Fragments of Wit and Worldly Wisdom From a Distant Page
A stream of adages paragraphs on manners, marriage, education, politics, and daily life. It mixes quips about honesty, vanity, and speech with excerpts on Secretary Root, Miles, Corbin, and trust politics. It includes brief verse and humorous vignettes plus domestic observations and a drawn-out political commentary.
The Drummer Trapped by a Nebraska Family Trust
A drummer tells of being stranded in a small Nebraska town and cheated by a rough hotel bill of four dollars. He clashes with three sons who are a constable, a marshal, and a justice of the peace, ends up jailed for forty eight hours, and pays the bill and a ten dollar fine before escaping as the jailor warns of a harsher fate from the family.
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Detroit Free Press
James
Ice wagon to deliver fifty pound lots citywide
D B Thompson announces prompt ice delivery in fifty pound lots between six and eight a m anywhere in the city between the railroads and branches. No nickel pieces sold. If you have tickets after the 15th call to cash them. the wagon will be taken off the nickel trade after the 15th.
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