How the Queen Acts in the Commons and Lords
A London Times style account describes the royal assent ceremony linking the House of Commons and the Lords. It details the Black Rod entry, triple bows, and the woolsack scene as peers sign off on bills, with observers noting the formal ritual and humor in the antique forms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Commons
Cam
House of Conditions
House of Peers
Black Rod
House of Lords
Prince of Wales
Connauslet
Canterbury
Vind
Lord Sladsbury
Great Britain and Ireland
Great Britain
Earl of Limerick
Lord Windsor
Ong
Theoient
House of Jords
Lus Bon
Commons
Lords
Notable Men of the Era Parade in Portraits and Traits
A roundup of prominent figures including Count von Munster, M Constans, Viscount Dudley’s enormous insured value, Philadelphia officer Rollings, tailor Henry C. Cook, and W K Vanderbilt aide Frank Foster. It sketches heights, beards, ages, and quirks of politicians, magnates, and clergymen with vivid detail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Count von Munster
M. Constans
Mr. Biniie
Viscount Dudley
Officer Rollings
Philadelphia
United
Henry C. Cook
Norwich
Conn
W. K. Vanderbilt
Frank Foster
John Bigelow
France
General Palmer
Herman Celman
Southern Cross
Celman
Major Rathbone
Ohio
Newman Hall
Jesus
Harrington
Weather Bureau
Phillips Brooks
Bayard
Crown and Scepter in Early Europe Courts
A fragment recounts royal titles and wealth across Europe. It notes the czar and emperor of Austria William as renowned drinkers, the crown prince of Prussia’s vast entailed incomes, and a Saxon heir candidate famed as a dancer and violinist. It mentions a child king of Serbia, tutored intensely, and a gifted young prince.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austria
William
Europe
Prussia
Saxony
Tuscany
Prince of Wales
Youngus Heis
Servie
High places and strange trades from Wayside Gleanings
The world’s highest inhabited place is Haine monastery in Thibet at 16,000 feet. Labrador interiors remain largely unexplored with a 2,000 foot waterfall. Limoges porcelain finds a US market, while Pasteur statue data show low death rates. Paris land sells high per acre, Gladwin County builds a huge three story frame barn. Mortality rises with altitude. Paris salons tie cravats for income. An expert artist can earn ten dollars nightly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haine
Thibet
Asia
Labrador
Limoges
France
United States
Paris
London
New York
Gladwin County
Mich
Switzerland
Salonnieres
Never Was a Boy In This Prairie Life Parable
A reflective verse piece about a man who never experienced boyhood pleasures, contrasted with memories of youth and Edenic imagery. The column moves to a joke about Chief Justice Peters and a Maine court, recounting a farmer Hanscom and a witticism about spectacles versus tongs as a courtroom quip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Peters
Supreme Court of Maine
Hanscom
Han Com
Detroit Free Press
Got Discouraged Rural Host-That A Real Party Picture
The dialogue portrays a rural host joking about a sign painter who discouraged himself after a failed start. The artist explains he began painting only as a sign painter in youth, noting that early discouragement did not prevent later work and a small exchange of light humor.
Solving the Difficulty in a Midnight Quarrel
A domestic scene unfolds as a mother rebukes a daughter while a suitor and siblings linger at the door. Witty exchanges reveal a ending in a humorous Good morning moment. The piece reflects lighthearted gossip in the London Tit-Bits style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
George
London
The Writer and the Critics and Other Vignettes
A compact collection of humorous exchanges and social quips from early 20th century magazines. Dialogues reveal foibles of poets critics and parents with playful irony. Notable bits include Wilbergate’s gripe with reviewers and dating confusions across families and neighbors.
Hardware store ad for Spinner Wm with Buckeye tools
Wm Spinner offers sewer pipe lime and cement and a full hardware range. Includes Buckeye mowers reapers binders hayrakes feed ers Oneida Valley clippers plows and lawn mowers. Also screen doors windows prepared hues white lead wind mills gas fitting tin sheet iron and copper work. Emphasizes prompt careful service at low prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oneida Valley
Br Pup
Allies Wind Mills
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Peki
China
Yes
Astruments
St. Louis Republic
Adam
Fido
Eden's Bowers
Attlc
Leven
T.C. Harbaugh
Texas
Theodora
Wilbergate
Snipkins
Mamma
Gayman
Burnley
Munsey
New York Herald
West
Ted
Kendalls
Kendall
Belvernon
B. J. Kenpatt Co
A. Curl
de. B. J. ReNpan Co
Enesburgh Falls
Ve. Gents
Eugene Dewitt
B. J
Kendall CO
Enosburgh Falls
Vermont
Wm. Spinner
Penn’a
Morris & Mullen
Fiorse Bunners
WM. Ayres & Sons
Humphrey & Nemoyer
Water Street
Episcopal Church
THE
NEW York Weekly World
Antinelad
the “Cotton Ville
Arizona
Bicker
M. Quad
Paddie
L. D. Websore
M. Beecher
Cash
Warren County
England
Ireland
Anna Page
Austin
Exgs
Jno
Bann
Toledo
Ghia
Taum
Dew
Hallett & Co
Fox
Portland,Maine
Wi Onan
Athens
Georgia
Thel College
Greenville, PA
Jos. BR. Titzel
Sec
Greenville
Thal
P. O
T. A. Slocum
N.Y
Warren Book Bindery
Warren
Maine
Alleg Egheny, Meadyil Uy Ege
Washington
Uaterson
College Facult Penses Law
A. J. Hazeltine
T. G. B. Evs
Foreign Exchange
O. W. Beaty
M. B. Dunham
L. B. Wood
Chas
B. Noye
James Clark
L. R Freeman
Ch.w. Stone
F. H. Rockwell
A.J. Hauzeiltine
Taree
Ozzon
Pollont
N.K. Wendelboe
N. K. Wendelboe’s
Liberty Street
N. K. Wendelboe
Wendelboe
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