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Minuta
also: Минута, The Minute
A small Petersburg newspaper of the early 1880s that published brief humor squibs; Chekhov addresses this mock lost-and-found notice to its editorial offices.
Reading notes
- The Subscribers Have Absconded §1 Minuta
Минута ("The Minute"), a small Petersburg newspaper of the early 1880s that ran humor squibs like this one; naming a real editorial office grounds the mock notice in an actual masthead.