The Use of Time Desires and Delights in New Year
Desire Drummond on New Year’s day shelters memories of Delight and rheumatism while measuring time through a signal red flag and old diaries. Four years of estrangement melt as Delight and Desire reunite, guided by a child Jeffy and a cat, in a quiet New England moment of reconciliation.
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Desire Drummond
Roxy
Desire
Delight
Meetinghouse
Zem
Isobel
Ethelind
Jeannette
Maude Mathilde
New England
Deecan Blinn
Todd
Jeffy Rand
Chris
Jeffy
Tolly Wallace
Tolly
Delight Wetherill
Queen Charlotte
Nother
God
Boyle
Christ
Coley
Russia's Volunteers Reflected in Moscow Crowd Tale
A Moscow scene shows a government officer forcing a peasant into volunteering, illustrating the clash between official wartime policy and popular sentiment as reported by St James's Gazette. The incident contrasts government aims with common reaction amid the war.
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Moscow
St. James's Gazette
A Sailor Said He Fell to a Shark's Grasp
In a maritime quip from Tit-Bits a sailor recounts tumbling over the bulwarks and being snatched by a shark. Asked what he did he says he gave up the leg, noting he never disputes with a shark.
Keep It Dark and the Kiss Debate Returns
A brief item notes renewed public discussion about kissing with a pointed stance that there is a single proper way to discuss such matters, reflecting the era’s social norms and editorial voice of St. Louis Republic.
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St. Louis Republic
In the New Year Let Us Be Just and Encouraging
The passage urges a New Year ethic of justice and kindness. It calls not to pinch others but to lift friends and workers, answer letters, keep gratitude first, pay bills, and say prayers. It emphasizes truthfulness and fearlessness in conduct.
Christmas Gift Quandary in a Small Home Scene
A brief dialogue from a Woman's Home Companion depicts Maria asking what gift to buy and a partner replying any cheap trifle will do since funds are tight this year. The exchange emphasizes frugality and affection over expenditure in a domestic setting.
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Maria
Question of Temperature
A Scotch doctor teaching the laird’s butler how to record a temperature learns the laird died at two. The joke hinges on the irony that the temperature was already fatal, prompting bemused reaction from the butler.
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Kansas City
Crow A Torment In India
An illustrated portrait of the Indian crow, detailing two species the great blackbird and the gray-necked crow. The piece describes their mischiefs from Calcutta to Madras, their craft in stealing nest materials and flowers, and their tactics against a gardener, a pensioned colonel, and a hungry greyhound, highlighting their pervasive nuisance in urban and rural India.
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India
London
Jordon
Calcutta
Bombay
Calcutta Corvidae
Lawrence & Mayo
Mr. Dewar
Himalayas
Madras
Hospital
Col. Cunningham
Secret Testament guiding Peter the Greats Asia empire will
A distant European politics expert claims Russia’s ills stem from a dead czar Peter the Great. The famed Secret Testament, kept in St. Petersburg archives, supposedly outlines a map and will to extend Russia across Asia to the Pacific. Since his death czars have pursued that plan, including Manchuria, leading to war disasters.
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Russia
Alexieff
Peter the Great
St. Petersburg
Asia
Pacific
Peter
Manchuria
Comparing Scripture with Scripture
A compact study tracing John’s eternal preexistence with God, the Word as God, and light and life through Christ. It covers the forerunner John the Baptist, the earthly mission of Jesus, and the full revelation of God in the Word made flesh, ending with the mission to awaken life in souls dead in sin.
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Jesus
B. C
John
Bethlehem
Jordan
Matthew
Christ
Mark
Luke
God
Abraham
Adam
Father
Zacharias
Elizabeth
Bethany
Lazarus
Avicken
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Chichester
Gig RC Seria
Tore Sriata Ees Caneec
Salooi Square
Pur, PA
Christ the Life
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Pray
J. M. Edson
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H. W. Myers
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Toledo
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Darien
Cincinnati
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Ly Dedance
Sherwood
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Dek
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Nickel Plate Railway
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Buffalo
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