Return to Sugar Creek Crowder Ends Army Wait
Tom Crowder reenlists in memory of home as six months of Philippines service cools his ardor. He longs for Sugar Creek and Tillie, writes verses, anxiously awaits a letter, and plans a swift return after muster out. The homecoming scene erupts in Sugar Creek with band, crowd, and Tillie awaiting the war weary soldier.
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Philippines
Tom Crowder
Bugar Creek
Crowder & Sona
Tile
Sue
Tom
Tillie
Sugar Creek
Manila
Buhl Tomlinson
Crowder
Jim
Tony Crowder
Crowded Sugar Creek reunion reveals Tom Crowder’s surprise nephew
After a wedding and long absence Tom Crowder returns to Sugar Creek for a homecoming. Tillie unveils Tom Crowder the second, a baby he is godfather to, as the family jokes about the kinship. Tom plans to enlist again and move away, craving a quiet, separate life with Tillie’s letter.
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Tillie
Tom
Jim
Mrs. Crowder
Crowder
Tom Crowder
Sugar Creek
Chicago Record. Herald
Lincoln Case and the Wrestling Joke at Bloomington
During a Bloomington circuit court session, Lincoln observes Lamon a strong prosecutor who wrestles for sport. A prank subscription offers to fund Lamon’s trousers after a fall in court. Lincoln reads the vow and writes I can contribute nothing to the end in view, humorously declining participation.
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Lincoln
Bloomington
Lamon
The Sense of Smell and Perfume Expertise
Experts claim the sense of smell can be developed like sight and hearing. Although the uneducated nose tires after several perfumes, the educated nose preserves discrimination longer. An expert can identify a perfume and its constituent extracts from a small cotton dab.
Preservation Method For Meat Using Salt Water And Gelatin
The text outlines preserving meat by soaking in a saline cold water solution for ten days, then adding a calcium bisulfate and a gelatin or egg white mixture to the salt solution to extend preservation. It specifies temperatures from SO to 100 degrees and a repeated process for longer preservation.
Death and sorrow in a hospital room scene
A fragmented poem depicts a hospital ward' s deathly mood with a nurse, doctor, widow, and a dying patient. A heartrending tableau shows a hospital death shadowing every cot while a baby provides a fragile glimmer of hope amid mourning and wearied attendants.
Household Hints on Cleaning and Storing Tips
A Old time household guide covers pantry drying with lime to purify air. It warns against soda for flannels, notes stain removal for silk, methods to whiten feathers, window glass cleaning with alcohol and whiting paste, and bleaching with naphtha or benzine. It also describes starch preparation by boiling water and adjusting thickness with blue water.
Young Artist Learns The Price Of A Frame
A youth who aspired to be an artist is praised by wealthy friends for his sketches. While strolling with a pretty companion on the Strand in London, he admires a picture in a dealer window and asks its price. The shopkeeper explains the frame is included and the artist exclaims in shock at the three shillings price.
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Strand
London
Scott
Song of the River by Charles Kingsley
The poem depicts clear cool waters and nature scenes with rivers and ice, a church bell and oozing waves. It laments cleansing a firearm while heading to sea and paradise, touching themes of purity and absolution. The speaker compares freedom and strength with undefiled living and pardon.
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Charles Kingsley
Psychological traits from physical features in Leslie's Weekly
The article asserts long narrow teeth signal liberal views and heroic virtues while long lips indicate cautiousness and prudence. It links eye color and brow shape to truthfulness and jealousy, describes ear shapes, thumb angles, and finger forms as markers of character strength, avoidance, or ambition.
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Leslie’s Weekly
Funeral Debt Prompts Lend And Farewell Wit
A Chicago Tribune item quips about Murdstone lending $150 to Gagson to cover his late wife’s funeral expenses. Gagson reveals his wife died a year and a half ago, and he must pay the bill before marrying the next woman. The exchange ends with a handwritten check.
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Gagson
Murdstone
Chicago Tribune
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