Postal Cards and Snappy One Liners Across Papers
A collage of brief jokes and quips from various newspapers. Snappy lines reference barbers, the aim of woman, a monument to Sunset Cox, a parishioner and old sermons, a tongue preserved, a hammock comment, a honeymoon gag, lodge dues and a humorous wedding check exchange.
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Binghamton
New York
Cox
Washington Post
Dominic
O. C
Ethel
Boston Times
Atchison Globe
Meadville Tribune
Henderson
Dolan
Williamson
New York Sun
Kemp's Balsam Ad Claims Dominance in Cough Cures
A 19th century customer letters pages Kemp's Balsam as the best selling cough cure in Victor New York. The author requests 50 cent size and samples, noting fourteen other remedies on hand and reporting Kemp's Balsam outsells them ten to one. Sold by all druggists at 50c and 1. Sample bottle free.
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Kemp
Carter
Carter Medicine CO
New York
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Bulwer
Milton
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Bacon
Pope
Tasso
Rosseau
le Sage
Byron
Aristotle
Demosthenes
Luther
Calvin
Richelieu
Alfieri
Corneille
Thomas
Martha
Moliere
Racine
Magliabecchi
Tuscany
Florence
Voltaire
Balzac
Virgil
Buffon
Montaigue
September Lyrics and Sports Motifs From Historic Poems
A collage of September verse and sports exhortations from The Philadelphia Press and related notes. It blends seasonal imagery with calls to athletic vigor, celebrating brains and brawn, and cites boxing, baseball, rowing, and track as paths to achievement.
PICTURES BY LIGHTNING A Journalism Invention
A Philadelphia Press report describes a lightning writing machine that transmits written text and figures in real time to newspapers. It uses clockwork and an electric battery to produce exact handwriting and can convey images by a similar method after preparing the image with pen and ink. The device promises rapid news pictures for the daily press, allowing reporters to act as operators and speed up transmission over leased wires.
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Daily Press
Philadelphia Press
Insane Lady Declares Herself United Kingdom at Ball
In a London Figaro piece a woman at a private lunatic asylum ball proclaims she is the United Kingdom. Dr Shark hosts dances and picnics while the guest, rational on weather, maps England with her feet and body. The narrator escorts her about the room amid humorous nautical and geographic confidences.
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Shark
Torquay
Land's End
United Kingdom
North Foreland
Ireland
Lincolnshire
Yorkshire
Lancashire
Aberdeen
London
Mischief from cheap vanilla extracts linked to ice cream illness
A Hartford Courant note reports a druggist tracing ice cream sickness to a tainted vanilla flavoring. The tonka bean extract replaced true vanilla, costing about $1 per pound versus $15 to $20 for real beans, with one other flavoring not causing sickness.
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Glastonbury
Hartford Courant
Humorous Legal Duel Between Old Man and Rude Boy
Charmingly Irustrated by Bob Burdette recounts a comic tale where a land dispute over an apple tree leads to a mock legal showdown. An old man, a formidable lawyer, and a verbally deft boy parody courtroom maneuvers, verdicts, and the decay of pretentious rhetoric.
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Bob Burdette
Scrapegrace
Nothing Loth
R. B
Trover
Dennis
Burdette
Brooklyn Eagle
Life of a Teacher Struggles for Little Reward
The piece sketches the hardships of teaching as a livelihood with low pay. It notes English teachers earn about 1200 dollars annually while other subject teachers range 400 to 800. It highlights a Monday elocution pupil and a duo coaching actresses who together earned about 3000 last year.
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Delsarte
Chum
Moral maxims and quotations collection
A compilation of aphorisms and excerpts from various sources including the New York Journal, Jamestown Journal, and Sunday-School Times. Themes cover honesty, effort, truth, clearness of thinking, the burdens of marriage, avarice, and the value of a good name.
Love Levels Ranks in Newport Story of Milkmaid and Suitor
A wealthy Newport girl courting a handsome Englishman faces an unexpected match with Maggie, a sixteen year old farm girl. Maggie’s simple life and beauty win the farmer’s son, ending the wealthy romance and pairing the milkmaid with the suitor. The item also notes regional academics, clergy quips, and long lived Harvard graduates as side curiosities.
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Newport
Maggie
Enlishman
Margaret
New York
N. Y
Belgium's Hatless Monarch Leopold King of Belgians
The London Court Journal portrays Leopold II as a tobacco foe and anti tobacco league supporter. It highlights a simple life with sparing meals and morning tub, plus a habit of going hatless in public. He favors vegetarianism, loves painting, speaks multiple languages, and has a strong intelligent face with a beard.
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Leopold
Belgian Anti-Tobacco League
Adam
London Court Journal
Steam Power Global Growth Shown by Berlin Bureau
A Statistical Bureau in Berlin reports that four fifths of current world power machines were built in the last 25 years. The United States leads with 7.6 million horsepower, followed by England, Germany, France and Austro-Hungary. locomotives add 3,000,000 HP. Steam power equals three actual horses, with each horse equating to seven men.
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Statistical Bureau
Berlin
United States
England
Germany
France
Austro-Hungary
Earth
London Tablet
The Quickest and Easiest Way
A Springfield meeting of lawyers discusses passing a pending bill. Elijah M. Haines, presiding, clarifies the approach and a rear-seat commenter suggests a plan. The chairman quips that the quickest path to passage is to “buy the way.”
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Illinois
Springfield
Haines
Mr. Haines
Washington Post
Stranger at Third Street Depot Tries to Ride for Free
A young man with a hat and small grip-sack told a depot driver he wanted to go to Wayne Hotel claiming the ordinance limited fare to fifty cents. The driver charged him and the man admitted he had traveled and misread the train, realizing he was on the wrong train.
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Wayne Hotel
Detroit
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