Storm and rescue on a South Seas voyage to Pelew island
Professor Eugen Schroeder recalls a 1906 South Sea hurricane that crippled the Antipode off Macao. Lifeboat crews battled monstrous waves to reach Pelew island, where natives welcomed them and a trade of provisions began. Surviving aboard the wreck, the party faced cannibal fears, then found a hospitable island society and later joined a merchant vessel to Ponape, ending a perilous, life changing episode.
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Eugen Schroeder
South Sea
Macao
China
Antipode
Ponape
Caroline Group
Early New York municipal woes and the first police and school
The piece recalls New Amsterdam's early debt struggles and public order efforts. It notes the first police watchman enforcing harsh punishments and the origin of a Wall Street school opened in 1630 with two beaver skins per pupil, reflecting scarce money and debt. The school failed financially as the schoolmaster fell into debt.
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New York
Holland
Hollard
N. Y
New Amsterdam
East River
Blackwell’s Island
Manhattan Island
New New York
Schout
Wall Street
Flower Thoughts by Elsa Parrish in Philadelphia Record
A light verse by Elsa Parrish from the Philadelphia Record expresses whimsical wishes about nature and little treats, imagining pine trees sewing needles and lightning bugs making thunder, blue bells speaking on Sundays, and a gentler spanking with a lady's slipper.
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Philadelphia Record
Elsa Parrish
Jim's Vacation Song Excerpt
A fragmentary verse about escaping study and worry during vacation. It muses on simple pleasures like a rod boat and a baseball bat and imagines the world as one might wish with carefree tone. The text shows a poetic, exploratory mood without a defined narrative arc.
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Boyson
Pelew
Omomobobomo
Jim
Mozambique
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