My Success as a Playwright Ends in a Bad Payoff
Flavel Scott Mines recounts a summer hotel drama where a charity entertainment collapses into comic chaos. A prompter, bats, and a misfired finale derail the performance as the heroine betrays the hero and the audience roars with laughter. The critic laments never writing another play after a flattering yet fateful reception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sardon
Realife
Peter
Beauty
Heroine
Hero
Pete
Flavel Scott Mines
Puck
Exposed schemes and a divorce satire in 1890
A collected snippet features a City Editor urging a reporter to obtain a divorce for a exposé on fraudulent divorce charges. The humor pivots to a dialogue about paying expenses for a divorce. It also includes a brief literary exchange contrasting Fielding with a Boston woman and a St. Louis man on batting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Daily
New York Weekly
Fielding
Dest School of Music
Pennsylvania
Rey TL Focon
D. D
the Giavrac- Quan
Mus
Jtvia
Mary Reno Pinnery
New England Conservatory of Music Boston
J. W. Comwasl
American College of Musicians
Juvia
Hull
Meadville
Poor but Proud Tramp A Shave Banter
A pithy Mumsey's Weekly cartoon caption about a penny pinching tramp begging for ten cents for a shave and being mocked by Mr Whiskers over beard worth, with a humorous quip about vagabond appearance. Also a short Clatter note where a joker asks Mr Stanley how asses are valued in Africa and receives a sharp reply about weight and five shillings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mumsey’s Weekly
Stanley
A Parasol Becomes a Jogged Memory Moment
A brief West Shore anecdote recalls a clerk promised picture cards to a little girl and her mother. The child asks how to jog the clerk memory when forgotten, then strikes him with a red parasol after gifts lapse. The girl explains she only jogged his remember. A Life quip follows about a man and Alice noting his figure is not lost but gone before.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnie
West Shore
Alice
New Unity New Arrival in Palatial Dugout Posture
In Munsey's Weekly a skeptical exchange mocks New Unity’s boasts of progress and growth. A caller accuses the campaign of fraud while Col Hooks retorts with irony about a single new resident and vast room to expand. The dialog highlights exaggerated claims and humor over prospective development.
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Col. Hooks
The
Earth Munsey’s
Close Friends and Clock Misgivings Across Papers
A quirky exchange recounts a late night incident where a clock stopped waking a sleeper, followed by light banter about friendship. The snippets compile humorous lines from Yankee Blade and other papers, including a gag about not borrowing money from a very close friend and a soldier boasting of bravery in battle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will
Bill
Yankee Blade
Fragmented quotes and jokes from a 19th century humor page
A collage of gag lines and brief humorous snippets from various papers. Citations include sallies about tombstones and illiteracy, misheard places, pensions, bankrupt futures, fishing patience, and an exchange about feet.
Parisian and American Banter Aboard A Tupsey's
A playful exchange on travel and ice prices contrasts Parisian wit with American bravado. A Miss Bond and Mx. Marigold banter about salt water cures and bathing while aboard a Tupsey's carriage or stage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Bond
The Way of the World and Society Satire Excerpt
The snippet includes witty dialogue from Miss Updike-Why and Mr Ree qnet about wealth and society, with Rivers noting wealth and decline. A Weather chat with Wentman follows, ending with a joke on weather and prices.
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Miss Updike
Mr. Reeqnet
Mr. Rivers
Pack
The Spirit World Debate on Mediums and Trickery
A critical discussion argues that spiritual manifestations from Fox sisters to modern sealed envelopes share tricks with prestidigitation. It questions whether spirits are powerful or weak and whether the afterlife offers knowledge, urging caution before abandoning current life for a potentially inferior existence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fox
Rochester
New York
Hermat
Fakiruf Ava
Cuandor
Homer
Shakespeare
Burns
Byron
Milton
Washington
Lincoln
Earth
G. B
English Spavin Liniment Claim Against L. G. Noyes Co Ad
Patent medicine advertisement claims English Spavin Liniment removes lumps and blemishes in horses and offers $50 savings with one bottle. It states warrants a wonderful blemish cure and names L. G. Noyes & Co. druggists in Warren, Pa.
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L. G. Noyes & Co
Warren, Paily
Anne and elegant stock at Merck drug store
Ladies are invited to call and examine the stock at Merck drug store with 28 1 Morris and Mullen.
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Anne
Merck Drug Store
Morris & Mullen
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Dumpsey
Blobson
Burlington Free Press
McFingle
Blowhard
McFangle
Lawrence American
Hooch
Chicago
Ilinois
Infantry
New York Herald
Newport
Boban
Smith
Jones
Texas
America
Eiffel Tower
Wentman
Boots
Wolff
Jery
STAN
OLD & New Fursiu
Bang
Wolff & Randolph
Orrmen’ Aecuaed
Telphie
Scott
WILLS
Iiustraed
Farquhar Co
York
Uonservatory OF Music
Ala
Barquhar CO
Penna
Sullivan
Atlas Engine Works
Indianapolis, Ind
Washington & Jefferson
College
J. Adolpit Soumitz
Prin
Moffat
Carters
Ittler Pills
Carter
Carver
Carter Hedicine
Colchester” Rubber CO
Colchester
Ramsdell, Sweet & CO
Buffalo
N. Y
EMORY
Globe
A. Loisetta
Fifth Ave
Ken
New England
Monty
HOP Plaster CO
Prorarcrons
Boston
J. K. Ronne
Ory Street
Ugh
Life
Business
A. W. Smith
Meadville, Pa
CME
Catarrah Ely’s " ‘ Eer
ELY Brotilers
Warren Stree
M. Ennet, Jr., & Co
Walnut Street
Philadelphia
J. A. Johnston
Smithfield Street
Fittscurch
Paalverg
Tifles
Peles Liat
ST. Paul
Cincinnati
Louis
New Orleans
Pullm
Jamestown
H. Wallace
T. Pla
City
Burt
Packard Sea
Warren
C. P. Norturop
Packard & Field
Brocton
Mass
Warren Book Bindery
Waerben, PA
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