Canary Dick Sings and Remembers His Captors in East Sixteenth
A tiny canary named Dick, kept in a gilded cage in a New York City flat, learns songs from four young men and bonds with them. After a dispute, one man steals him and hides him in a Sixteenth Street loft, where Dick greets his former caretakers with familiar tunes and affectionate acts upon their return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Sixteenth Street
Ninth Street
Blind Town
Eighth Street
Sixteenth Street
New York
Man Must Have a Cook and Ends as Boarder
A college professor, widowed, hires a cook at higher pay than his late wife had earned. they haggle over meals and a stove. She insists on a dinner at noon, he shifts his recitation time. She pushes for a higher store, a staircase change. he finally dismisses her and becomes a boarder, wondering which option was cheaper.
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Bangor
Gettysburg
Manron
Bangor News
Atlantic Monthly
Pittsburg Dispatch
Brooklyn
New York Tribune
Emmet's Presence of Mind and a Street Gaffe
A story from the New York World recalls Robert Emmet’s secretive resolve after swallowing corrosive sublimate by grabbing chalk to neutralize poison without alarm. A Brooklyn street encounter follows a man claiming a stranger offered to lick him for two cents, highlighting quick cameos of urban wit.
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Emmet
Robert Emmet
New York World
Fulton Street
Brooklyn
The Hopeless Case and Father’s Lesson on Courage
A humorous dialogue shows a boy complainant and a beset father who notes the boy has been defeated thrice in a week. The father questions how the boy will vote and exercise free born American rights if he cannot fight better than this. The exchange blends comic slapstick with a broader nod to civic virtue and personal resolve.
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Tae Eorror
P.O
T. A. Blocum
M. C
Pearl St
Dancing to the Station and Streetcar Comedy
Public Opinion backed a hand organ street performance in South street near the Pavonia ferry, but police ended the dancing as illegal. A crowd laughed as an arrest was threatened for flinging dance steps to The Girl I Left Behind Me.
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South Street
Pavonia Ferry
New York
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Utes Bitiero
Ali
Delcate Health
A. P. Ordway & Day Gaston
Mass
Kendalls
Kendall
BeLrenson
B. J. Bexpart. Co
WM. A. Curl
Genmaxtown
N. Y
B. J. Kespatn Co
Enesburgh
Falla
Eugene Dewitt
Propricetors
DE. B. J. Kendall CO
Enosburgh Falls
Vermont
Aly
Winden
STS
S. Larry
Allegheny
C. B. Hamlin
Contractor & Builder
Warren, PA
Market ST
F.C. Fowler
Moodus
Conn
F. R. Scott’s
A. A. Davis & Cos
L. G. Noyes & Co
Warren
Pae-mat
Leparr
Pitcher’s Castoria
Lustige
Wiggles
Razoola Khan
Tartary
Leo
Khan
Harvard Lampoon
A.a.davis
Warren County
Tre County
Abby
Frauy
A. A. Davis & CO
N. K Wendelhoe
N. KK Wendelhoe’s
Liberty Street
N. K. Wendelbos
Wendelboe
Augusta
Maine
B. G. Gregory
Baye Money
Niles Iron ‘and Steel Roofing Co
Niles, Ohio
Diamond Furniture Company
Siegel’s
Woolford
Warren, Patt
Joe Baker
Chandlers Valley
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