20 Apr 1871
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Newspaper
The Weekly Echo
Location
Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1871
Page
1
A Chicago era column mixes anecdotes on bashfulness and social gaffes with brief quips and jokes. It gathers comic tales of misheard lines at dinner, a preacher's salary, a Hindostan land title prank, lazy farming wit, a Sunday marbles scene, dialecty exchanges, a carpet bag Bible haul, and odd scientific notes. Strong names and locales pepper the mosaic as a snapshot of provincial humor and curiosities.
A Georgia editor reports twenty four Chinese subscribers who paid cash for 24 copies to view the paper’s pictures, misreading English for visual content. A New Hampshire man agrees to his daughter’s marriage with a wry quip about a likely match for the groom. A restless occupant over a lawyer is teased with a joke. A misaddressed letter arrives at Niagara Falls. California boasts 70,000 rowberry trees in one county.
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