Mister Ron's Basement II

By Ron Evry

***"The stories are gentler than what passes for humor today, but what's surprising is how current some of them are. Human folly doesn't change much from decade to decade."

--John Kelly, Washington Po... more

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August 22, 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #824
Wed, Aug 22 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #824 When the Lady from Philadelphia goes away, the Peterkin family confronts the fact that they are, well, kind of stupid, in Lucretia Peabody Hale's convoluted 1882-6 tale, 'The Peterkins Try to Become Wise.' Time: approx seven and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Lucretia Peabody Hale Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/hale.html
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August 21, 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #823
Tue, Aug 21 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #823 Here's another remarkably silly tale from the 1886 Second Edition of 'The Peterkin Papers' by Lucretia Peabody Hale. The Peterkin kids have problems at meal time in the story 'At Dinner.' Time: approx five minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Lucretia Peabody Hale Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/hale.html
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August 20, 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #822
Mon, Aug 20 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #822 We are revisiting the incredibly stupid Peterkin family this week, with stories from the 1886 Second Edition of 'The Peterkin Papers' by Lucretia Peabody Hale. Today, we are reading the slightly looney Preface to the book. Time: approx four and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Lucretia Peabody Hale Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/hale.html
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August 19, 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #821
Sun, Aug 19 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #821 Our Monday book serialization is George Ade's 1903 collection, 'In Babel -- Stories of Chicago.' The stories in this book range from the hysterically funny to the pathetically sad. Altogether, they paint a fascinating portrait of turn-of-the-last-century Chicago. Today's tale concerns a young lad relating his battle with germs. It's called 'Hickey Boy and the Grip.' Time: approx ten minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The George Ade Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/AdeCatalog.html
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August 18, 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #820
Sat, Aug 18 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #820 SUNDAY SALAD offers TWO Stanley Huntley stories today -- A Tennessee man remarks on the quality of whiskey in a Brooklyn bar in 'A Little Mild for Him' from 1884, and Mr. Spoopendyke attempts to follow impossible directions from his wife in 'Boxing A Sewing Machine' from 1882. Time: approx ten and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The Stanley Huntley and Spoopendyke Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/Spoopendyke_Stories.html
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August 17, 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #819
Fri, Aug 17 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #819 Our favorite old crank shows his appreciation of his wife with a framed portrait, in C. B. Lewis's 1902 story 'Mr. Bowser as a Lover.' Time: approx ten and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html The M. Quad (C. B. Lewis) Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/quad.html The M. Quad (C. B. Lewis) Mister Bowser Catalog of Stories is at: http://ronevry.com/mrbowser.html
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August 16, 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #818
Thu, Aug 16 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #818 Henry Clay Lukens spins a yarn about four young working girls sharing a home and attempting to not violate a cardinal rule regarding visiting gentlemen, in the 1883 story 'The Merry Maidens' Home Club.' Time: approx eight and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html
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August 16, 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #817
Wed, Aug 15 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #817 From 1883 comes a story that may feature one of the first printed uses of the word 'cops' as a Jersey City man lets the police know in no uncertain terms what he thinks of them in Henry Clay Lukens' 'A Vocal Reef.' Time: approx four minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html
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August 15, 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #816
Wed, Aug 15 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #816 Henry Clay Lukens takes a look at that new-fangled device in the 1883 tale, 'The Missing Sardine-Opener.' Time: approx four minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html
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August 14, 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #815
Tue, Aug 14 2007 Mister Ron's Basement #815 Henry Clay Lukens was a popular columnist in New York City in the 1870s and 80s, writing under the pen name of 'Erratic Enrique.' From his 1883 collection 'Jets and Flashes' we present a truly strange conversation in a tonsorial parlor called 'Quizzing A Barber.' Time: approx seven and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html
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