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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1895
Page
7
A collage of humorous quotes and snippets from various sources. It includes a sailor’s bawdy exchange about a will, a German made urn mislabeling, a tale from a youth’s companion, an Englishwoman in Germany, a muscular woman anecdote, a joke about epidemics in poetry, a New York Herald flight safety pun, and a Washington dialogue about peril in coasting versus sleigh riding.
A street boy rising from a broken start near a tenement finds mercy after stealing, hunger, and vice. Parson Walker and his wife feed and shelter him at their home, challenging Mack to redefine Christianity as action not just faith. He embraces honest living under the couple’s care, becoming grateful and improved.
A suburban wife finds a playful but practical way to fix her husband's forgetfulness about letters and meetings. She hides a crucial note with a special delivery stamp, trains him with a staged routine, and uses a corrective telegram to enforce punctuality, ending with a humble acknowledgment of the plan.
A collection of humorous scenes begins with a pretentiously earnest proposal testing a woman's health and compatibility. The excerpt moves to theatre spectators trading barbs, a milliner joke about a hat’s size and price, a flirtatious warning about a kiss, marital banter over smoke in the kitchen, and a string of light quips about social trends and devices. The tone mirrors a late 19th century urban miscellany.
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