Most Valuable Vegetable Patch in All New York
A Fifth Avenue plaza garden near Fifty ninth Street functions as a private farm supplying onions radishes lettuce tomatoes beets and cabbage to Italian laborers and a few privileged locals. Tony Lusso oversees the beds and daily luncheons as wealthy passersby gaze with envy at the unusual urban cultivation.
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York
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-ninth Street
Manhattan Island
Tony” Lusso
Vanderbilt Mansion
Tony
Pulitzer
Young Lad Hunts Yaqui Indians in Philadelphia
Paul Merrill a thirteen year old immigrant from Tamaqua arrived in Philadelphia with a prayerbook and a loaded revolver hidden on his person. Police confiscated four knives a pocketbook with six dollars holy family cards and a prayer book. The boy claimed his father a Hungarian laborer sent him west to shoot the Yaqui Indians.
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Paul Merrill
Philadelphia
Tamaqua
Paul
Rittenhouse Square
Rich
Bank with dog deposits money at postal savings bank
A stylish young woman enters a post office to deposit funds in the postal savings bank with her Boston bull terrier Fanchette. She notes other banks barred dogs and declares government service welcomes her pet, tying the dog to a table leg during the transaction.
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Fanchette
Postal Savings Bank
Louise Grant
Miss Grant
Government Bank
Punctilious Burglar Leaves Card In Los Angeles Theft
Juan Basquez, a night burglar, copied a local custom of leaving business cards. He entered a Seventy-third street shop, stole 30 pounds of chocolates, 50 pounds of coffee, and 15 boxes of cigars, then left his card before detectives Oakley and Eaton arrested him with much of the loot in his son. He faced the police court.
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OS Angeles
Juan Basquez
Seventy-third Street
Moneta Avenue
Oakley
Eaton
Basquez
Ask for What You Want Ask for What You Want
In a factory romance, Tom Rogers tears into the dull life of the pattern department and wins a chance on the sales road after confronting his foreman Devoe. He pledges a bold future with Lucy Whitman, leaving the grind behind to seek a marriage license and a new start.
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Pattern
Tom Roberts
Ladies’ Fashion Realm Company
Lacy Whitman
Lacy
Lucy
Tom Rogers
Defoe
Fom
Devoe
Tom
Miss Whitman
Pattern Department
Rogers
Brown
Mr. Brown
Adam
Naval tradition keeps boatswains calls sharp in old navy terms
Chief Boatswain McCarthy shows in Proceedings of the U S Naval Institute that sailors prefer the vernacular for orders. An officer’s call to scrub quickly backfired when misinterpreted, prompting the boatswain to send a youth with a bucket and a quip about new moodgies.
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Naval Services
Morning Watch
Roses and oysters and a wedding anniversary tale
A southern congressman cites love and marriage as a symbol of fading sentiment. His wife reminds him of their fifteenth anniversary as he hurries to catch a train, suggesting roses but she prefers oysters for supper. The piece blends humor with recollections from a dinner party and a school scene about arithmetic. It notes Hawaii reserving 690000 acres for forest reserves and eucalyptus planting for firewood, and closes with a quip: when two cats fight in the dark they merely scratch a match.
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Smith
John
Off His Guard in Duluth Lecture Fable
A YMCA lecture in Duluth on crime detection notes that a criminal slips when off his guard. An anecdote about a bank clerk at a church fair ends with a fortune teller's warning “Beware of a dark woman.” The clerk gasps “Black Maria” as he turns pale, illustrating detection through guard lapses.
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Duluth
Maria
Head of family closes deal on new house
The family head celebrates finalizing a house purchase after a title search shows a clear title. He paid a hundred dollars for the search, while the wife laments the waste of money spent on the process.
Plain Opinion on a Portrait Provokes Gallant Reply
A society leader asks for a plain opinion on her latest photograph but a chivalrous cavalier refuses, saying plain terms about the portrait would be impossible. The exchange highlights social forms and courteous evasions in a refined era.
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Fair Society
Unlucky at cards Blobbs-Bjones never married
The London Opinion quips that Blobbs-Bjones is unlucky at cards and wonders if he is lucky in love. It notes, with humor, that he has never been married, framing it as a casual social aside.
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Blobbs
Bjones
London
Beautiful Neutrality and The Venus of Milo Explained
A reflective line on neutrality as arms become munitions of war. A Massachusetts man is credited with discovering fish glue while making chowder, noting it stuck to his fingers. Humorous maxims warn against overreacting to a boss and define memory as discreet forgetfulness.
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Massachusetts
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James L. Rice
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Denison
Carter
DR. Williams
Madrid
N.Y
Watson E. Coleman
Wahington
D.C
W.N. U
Milwaukee
Fletcher
Cuee
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