Village-Pest anecdotes and winged satire collage
An assortment of vintage jokes and vignettes about marriage hunger and odd characters. Bits include a Davenport style quip on divorce and marriage, catty remarks about gender, humorous epitaphs, a child’s joke about being cut on the street, and a long setup for Kitty Struble’s famous hotel robbery tale. Warne Wright note at end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kitty Strubles
Hugh Otto Know
Lewis Kitty Struble
Landersville
Kitty
Eveready
Armenian Relief Leader Warns of Near East Suffering
Edwin M. Bulkley, elected chairman of Near East Relief, warns of famine pestilence and exposure in Armenia and surrounding regions. He urges Americans to fund aid to save children and the Christian population, detailing dire conditions across Kars, Alexandrople, Dersin, Cilicia and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Armenia
Edwin M. Bulkley
Near East Relief
Mgr. Bulkley
Alexander J. Hemphill
Turkey
Palestine
Syria
Mesopotamia
Persia
Spencer Trask & Co
Mr. Bulkley
Kars
Alexandrope
Sinter
Dersin
Strencers
Cilicia
Eoast
Mear East Relief
Near East
America
Cato
Near Fast Relief
Congress
Cleveland H. Dodge
Madison Avenue
New York City
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pest
Ima
Hwe
Evansville
Fatty” Paxton
Dean Paxton
Adam Hunery
Nogh—Hunery
King Solomon
Cleopatra
Patrick Henry
Epitapths
Eppy Taff
William Raines
Tee
Percival Sapp
ACTLY
Warne Wright
New Castle
Sleveland Symphony
Oraheum Theater
Marion
RCS
Poly
John T. Roberts
Ologhene Theater
Indiana
Fie
Marion & Bluffton Traction Company
van Buren Warren
Bluffton
Timber
Indiana Hardwood Lumber Company
A. Smith
Liberty
South LaSalle Street
Chicago, Ill
U.S
Varo Estetessew Mosanreseys
Hive Peres
Grant County
Nelson, Fraizer & DePoy
News-Eagle Office
van Buren, Indiana
Northeast Corner Square
Gaberdines
Pekin
Navy
Serge Tricotine
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