Easy Money in Spectacles Graft Described by Yale Graduate
A 1905 account details a Yale graduate who ran a potboiler graft selling defective spectacles to middle and lower class women. The scheme used staged fixed prices, shifting lens assortments, and window glass to dupe victims for dollars weekly. The tale follows the man from street peddling to high society boxes, profits, and eventual penitentiary time.
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Yale
Great Northern Hotel
J. P
Grafter
Musicians Called Cranks by Iowa School Dean
Prof Frank J Fitzgerald dean of the music department at the Iowa Industrial School for Girls brands all professional musicians as cranks and many as insane. A witty exchange follows as Gerald questions judgment and Geraldine counters with a sharp retort.
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Frank J. Fitzgerald
The
Iowa Industrial School For Girls
Cigar smoking sparks debate between Sapleigh and Miss Knox
Sapleigh defends ten years of smoking. Miss Knox counters that danger lies in the habit and objects to it. The Chicago Daily News frames the exchange as a cautionary social remark on cigarettes and risk.
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Sapleigh
Miss Knox
Chicago Daily News
Proviso on Guarantee for Roach-Killing Product
A customer seeks assurance that a cockroach killer will work. The druggist promises an absolute guarantee if the product is used exactly as directed, as reported by the Chicago Tribune.
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Chicago Tribune
Do you read Shakespeare much remark turns on safety of praise
A Washington Star quip notes that praising Shakespeare as great requires no effort in reading. The remark highlights the ease of endorsing his works while not engaging with the text.
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Washington Star
Quips and Anecdotes From The Day's Papers
A collage of witticisms and light quips from multiple papers. It features a critique of workers who rely solely on hands, a lawyerly exchange about sanity signs, a joke about paying in advance for clothing, a banking quip on owning horses, a joke about vacation memories, and a pun on counting days by sunset.
Turtle and Porcupine clash over dog’s racket
In a brief chatter from the Cincinnati Enquirer a Turtle explains why a dog vanished after a noisy inquiry, while a Porcupine says the dog was digging for information and was fed a few points.
Quick Wits and Quips From 1900s Papers
A gag collection features banter about suspenders nails and buttons in a Yonkers Statesman style bit. The Cleveland Plain Dealer vignette has a vagabond on a park bench asking to be pinched to wake up while a quick policeman jokes.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Parting Words and Jokes in a Humorous Exchange
A juried mosaic of quips and gags from period papers. Jests about marriage and courtship mingle with light anecdotes from The Philadelphia Press The Washington Star and Cassell's The Cincinnati Enquirer and N Y Weekly provide lines on doctors dentists and lovers A playful collage of social humor highlighting matchmaking signals and misread signs across city papers
EST AND JOCULARITY
A comical dialogue fragment features Mrs Perkins and her husband, a doctor asking if he has lucid intervals, and humorous exchanges about waves, a photographer, a sun loving summer girl, a bath sponge size, and a joke about parent tendencies and offspring intelligence.
Peruna Credited with Restored Health in Nashville
Mrs. Lena Smith of Nashville Tennessee reports chronic back pain and headaches improve after ten days with Peruna. She continued two months, noting complete pain relief and renewed vitality, attributing her recovery to Peruna remedy for internal catarrh and resulting weakness.
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Lena Smith
N. Cherry Street
Cor
Nashville
Tenn
Peruna
Feen
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Belle
Beulah
Marmaduke
Montmorency
Cincinnati Enquirer
Yonkers
Cassell
Cadsby
Miss Cayenne
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Teddy
Sun
Jinks
Pudney
Binks
Bob Smith
Dr. Jones
Tovics
Dad
Spartacus
Smarticus
Peru
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