Borrowed Smiles Near Summer Day's End
A man narrates a tale as a would-be wit interrupts seeking the occasion's end. The storyteller says the evening wore on and muses it may have been the close of a summer day.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1906
Page
2
Philosophical remark and umbrella dispute in odd street scene
A man replies to a philosophical tease as he reaches for a strange umbrella. The umbrella owner seizes back his property. The report then shifts to a crime courtroom line about a lumber yard witness and a river bridge execution with a near drowning and a comic Irish remark about tying the rope tight.
Trial Sermon and Whiskey Glass Joke at Stranger Church
A young Scotch clergyman, about to deliver a trial sermon in a unfamiliar church, asks the beadle for a glass to freshen up. John returns with a bottle of whiskey hidden under his coat, claiming it was for the minister and a favor not to be forgotten.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
Meemister
Laughs and Local Quips Run Through Nation's Jests
A collage of old jokes and snippets from Harper's Weekly and the Bohemian, including Billy Crane recalling Hamlet, a sleep talking husband and wife exchange, a Pittsburgh widower marrying a widow, a soldier’s deer joke, and a ruralist rejecting a road horse as too costly.
Boy delivers order for thirteen pounds of coffee
A boy enters a grocery with a memorandum and asks for thirteen pounds of coffee at thirty-two cents. The grocer confirms the sale and records the transaction.
Arithmetic Lesson Spurs Big Grocery Bill
A boy uses a grocery purchase as an arithmetic exercise paying a large bill. He items 27 pounds sugar 9 cents, 7.5 pounds bacon 20 cents, 5 pounds tea, 11.5 quarts molasses, 2 eight pound hams, and 5 dozen jars pickled walnuts at various prices. The grocer notes the total and the boy explains the bill is for practice rather than a charge.
Hall's Catarrh Cure advertised with testimonials
AVintage ad offers one hundred dollar reward for an uncured catarrh case by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It features endorsements from Walding Kinnan Marvin Toledo druggists and notes internal use and direct action on blood and mucous surfaces. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Fr. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Fifty Years on the Stage Coach William Quick’s Express Milestone
William H. Quick, superintendent of United States Express in Des Moines, marks fifty years since first joining as an express messenger. The company honored him with a travel trunk gift. On June 10 he plans a sixty day trip down east to revisit boyhood locales and fishing spots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Register and
William Quick
Des Moines
United States Express Company
W. D. Shearer
Mr.Quick
William H. Quick
Lewis Cass
Billy
Express
Melville B Raymond Plans Big 1920s Stage Push
Producer Melville B Raymond will expand next season with major productions across musical comedies and spectacles. His flagship show Little Jack Horner will be lavishly staged with stars Little Gabriel and George Ali leading a large company. Slivers the Hippodrome clown and Olga the 33 inch French midget star in Bo Peep. Johnson sera in The Shoo Fly Regiment. Gorman's Minstrels Williams and Walker Abyssinia Opera Comique In Gay Saratoga Knute Erickson Seminary Girl Master Mello Young Bob and two Liliputian shows Buster's Holiday Land of Dot tour simultaneously.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melville B. Raymond
Buster Brown
Jack Horner
Little Gabriel
George Ali
Tige
Slivers
Hippodrome
Bo-Peep
Little Olga
Johnson
Gorman
Minstrels
Williams
Walker
Abyssinia
Opera Comique Company
Knute Erickson
Master Mello
Bob
Buster
Dr King’s New Discovery Cited By Missouri Druggist
A Missouri druggist cites three cured consumptives who credit Dr King’s New Discovery as the most wonderful medicine. The advertisement claims dramatic relief for coughs colds and throat and lung ailments with guaranteed relief. A customer relocation tale and a note about Frank McNally’s trip to Winfield finish the fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Livonia
T. J. Dwyer
Graysville
Dr. King
Arizona
J. H. Stewart
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