Gambletown Tales Of Jane The Cat and Professor Spunk
A humorous segment from Gambletown recounts Miss Alice Mary Gumbleton and the bashful Professor Bartholomew Spank who clashes over a clever cat named Jane. The physicist’s bold rescue attempts backfire, leading to a risky garden fence caper and a comic misadventure that ends with Jane the cat thriving while all hearts are stirred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gambletown
Gumbletown Free Academy
Bartholomew Spank
Professino
Nature
Anyaye
Spank
Briarwood
Relle College
Gumbletown
Jonathan Gumbieton
Alice Mary Gumbleton
Mary Gumbleton
Bartholomew Spook
Alice Mary Gambleton
Alice Mary
Jane
Alice
Samiel
Miss Alice
Nate
Society of
Kitty
Professor
Bartholomew
Bartholomew Spunk
J. Henderson
Puel. Sn
ENGLISH AS SHE IS TALKED Slang Origins And Phrases
A discussion on slang origins and phrases used in American English. Examples include in the soup from New York street mud and shoo fly from Butler. The piece notes how slang phrases spread via newspapers and songs and comments on the playful inventor of many terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Broadway
Dinnie
Louisa M. Alcott
Gen. Butler
Webster and Worcester
Lyman Abbott
Ladies' Home Journal
A Patchwork of Jests and Oddities From an Era
A compilation of humorous vignettes and short anecdotes from various newspapers, featuring quips about doctors and fat men, party mishaps with hoses, misheard phrases, a note on engagement rings, musical mischief, and social foibles. Also included are brief items on funerary customs, vitality debates, skeleton trade, scientific curiosities, and light political reflections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke of Devonshire
Mr. Gladstone
Mr Gladstone
Smith
London Spectator
Women Led Progressive Movements in Modern Society
The column surveys women organized for social reform and culture, noting extensive female voluntary groups reshaping public life. It questions how men’s roles interact with female efforts, praising female inspectors and national progress while urging prudence and broad masculine support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman’s Christian ‘Temperance Union
Christian Church
Spyone
Boston
Margaret W. Noble
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Seeley
Moses
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
British Museum
Pompeii
Detroit
Supreme Court
Prince Albert
Massachusetts
N. Y
W. Ja McGee
Washington Star
Harper's Bazar
Yabsley
Mudge
Indianapolis Journal
Sean
Fenderson
Brown
Boscon ‘Transcript
Harper’s Bazar
Spendall
Brooklyn
Bostos
Minyan
Anguis
Roe
Boston Badger
Aracess
Agin
Mr. B
Eniry
N. Y. Mail and Express
Science and Industry
P. F. Reisch
Bangor
Waldron and
McArdle
North Dakota Agricultural College
Devil's
Pacific
Mitscherlick
Conave
United States
American Iron and Steel Association
Bulletin of the Association
Great Britain
Philadelphia Ledger
Danube
Donaueschingin
Black Forest
Europe
Black Sea
Himmel
Donaueschingen
Poultney Bigelow
Harper's Magazine
Greece
Athens
Puck
Mike
Robert
the Woman's Column
Progressive Movements
Womer
Rip van Winkle
Rip
Tever
S Inswyer
Msn
England
Eig
Mr. Chamberlain
Gro Sale
Society of Ladies
Lemdum
N. ¥. Werdens
Pallas
Rufus B. Wade
Maseahusetts
United Kingdom
Fawcett
Wales
L. R Cooke
Seoul
Corea
Lrypa A. Dent
Florida
de Kate Mirceenr
Temperance Worker
Woman's Literal Society
Mrs. Gladstone
Primrose League
Mre. Sapyt-Ownu
Geographical Society of Paris
Semevere
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