Charles Fry Promotes Durable Sewed Half Soles
The reliable shoe man Charles Fry touts sewed half soles as a durable price option. He emphasizes steady value and quality for daily wear.
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Fry
Wenatchee Daily World in Wenatchee, Washington
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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1908
Page
3
Her Ready Wit and the Gentleman's Bold Forging of Love
In a shy courtship a modest suitor hesitates to declare his love until a pivotal moment at a Smythingtons party. Gertrude Alicia awakes his courage with a witty line claiming to be a gift, not a loan, and the pair emerge ready to pursue happiness.
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Gertrude Alicia
Smythingtons
Swain
One Work and Matrimonial Epigrams
Neander the church historian is ordered to Carlsbad for rest and brings one work, but the doctor allows many volumes. The passage surveys marriage as a topic in epigrams, citing old ballads and verses that lampoon wedlock and second marriages with wit. It references Samuel Lover and Chambers' Journal.
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Neander
Carlsbad
Pate
Samuel Lover
Hymen
Lucifer
Chambers’ Journal
The Lord and the Burglar
A burglar alarms Lord Iverdale’s mansion after dinner as a maid spots a man at the safe in the library. The lord assigns Naskins to lead the search, gives him the desk key and a revolver, and plans to join once he can leave the ladies.
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Iverdale
Jarvis
Naskins
Munsey
Space Meeting and City Banter in Witty Verse
A playful snippet features a dream of a sun earth moon and stars committee meeting with witty exchanges about fears and the atmosphere. It shifts to light quotes from a London Telegraph column about sermons confidence and a practical umbrella joke.
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Earth
Moon
Jackson
Wilson
London Telegraph
Turquoise Ring Sparks Family Fuss Over Meaning
A quarrel erupts as Miss Youngthing-Boo-hoo-hoo! receives a ring set with turquoise from Charley. The mother calls it an emblem of constancy while Miss Youngthing calls it stinginess, illustrating the clash of symbolism and sentiment.
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Miss Youngthing
Charley
Daniel Webster As Described In A Famous Sermon Post Death
Theodore Parker praised Daniel Webster in a graphic three hour sermon after Webster's death. He called Webster a man of large mold with a great brain and body, fit to last a century, comparing him to Socrates Charlemagne and Michael Angelo.
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Majestic Webster
Theodore Parker
Daniel Webster
Webster
Socrates
Michael Angelo
Charlemagne
London
Senate
United States
Calhoun
Clay
van Buren
Jove
Mars
Wit and Humor as Elements of Perception
The piece explains wit as an intellectual quality and humor as an emotional one. It notes wit perceives resemblance while humor detects contrast and incongruity between ideal and real, theory and practice, promise and performance, often with a moral undertone. A farmer's remark about a debilitated horse illustrates surprise at hitherto unsuspected similarity.
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New England
Strenuous Statesman Makes Racing Round Trip
A colorful tale follows Theo dore Andrea Cookie as a resourceful English statesman who wagers on a waist coat in Paris. He travels by night from Dover to Paris and back to Calais, then chases a Newmarket horse race, chartering a fishing boat to speed east and then returns via London.
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O'Kelly
Theodore Andrea Cookie
Paris
Dover
Calais
Newmarket
London
Memorable political clash and bee anatomy notes
A parliamentary scene unfolds as a messenger urges action on a marriage bill and a rapid oration wins a division by one vote. Separately naturalists describe the common bee’s feet as a basket and brush apparatus with a spoon like tip, enabling pollen collection and honey cell construction.
Tinned Tongue in Brief Exchange
A linguist and an idiot spar over Esperanto and English fluency. The linguist calls Esperanto a very few language while the fool quips he prefers not to speak the “red tongue.”
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Broadway Magazine
The Other Captain
A captain mocks a private about his family and nutrition then learns the private has a single brother, Dion Vi vant.
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Dion Vivant
His Act of Charity
Mrs Henpeque recalls an act of charity for their twentieth wedding anniversary. Mr T Henpeque explains he refused a salary raise for a clerk who wished to marry, highlighting a personal motive behind the gesture.
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Mrs. Henpeque
T Henpeque
One Use For It
A brief quip from the Cleveland Leader notes writers use tobacco to stimulate ideas or curb hunger. The exchange highlights a joke about appetite and mental sharpened focus.
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Cleveland Leader
Married life quip and travel notes from the West
The column ponders what aggravates married life with a joke about husbands and wives. It then notes travel tips mentioning Salt Lake City and Denver, and promotes the O. R. & N. Railway for east or south travel from Spokane. It also lists travel staff names and a Seattle address for Ed Utter’s return.
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Salt Lake City
Denver
O. R
N. R’y
Spokane
WM. McMuray
Portland
Ore
Local Canton of Patriarchs Militant to Be Installed
Arrangements are under way in Wenatchee to form a Canton of the Patriarchs Militant. Installation will occur Wednesday evening at Odd Fellows Hall under William Crowhurst, former secretary of the Department Council of Washington. A large number of visiting Odd Fellows are expected to attend.
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Patriarchs
Wenatchee
Odd Fellows Hall
William Crowhurst
Department Council of Wash
Crowhurst
Hearing Postponed In Mills Disturbance Case
The hearing before Judge Palmer to place John E Mills under bond to keep the peace was postponed again to a later date. It is alleged Mills sought to cause a disturbance around Frank Smiths barber shop and Smith has a warrant to maintain peace.
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Palmer
John E. Mills
Mills
Frank Smith
Smith
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