[Boarding the Folsom / A Few Conundrums]
A special dispatch from our war department. Washington, D. C, June third, eighteen hundred and ninety two, to the Associated Press.
Last evening as the pretty little clipper Frances
Folsom was cruising about, she was observed by the
government ram, Grover Cleveland, which immediately
hove down upon her with the intention of boarding her.
The Frances, seeing there was no way of avoiding the
encounter, pluckily lay to, threw her stern into position, and bared poles for action. The Grover managed
to strike the Frances with two balls between wind and
water, intending thereby to impede the action of her
pump. As he bore down upon her, the Grover's polished
ram thrust the Frances at the water line, penetrating her interior...
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- Various Artists
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Actionable Offences: Indecent Phonograph Recordings from the 1890s
- Learning a City Gal How to Milk Time: 1:54
- The Tapeworm Story Time: 1:52
- Gimlet's Soliloquy / The Rascal Detector - Manly Tempest Time: 2:33
- The Whores' Union Time: 1:35
- Boarding the Folsom / A Few Conundrums Time: 2:30
- Out of Order - Charley Smith of Kankakee Time: 2:21
- Did He Charge Too Much Time: 2:37
- Reilly as a Policeman - Charley Smith of New York City Time: 2:41
- Sim Hadley on a Racket - Willy Fathand of New York City Time: 2:32
- Sim Hadley on a Racket - Willy Brown Time: 2:29
- Michael Casey Exhibiting His Panorama - Willy Smith Time: 2:41
- Dennis Reilly at Maggie Murphy's Home After Nine O'Clock - Willy Brown Time: 2:42
- Stroll on Capitol Hill / A Hard Head Time: 2:09
- The Virtues of Raw Oysters Time: 1:49
- Jokes, Riddles, Verses, a Limerick, and a Toast Time: 2:24
- More Verses and Jokes Time: 2:23
- The Lady's Friend / A Song / The Irishman's Prayer / A Joke Time: 2:02
- Verses and Songs Time: 2:41
- Poem: "I Sit Here Thinking, Will, of You" Time: 2:26
- [Untitled Track] Time: 0:11
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