Hogs and prospector tale told in one small town
A Waurika humor tale recounts a prospector shown a fine claim by a local agent who swore the land would not overflow. The man notices mud on tree tops and asks why if it never floods. The agent explains hogs from Chickasaw country rub mud on trees, prompting the skeptic to offer to trade for a couple of those hogs.
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Waurika
Beaverie
Aurika
Kansas City Journal
Dean
Bright
J. W. Walls
Streete
Lebanon
Kentucky
East Main Street
Hugh Murrey Drug Co
Mr. Walls
United States
Resa Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Stray quotes and wry musings drift through old papers
An assortment of clipped lines from Indianapolis Journal Chicago Daily News and Chicago Daily News reflect on fate fortune mockery youth and ambition. Dialogues touch on college grads choosing medicine amid crowded fields and a haunted nag of immortality. The tone blends humor irony and self reflection.
The Wrong Counter Joke at the Hosiery Counter
A New York Times cartoon caption plays on a shopper asking for The Man with the Hoe in the agricultural department. The clerks mishear and respond with a pun, reflecting a humorous exchange about identity and shopping.
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Agricultural Department
N. Y
Clock For Children From a Jeweler Window
A children's clock project uses strong millboard to cover an open clock face, with a black cat figure atop, yellow or green eyes, and a leaf green face with vermilion outline. Twelve mice mark the hours, drawn or pasted, with red figures on the mice, and a Dickery Dickery Dock lyric painted on the face. details include vermilion weights, a cat pendulum, and assembly steps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dickery
Dickery Dock
Kansas City Geer
Stone House For Dolly Instructions In Natural Form
The article extols stone houses for dolls, praising natural form and suggesting a simple frame method. It advises tiny builders to use a wooden box shaped like a house as a core, guiding construction steps for a durable, picturesque doll dwelling.
Make a Tiny House for Dolls from Box and Putty
Instructions describe building a miniature doll house using a pass board box covered with putty and stones from the beach or broken rock for walls. It notes optional stained glass windows with paper or ishglass, a front door, a flat roof, chimney of pasteboard, and a mossy lawn with a mirror pond. Also mentions a report about a ship dog Bob whose tail movements warned of weather signs.
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Orange Judd Farmer
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Powersville
Monson
Dodd
Washington
Frank Munsey
George H. Daniels
Albany Journal
Fourth Ward
Philadelphia
Mother Gray
New York
Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
Chicago
Puck
Newey
Jomeopatrig
Tony
Sprite the
His
Cunning Sprite's
Maysie
Hime
Eliza
Peggy
Indianapolis Journal
Chicago Daily News
Chicago Dail News
St. Jacobs
Price
Clock For
Dickery Dicker Boch. Fir
Rte
Dicken
Dickern
Doen
STONE
Northern Pacific Railway
Chas. S
Adam W
Bob
Western
Canada
Bert
Tar Nauire
Eatena
Mr By Mall
Deware
Taltatian
Barks E
Mires Go
Malvern
Ady
Ommena
Oromusion Feed Co
Pine St
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