Damsel’s Despair and a Fatal Note in 1910 Verse
A poem attributed to Walt Mason reflects a distressed woman who resorts to suicide citing failure and poverty. It laments failed literary careers, hunger, and societal neglect, urging labor over idle despair while noting a loaded gun and a final goodbye. The piece critiques Creative toil and economic hardship.
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Walt Mason
George Matthew Adams
Observant Citizen Reports Warm Dry Line Storm Hopes
The line storm this year in Boston is warm and dry but the worst may come. Friends of Captain J. O. Carter of the Canopic fear cholera has reached Naples where it is raging.
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Sailors and Salt Weather Echoes in Boston Letters
A wry column blends social notes and sea tales from Boston and Cambridge. Topics include a Catholic University engineering chair offer to Thomas J. Maguire, a Knights of Columbus Europe trip, veterans recounting costs at a Civil War era convention, stray anecdotes from street life, fishing feats, and a dramatic harbor rescue ending with a hopeful moral.
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Tech
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Michael J. Downey
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James C. Monaghan
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Rome
Brockton
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Sylvester
Billy Buttons
Big Yellow Cat
Anthony
Jonathan Sylvester
Sylvester's
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Jonathan
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White's
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Race Orrhus
Prizes Awarded for Garden Displays at Stations
An examining committee of the Boston and Maine railroad announced prizes for garden displays at line stations. Brattle station in Arlington won first prize for John Merrill who transformed a rocky hill into a flourishing garden, using loam, plants, and glass-grown seedlings. Belmont’s Hill Crossing earned second prize for an equally striking display.
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J. F. Judkins
Boston & Maine Railroad
Brattle Station
Arlington
John Merrill
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Frances as Nobility and Names Through History
The text traces the name Frances through languages and cultures, noting variants such as Frances, Frank, Fanny, and Francesca. It links figures like Fanny Fern and Francesca Minotti, and mentions literary ties to Keats, Byron, Dante, Pellico, and Leigh Hunt, with notes on diminutives Franceschina and Cecca and related forms in German and Italian usage.
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Frances
Germany
Italy
Franzjen
Frank
Fanny
John Keats
Fannie Browne
Fanny Fern
Sarah Payson
Nathaniel P. Willis
Francesca Minotti
Byron
Corinth
Francesca da Rimini
Malatesta
Francesca
Paolo
Dante
Silvio Pellico
Leigh Hunt
Francisca
Franceschina
Cecca
Franziska
Franzchen
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