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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1888
Page
10
A collection of humorous vignettes and brief dialogues from a late nineteenth or early twentieth century paper. Snippets feature a boastful man who claims ignorance of cowardice, a Boston woman teasing perception, a doctor patient joke about a rare condition, and light daily life sketches. The tone is brisk and playful, with puns and social foibles.
The Chicago Tribune cites a note in which a man confesses a plotted ruse to claim a $10,000 life policy. Mrs. Billus writes that the plan worked, naming John as easy to handle and predicting the hired girl will return next week.
A collection of witty courtroom quips and anecdotes, highlighting jurists and prisoners. The Irish advocate Curran is famed for wordplay, including a line about hearing evidence before pleading and another jab at language, ending with a light remark as sentence is passed.
A passenger asks the conductor to intervene with a flirtatious man. The conductor retrieves the official, then escorts the man from the car by the ear into the smoking car as a tampered result to the scene.
A set of reads from humorous snippets on fashion vanity and social manners. It includes remarks on modern women chasing style, a staged horseplay about wolves in Hungary, and a humorous misunderstanding during a marriage ceremony highlighting rural speech quirks.
A fragment from the Buslon Courier notes a speaker who favors summer but awaits warmer days. The text mentions sitting on a grassy knoll as oyers spring and courting under her pivasol, reflecting a whimsical rural scene.
A long letter from A A Arnold of the Valley Virginian details a Staunton resident's miraculous recovery from Bright's disease after severe convulsions and near death. It cites Warner's Safe Cure as the turning point and mentions Crawford & Ane, plus broader medical claims and advertising notes from Warner & Co.
An old patent medicine advert claims Dr Isaac Thompson Eye-Water cures various female ailments and sore eyes. It warns of guaranteed satisfaction or money refunded. The piece promotes medical elixirs sold by Quack vendors and cites the Empress of Russia in a house remedy context.
Ad lists large bottles priced at $4.00 and six for $5.03, with stamps for Dr. Pierce's Diseases of Women treatise. Includes address for WVorlds Dispensary Redical Associations AGGTCE at 663 Main Street, Buerszo, M. Ye. Postage and delivery details unclear.
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