Change of Heart Between Judge Winters and Agnes Winters
The story follows Fred Bellaire and Agnes Winters a long acquaintance turned suitors. Agnes rejects Fred’s marriage proposal citing his reckless gambling and public bravado, while Fred’s boxing misadventures strain their relationship. A highway attack leads Fred to rescue Agnes, prompting her to declare a change of heart and invite him to call that evening.
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Judge Winters
Colonel Bell
Fred Bellaire
Agnes Winters
Fred
Miss Winters
Bellairembouli
Newport
Abe
South Pole
Momayz
Rimesi
Fee
Miss Bellars
Bellaire
Agnes
Mr. Bullaire
Becot
Variely
Snd
Talmeda
Queensberry
Avery
Fury of Wounded Rabbit Tale From Anaconda Hunters
Anaconda residents Frank Pohl and William Ehlert recount a brutal jackrabbit hunt near sagebrush. After bagging fifty rabbits, an enraged jack attacked, a hunter dropped his gun and fled, others intervened and subdued the beast. Later plans call for mounting the head. Twin Bridge Correspondence Anaconda Standard.
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Frank Pohl
William Ehlert
Anaconda
Charlie
Jock
Pali
Ehlert
Jack
Ling and Craball Footnote in Crabbshaw Dialogue
A fragmentary dialogue features Ling and Mrs Craball with Crabbshaw quipping about shifting waists and elusive art placement. The exchange hints at a playful quarrel over presence and timing in a domestic or social setting.
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Ling
Mrs. Craball
Crabshaw
Automatic Stamp and Insurance Vending Machines in Cities
A traveler's purchase of stamps at a hotel via a coin slot machine leads to two 2 cent stamps for a nickel. Another machine in the same room sells a five cent twenty four hour accident insurance policy, with time stamped on issue. Additional autos sell food, shoes shine, and phonograph records.
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Kan City
Twenty-third Street
New York
Ste
Coney Island
Palma
Antal Fedor
Jokes and jests from a gossiping page mix wit and whim
A garbled collage of humorous vignettes and light quips. The piece strings together misquoted lines, romantic blunders, a shy suitor, a bridegroom’s quips, and a wearily witty bystander. It features puns, playful banter, and a mood of breezy satire about love, weddings, memory, and a beleaguered stable lad.
Mutual Sympathy in Wry Medical Banter
A humorous exchange questions an arranged match between a young surgeon and a telephone operator. The joke hinges on the line that she eats folks and he cuts them up, illustrating a mutual sympathy through their morbid wit.
Jones Family Bread Exchange Sparks Tense Dinner
In a clipped exchange, Mr. Jones questions bread quality while Mrs. Jones protests. Jones retorts with sarcasm and ends by apologizing, highlighting a fraught domestic moment over food.
Ends and Burns The Brazen Culprit Joke
A Yonkers Statesman quip contrasts lighting a match on a bald head with scratching on shoes. A series of short gags follows about a wife selling her par and a bridge between humor and mischief. An eastern man charged with stealing a Christmas kiss pleads his own defense, the judge imposes ten days, the kiss deemed not worth it.
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Yonkers Statesman
One by Father Time and the nick of time
A fragment describes Father Time inspecting a scythe with a nick as the Foolish Questioner asks its purpose. Father Time answers that it is the nick of time, implying a playful moral about timing.
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Father Time
Fragmentary Modern View notes on money and school choices
A reader laments wasted funds spent on his son’s education and college, questioning the value of a classical scholar. The writer recalls the boy was never mentioned for a football team and was labeled as the least troublesome.
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Colle
Cow Duds Mixed Up Ends in Cow's Death
In Greensburg Pennsylvania a bossy cow named Sukey swallowed coins nails and five feet of steel wire after finding a stash of coins tied on a fence. The animal developed a wire tangled stomach and died after an autopsy confirmed the cause.
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Greensburg
Thomas Morrison
Bakey
Poet Jokes About Cramped Writers
A witty exchange to start the page shows a reader asking for favorite poets and the editor replying with a pun about poets who suffer writers' cramp. The quip highlights literary humor and light newsroom banter.
Defining it as a home for sleep sparks sharp quip
Mr Mrs Getnihim clash over a pun on home and church in a terse, comic exchange. The woman scolds a timid spouse while he defends a troubling line of thought, prompting a pointed retort about where one may claim domicile.
Easy to Be Good in London Punch Style
A brief comic exchange from London Punch features Miss Smith and Madge debating virtue. Madge prefers prettiness over constant goodness, saying she can be good whenever she chooses, while Miss Smith prompts the question.
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Miss Smith
Madge
London
Day of great men ends, but beauty remains joked
A brief exchange between Brie and Daniel O'Con nell ends with a sigh over a magazine file. She quips that the day of great men is gone, while he counters that the day of beautiful women continues. The Western Christian Advocate notes the light exchange.
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Daniel O'Connell
Brie
Fragmentary dialogue from oddball exchange
A garbled dialogue features names like Wayalda Commudings and Adam Zawfox-Pard. It includes misquoted phrases about indelicate talk, paneteras, Christman, and sleeping garments in public. The text hints at a humorous or nonsensical scene with a scout and a character named Blurky.
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Wayalda
Adam Zawfox
Ole Scout
French Bean Coffee One Cent a Pound Offer
An old Wisconsin promotion touts French Bean Coffee at one cent a pound with a 90 day ripening claim and seeds mailed with directions. The ad offers seed catalogs and extra packages for various small sums, from 15 to 40 cents, via John A Balzer Seed Co. La Crosse Wisconsin. A separate note argues for compulsory domestic service for women as a form of culinary conscription to rival Germany’s military approach.
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Wisconsin
John A. Balzer Seed Co
S. 8Th St
la Crosse
Wis
Germany
Europe
Music Hall Trends In Decline And Shift Of Stage To Screen
London Stage notes music halls show little growth in recent years with some reverting to drama or sharing operations with drama. Others switch to picture entertainments as picture houses fail to add new buildings and capacity. Exchange adds a cynical take: some men work harder to avoid tasks than to complete them.
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London
Honest confession A Doctors Talk on Food
An aging Texas physician recounts bias against advertised foods and describes adopting Grape-Nuts. He reports improved digestion, no nausea, and greater energy after weeks of use, praising the product as a reliable, wholesome food. The ad cites Pontum Co. Battle Creek Michigan and the slogan The Road to Wellville.
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Schors
Texas
Corpus Christi
1 Pontum Co
Battle Creek
Wellville
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