Twilight Verse On The Moonlit Sea
Poem describes a quiet sea at twilight with a crescent moon, pale stars, and a calm night. A gentle wind stirs the air as Earth rests, and the deep holds a peaceful, silent mood without disturbance.
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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1898
Page
7
Poem describes a quiet sea at twilight with a crescent moon, pale stars, and a calm night. A gentle wind stirs the air as Earth rests, and the deep holds a peaceful, silent mood without disturbance.
In Windy Gulch nurse and patient Harvey Neil recovers from mountain fever as memories of Dorothy Meredith haunt him. A doctor brings mail including a lawyer’s note seeking a settlement over the Grubstoke mine. Neil’s hunger for home clashes with a thawing relationship and a demand for personal terms with Meredith’s side.
A vivid tale from the St Paul Globe portrays a bold young woman, a self professed businesswoman, arriving at a Sunday editor with a sack of manuscripts and a forged introduction from Mr Penwell. She presses for consideration, boasting of intent to visit and alter work, leaving the editor startled and amused by the social bravado.
A woman urges her husband William to rise for town business but he drifts back to sleep after a first attempt. She repeats the plea, warning he will be late and find fault with breakfast if he does not get up immediately. The scene captures a humorous domestic exchange from Tit-Bits.
A fragmentary exchange questions credibility then describes a device on a car used for catching mail bags. The mechanism uses a side lever to engage a block and position a chute when a pouch is hung on the discharge run, flipping the catcher into place.
Woman and Home describes a lavender dress with wisteria motifs and leaves, a full skirt, and a vestlike tuck at the waist. The design features a removable lace yoke with deep purple velvet revers and collar, suitable for indoor wear and brightening dreary days.
Novelty silver articles include a fox tail duster with a silver handle intended as a display piece and functional feather duster. Also featured are oversized cut glass powder boxes eight inches across with silver or silver gilt tops, offered as decorative yet practical wedding and birthday gifts.
A partly filled silver cut glass piece shows powder through its design. The opera vinaigrette with a divided chamber carries aromatic salts in one end and perfumed salt in the other. The top bears a monogram etched in the glass.
Merchants offer a dazzling display of dress trimming with rhinestones and French brilliants while milliners assort pins brooches and jeweled ornaments for hats and bonnets Slides of pebbles adorn neck ribbons and stones sewn on velvet form arabesques A country clergyman nails creeper as a boy watches and asks what a parson says when hammers his thyme?
Practical advice on achieving clear skin through digestion, cleanliness, daily baths, scrubbing, face washing with oat or corn meal, cold cream, and regular life. Emphasizes temperance, avoiding cold, and consistent habits shared by Quakers and religious orders, attributed to Amy E. Hull.
A New England girl designs a clever holiday present for a friend studying in Paris. She gives twelve sealed envelopes, each labeled with a month and containing a personal token or note. The recipient opens a monthly surprise, from January to December, with keepsake fillings and memories. The piece praises thoughtful, long-distance affection and lasting usefulness of the holder.
A vintage piece presents a home brew floor polish recipe using linseed oil, strong tea, spirits of salts, and egg whites with application tips. It shifts to a medical joke about pills making a boy feel better, then a light dialogue about Jeannette entering business, with Jennie remarking “Everybody’s.”
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