Primitive Ways and Hard Traveling From Amapala to Tegucigalpa
Special correspondence from Amapala Honduras March 11 describes a four day mule back ride to Tegucigalpa 103 miles by rock strewn routes. The author details rugged roads the slow pace of mules and ox carts the hospitality and danger in Pespire and Sabana Grande and encounters with locals soldiers and a Frenchman. He reflects on Central American life the capital’s quiet dignity and concludes with arrivals at Tegucigalpa and the coast return.
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Amapala
Tegucigalpa
Honduras
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Sam
Pespire
Nicaraguan
Francisco Soldivan
Francisco
Sabanna Grande
Tecucigalpa
United States
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Salvador
Guatemala
Spain
Satanna
Grande
Givande
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
McGinty
Castile
Pegucigalpa
Central America
Talkig
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Frederick W Warne
Verdict Scenes in a Western Court Room
A lurid exchange from a Frank Leslie Illustrated News item depicts a jury drama where the foreman urges a mutual hang despite one holdout recognizing guilt. The dialogue mocks the idea of unanimous verdicts and shifts to a comical exchange about a misused canbeoul and a bounty dispute over a "prize canbou."
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Seen any robins around web in spring chat
A fragment from the Detroit Free Press recounts a pedestrian exchange about robins arriving in spring. Two men in a post office corridor discuss birds, with one urging others to mind their own business and let birds be.
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Ed Vien
Detroit Free Press
What the matter was with that baby
In a witty exchange, a wife tells her irascible husband that the baby’s turmoil mirrors his temper. The husband resumes his paper, gloomier, as the child howls and kicks. The quip underlines inherited temper and domestic irony.
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Boston Courier
A Mean Trick Ends With Blessing on Counter
A poor vagrant asks for charity and offers his last cent as a blessing, tossing a copper volt onto the counter before fleeing with a dealer puzzled. In another sketch a cabman and anxious gentleman exchange dire directions as the man fears a fatal end, prompting a morbid joke about an undertaker or morgue.
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New York Weekly
Market woman skinned eels alive remark cited
A passerby complains of cruelty to market eels and the woman replies she has twenty years in the business, implying animals are well used to it. The excerpt includes humorous exchanges from The Times and other papers with lines about boiled eggs, fricaseed chicken, and a tramp’s occupation as unrelated snippets.
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SLATE
Decorative Craze In Home Arts Sparks Witty Exchanges
A jumble of humorous quips and mock dialogue from several papers lampoons the decorative craze in domestic arts. Nods to cannibalism jokes and playful verse lines poke fun at women balancing taste and fashion in home decor.
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