Hidden Paris Bank Photo Studio and World Notes
A gossipy roundup cites an alleged invisible bank studio used to photograph suspects, plus a Pekin canine cemetery with 1000 royal pets monuments. It surveys large French Italian bread loaves, Westchester transfer tax records on Henry Villard, Glasgow wash houses, and global metal and mineral outputs. It also covers Aitken chosen for San Francisco navy monument, a new Dead Sea in Thibet, Siam princess training as housekeepers, Helladotherium discoveries, a Brooklyn school prize system, and a French convict confessing a 1896 murder and neighbor killing.
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Henry Villard
Westchester County
New York
Col Cody on frontier life and the making of the West
Buffalo Bill Col W F Cody discusses early boyhood work, Indians, and the rise of Western scouting. He recalls guiding Gen Sherman in the mid 1860s, becoming chief of scouts, and shaping Army policy in the plains. He contrasts tales of frontier romance with factual Civil War and Indian War roles and notes lessons from Professor Marsh on fossil expeditions.
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W. F. Cody
Buffalo Bill
Boston
Great West
Canadian River
Yellowstone
Rocky Mountains
Missouri River
Great River
Atlantic
United States
Washington
Sherman
Sheridan
Hancock
Custer
Carr
Miles
Crook
Augur
Ord
Hazen
Emery
Duncan
Forsythe
King
Reynolds
Terry
Penrose
Palmer
Gibbon
Canby
Henry
Whistler
Crosby
Greely
Budley
Mills
Hayes
Schwitzer
United States Army
Messiah
Pine Ridge
Fort McPherson
Neb
Missouri
O. C. Marsh
Yale
Great Big Horn Basin
Big Horn Canyon
Odd Oklahoma Justice in a Hog Case
In Alva, a man was arrested for stealing two hogs later moved to Waukomis and sold for 20.50 dollars. The case centered on whether the act qualified as grand or petty larceny under a 20 dollar threshold. The defense argued a $1 credit for hauling to market could reduce the value below twenty dollars.
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Oklahoma
Bounding West
Alva
Waukomis
Col Cody as He Appears Today Sketch Portrait
A review sketches Col Cody from Goodman’s drawing era as prospectors recount the crime of his client to petty larceny. The piece notes vast grazing lands and natural resources near Cody with geysers and rock types, highlighting his role in founding a Western town and his long service.
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Col. Cody
Goodman
Indiana
Cody
West
United States
Tle
Sea Horse ride gains odd gymnasium craze
In Victoria Luke of the Hamburg American line a novel electric contrivance dubbed the sea horse draws gym patrons. Riders enjoy the unusual contraption aboard the cruising yacht Princesse, turning the gymnasium into a surprising entertainment venue.
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Prinsees
Victoria Luke
Doctor Called For Sick Cat In Minister's Study
Mildred, living in Kenwood, drags her friend Ethel to a minister's home. She demands the doctor for a cat, declaring an emergency. The physician notes he’s often asked to tend dying sinners but never a cat, as the tale ends with a ghost story avoided by a cathedral restoration subscription.
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Mildred
Kenwood
Ethel
Gentleman
Chicago Tribune
Peterborough
Cadets Blown Nose Off Commanding Officers Joke
Cyrus Townsend Brady recalls a naval cadet incident where an officer’s joke about following orders led to three hundred noses blowing in unison during church. The cadets imitated him, then adhered to the ritual, provoking further amused reactions as they learned etiquette and proper conduct.
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Cyrus Townsend Brady
Episcopal Church
Stout Inherited Property Tale Aboard An Australian Heir
A celebrated lawyer recalls a prior engagement and a sudden judgment call over a hefty inherited estate in Australia. The anecdote unfolds with a tense sense of impending disaster and the personal cost to the engaged woman and attorney.
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Stout
Ucle
Australia
Exertion Ground for Divorce Joke From Press
A lawyer questions grounds for divorce as a client insists on exertion not desertion. The exchange turns comic with mishearing and dialect. The Detroit Free Press and New York Press snippets illustrate humorous notes and memes.
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Detroit Free Press
Yoo Toorssem The Lion Met Magazine Quip
A witty Metropolitan Magazine line imagines a boastful lion vowing to pay a thousand coconuts to catch a monkey who asked for a pleasant turtle sandwich. The playful fictional quip blends whimsy with comic bravado.
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Metropolitan Magazine
Flashes of WII: Peacemakers Diffuse Shoe Shop Dispute
A humorous wartime dialogue depicts a long shoes repair wait. Two men quarrel over a sign claiming repair while you wait. A peacemaker calms them, insisting they may both be right, while spouses mock the scene and accents reveal weariness and confusion.
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Sam
John Henry
Wireless telegraphy to Australia via Marconi plans
Attempts are being made by the Marconi Wireless Telephone Company of London to inaugurate a wireless telegraph service to Australia. While the distance is greater than England to the United States, the route offers stations at Prawle Point, the Lizard, Ushant, Cape Finisterre, Gibraltar, Malta, Algiers, Sardinia, Sicily, Cape Malta in Greece, Alexandria, Aden, Socotra, Colombo, Sumatra, the Cocos Islands, Perth, Albany, Adelaide and Melbourne.
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Austra
Marconi Wireless Telephone Company
London
Australia
England
Prawle Point
Lizard
Ushant
Cape Finisterre
Gibraltar
Malta
Algiers
Sardinia
Sicily
Cape Malta
Greece
Alexandria
Aden
Socotra
Colombo
Sumatra
The
Cocos Islands
Perth
Albany
Adelaide
Melbourne
Bittle Laughlettes and Wry Quips From Old Papers
A jumble of two line jokes and witticisms from newspapers mocking manners and modern quirks. Bits about hoarding trash, monocles, and matrimonial foibles mix with light social satire and uproarious asides from the Detroit Journal and Philadelphia Press. The humor centers on small social foibles and clever wordplay with dated slang and punchy one liners.
Cultivate Beauty of Spirit and Health Law for Women
A fragment cites Julia Tere is Butler in the Weekly Bouquet urging women to cultivate health mindedness. It claims health laws transform ordinary looks into beauty, promoting nutritious meals, ample fresh air, and daily baths including a morning sponge bath after rising as a duty.
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Julia Tere
Also Mentioned on This Page
Kansas World
I. S. Givler, Publisher
Kreeney
nSas
Bank of France
Summer Palace
Peking
China
France
Italy
Glasgow
Pennsylvania
Robert J. Aitken
San Francisco
Claus Spreckles
John W. Mackey
J. D. Phelan
McKinley
Dead Sea
Sven Hedin
Thibet
Bangkok
Siam
Harry Johnston
Asia Minor
Times
Congo Free State
Boys’ High School
Brooklyn
Noames
Vironchaur
Crecy
Main
Guishen
Dix
Sandy Bottom
Dixie
Manhattan Island
Dixie Land
Land of
Beulah
New York Press
Dixie Land Agathe
Burrara Brut
Agagi
Ds Heart
Rusaio
Ooms
Yoo Toorssem
Bittle
Detroit Journal
Philadelphia Press
Mr. Plink
Plunk
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