Beggar and Sailor Exchange Credit at Lunch Wagon
A humorous exchange from period humor pages shows a beggar asking for a dime, the sailor promising repayment, and the waiter threatening to call the manager over a tough steak. The joke culminates with the conductor being requested to let a passenger off at the next stop.
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Sailor
Tit-Bits Magazine
Spelling It The Actress Plays With Oui And We
A popular film star tries French at the table and quips about we meaning u and I as she answers a gallant’s sugar question with oui. The playful banter captures her light humor and quick wit during social dining.
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Gallant
Historic Hoaxes Six The Spider Farm and Forger Tales
A historical piece recounts Ralph Dr. Pavid a war correspondent famed for a spider farm hoax in the 1890s and the famous Witch Death Warrant fraud. It traces how the Grantaire spider story and Samuel Ireland Shakespeare forgeries misled readers and investors before exposure.
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Ralph DR. Pavid
Philadelphia Press
Pierre Grantaire
Lancaster Pike
Grantaire
Sara Bernhardt
Sara
Emile Zola
Surinam
M. Grantaire
Sala
Atlantic Monthly
Salem
New England
Phillip
Cotton Mather
Increase Mather
John Winthrop
William Phipps
Massachusetts Historical Society
South Carolina Historical Society
Texas
Maine
California
Silk tree delights with mimoga and acacia rivals
The plant Albizzia julibrissia, a large shrub or small tree, carries popular names such as mimoga and silk tree. It is closely related to acacias and admired for its beauty in bloom and form.
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