How Longfellow Shaped The Bridge and Other Poems
Hezekiah Butterworth recounts a visit to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Cambridge. Longfellow explains the inspiration behind Psalm of Life Excelsior The Wreck of the Hesperus and The Bridge noting a sorrowful late night walk on a Brighton bridge and a clock at his in law’s Pittsfield house.
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Lhm
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England
Professor Longfellow
Charles Sumner
Washington
Gloucester
NoriInan
Pittsfield
Berkshire
Excelsior
Shutchinsens
Boston Music Hall
DT Heave
Boston
Brighton
Hezekiah Butterworth
His Economical Way
A humorous quip from the Chicago Post about a husband who saves money by drinking at the club and thus has no appetite for breakfast. The joke highlights practical frugality through a light domestic miscalculation.
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Chicago Post
Echoes in a Fragment Daily Railcar Quote
A garbled OCR snippet shows a child asking about echoes and a parent replying with a clipped phrase. The fragment hints at dialogue about sound and repetition, capturing a small street corner moment.
Patriotic meetings in Bogota rally support for Panama campaign
In Bogota daily patriotic meetings gather contingents of men and funds for government aims in Panama. Women volunteer for enlistment to travel to the isthmus as the government awaits General Reyes news on diplomacy. United States Minister Beaupre sails to Cartagena en route to Washington. Panama reports Minister Buchanan arrives with Consul Gudger and dismisses Senate validity signals.
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Panama
Reyes
United States Congress
United States
Beaupre
Cartagena
Washington
W. S. Buchanan
Repubic of Panama
Gudger
Colon
Buchanan
United States Senate
Railway figures show U S mileage near two hundred thousand
Chicago reports from Railway Age indicate the United States total railway mileage on January 1, 194, will reach 209 855 miles, with 5 723 miles added this year. Construction ran on 350 lines across 39 states and territories including Alaska, though labor troubles halted much of the work.
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Chicago
Railway Age
United States
Alaska
Indictments in Press Feeder and Union Strife
Chicago reports grand jury indicts two Franklin Union of Press Feeders officials and three others on rot charges. Efforts to obtain similar evidence against streetcar union officials failed. no proof officials urged violence. Other items note a Detroit bank misappropriation parole and a Bluffton murder trial motion date.
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Chicago
Franklin Union of Press Feeders
Streetcar Men’s Union
Bluffton, Ind
John W. Terrel
Smith
Portland
Alexandretta Governor Apologizes to US Consul
The governor of Alexandretta formally apologized to United States Consul Davis for the indignities he suffered. Admiral Cotton departed from the port aboard the US cruiser San Francisco bound for Beirut.
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Alexandretta
United States
Davis
Admiral Cotton
San Francisco
Beirut
Telegraphic summary of mixed international items
A terse telegram collection notes Japan denying core points in a Russia JPN dispute. William J. Buchanan arrives as U S minister to Panama. Frank H Burness sentenced to electrocution in New York. no Colombian movement toward the Isthmus. Colombia would need a strong army for Darien actions. deficiency appropriation bills to be opened. Reversad sae St Walburga head of the Provincial Order of Nuns in the United States dies in Philadelphia. Alexandretta governor requests formalities from U S Consul Davis amid Turkish provocation. U S shipboard issues deny alleged conspiracies.
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Russia
William J. Buchanan
U. S
Republic of Panama
Panama
Frank H. Burness
New York
Colombia
Darien
St. Walbuarger
United States
Philadelphia
Alexandretta
U.S
Davis
Beneat Shiaied & Crossbill
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