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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1896
Page
7
A poetic vignette celebrating spring and romance in the woods. The young Lord April and Lady May kiss in the trees while a mockingbird and Chersapin the ancient tree witness. Birds, buds, and butterflies accompany the tale of green earth and blue sky.
A city editor recalls Rutherford, a genius crime reporter, who tracks a murder through sensational prose only to confess to the crime himself. The tale ends with Rutherford's suicide, and the editor's closing note on the case's chilling mastery and perilous lure of crime writing.
Richard W. Armstrong of San Francisco arrives in New York to sue wealthy New York and Boston financiers claiming they stole his treasure map to the uninhabited Cocos Island expedition. After twenty years of searching the area southwest of Panama, Armstrong asserts Morgan buried a $10 million hoard and he seeks redress for the alleged theft.
A lyrical meditation on memory and time as a magical isle named Long Ago along River Time. The verse recalls winters, summers, treasures of youth, and lost loves, with images of dust, hair trinkets, broken vows, and a harp, ending with a wish that a Greenwood of the soul remain in sight forever.
Mrs. Picket’s nagging about hats drives Mr. Picket to hoard twenty eight headpieces and a mistaken police arrest. A rainstorm, a gutter hat rescue, and a roomful of witnesses culminate in a public hat reveal that leaves him forever roasted by his wife’s quip filled comeback.
A Boston Transcript note explains Japanese art symbols for emotions and concepts. It lists April evenings, moon, nightingale, plum trees as happiness. iris for victory. willow for grace and quiet. swallow for symbols. cherry blossoms for patriotism. almond flower as spring beauty. dragon as religious power. tori cock and drum for government. butterfly as immortality. plus a tip on cheese storage using vinegar-wiped cloth.
Household hints suggest bamboo fringe as a pretty wall or floor finish in brown and mahogany tones with bead accents. Fuller's earth removes grease from carpet and marble stains with magnesia and boiling water. Jewelers cloths are made by boiling cotton in hartshorn and milk for daily silver polishing.
A Chicago visitor recounts stopping at a Kansas hotel where the landlord joked about meals while the family and staff were sick with a mysterious illness. The guest, thinking himself unwell, pays the bill and heads to the next town seeking care.
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