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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1909
Page
14
Gilbert Butler pursues the widow Anna Plimpton with jealousy and spite. He steals Aunt Heppy’s calla lilies to create a cross for her husband’s grave. At sunset he carries the makeshift tribute to the cemetery, where the plimpton plot reveals his intended message.
Gilbert Butler returns to the grave where Anna Plimpton stands near the wreaths and cross. He admits jealousy and asks about their future, but Anna reveals the real reason for her silence. She says she never answered because no question had been asked she could answer. They leave together, hopeful but unaware of the misread moment.
In this comic tale Mr. Bush, a diligent inventor, forgets his wife at church while absorbed in thought. She laments being forgotten as he explains he only remembered her once he reached home to imagine the dinner she would prepare. The humorous misunderstanding ends with his bright realization.
A prisoner, drunk and disorderly, asks for ten days for his wife’s annual spring cleaning. The judge, moved by pity, sentences him with tears in his eyes in a humane moment reported by the New York Times.
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