Fiction · 1905
Uncle Josh’s Punkin Centre Stories
Uncle Josh’s Punkin Centre Stories, first published in 1905, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- To the Reader
- Life Sketch of Author
- My Old Yaller Almanac
- Uncle Josh Weathersby’s Arrival in New York
- Uncle Josh in Society
- Uncle Josh in a Chinese Laundry
- Uncle Josh in a Museum
- Uncle Josh in Wall Street
- Uncle Josh and the Fire Department
- Uncle Josh in an Auction Room
- Uncle Josh on a Fifth Avenue ‘Bus
- Uncle Josh in a Department Store
- Uncle Josh’s Comments on the Signs Seen in New York
- Uncle Josh on a Street Car
- My Fust Pair of Copper Toed Boots
- Uncle Josh in Police Court
- Uncle Josh at Coney Island
- Uncle Josh at the Opera
- Uncle Josh at Delmonico’s
- It is Fall
- Si Pettingill’s Brooms
- Uncle Josh Plays Golf
- Jim Lawson’s Hogs
- Uncle Josh and the Lightning Rod Agent
- A Meeting of the Annanias Club
- Jim Lawson’s Hoss Trade
- A Meeting of the School Directors
- The Weekly Paper at Punkin Centre
- Uncle Josh at a Camp Meeting
- The Unveiling of the Organ
- Uncle Josh Plays a Game of Base Ball
- The Punkin Centre and Paw Paw Valley Railroad
- Uncle Josh on a Bicycle
- A Baptisin’ at the Hickory Corners Church
- Reminiscence of My Railroad Days
- Uncle Josh at a Circus
- Uncle Josh Invites the City Folks to Visit Him
- Yosemite Jim, or a Tale of the Great White Death
- Uncle Josh Weathersby’s Trip to Boston
- Who Marched in Sixty-One
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About the author
1856–1919 · Victorian
Cal Stewart (1856–1919) was born in Charlotte County, Virginia, and worked on the railroad in his early years before an accident cost him a finger and two toes and pushed him toward show business full time, working his way up through medicine shows, minstrel troupes, and vaudeville. He began recording for Berliner around 1897 and went on to record for nearly every phonograph company of the era — Edison, Columbia, Victor, and others — becoming, by some accounts, the best-selling comic recording artist of the pre-1920 era. Nearly all of his output was built around a single recurring character, Uncle Josh Weathersby, a garrulous rural New Englander from the fictional town of Punkin Centre, whose rambling monologues Stewart delivered in dialect with a distinctive laugh as his trademark opener. He died in 1919, having recorded Uncle Josh's adventures continuously for more than two decades.
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