Mariquitta Gonzalo and the Corner House Tale
A narrator recalls Eurasians in a corner house near Government House, a fancy dress ball, and a doomed romance. Mariquitta, rich and educated yet constrained by race, faces prejudice from a friend who objects to her bloodline. The tale ends with farewell, a changed outlook, and lingering sympathy for Mariquitta.
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Gonzalo
Government House
Flora
Mariquitta
Europe
Spain
Thad
A Desert Tragedy of Love and Death on the Nile
Major Gerald Jocelyn dies in an accidental artillery mishap on a desert assignment. His wife Maudie, once defiant and flirtatious, confronts grief while harboring a guilty awareness of her earlier disloyalty to him. Mrs. Tailyour and Captain Ferguson face the crushing aftermath as the train bearing the body arrives.
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Maudie
Gerald
Perceval
Lord Perceval
Jocelyn
Gerald Jocelyn
Mrs. Tailyour
Ian
Captain Ferguson
Cairo
Cunmings
Brute
Mand Jocelyn
Maud
Canal
Why People Buy That Brand of Soap
A shopper asks why customers choose a brand and learns the reason is advertising. A little girl, asked about a ribbon, says the storekeeper carries other options, but she notes the same answer: Because it's advertised. The poem argues that printers Ink makes goods trusted and noticed.
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W. W. Tunis & Brother Lumben CO
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Talbot County, MD
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Acenr
Hillsborough, Maryland
HE. Gooper
Smyrna
A. E. Cooper & Bro
Denton, Maryland
Alifrike Maghinie
Withia
Atlanta, GA
Turner & Moore
General Southern
S. Paul Sr
Baltimore
Washington, D.C
Richmond,va
Julius Hines & Son
Wheeler Transportation Line
Great Choptank
Trappe and Tuckahoe Rivers
Light Street
Oxford
Trappe
Cambridge
Clinecellar’s
Secretary
Clark's
Choptank
Lloyd’s
Dover Bridge
Kingston
McCarty’s
Ganey's
Todd’s
Downes
Towers
Williston
Uckahoe Bridge
Reese’s
Coward’s
Covney’s
Hillsboro
Queen Anne
Delaware & Chesapeake R. RR
Cambridge & Seaford R. BR
Twillsboro
Mj Covey
Coward
Williston 1 P. Mj Ganey’s 1.50; McCarty's 2; Kingston 2.15; Dover Bridge
Medford’s
Clark’s
Tammy Williston
EB. E. Wheeler
Light St
B. B. Cotter
P. W. McShane & Son
Denton, Md
F. W. Redden
W. F. Murphy
Murphy
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Bridgeville
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Clayton
P. W
Henry C. Conran
Wilmington
Farmers’ Bank
Joh N Hus
Wyoming
William N. Boggs
Teller First Nat'l Bank of Delaware
Richard R
Anyahha
Samuel W. Hall
Maryland
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Denton
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