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Fri, Aug 31 2007

Mister Ron's Basement #833

Mr. Bowser decides that his wife needs to know about more than 'bargain sales and tea parties,' so he attempts to give her the benefit of his knowledge of 'Political Matters' in today's funny 1902 story by M. Quad (C. B. Lewis).

Time: approx nine and a half minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
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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

Direct download: revry-2007-08-31.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:22pm EDT

Thu, Aug 30 2007

Mister Ron's Basement #832

Here comes the last adventure of the Potts Family from Max Adeler's 1876 book 'Elbow Room -- A Novel Without A Plot.' The whole town brings appropriate presents to the Potts' celebration of their 'Iron Wedding.'

Time: approx four and a half minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
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The Max Adeler Catalog of Stories is at:

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Direct download: revry-2007-08-30.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:20pm EDT

Wed, Aug 29 2007

Mister Ron's Basement #831

From Max Adeler's 1876 book 'Elbow Room -- A Novel Without A Plot,' comes 'Potts' Adventures.' In today's tale, we find out how important it may be to keep track of the time in 'Pott's Clock.'

Time: approx four minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
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The Max Adeler Catalog of Stories is at:

http://ronevry.com/maxadeler.html

Direct download: revry-2007-08-29.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:18am EDT

Tue, Aug 28 2007

Mister Ron's Basement #830

From Max Adeler's 1876 book 'Elbow Room -- A Novel Without A Plot,' comes 'Potts' Adventures.' Today, Potts takes care of a horribly noisy cat stuck in a pipe.

Time: approx five minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
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The Max Adeler Catalog of Stories is at:

http://ronevry.com/maxadeler.html

Direct download: revry-2007-08-28a.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:17pm EDT

Tue, Aug 28 2007

Mister Ron's Basement #829

From Max Adeler's 1876 book 'Elbow Room -- A Novel Without A Plot,' comes 'Potts' Adventures.' Today Mr. Pott raises the roof, again and again, in 'Potts' Roof.'

Time: approx five and a half minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html

The Max Adeler Catalog of Stories is at:

http://ronevry.com/maxadeler.html

Direct download: revry-2007-08-28.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:14am EDT

Mon, Aug 27 2007

Mister Ron's Basement #828

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 man who desperately wants to acquire a particular collection of books, and his hard-hearted wife who draws the line on his buying it in 'The Set of Poe.'

Time: approx eleven minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
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The George Ade Catalog of Stories is at:

http://ronevry.com/AdeCatalog.html

Direct download: revry-2007-08-27.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:12am EDT

Sun, Aug 26 2007

Mister Ron's Basement #827

SUNDAY SALAD offers a unique collection of tales from Stanley Huntley from 1882, all having to do (well, sort of) with the (then) tiny town of Bogota, New Jersey -- including a boat visit from the Spoopendykes!

Time: approx seventeen and a half minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
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The George Ade Catalog of Stories is at:

http://ronevry.com/AdeCatalog.html

Direct download: revry-2007-08-26.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:09am EDT

Fri, Aug 24 2007

Mister Ron's Basement #826

Mrs. Bowser has a little talk with Mr. Bowser -- about Mr. Bowser -- in C. B. Lewis's 1902 story 'A Family Discussion.'

Time: approx seven minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
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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

Direct download: revry-2007-08-24.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:06am EDT

Thu, Aug 23 2007

Mister Ron's Basement #825

The Peterkin Family faces a crisis as they discover themselves trapped in their house in 'The Peterkins Snowed-Up' from 1886 by Lucretia Peabody Hale.

Time: approx eleven and a half minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
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The Lucretia Peabody Hale Catalog of Stories is at:

http://ronevry.com/hale.html

Direct download: revry-2007-08-23.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:52am EDT

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:
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The Lucretia Peabody Hale Catalog of Stories is at:

http://ronevry.com/hale.html

Direct download: revry-2007-08-22.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:50am EDT

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

Direct download: revry-2007-08-21.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:49am EDT

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

Direct download: revry-2007-08-20.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:45am EDT

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

Direct download: revry-2007-08-19.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:43am EDT

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

Direct download: revry-2007-08-18.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:40am EDT

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

Direct download: revry-2007-08-17.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:38am EDT

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:
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Direct download: revry-2007-08-16.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:36am EDT

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:
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Direct download: revry-2007-08-15a.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:35pm EDT

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:
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Direct download: revry-2007-08-15.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:33am EDT

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:
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Direct download: revry-2007-08-14.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:31am EDT

Mon, Aug 13 2007

Mister Ron's Basement #814

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 is told by a House that wants to be a home -- it's called 'House in Mercedes Street'

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 George Ade Catalog of Stories is at:

http://ronevry.com/AdeCatalog.html

Direct download: revry-2007-08-13.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:29am EDT

Sun, Aug 12 2007

Mister Ron's Basement #813

SUNDAY SALAD presents TWO Stanley Huntley stories -- first, a Dakota man explains how rich his territory is to some astonished Brooklynites in the 1883 tale 'A Great Country,' and Mr. Spoopendyke can't find his towel in 'An Awkward Embarrassment' from 1880.

Time: approx seven 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

Direct download: revry-2007-08-12.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:27pm EDT

Fri, Aug 10 2007

Mister Ron's Basement #812

Well, you know what's going to happen here -- and that is why it's so hysterically funny! From 1902, we present 'Mr. Bowser on Horseback' by C. B. Lewis...

Time: approx nine 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

Direct download: revry-2007-08-10.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:25am EDT

Thu, Aug 09 2007

Mister Ron's Basement #811

Our last piece on Editors this week concerns the blue pencil pushers as well as a number of other interesting folks in Thomas L. Masson's 1921 accounting, 'Popular Conceptions -- As Some of Us Think They Are'

Time: approx four minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html

The Thomas L. Masson Index of Stories is at:

http://ronevry.com/masson.html

Direct download: revry-2007-08-09.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:23am EDT

Wed, Aug 08 2007

Mister Ron's Basement #810

Bill Nye takes aim at 'long distance newspaper editing' in his 1884 tale 'A Snort of Agony.'

Time: approx six and a half minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html

The Bill Nye Catalog of Stories is at:

http://ronevry.com/billnye.html

Direct download: revry-2007-08-08.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:21am EDT

Tue, Aug 07 2007

Mister Ron's Basement #809

Continuing with this week's stories about Editors with a truly hilarious classic tale by Mark Twain from 1870 -- 'How I Edited An Agricultural Paper Once.'

Time: approx fourteen and a half minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html

The Mark Twain Catalog of Stories is at:

http://ronevry.com/Twain.html

Direct download: revry-2007-08-07.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:17am EDT

Mon, Aug 06 2007

Mister Ron's Basement #808

Stories about Editors are in the offing this week in the Basement -- today's tale is about a truly superb Editor and his take on what could only be described as an unbelievable bit of writing in Max Adeler's 1876 'The Editor of the Patriot.'

Time: approx ten and a half minutes

Time: approx five minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html

The Max Adeler Catalog of Stories is at:

http://ronevry.com/maxadeler.html

Direct download: revry-2007-08-06.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:15am EDT

Sun, Aug 05 2007

Mister Ron's Basement #807

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 deals with a couple of guys who are way down on their luck, grousing at the way their former friends ignore them in 'The Judge's Son.'

Time: approx nine and a half 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

Direct download: revry-2007-08-05.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:13am EDT

Sat, Aug 04 2007

Mister Ron's Basement #806

SUNDAY SALAD offers TWO Stanley Huntley tales from 1883 -- first, the story of an indefatigable country bumpkin and a reluctant construction worker building the Brooklyn Bridge entitled 'A Fellow Feeling,' then Mr. and Mrs. Spoopendyke try 'Locking the Trunk.'

Time: approx nine 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

Direct download: revry-2007-08-04.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:11am EDT

Fri, Aug 03 2007

Mister Ron's Basement #805

Our favorite crank gets involved with the 'Reform Movement' in C. B. Lewis's 1902 story, 'Mr. Bowser in Politics.'

Time: approx nine 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

Direct download: revry-2007-08-03.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:09am EDT

Thu, Aug 02 2007

Mister Ron's Basement #804

In our final selection from Thomas L. Masson's 1921 book, 'Well, Why Not?' the author owns up with 'Confessions of A Happily Married Man.'

Time: approx four minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html

The Thomas L. Masson Index of Stories is at:

http://ronevry.com/masson.html

Direct download: revry-2007-08-02.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:07am EDT

Wed, Aug 01 2007

Mister Ron's Basement #803

Let's visit the past -- from the future -- in Thomas L. Masson's 1921 tale 'Looking Backward on the Home -- In the Year 3000 A.D.' from the book 'Well, Why Not?'

Time: approx six and a half minutes

The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at:
http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html

The Thomas L. Masson Index of Stories is at:

http://ronevry.com/masson.html

Direct download: revry-2007-08-01.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:05am EDT