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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1896
Page
6
Poem excerpt from Amos R. Wells in St. Nicholas describes Mistress Morning guiding children through a dominos style play. Each charm and breeze is paired with a child’s name reflecting a bright, playful dawn scene.
Ann Quinn, a tired laundry worker, encounters a haunted past when a starving man from years ago enters her home. He pleads for reconciliation, but she kills him in a struggle, then confronts a memory that unsettles her sense of life and love as a storm of emotion passes.
A leaf falls in the woods and flows with the wind while the narrator ponders aging and grief. The scene contrasts time worn sorrow with a small moment of playful resilience. The poem reflects on youthfulness and emotional renewal.
In a Georgia riverfront scene, Ann Quinn confronts a colonel who begs for a love that defies law. He presents a case of lilies and rubies, then vanishes into the night as a murder shock echoes. She hides the jewels and later dumps river stones, a lily stem adrift above, while news of Ellis Price’s drowning spreads.
A humorous reminiscence from Colonel Mills recounts his early drill days with the Georgia militia. He recalls borrowing a uniform and sash, studying Scott's tactics, and drilling a phantom company near Lost Mountain. A cross eyed mountaineer interrupts the display, demanding payment, ending with Mills’s narrow escape.
A city missionary asks a woman if she attends church. She says she does not, citing poverty and her husband’s long unemployment. She explains their differing views keep them from going together, noting she is Methodist while her husband belongs to the Knights of Pythias.
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