How Johnny Got Rid Of His Dog Tige
A humorous tale shows Johnny trading his nuisance dog Tige for two yellow pips after his family sought to rid themselves of the pet. The boy’s quick offer and the father’s paid reaction frame a rural comic vignette from Lipincott’s magazine parodying country life and practical jokes.
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Johnny
Tige
Mvx
Lise
Tie
Liza
Bill Simpkins
Sohony
Lippincott
Magecine
Why He Left and Water Delights in Dialect
A new boarder tells a landlady he will leave at week’s end due to impure water with a coffee-like taste. The Chicago News notes a domestic scene as Maria the maid defends herself after a sharp rebuke. The mistress accuses affection, and Maria retorts that she is married, ending the vignette with humor.
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Pan Querely
Chicago News
Marcilace
Maria
Attalia
Washington Eres River
Northern Pacific and
Oregon Railway & Navigation
Columbia River
Walla Walla County
Wash
Kennewick
Portland
Seattle
Spokane
Tacoma
Northwest
U. KE. Loose
Pres
Gen
Mer
Colunmbia Clanslcot Paanny
Marion Blig
Walla Walla Co
Inhumor Bits From The Times Democrat And Others
A collage of quirky quotes and jokes from New Orleans Times-Democrat Catholic Standard and Times and Detroit Free Press. Snippets span autopsy quips patient doctors and college antics with a light satirical tone.
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Vinsor
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Berd to Urderstead. Bibbs and Gibbs dialogue note.
The fragment presents a terse exchange with lines about pursuit and consequences. Bibbs remarks that some chase everything they target while Gibbs counters that others fail to grasp what is coming to them.
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Berd
Urderstead
Bibbs
Gibbs
Police Court Scene and Witty Exchanges
A brief Police Court gag ends with a sharp retort about blindness. The Simp's Mother and a light verse excerpt reveal humorous exchanges and rustic humor, including a maid's plan to read beneath an elm tree for rest and comfort.
Dainty Lunch and Simple Life Reflect a Young Woman
In a short vignette from Woman's Home Companion a young woman enjoys a light salad and a broiled spring chicken prepared by her mother. She dons a white gown with ribbons and proclaims love for a simple life, planning a nine o clock bedtime while her mother works late.
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Local notices and real estate sales include Yakima street lots
The Red Apple Real Estate Co sold five Yakima street lots to R. M. Poe for 1400. O. H. Kimball bought two lots on Yakima street for 650. Both deals include dwellings for owner occupancy. Other items note visits, gifts, birthdays, and social events in Wenatchee.
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G. W. Card
Seattle
J. W. Card
Etta Estes
Pittsburg
Penn
Capt. Card
A. G. Holler
World Advance Office
Sherman Honor
Hoquiam
Wash
J. B
Mr. Mills
French chef heads royal London kitchen at Buckingham Palace
M. Menager, a French chef earning 9000 dollars annually, presides over royal meals at Buckingham Palace with a staff of women cooks and assistants. He arrives around 11 to plan luncheon, oversees all meals except breakfast, and settles cash bills with the household treasurer after a 9 o'clock dinner.
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London
Dernard
Buckingham Palace
Eheft
M. Menager
M. Menaber
Palace
China seeks aid for famine in Central China
Advices from the steamer Tosa Maru report China will appeal to Europe and America for 1 250 000 dollars to relieve famine that could leave ten million people in Central China starving this winter. Desperate hunger drives villagers to rob officials yards while refugees travel from Hunan and scenes of naked poverty are seen along roadsides. The current famine, already worse in some areas, may rival the 30 year famine that devastated northern provinces.
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China
Europe
America
Shanghai
Hunan
Wrecked Bank Womans Shadow Examines Lincoln Failure
A society woman may figure in Lincoln bank wreck as trunks believed to hold 65000 in Morton Park funds were shipped by President Willa J Atkinson before the bank failed. Atkinson and his domestic troubles, a new society woman linked to the case, and possible flight from Chicago are noted as investigators expected grand jury action follows the wreck.
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Chicago
Lincoln Bank
Atkinson
5. P. Shope
Chicagzo
Ises
Lim
South America
Girls Minister To Lepers At Metropolitan Hospital Ward
Two young women teachers from a China linked church mission visit lepers at a ward near the Metropolitan hospital Brooklyn side of East river. They hold informal services with scripture reading singing and casual discussions with the patients.
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Giris
China
Metropolitan Hospital
Brooklyn
East River
Washington Avenue
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Betroit Free Press
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the Simp’s
Columbia Hotel
R. M. Poe
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Sound
Mr. Poe
California
McCabe
Ohio
Wenatches Valley
Fred Meuray
State University At
Waterville
Caime
Fred Crollard Lail
Fred Crolard
George Lail
Fuller & Russell
Cashmere
Jack Overdorf
May Mills
Leavenworth
Overdorf
Mills
Wenatchee
Vkel
Gverdorf
Prince Atkinson
Charles Reeder
Fred Kerns
Edward Pars
Victoria
Alide
FRUIT
Biggle
Jacob Biggle
Farm Journal
United States
Tica
Wilmer Atkinson CO
Great Northern Railwa
Tre Comfortale Way
Oriental Limited
Piper
Acgent
Natchee
Stetson
Alaska
Scotland
Germany
India
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