Smell of Dinners in a Chicago Tower Block
A Chicago Tribune excerpt shows a day by day elevator chatter among residents noting smells and meals in a large apartment building. The cook names include the Ferguson Welkerson Clappins Brinkmeyers Swallingers Biddlecombes Shadiwell Jordles Dorane and others as dinners are planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William
Ferguson’s
Welkersons
Clappinses
Brinkmeyers
Swallingers
Biddlecombes
Chicago Tribune
Drummer’s Umbrella Prank in New Orleans Hotel
A famed drug drummer visiting New Orleans left a bone-handled umbrella in a hotel lobby. A sharp bellboy kept it safe, prompting the traveler to joke about the theft. The man then rewarded the bellboy with quinine and iron for holding the umbrella for days.
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New Orleans
Baton Rouge
N. O. Times-Democrat
American Girl Teases English Officer Across Cultures
A Louisville girl recently in Germany met a young English officer in Saud. He assumed American girls smoked and offered a cigarette. She refused and offered a pipe with a wry remark showing she is a lady the world over.
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Louisville
Germany
Saud
Daitet States
England
Louisville Courier: Journal, & A
Paradise Gates Open for Lovers in Family Poker Twist
A dignified father changes his mind about allowing his daughter to wed Miiteley after a poker game reveals a financial threat. The daughter rejoices, calling the news a gateway to happiness and paradise as she plans to tell Miiteley the good news. The father explains his decision rests on recovering money to save his business.
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Miiteley
Paradise
Chicago Times-Herald
England Loses Ground in Shipments to China
Trade with China rose almost forty percent in the last year, signaling England’s waning edge as U S firms expand shipments. The article touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as the best remedy for constipation indigestion dyspepsia and biliousness, claiming fifty years of acknowledged superiority.
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England
China
Tollers and Hicks Parody Neighborhood Dinners
A collage of jokes and quips contrasts Hicks teasing the Tollers about debts with a remark on social signals that money can buy. The collection also includes a witticism about nine tailors making a man and a line noting good acts tend to follow one another.
Cupid’s Tiny Valentine Card in Pink Enamel
A short sentimental note describes a pink tinted envelope with Cupid emblem and a child’s Valentine rhyme about love and age marked by eleven and seven. The verse ends with a playful.
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Jack
Mamma
Valentine
Spinster Hetty Dryden Receives Mysterious Valentine
Hetty Dryden, a 39 year old Hebron spinster, resists a suitor’s note and a coded Valentine. She suspects the writer but discovers clues pointing to Jared Lawson, the town newsstand proprietor, whose eight earlier jests and kindness are well known.
Jared and Hetty Find Light in a Winter Romance
A longtime neighbor Jared Lawson, though lonely after his mother’s death, reads a valentine from Miss Hetty and, urged by his feelings, lights a window to guide a proposal. He enters Hetty’s east room to share a new life, ending years of quiet hardship in four rooms above his store.
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Hiram Dyer
Hetty Dryden
Valentine
Miss Hetty
Jared
Jared Lawson
Hetty
Morris Wade
Detroit Free Press
Old Superstition in a 1745 46 Essay on Valentines Day
In the Connoisseur essays a young woman reports Valentine magic using bay leaves and a boiled egg to divine love. She claims she dreamt of her sweetheart Betty and that marriage would follow. She notes prior lovers and cites Shakespeare Chaucer and Lydgate mentioning St Valentine.
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Betty
Valentine
Mr. Blossom
Shakespeare
Chaucer
Lydgate
St. Valentine’s Day
Valentine mix up ends in comic embarrassment
A Chicago Daily News verse notes a man sends valentines to both his love and the cook, mixes the envelopes, and shares a comic look. The intended romance ends in a humorous dream of bliss, while the cook remains unfazed by the mix up.
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Chicago Daily News
Economical Valentine Choice Sparks Bargain Debate
Mrs Dukane notes Miss Oakland buys valentines on February 15 to save money while dealers offer deep discounts. Mrs Gaswell asks what she means and the exchange highlights frugality in holiday spending as described in the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.
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Mrs. Dukane
Miss Oakland
Mrs. Gaswell
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph
Valentine sentiment price dispute at shop
A salesman shows a Valentine card to Algernon De Wiggs who approves the sentiment but balks at fifty cents offering a dime instead. The brief exchange highlights thrift and taste in a small-town retail scene.
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Algernon de Wiggs
Emigrant farmer’s success tale from Wetaskiwin Alberta
A letter from John Cummings of Wetaskiwin Alberta recounts relocating from Farmington Washington on May 29 to establish a homestead. He describes log house and stable construction, cattle, horses, and prairie winter care, noting doubled cultivated land and livestock among neighbors, rising crop prospects, and unexpected barley twine usage.
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John Cummings
Wetaskiwin
Alberta
Canada
Washington
United States
Cummings
Dominion
Farmington
Florida
Klondike
Acre
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Offers Reward and Endorsements
An old advertisement promises a 100 dollar reward for an incurable catarrh case with Hall's Catarrh Cure. It quotes testimonials from Toledo wholesalers Jae & Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin, endorses the cure as internally acting on blood and mucous surfaces, and notes price 75 cents per bottle with broad drugstore distribution.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Props
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Jae & Truax
Toedo
O. Walding
Kinnan & Marvin
O Hall
Parents feign illness to justify nightly outings
A Memphis Scimitar tale describes a couple who tell their young son they visit a sick man to cover frequent evening social events. The boy probes the man’s condition and deems the sick man’s death overdue, revealing a grim moral undercurrent in the family ruse.
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Memphis Scimitar
Grain-O touted as coffee substitute for family health
An advertisement promotes Grain-O as a grain based coffee substitute suitable for the whole family. It claims no nerve upset or digestion issues, resembling the taste and look of coffee at a good price, calls itself genuine and scientific, and encourages readers to ask their grocer for Grain-O.
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Grandma
Man’s temperature drops to zero in punny exchange
In a brief Boston Christian Register item a teacher asks about a man with the coldest temperature and a Smart Scholar quips he has cold feet. The humorous exchange recaps a light moment from a church publication.
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Boston Christian Register
Coughing Promoted Remedy Kemp’s Balsam
An advertisement touts Kemp’s Balsam as a quick cure for coughing and consumption. It urges readers to visit a druggist and try sample bottles, with large bottles priced at 25 and 50 cents. The copy warns against delays as dangerous.
Promises of a Lover Like Those of a Politician
A quoted line from the Philadelphia Record recalls a sick servant named Bridget offered medicine with a brave reply about risking death for relief. The Atchison Globe notes the unreliability of lovers' promises, likening them to those of politicians.
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Bridget
Philadelphia Record
Atchison Giobe
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Ack
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Miss Dryden
Joey
Hetiy Dryden
Miss Helty
Heity
Hebron
Miss Het
Byron
Jared H. Lawson
Baby
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Milwaukee
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ST. Louis
Texas
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Giticura
PoTrEm- D. and
C. Corp
Sole Fraps
Boston
U.S. A
Dept
Zena Oti Seme Tie Ory
Szoudell Company
Antrim
N. H
City Garden
Earl'steraid Cocam
la Crosse
Salier S
Salzer
John A. Balzer Seed CO
Wis
Potter le
Land of Plenty
Department Interior
Ottawa
F. Pedley
Immi
C. J. Broughton
Monadnock
Stevens Point
M. V. McInnes
Detroit
D. L. Caven
Bad Axe
Ja Grieve
Mt. Pleasant
Mich
N. Hartholomew
Suh Street
Des Moines
Iowa
Everett Kantz
Fort Wayne
Ind
Henry N. Copp
Washington, D. C
Williams
GEO IE
Williams Mfg
Cleveland
Onbaa
BE. Krauser & Bko
Milton
LaMb Mfg. CO
H.h.green
Boz
Atlanta Ga
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