Wait Till Home Is Far Away Poem
A reflective poem on leaving home and cherishing a mother’s presence. The speaker warns a son that life on his own will feel emptier without the familiar comforts of home and a mother’s welcome. © H. S. Keller, Good Literature.
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Lady Wood
Walt
Sweet Home
H. S. Keller
The Sturgis Wager A Detective Story Chapter XVIII
Sturgis, after noting Murdock's study arrangement, considers how Chatham escaped the Manhattan Chemical building. He evaluates exits from the chemist's house including library doors and a basement route, weighing the guard’s spikes and fences guarding the yard. He suspects an exit via the extension or basement while pondering the escaped figure.
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Sturgis
Murdock
Dr. Murdock
Chatham
Manhattan Chemical Company
The Underground Passage Ends in a Lab Trap
Sturgis and Sprague converge on the Manhattan Chemical Company after obtaining police help to pursue the Knickerbocker bank mystery. The chemist Murdock appears wary as Sturgis pushes toward a lab reveal while a tense plan to raid the lab unfolds.
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Sturgis
Murdock
Knickerbocker Bank
Sprague
Sturgis.’ ” Sturgis
Tie
Hasana
Knickerdbocker Bank and Chatham
Manhattan Chemical Company
Burdock
Bentis
Detective Conklin
Chatham
Police
Montana Campaign Echoes in Clark Carter Controversy
J W Lamar recalls a Helena speech during territorial years when Commissioner Sparks restricted cutting eight inch trees in US lands. The policy fueled Montana protest and shaped the Clark Carter contest. A heckler shouted Why split them and the audience jeered as Lamar paused.
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Montana
J. W. Lamar
Helena
Mont
New York Tribune
Sparks
General Land Office
United States
Bozeman
Old Adage on Hardup’s Marriage Rumor
A blithe exchange riffing on a gossip that Hardup plans to marry Susie Banknote. The line contrasts wealth with appearance, closing with a wry proverb about a drowning man grabbing at a straw as a figure of speech.
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Hardup
Susie
N. Y. World
Prodigal Son Teaches Getting the Fatted Calf
In a Chicago Post exchange a teacher asks what the prodigal son teaches and a disruptive pupil quips it teaches how to obtain the fatted calf, delivering a sly twist on the biblical parable.
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Chicago Post
Giraffe Answer Quoted by Bright Student
A classroom exchange cited in Tit-Bits asks about the highest form of animal life. A keen pupil answers with giraffe, prompting amusement and reflection on natural history.
Easy Choice Rich Uncle Quip Shapes Patch Story
In Richmond Dispatch a lighthearted note quotes a couple discussing baby naming results. A joke about a single rich uncle mirrors family dynamics and decision ease. The brief item reflects local humor and community chatter.
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Richmond Dispatch
True Friends and Dear Girl Say Maude in Chicago Daily News
A light feature notes exchanges titled True Friends and Dear Girl Say in the Chicago Daily News. It mentions Dear Girl Well Dear and muses on complexion and style in a casual column tone.
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Maude
Chicago Daily News
The Gallant Twenty Six Guard Learning's Door
A pasque-like ode extols learning as a gate kept by twenty six sentinels the letters of the alphabet. It argues all students must earn entrance by mastering basic discipline and printed thought, honoring statesmen poets and scholars who journey through the alphabet to wisdom.
How to Build a Kite Reel from Simple Wood Parts
Step by step plan from Louisville Courier Journal describes making a kite reel with a base uprights axle and crank. Materials include inch pine base ten inch uprights and an oak broomstick axle. The reel uses four wood pieces and two pulleys for cord guidance.
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Louisville Courierdourndt
Faithful to the End: Badger's Dog Dies at Grave
A dog faithful to traveler Joseph E. Badger died soon after its owner's death. The animal, which accompanied Badger in Kansas and Nebraska, guarded his coffin and returned to the cemetery after burial, refusing food and dying near Badger's grave.
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Joseph E. Badger
Badger
Kansas
Nebraska
Colorado
St. Joseph (Mo
N. Y. World
The Tomb of Charlemagne at Aix-la-Chapelle
An impressive sermon tells of Charlemagne buried beneath the dome at Aix-la-Chapelle. He sits in a marble chair with imperial robes, a Gospel open in his lap, and his dead hand pointing to Jesus words about the soul and the world.
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Murdock
Sturgis
Mary
Agnes
Knickerbocker Bank
Aix-la-Chapelle
Charlemagne
Jesus
Flossie the St Bernard Defends Chickens Then Dies
A loyal St Bernard named Flossie, known for watering horses and mimicking games, leaped through a window to thwart thieves in a village chicken yard. She bore the impact of the crash, injuring pursing robbers and preserving the yard. Later struck and killed by a railroad train, her memory endures in the family.
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Flossie
St. Bernard
Ned
Tom
Fiossie
St. Louis Republic
Animal Barometers Predict Rain From Animal Behavior
A collection of folk weather lore cites donkeys braying, cats sneezing, dogs eating grass, sheep facing the wind, peacocks squawking, pigs hauling straw, moles throwing soil, horses sniffing the air, bats entering houses, and oxen sniffing or lying on their sides as signs of impending rain. The note adds that cowhide yields about 35 pounds of leather.
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P. C. Fossett
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