A Dozen Times A Day The Door Bell Rings
A poet describes a little girl who visits each day with a smile blue eyes pink cheeks and hair that wanders. The father savors her visits as he folds her into his arms then switches to chores and tinkering while his thoughts and rhymes drift. He ends by focusing on his daughter entering the room and her footfall.
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Darma
Adam
Simon
Tad
Denver
Bayonne
N. J
N. F. Sun
General Grant
Hartford
China
Japan
David Hawthorne
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Press
Arkansas
St. Louis Globe
New York
N. Y. Herald
Pearl Street
Broadway
N. Y
Macon
Thomas G. Smith
Sandersville
Georgia
Chicago Herald
Napoleon
Scarron
Rousseau
Gibbon
Disraeli
Europe
Eugenie
Isabella
Queen Victoria
Chaucer
Will
Philadelphia Record
Charles Dunlap
Circleville, O
Lazy Uncle Lisha and the Quiet Courage of Aunt Nancy
A long portrait of Aunt Nancy and her ailing husband Uncle Lisha. He is portrayed as chronically lazy with a litany of ailments while she endures, sustains the family, and quietly bears the burden. The story ends with her death and his isolation at her grave.
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Nancy
Lisha
Aunt Nancy
Beecher
Elisha
Ezekiel
Zeke
Exoe
Lishs
Uncle Lisha
M. L. Payne
Detroit Free Press
Aunt Rachel's Joy Prompts Landmark Rheumatism Testimony
Rev W B Evans of Washington DC reports Aunt Rachel, a longtime Inflammatory Rheumatism sufferer, has seen drastic relief from Athlophoros. He calls it nearly a miracle noting pain left her limbs though minor stiffness remains. He urges wider distribution of the remedy.
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Rachel
W. B. Evans
Washington, D. c
Nassau's People and Traditions in a Bahamian View
An observer describes Nassau life with vivid notes on African heritage, dress, speech, and superstition. He details bush doctors, voodoo beliefs, and social dynamics, contrasting manners of town and country, before shifting to the career of Lawson Lufkins the long serving locomotive engineer.
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Laredo
Tex
United States
Lawson Lufkins
Squire
Lufkins
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
President
Broad
Callowhill Depot
Belmont
Philadelphia
Pottsville
Pennsylvania Road
Denver Tribune
Defiance
Ohio
Henman & Geiger
Clinton Street
Wa. G. Hofman
Perry and
Jackson Streets
Christian L. Geiger
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Massachusetts
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Zoa—Phora
R. Pencetty & Co
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Caroline Neidhart
Court of Common Pleas
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Haymaker & Winn
Diate
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Church of England
Eben Barton
Lansingburg
N.Y
Troy Times
Colorado
New Mexico
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Blaine& Logan
T Beautiful
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Adams & Superior Sts
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Cor. Clinton
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Warren and
Grant Sts
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Loose’s Extract
Lover
Loose
J. M. Loose & Co
Monroe, Mich
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James Davis & Co
Detroit
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Summit St
Toledo, Ohio
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London
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Cleveland
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Hood
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Mass
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New Haven
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Athlophoros CO
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U. S
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Golden
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Germany
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Michigan
Grand Rapids & Indiana & R.co
W. Q. Hughart
Grand Rapids
Met
Servex Resorts
Sisson
Sisson & Son’s
F. J. Cheney
Adams Street
Toledo Ohio
G. W. Bechel
Jas
Keystone
Keystone Watch Case
Hanndsome
Dames Boss
Nwilzer
Kelfast
THE
Harrows
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Switzer & Kehnast
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Perry Street
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