Gossip and Reflections Across Automobiles and Times
A collage of jokes and musings on cars and danger, crime, and fate. It weaves tales from Jacksonville and Miami including a coroner’s jury clearing a man after a fatal shooting, a 101 year old father-to-be, playful banter about engagements, and a quip about Handel reacting to a serpent in London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman
Heaven
Jacksonville
Florida
J. P. McRae
James E. Smith
Carbondale
Ilinois
Fragmented musings mix race and sport anecdotes
A long, scattered column mocks writers overestimating boxing feats and cites historic long fights. It weaves in jokes about race, marriage, livestock prices, a hotel heist, prison cures, and old songs, ending with a rural reminiscence about a gray mule.
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God
Bill
Miami
Brown
Devil
London
Handel
Joe Louis
Sullivan
Kilrain
Corbett
Peter Jackson
Bowen
New Orleans
Mrs
Smith
Oregon
Solomon
David
Hermione
Gingold
Henson
North Pole
Chester
W. Va
H. C. Larry Domino IV
Chicago
Henry VII
Henry VIII
Biltmore Hotel
Dayton
Illinois
Mary
Jane
W. Y. Terry
Yale
George
Sam
Ice
O.K
George Carver
U. S
Paul Neal
Washington Park
Chapel Street
Glenn Alexander
Horace Sudduth
Cincinnati
West Fifth ST
Cincinnati, O
Cherry
Palm Beach
Lincoln Avenue
Walnut Hills
Woodburn
James H. Thompson & Son
W. 9Th St
Lincoln Ave
Watchtower
Kingdom Hall
West Seventh Street
Cincinnati, Obi
Nyol Medicines
S. W. Cor
Sixth and
Smith Streets
THE
UNION
Main
Ninth Street
Y.M.C.A
Ninth St
Sherman’s Flower Shop
Foraker Avenue
Dabney