Merely an Experiment and a Boy's Bicycle Choice
A humorous snippet notes a boy says he bought a bicycle after tired of crowded cars and wonders if he will ride home on it. The exchange features a child’s skeptical reply and a quip about rain and his mother.
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Chicago
We Wanted to Be Forgotten and the Will
Narrative snippet contrasts memory and inheritance with a nephew fearing admission in a will. Teddy Vanderchamp contemplates the consequences if a noble uncle recalls him. The dialogue touches on marriage plans and a ninety day note for a ring seen in brief clipped exchanges.
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Teddy Vanderchamp
Texas Siftings
Brooklyn
Local Quip Sparks Terse Exchange in Boston Speech
A brief, old style street dialogue from Boston centers on mockery of a person named Browning and a claim that the speaker only deals in blacking. The exchange references Miss Coopah-Oh and Misto Johnson with provincial flavor.
Backers of Nature And Other Humorous Dialogues
A highly fragmentary humor item features exchanges between a judge and a teacher about courage and death. It includes quips on debt of nature and a dialogue about tea at home. The piece closes with a Chicago park center pun from a Washington Star snippet.
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Chicago
Park Center
Washington Star
Fragmented humor snippets from periodical humor pages
A collage of quips and cartoons from various 19th century publications includes jokes about theater hats, mannequins, artists, marriages, censuses, and dry goods stores. The snippets showcase light verse and humorous dialogues typical of Chicago Record, Town Topics, Harper's Bazar, and Judge.
Special Meeting of Ashley Upper Irrigation Co Directors
Notice of a special meeting of stockholders at the 4th Ward Schoolhouse at 2 o'clock on July 29 1893 to amend the articles of incorporation and by laws to conform with Territorial statutes. By order of the board of Directors J P Rupy Sec
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Ashley Upper Irrigation Cie
4Th Ward
J. P. Rupy
Poker Club Schemes Between Two Families
In a New York Weekly excerpt, a anxious mother explains her husband gambles nightly at a club for money and shares winnings with the Nex door neighbor’s wife. The daughters discuss a plan where both couples swap winnings, doubling the money they obtain from their spouses.
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Nexdoor
Young Writer Shifts Gears From College to Children’s Pages
A youthful author once in college produced serious science and politics pieces. Now aged and wiser, he pens playful frolics for children's papers in Brooklyn Life, moving from adult to juvenile columns.
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Brooklyn Life
Providence editor invites lunch with Windgall writer
The scene shows the editor of the Weekly Windgall asking to lunch with a visitor, named Smith. Smith agrees but says he cannot go now and asks to wait for the next mail, hoping a subscription will arrive. The exchange captures a small newsroom moment about reader engagement and subscriptions.
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Windgall
Toa
Smith
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