Humorous Exchanges Highlight Everyday Woes
A collection of light quips and cartoon captions shows a druggist rejecting cures with guarantees and a tower jump labeled leap for life. A wife jokes about a ten cent donation becoming ten dollars in the anecdote column, reflecting cheerful, urban humor.
Dampened advice from a judge on marriage debt
A young man seeks counsel from a judge about marriage. The judge, reflecting on his own life, urges marrying now if at all and recalls being in debt at twenty one with $1800, later only increasing to $3600. The exchange ends with no wedding in sight.
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Old Brook and Father’s Call Echo in Boston Transcript
A nostalgic poem by Mary M. McCarthy recalls a brook by a dear old cot and a bridge seen with a loving father. The speaker growth—watching the west glow over a poorhouse and graves—ends with the father calling and guiding homeward, amid calming scents and memories.
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Salted butter keeps better than fresh butter
Salt butter preserves longer by inhibiting butter bacteria through added salt. The piece notes large microbial counts in milk, the protective role of salt, and contrasts use of boracic acid in England with salt's prevalence in America, citing Longman's Magazine.
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Early tips and oddities from a bygone era
A miscellany of provincial cures for pimples using arnica, a humorous India telegraph anecdote, brass cutting with mercury and nitric acid, notes on handmade gold pens, and etiquette advice on carving.
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