
Santa Claus
Misa Gettingon
Mr. Roxley
Nervey
Yaas
Alkali
Sem
Jack
Johnsing
Darkleigh
Senator Sorghum
Washington Star
Jubex Walton
Louisville Courier Journal
Ansit
Pasha
Izit
Feron
Professor Gabbleston
Scientist
Hiram Offen
Mrs. Hiram Offen
Stella
Familie- Journal
Wigwag
Scribbler
Scott
Providence
Atlanta Constitution
Pole
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