Kindred souls and domestic longing in a dream visit
A woman in a strained engagement encounters a mysterious stranger claiming to be her ideal kindred soul. The unreal visit reveals her longing for understanding, tests her beliefs on love and intellect, and leads to a shift in her views during a club discussion. Her fiancé's warmth helps resolve the tension as she confronts desire and truth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Rossiter
Herr Gundlach
Tom
Ibsen
Nan Eumiter
Realized ideal and a restless engagement in a social world
Miss Rossiter, immersed in charity and society, sits by the fire weighing love and ideal partners. Her fiancé Tom Lenfield remains practical and slow, while she imagines a blend of Burne-Jones and Bayard hero traits, torn between devotion and dissatisfaction.
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Miss Rossiter
Tom Lenfield
Tom
Nan
Burne- Jones
The Question of Luck and a Street Worker
A Chicago Tribune excerpt contrasts beecher's no luck view with Bok and notes that luck equals opportunity seized by the hardworking. A middle aged man in street work reflects on thought, environment, and the value of labor as he paves a street, illustrating influence of institutions on national character.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward W. Bok
The
Ladies’ Home Journal
Henry Ward Beecher
Chicago Tribune
Evolution of Hammers From Stone Age to Modern Times
The article traces hammer history from Egypt about 20 centuries before the common era, noting resemblance to modern hammers but lacking claw backs. It cites claw hammers emerging in the middle ages and illuminations of eleventh century showing carpenters with claws, and mentions sizes from jewelers tools to 60 ton shipyard hammers, with each trade adopting its own use.
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Egypt
Cape Cod Tales and Medical Notes Trimmed for Time
A collage of literary reflections on Cape Cod and a survey of medical practice notes. Thoreau and Lamb wit and social scenes mingle with a Detroit Free Press quip, then a broader look at prescriptions, pharmacist roles, and a shift back to classic medical discretion amid martial law debates.
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Polly
Eason
Father
Johnny
Sonny Boy
Margaret Vandegrift
Kipling
Agnes Brown
Philadelphia Times
J.C Godwin Company
North Washington Street
Maryland
Ee W.w.tomis & Brother Lumber CO
Tunis’ Mills
Talbot County
North Carolina
Page
Ase
E.lhouse. CO
W. F. Pennington
Acent
Hillsborough
Atlanta, GA
Serree
Bligkensderfer
Seles
Turner & Moore
General Southern
St. Paul St
Baltimore, MD
Washington, D.C
Richmond, VA
NR. Smithers
T. J. Smithers & Son
Dentists
Baston
Denton
P. W. Downes
Anna Giering
Baltimore Street
Baltimore
Frank ¢. Bolton
Lee B. Bolton
Bolton Bros
Elaing
E. Pratt ST
Badtslid RE
Ded
Andrew Satterfield
Denton, Maryland
Tocel
Julius Hines&Son
Wheeler Transportation Line
Great Choptank
Trappe and Tuckahoe Rivers
Pier
Light Street
Oxford
Frappe
Cambridge
Chancellor's
Secretary
Clarks
Choptank
Lloyd’s
Dover Bridge
Kingston
McCarty’s
Ganey’s
Todd's
Downes
Towers
Williston
Tuckahoe Bridge
Reese’s
Coward's
Dover's
Hillsboro
Queen Anne
Delaware & Chesapeake RL BR
Cambridge & Seaford R. R
Willsboro
MD Covey
Cowaul
Williston P. m
Ganey
McCarts
Dover
Medford’s
Clark’s
Trappe
Stermer
Aon
Sonndays
Jr. LE. Wheeler
Light St
Cowen
North
Northwest
Rand
McShanke & Son
Denton, Md
Fr. W. Rldden
W. Fcmurpay
Murphy
New Fountain Hotel
COR
Prrty & Calvert Sts
Baltimore, Maryland
Bernard Reilly
WM. Il, Dewefse
Fred R. Owens
Attorneys-at-Law
Denton, AD
Court House
Wa. H. Deweverse
Caroline County
James Swann
Denton,maryland
Thoreau
Cape Cod
Orleans
Provincetown
Charles Lamb
Cape
Atlantic Monthly
Detroit
American Pharmaceutical Association
New York Ledger
G. Norman Lieber
United States
North American Review
Pierre
London
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