Des Moines Father Sees Elopement as Love Match
G McMillan, Florence McMillan’s father, discusses his daughter Florence’s elopement with Floyd O’Brien. He praises the couple, notes O’Brien is a law student at the University of Iowa, from a prominent Ames family, and adds the two married after Florence’s Pittsburg visit, while detailing Florence’s Iowa upbringing and schooling.
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Des Moines
Hi. G. McMillan
Florence McMillan
Floyd O’ Brien
James
O’brien
Law School
University of Iowa
United States
Ames
Cedar Rapids
Florence
Pittsburg
Lincoln and the Demon Rum in McClure's January
The story recounts George P. Floyd detailing Lincoln’s 1858 Springfield visit and a humorous rum sweat scene. Lincoln recovers, boasting he feels like a two year old and can jump fences, while remarks on his stance toward the South complete the sketch.
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Lincoln
McClure
George P. Floyd
Springfield
Illinois
Floyd
Dougslick
Bucklen's Arnica and Women's Rights Quips Across Town
Boasts of Bucklen's Arnica for piles from Woolever of Le Raysville. An ironical Paris store sign lampoons women’s rights with the line To walk in to pay is the right of man. James Donahue of New Britain Connecticut reports Foley's Kidney Cure cured his diabetes and helped pass an insurance exam after patient use.
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Woolever
le Raysville
Bucklen
Stewart's
Paris
James Donahue
New Britain
Jonn
Foley
Fragments From a Busy Press of the Past
A collage of short quips and gags from early 20th century papers. Jokes on fashion, advertising tricks, editorial mishaps, and a punchy office tale showing a newspaper world with aging humor and misfit humorists. Names of papers appear as context for the jokes.
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the Demon Rum
Louisville Courier-Journal
Washington Star
Louiisville Courier-Journal
Mystic, Conn
Times
China
Turkey
Louisville Courier- Journal
Ediot
Studebaker
Portland
Marseilles
H. P. Kelly
P. Kelly
Lenox Gas Engi
Davis
P. J
Kelly Mills
Mason Transfer & Storage Company
Washington
Springs
Morris Rockers
Rockers
Edwin Griffith
North Side
Washington, IA
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