Man Hires Strategy In Texas Barroom Misfit
A Hanford manager in a Texas town is approached by a cowboy over hiring a helper to count money or perform, while a local act refuses to exploit a reciter who knows only three pieces. The proposal suggests touring with a performer who could learn more material, offering a purse to inducement for ongoing work.
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Ain
Hanford
Texas
LRP
Mark Antony
Hamlet
Rienz
New York Telegram
Emersons Last Lecture at Boston Church Fund Drive
Major Pond recalls Ralph Waldo Emerson delivering his final lecture at the Old South Church in Boston to save the building from demolition. As he faltered, his granddaughter gently reminded him he was lecturing, prompting a touching moment that moved many spectators to tears.
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Emerson
Major Pond
Ralph Waldo
Emergon
Boston
Mrs. Livermore
Mr. Howe
Mr. Omerson
Swelhed Voices Views on Grammar School Curriculum Change
A townsman Mr T Swelhed responds to questions about proposed curriculum changes. He says he has studied current courses both locally and abroad, finds some issues for condemnation, but would not advocate radical changes without more time to review the subject. The interview notes his exact phrases and memory noted by a reporter.
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Alderman Swelhed
T. Swelhed
George
Feller
It Isn’t Terra Firma Not Terra Cotta
A Washington Post piece quotes a witty traveler who, aboard a steamer, jokes about preferring an automobile to a yacht. An English mother corrects her remark, noting the line you said you’d like to set foot on terra firma, not terra cotta, highlighting a seasick humor misstep.
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Washington Post
Apology Turns to Fight on Broadway
A well dressed man in a silk hat clashes with two burly men on Broadway after a quick apology falters. A heavy stick knocks the hat, the man declares payment, lands a single punch, and then moves on while the crowd watches, witnessing a near-rare street brawl.
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Broadway
Ops
New York Sun
Signs of lineage in a family's business name
A Londoner notes a New York and London pattern of signs reflecting inherited trades. In Hinglish towns near the world’s metropolis a sign reads John, Littlejohn's Sons & Little, showing the founder’s son carrying the partner’s family name and the second son named for the mother’s family, with all three sons continuing the business.
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New York
London
John
Littlejohn
Little
Doolittle
Dangerous Economy in a Broadway tale of envelopes
A New York dealer left two million dollars and kept practice of tearing fly sheets from letters to scribble on. Envelopes not in use, a lawsuit ensued. Defendant’s signed letter appeared, but the court ruled the letter incomplete missing a sheet, implying a possible postscript could change the order. The practice was stopped.
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Broadway
Pasper
New York
New York’ Press
Book Agent Follies Prompt Outburst at Chicago Office
A diminutive guard blocks a book agent seeking the boss as a panic cascade unfolds. News arrives of a burglary, a runaway trotter, a broken mainspring, stock drops, and a calendar gnawed by mice before the boss learns a boy is missing. Patsy is sent home with fare to Lincoln Park.
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de Boas
Patsy
Lincoln Park
Chicago News
Remarkable poker draw cited from Chicago club game
A Chicago club tale describes a five player poker match with a $25 cap and a royal flush. Jones, dealt last, drew to a king and queen of spades and held ace jack ten of spades to form a royal flush. Brown held aces with a small pair, and the bet escalated until all money was gone.
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Bobtall Patt
Chicago
Jones
Brown
Washington Post
The Time to Break the Rule An Anecdote of Clairon
An anecdote from a French theatrical memoir recalls Mile. Clairon restraining a pupil with a thread to curb excessive gesturing. The pupil strived to express emotion, broke free at the climax, and apologized to Clairon.
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Mile
Clairon
Mlle. Clairon
Chinese Mother-in-law story and harsh penalties in Harpers essay
An address by Frank Browne in Hong Kong illustrates Chinese filial piety through a drastic mother-in-law tale. A man and wife maltreat the husband’s mother. punishments include execution of the active agents, exiling the mother-in-law, and even damaging the couple’s house. District scholars and magistrates face penalties to deter such crimes. The London News notes this sensational morality tale.
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China
Frank Browne
Hongkong
London News
J ‘P
Sons
Black Teeth Custom in Japanese Marriage Tradition
A fragment notes the traditional practice among some Japanese women of blacking teeth at marriage, with observers in cities still seeing hundreds of women with black ivory and dentists showcasing sets of such teeth. It includes unrelated quotes and ads about castor oil, home painting, and buggy prices.
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Japan
Atchison ‘Globe
Forbes & Coxe Drug Store
Fashion's Demanda and Dublin Beau Brummel Echoes
A compact critique traces fashion’s shift in grooming and hat wear. References to Chancellor Tisdall as a Dublin Beau Brummel, his youth styles for walking and sitting, and a milliner’s bar that demanded a slightly open mouth illustrate vanity and changing standards.
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Tisdall
Beau Brummel
Dublin
Vanity Fair
Bia Part and Theatrical Abuse Quip Cited
A Pittsburg Chronicle Telegram quip recalls an amateur theatricals remark about taking abuse as stage manager in a playful exchange. The item then notes J P Heard and Sons offering latest makes and styles in buggies surries harness robes and related equipment.
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Pittsburg
J P Heard & Sons
Dartmoor Mystery Hat in the Marsh Reveals Stranger
In the Dartmoor tale A Boot on Dartmoor by Rev. 8 Baring-Gould a traveler Aman steps across marshes and discovers a hat brim down in the sedge. A sudden voice from beneath asks what he is doing and claims to be a captive beneath the turf, hinting at a hidden stranger and danger in the wild moorlands.
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Dartmoor
Baring-Gould
Aman
A DimMoault Wife exasperates an Englishman in verse
An Englishman laments his wife as a source of constant trouble describing her as beyond the strength of Samson Homer Augustine Pyrrhus Job Socrates Hannibal and Hermogeneus. The passage notes the attempted subdual of her perversity through classical comparisons, ending with an ex change.
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DimMoault
Samson
Homer
Augustine
Pyrrhus
Job
Socrates
Hannibal
Hermogenes
Hotel Change Hands Rumor Circulates In Town
A fragment from a conversation notes a hotel changing hands amid claims the former landlord owed thousands to local provision dealers. The exchange criticizes the landlord’s finances, describing a collapse in his business and a rare comment about his hotelkeeping skills. An ad mentions a buggy and prices at J P Heard & Sone.
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New York
J P Heard & Sone
Sergeant’s Surprise in Army Recruitment Story
A western representative recalls how Indians were given civilized names during regular army recruitment. A recruiting sergeant named Jay Gould, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Joe Jefferson, and Russell Sage for a company as the commander queried who the four privates were. This recollection appears in a New York World piece alongside assorted advertisements for medicines and goods.
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Fort
Alont
Jay Gould
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Joe Jefferson
Russell Sage
New York World
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Brander Matthews
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Allan
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Steedman
Capital
Young Penner
Wright
Nastness
Philadelphia Record
Allen
A K Hawkes
Kellam & Moore
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