Dreams as portals to a life of minutes and years
A psychologist notes dreams compress whole lifetimes into seconds and recounts experiments with dream recall. He cites Laralette’s Paris street scene, a drowning dream, and Titchener’s sleep‑recording trials where notes vanished upon waking. The piece highlights dreams as elusive yet revealing mental phenomena.
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Clarke Eays
Count Laralette
Paris
Titchener
Cornell University
Ele
Outng Magazine
Pat's Deficiencies and The Woman Hater
A brief comic sketch recalls Mrs McCarthy whose husband drowned after a boat accident and a friend jokes about a $20000 bequest. The tale hinges on literacy and swimming inability. A second item notes a quip on why a woman rarely thanks a man for giving her a seat in a street car.
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Pat
Abe Buardly
Brooklyn
Language quirks in nautical and marine usage noted
In a brief exchange Mr Malaprop asks if nautical and marine words differ much. Mrs Malaprop answers not much, while a reader jokes about a clanamon. The Chicago Record Herald presents the quip on language and dignity tied to honors.
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Mr. Malaprop
Mre. Malaprop
Chiccago Record Herald
African Titrbit Hippo Meat Odor Musk Flavor
In Wide World Magazine an African traveler notes hippo meat has a musk like odor and strong flavor. The animal yields valuable ivory and hide, offers danger and excitement for hunters, and its meat stays fresh longer due to an apparent repulsion by flies.
Are the Dead Alive an Analogy of Vibrations and Consciousness
The excerpt argues our senses miss many vibrations beyond electricity and heat and uses a spectrum analogy to suggest psychic forces may exist beyond consciousness. It compares unseen psychic phenomena to X rays and ultraviolet marks on photographic plates, citing Fremont Rider's Are the Dead Alive.
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Fremont Rider
Delineator
Waiter Wina Quarrel Over Extra Tip
In a lunchroom dispute two men argued over who would pay the waiter. After the decision the waiter told a regular customer that such quarrels lead to extra tips, often increasing the total beyond the original check. The customer mentioned an instance where extra cigars were ordered and change left for the waiter.
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Wina
New York Tribune
Teary Farewell Banter From Isle of Man Bishop Tale
In Rowley Hill era Isle of Man, a 1 ¢ clergyman named Tears bade farewell to the bishop on promotion. The parson wished reunion, the bishop doubted heaven has Tears. The parson quipped about plains of paradise but not Ells, highlighting a wit-filled exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rowley Hill
Isle of Man
Goodby
Samall
Plains of Paradise
Overfeeding Linked to Pneumonia Says Chicago Health Official
A Chicago health commissioner warned that both liquor intoxication and extreme overeating raise pneumonia risk. He cited most pneumonia cases occurring after drunken debauch or overeating, noting drunk from overfeeding may be nearly as immoral as self-stupefaction and that pneumonia effects are similar in such patients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Champagne Corks Made by Hand for Quality Bottles
The best champagne corks are never produced by machines. Common corks are machine made, but top quality corks require human skill and manual labor to account for all blemishes and imperfections.
Unexpected. Beauty on his knee and weather talk humor
A fragmented quotation from the Philadelphia Ledger and Lowell appears in this clipped passage. It mingles a romantic moment with a brief aside on the weather and a general aphorism about sincerity in effort.
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Jessle
Philadelphia Ledger
The Man Who Laughs and the Power of Ideas
A meditation on laughter as a window into character, citing Cervantes, Goethe, Emerson and others. It links hearty, free laughter to sanity and virtue, notes historical fashions of banquets with a buffoon, and argues that humor can soften sorrow and ward off harmful zeal. It ends with reflections on laughter shaping norms and outcomes.
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Anys Goethe
Anys Tleck
Emerson
Lavater
Onesor
Cassina
Horiie Walpole
Parla
God
Plutarch
Cato the Younger
Philip II
Spain
St. Hartholomew’s
Wallenstein
Alexander Pope
Abraham Lincoln
Saratoga
Pistos
Booth
Wakefield
Primroge
Cervantes
William Mathew
London
Dorothy and Owen Hunt Partridges and Hearts
Dorothy, a vivacious aristocrat with marked athletic skill, joins Owen Compton on a partridge hunt. A stray shot grazes Owen, Dorothy tends the wound, and their bond deepens as she heals his heart. The tale ends with Owen proposing a future together.
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Dorothy
Ike
Owen
Diana
Dianna
Why Stage Villains Favor Dark Hair and Eyes
The Chicago Inter Ocean notes a long standing stage convention that villains appear with dark hair and eyes. It cites real crime history showing many murderers and executions feature blondes with gray or blue eyes, suggesting a cultural bias linking pale features to villainy across literature and justice.
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Chicago
Realife
Jolet
Chester
Pontine
Carigua
Himoly
Smiles and Sayings of Luck and Love in a Quip Script
A comic collage mixes wry aphorisms on luck and daily hustle with banter about schemes to secure fortune. Snatches of dialogue ponder predicaments of romance, shams, and a cannibal cabbage head, all wrapped in playful verse and brisk punchlines.
PERT PARAGRAPHS and the Odd Wisdom Parade
A collection of quirky maxims on human nature and social advice. Reflections touch on optimism, forgiveness, advice, wisdom among friends, and self perception with playful old style phrasing. The musings mingle humor and caution about personal limits and future spring hints.
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Dea Wa—-Mansiiger
Lowell
Littell M'Clung
Owen Compton
Osme
Clerkie
Y Duncan M
Jose
Beauty
Mary Jane
Jenkins
Perms Ay
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