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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1927
Page
7
Gay meets a visiting man on the Little club piazza and shares details of the dead body found. He offers to help by photographing a sketch and sending it to police, while Gay worries over responsibility and possible inquest though she insists on keeping the sketch.
Gay, living alone on a misty coastal isle, confronts a growing threat as rumors swirl about her fate and a lingering haunting. A chance encounter with Rand reframes danger and desire on the island where old customs clash with curious outsiders.
Gay Delane, a stressed New York artist, retreats to Idle Island to rest at the Lone Pine cottage. She meets the Captain and his sister Alice Andover, only to find the elderly Auntalmiry moved out. A drowned man with a bullet wound appears on the shore, but the body vanishes upon the Captain’s return, leaving Gay shaken and describing an episode as a nervous attack.
The Kansas City Star reflects on Epicurus describing him as a frugal, temperate thinker who founded a school advocating simple living to avoid poverty and enjoy life. It notes his early start at thirteen, his hunger for diverse instruction, and his paradoxical modern reputation as a sensualist.
The article notes ancient use of flowers in weddings with orange blossoms symbolizing luck. It cites Spencer and Milton linking the orange to the golden apple of Jupiter gifted by Juno at weddings. It mentions Anglo Saxon brides giving knata and ribbons to friends, a custom surviving in bridesmaid bouquets.
Immigrant John Peter Rockefeller, the first Rockefeller, left Germany for America in 12. A wry note observes that many men show effort to advance yet keep stepping on their own corny tread.
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