Widow Tells True Story of Last Ride and Death of Casey Jones
Memphis, Tenn. widow recounts Casey Jones last run at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The 1900 tragedy near Vaughn Miss left fireman Sim Webb unharmed while Casey perished in a fiery wreck after urging Sim to jump as they barreled through dense fog.
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Casey Jones
Memphis
Tenn
Promised Land
Chicago
Exposition Hall
Casey
Illinois Central
Mississippi Delta
Canton
Miss
Sim Webb
Neer
Sim
Vaughn
Casey Jr
Jackson, Tenn
What Becomes of Hundreds of Bills In Legislature
In Texas the fate of failed bills remains unclear from the last session. Most proposals die, while acts survive after careful processing. The path from draft to law involves clerks, engrossing, enrollment, and the Governor’s signature. A 90 day wait may be shortened by an emergency clause with supermajority approval.
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Austin
House
Secretary of the State
Secretary of State
Senate
Chain letter fad offers blondes and fake ads
Oklahoma City reports the chain letter mania profits on deception with publicity men selling fake offers such as blondes in letters. The piece notes readers are gullible while explaining brick colors tied to lime iron magnesia and a sidenote about Venice gondolas.
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Oklahoma City
Marsh
Jokes and Anecdotes from Oddball Daily Laughs
A collection of humorous snippets and quips about floods jokes courtroom lines and wordplay. The pieces feature a flood scene with Bill and Sam a judge and jurors a handyman horn gag a plural pun and a preacher's tale about grease and axles.
Warden compliments improved congregation taste in buttons
A warden tells the rector the church has a better class of buttons in the collection. Eve Husband jokes that theft is punished. The Dad declares a thief will regret it. The Wife coyly recalls stealing kisses before marriage and the Husband affirms the line.
Picturing Hell With Cold Winds Sparks Church Debate
A district tour stops at a church where a pastor describes hell as cold and snowy, prompting the presiding elder to question the approach. The preacher defends the depiction, saying fire and brimstone would drive rheumatic parishioners away before frost.
Burning Question at Negro Church Sermon
A new pastor faced a packed audience delivering his maiden sermon on the burning question Is There a Hell. He says the Lord made the world round like a ball. The congregation responds Amen as he explains poles and cosmic oil.
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Bredhen
North Pole
South Pole
Scotsman Mistakenly Salutes Cathedral Not Bank of England
A Scot walking with a Roman Catholic friend in London raises his hat at Westminster Cathedral. The friend jokes about piety and the Scot jokes he mistook the cathedral for the Bank of England. A second joke recalls a family with dirty hands at table.
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London
Westminster Cathedral
Cathedral
Bank of England
Rival Directors Clash Amid Mock Courtroom Gag
Swear and Swanke clash on honest money as they sit on a board of directors. A yegg joke torques the scene with a judge quizzing a thief about silverware. The piece reads as a brief humor vignette from a courthouse gallery.
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Mr. Swear
Mr. Swenke
Chance
Breathing essay by a young English schoolboy reprinted
A youth's humorous health essay on breathing, originally in New Health edited by Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, reappears in How To Live. It argues air and organs keep life, warns against indoor air, cites carbon monoxide like hazards, and includes a diary of playful misunderstandings and a classroom joke about dew and the earth’s axis.
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New Health
William Arbuthnot Lane
India
Keep a Good Laxative Always in Your Home
A home health note touts Thedford's Black Draught as a reliable laxative for constipations biliousness and digestive discomfort. Mrs Perry Hicks of Belton Texas endorses twenty one years of use saying it provides effective relief for various ailments.
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Thedford
Perry Hicks
Belton
Texas
Get Acquainted With Texas
Texas area totals 167934720 acres with about 31000000 acres in cultivation and 495489 farms per 1930 census. The state leads in Bermuda onions cotton beef cattle and many crops. Texas minerals include oil natural gas cement rock limestone coal and more while highways and cave development expand, with Louisiana resurging in production.
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Carlsbad
New Mexico
Randolph
San Antonio
West Point
America
Louisiana
British police give jobs to reformed thieves in Birmingham
In Birmingham Chief Inspector Baguley uses a reformist approach offering ex criminals real job chances. He says prevention beats cure and that police often help released thieves find employment when they choose to go straight.
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Birmingham
England
Baguley
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