The House That Was Painted To Please Her
In an anecdote from Detroit Free Press, Mr Bowser plans a costly paint job to suit his wife, while the crew and delays stretch to seventeen days. After changes in color and rising estimates, Bowser confronts his wife about the expense, lamenting the bill nears 350 dollars and vowing to resist future whims.
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Mr. Bowser
Li Skhall
Bowser
Detroit Free Press
Templeton
A A Davis Holiday Announcement Presents Useful Gifts
A A DavisXCo offers holiday gifts including fine pictures etchings photograms and anton types. They frame pictures to order in a tasty and workmanlike manner promising useful presents for the season.
Fragmentary Humorous Snippets From Midwestern Distracted Dialogues
A collage of clipped exchanges and captions from a late 19th or early 20th century humor page. It features quick quips about trust, finances, club outings, miscommunications, and light domestic scenes with nameless characters and scene snippets set beside a restaurant door and public notices.
Wrong Train Jokes and Office Banter From Old Papers
A collection of brief clippings and quips from early 20th century humor pages. The Wrong Train features a playful exchange about a train robbers mistaken trip, while A High Office and Wisdom of Youth offer quick jokes about the president’s gift and a classroom pun. The Saved Half item centers on a comic dental bite with a budget twist.
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