Tag · Mood & tone
Funny
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- 1883-08-31 — Jamestown Weekly Alert, p.4
A short comic society-column item in the Jamestown Weekly Alert reporting that a hunting party — John Vennum, Marshall McClure, Tony Klaus, Charlie Rattinger, a…
- 1887-04-14 — Jamestown Weekly Alert, p.5Slang in the Restaurant.
A short period color piece, reprinted from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, cataloguing restaurant kitchen slang from Kansas City and St. Louis. Oyster stew is "Je…
- 1912-10-14 — The Butte Daily Post, p.7GOLF BALL KILLS A SPARROW, THEN GOES ON
Wire item from Boston, Oct 14 1912. A golf ball driven from a tee at the Braeburn Country Club (Massachusetts) overtook and killed a sparrow mid-flight and cont…
- 1918-07-16 — The Butte Miner, p.2Battery in Doubt
Light sports-column item about an upcoming Butte amateur baseball lineup. Quoted line: "**Tish Maloney says he can't pitch, but he thinks he could hurl a few if…
- 2006-11-25 — Riobárd Ó Dwyer Papers, NEHGS (Mss 1097) — "Stories from Beara"; received as an email from Riobárd Ó DwyerRiobárd Ó Dwyer's Beara folktale — 'Tis a hard life the women have' (a Dursey Island role-reversal tale)
A humorous Beara folktale relayed by Riobárd Ó Dwyer (verbatim in notes.md per NEHGS rights). A man ploughing on **Dursey Island (Baoi Bheara)** comes in to din…
- 2012-01-31 — Riobárd Ó Dwyer Papers, NEHGS (Mss 1097) — "Stories from Beara"; received as an email from Riobárd Ó DwyerRiobárd Ó Dwyer's Beara wit — 'An Irish Prayer' (from his Butte 'From Beara to Butte' visit), 'Dan and the Pope,' 'Every old stocking finds an old shoe'
Three pieces of Beara wit relayed by Riobárd Ó Dwyer (verbatim in notes.md per NEHGS rights): - **An Irish Prayer** — Ó Dwyer recounts that **while in Butte, …
- 2012-02-01 — Riobárd Ó Dwyer Papers, NEHGS (Mss 1097) — "Stories from Beara"; received as an email from Riobárd Ó DwyerRiobárd Ó Dwyer's Beara tales — 'The Carpenter's Coffin' and the blacksmith 'dentists' of Adrigole and Eyeries
Two humorous Beara folk-tales relayed by Riobárd Ó Dwyer (verbatim in notes.md per NEHGS rights): - **The Carpenter's Coffin** — Paddy the carpenter lies in a …