Light and Airy Slander and Witty Snippets From a Busy Page
A collection of humorous vignettes and brief exchanges from a 19th or early 20th century paper. Jokes about marriage for money, names, and social glad-handing are paired with short verse bits, advertisements, and light anecdotes featuring characters like Minnie, Miss Van Caster, and Mr. Mudde.
Pacing notes and horse trade headlines
A collection of horse racing comments and industry items. Roy Wilkes goes lame while Tazzi and Barres gain popularity on Eastern tracks. Trade figures include Lobasco sold for 15099 dollars and Aller ton’s Lexington mile records. Also notes on betting losses in St Louis, saddle fashions, a blue-eyed stallion, and varied science and tech tidbits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Wilkes
Tazzi
Barres
Eagle Bird
Leius
Ness
A. Lexington
James G. Ladd & Son
Beatrice
Neb
Nat Braner
Burlington
Lobasco
Lexington
Allerton
McDoel
Capt. Brown
de Muth
Ten Broeck
Belle
Nanvura
MecLewee & Co
Buddist
Reporter
Defuuiver
Victor Phallas
Phallas
Felix Flannagan
Pawiucter van i
Los Angeles
Cal
Iis
California
Clara C
Imp
Nannie Mac
W. L. Cassidy & Co
St. Louis
Hookies
B. F. Larrabee
Norridgewock
Royal portraits and regal quirks from distant courts
A historical snapshot notes King Humbert sending four life size portraits to Germany, Queen Victoria's growing collection of gloves, 90 year old Queen Natalie drafting memoirs, Carmen Sylva's Roumanian peasant attire, Russia's anxious empress and her use of a typewriter to print letters, King Leopold described as lanky, and Austria's Hofburg to adopt electric lighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Humbert
Italy
Germany
Victoria
Natalie
Carmen Sylva
Roumania
Russia
Morals of Gastronomy in Old Time Fare
A compact column on fashion in dining, praising baked apples with cream and scotch toast, noting bread reuse, and criticizing certain meals after game. Quail should be served whole, English bacon, California versus Maine salmon, woodcock hot, and Turkish sweets appear briefly as a culinary aside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Ward
Epicures
California
Maine
Political strife over Delamater candidacy in Carlisle
The Times reports escalating Republican anger as colleagues accuse Delamater backers of trading county votes for his defeat. A controversial letter from Chairman Andrews blocks Pattison Delamater joint debate in Carlisle though Pattison has not attacked Delamater. Veterans in Scranton press Delamater on charges tied to Captain Morris’s affidavit. miners in several towns face wage changes and malarial disease and a noted remedy, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, is touted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quay
Delamrurr
Viches
Deulamute
Tiis
Sehuyski
Delamater
Trissy
Warren County
Higgins
Nuses
Philadelphia ‘Times
Andrews
Republican State Committee
Adams
Cumberland County
Pattison
Carlisle
Adl
Willilliam H. Andrews
Cooper
Senator Delamater
Pennsylvania
Times
Pizrature
W. L. Scott
Baltimore and Ohio
Pittsburg
McKeesport
Youghingheny
Irwin
Morris
B.S. Hendrick
Ninth Volunteers
Chauncey J. Reed
Eighty-Ninth New York Volunteers
Scranton
Grand Army of the Republic
John F. Morris
Meadville
Veterans
South America
Guatemala
Panama
Hostetter
Also Mentioned on This Page
Boston
Bai
Mamma
New York
Mr. Mudde
Washington Post
Journal of Education
Bingo
Old Point Comfort
Tommy
Mr. Bingo
New York Sun
George
Marie
Jim Casey
Quin
Yonkers Gazette
Quizine
Gretchen
Hans
Arabella
Beau
Jones
Brown
Lawrence American
RSP
Shmpeon
Jimpson
Ste
New York Herald
Turf Notes
France
North China Herald
Shanghai
Asia
Vichy
Broca
Cesar
Flammarion
Mars
Schultze
Orton
Belnimater
Scott
Tsta Sitter
Wx. Ayres & Sons, Philada
Baker
Noiuing Go Earth Willie
Ely
Johnson & Co
Maca
F. C, Fowler
Moodus
Conn
Root, M.G
Pean Sr
C.&e.bartsch
Water Street
Diamond Block
Warren
Merck Drug Store
Morris & Mullen
Us & Mullen
Eld Block
Maccom
Tie Morck Drug Sort
Greenland
Water St
Evrybody’s Business
Warren, PA
THE
Diamond Furniture CO
W.H. Pickett & Co
H. A. Jamieson & Co
Sherman
Jewett
Syracuse
Gale
American Saw Co
WM. Spinninee
Oneida Valley