Love and a Country Town: A Farmer's Boy and a City-Grown Courtship
An unnamed narrator recalls watching Henry Morse and Lila Bunter as children and later teenagers, tracing their evolving romance from innocent play to adult awareness. The piece explores class and urban influence on rural youth, with the narrator lamenting not having their own love life and pondering Henry's future after college.
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Taman
Henry Morse
Lia Bunter
Morse
Lika Soung
Henry
Tin
Lila
Thnrs
Cit
Jrst
Lili
Tila
Nin
Ailing Lila and the schemes of a vanished romance
In a rural tale a man recalls courting Lila Dunker while Henry Morse advances toward medicine abroad. Lila falls ill with an unclear diagnosis and a plan forms to restore her spirits by bringing Morse back to tend her. A bold rescue ride ends the drama with renewed hope.
Snail How See You Can Pay Pun D/Snail Order
In a restaurant a confirmed stutterer defies taunts by ordering a meal without stuttering. He signals the waiter, sings the order clearly, then taunts the mocker with a witty reply about his speech. The scene unfolds amid amused and surprised onlookers.
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Dune
Anya
Cless
Argonaut
The Start of an Author and a Hidden Promise
Two Norfolk travelers to London discuss Treasure Island and the challenge to write better. The brother prods the other to try, weeks later yielding a manuscript titled King Solomon's Mines which launched Rider Haggard into fame.
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Robert Fouls Stevenson
London
Norfolk
King Solomon’s Mines
Rider Tenageard
Sweet Voice Compliment Cited In Boston Transcript
A quoted remark from the Boston Transcript notes someone praising a wife’s voice as sweet and mentions another line about an annual $1,200 payment for spilling part of it in a church choir. The source reflects a lively era remark on speech and financial tidbits within a religious setting.
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Boston Transcript
A Possible Excention Explained in Domestic Banter
A brief dialogue notes a wife asking if handsome men are proverbially disagreeable and a husband replying he tries to be pleasant, framing a light domestic exchange about flirtation and harmony in marriage.
Victor Hugo Deserves Honor In Paris For His Genius
The Bookman recounts how Victor Hugo inspired reverence among contemporaries. Théophile Gautier praised him as a Moses fresh from Sinai and others debated naming a Paris street after him, while Hugo remained poised, saying even greater honors would come.
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Theophile Gautier
Hfbe
Victor Iluco
Gautier
Victor Hugo
Sinnat
Uwugo
Paris
Tiago
Bookman
The Ovarinas of Portugal
The ovarinas are noted as Portugal’s most interesting people, descendants of the original band inhabitants from Murtosa near Oporto. Both old and young, even children, sell fish barefoot with striped baskets on their heads, traveling far daily and climbing to sixth floors to bargain. They sell tiny fish portions, not by weight, at about 32 to 15 cents per pound, with at least 2,000 engaged in Lisbon.
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Portugal
Murtosa
Istarreja
Oporto
Tisbon
Unfair Advantage In Yard Gate Dispute
A New York Tribune excerpt records a domestic quarrel between Mrs. Dorking and Mr. Dorkins over gate and door left ajar. Maria Dorking accuses Dorkins of spying on minor faults while denying careless behavior. The exchange highlights petty household tensions.
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Mrs. Dorking
New York Tribune
What Good to Father
The passage portrays the father as the family’s anchor yet a stubborn reactionary resistant to social change. It labels him as a back number, useful for money and checks, while highlighting his opposition to suffrage, women’s clubs, and progressive ideas.
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Wworen
Trench
Washington Post
East Indian Monkeys Observe Man With Horror
A naturalist who traveled in the East Indies notes that monkeys react to humans with almost human emotion. They stare, cough, snarl with anger and contempt, gesture in abhorrence, and show shock. Predominant is a chilling horror at mankind, seen as degraded cousins in the observer’s view.
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Fast Indies
Something to Live For
Three little girls share dream futures. Marian plans to be a famous singer Susie will write stories when grown Marjorie, five, contemplates the idea of becoming a widow as she grows up in a Delineator piece reflecting hopeful child chatter.
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Marian
Susie
Marjorie
L'il
John and wife tease language usage in a humorous quip
A wife asks which phrase is proper I differ from you or I differ with you. The husband jokes that she should tell her friend she differs from her, then reveals a risqué punchline about a husband keeping part of his salary to have fun with himself, as reported by the Chicago Record Herald.
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Bho
John
Chicago
Massachusetts Experiment Station
Coe-Mortimer Co
Stone Street
New York City
Mamma- What In the World in Meak Baby Cry
A fragment from Chicago News quotes a cry from a baby and a playful exchange about making the child smile using a glove stretcher. The tone is casual, capturing a domestic vignette with conversational humor.
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Eva
Chicago News
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Denton Journal
THANK
Meelven
Melvin & Johnson, Publishers
LYNJ
Ib Johnson
Aan
American Press Association
Lienry Ieid
Medical College
Silk
Sle
Farmer Dunker
Ike
Bifar Buick
Lun
Chey
Leary
Trun
Lila Inc
Fhowers Co Inc
Ite
Teem
Hin
Jim Nelson
New Orleans
Boon Ng
Wioter
Lthone Ie
Prenchinin
Modest Victor Hugo
Himsalf
Baltimore
Eelg CA
Howard
Lexington
New House
Best Store
TH. ER. & Co
Gibson
Ghson
Soha
Giles
Howard and Lexington Sta
Baltimore, MD
Jage
C.W. Birch
Main Street
J. H. Nichols & Son's
Chas. W. Birch
Frank L. Roberts
H. Lay Reaves
Washington & Dover Sts
Easton, MD
Tenks
Kawathe
Sela Wathlags
Darcy
Mullin's
Wilmington
Ontario
Mattings
E. T. Orme
Andersontown, Md
J. W. Kerr
Denton
Caroline
Everett
J.B. Colgain
New Castle County
Gentlemen’s
Delaware
Delil
Ware
Texago
The
Texas Company
C. H. Stewart
Coal Notice
Caroline County
W. H. Anderson
Thomas Phosphate
Maud Johnson
Fifth Avenue
Simpson
Maple Avenue
Greensboro
R. R. Shull
P. Palmer Eng
Dp, O
Bethlehem
C. Richards
Ganey's Wharf
Eee Farm
W.N. Kenton
Rte
Federalsburg
Greenlee
G.&. Ratrigit
Denton, Md
Feed and Sale
A. E. Cooper
Maryland
Ridgely
James Temple
Shanahan & Wrightson Hardware Company
Hingston
Talbot Counties
School Board
U. S
United States
Baltimore and Frusburg State Normal Schools
Maryland Institute
Teachers’ Institute
Easton
LE. M. Noble
Lehigh Valley
Marydel
Henderson
Geldsboro
Thleboro
Denton Pimary
Denton Hoh
Cancard
Preston
Federalshueg
Lowe's
Qatland
Lowe’s
Saulsbury
Bhawlos
Smriuson
A. OW. Sisk
EM Noble
Seaslary
Crausan
Focali
J. Bolgiano & Son
Naltimore
Gruavels
Light
Pratt & Filiott
Sts. Hattumure
Ernest D. Sturmer
Jeweler and Optician
N. Charles St
Thomas & Messer Co
Baltimore St
I. D, Anderson
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