Old Eph Holland and the Beaverkill Hermit
A stranger seeks shelter at Eph Holland’s rugged Beaverkill Creek home on a raw November evening. The hermitic host, mute and eerie, finally reveals a political twist and a midnight dance of hospitality as fear dissolves, a news paper clipping confirming Holland’s election cheer, and Glen County Palladium style revelry ensues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eph Holland
Beaverkill Creek
Blaine
New York
Cleveland
Ed.barnes
Sullivan County Palladium
Hetty
Tilden
Mr. Holland
Jong
Ed. Barnes
Grover
If I Had Not Been Born a Cabinetmaker
Max O'Rell in Sunday Sun explains his reverence for hands on craft. He toils over furniture design and finishing, desires responsible work, and imagines happiness in being a cabinetmaker rather than a mere shopkeeper or clerk. He values artistry, skill, and personal pride in crafted pieces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max O'Rell
Sunday Sun
Creation of a new department expands Cabinet
Passage of a Department of Commerce bill creates a separate government branch and adds a new Cabinet officer. The department includes multiple bureaus and services such as the Bureau of Labor Lighthouse Board Steamboat Inspection Service Bureau of Navigation Standards Coast and Geodetic Survey Immigration agencies Statistics and Census authorities and other related units.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Commerce
Department
Bureau of Corporations
Bureau of Labor
The
Lighthouse Board
Lighthouse Establishment
Steamboat Inspection Service
Bureau of Navigation
Bureau of Standards
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Commissioner General of Immigration
Commissioners of Immigration
Immigration Service-at-Large
Bureau of Statistics
Treasury Department
Shipping Commissioner
Bureau of Foreign Commerce
Department of State
Census Bureau
Fish Commission
Secret of the Rose on a June Day Wedding Bell
Poetic fragment recounts a golden day with roses and sunbeams. A speaker tells a secret long hoarded, shared by a beloved who offers a single rose in response. The piece invokes June roses and hints at a wedding.
Missing fraction of a second puzzles world astronomers
The Toronto Mail and Empire notes that a sixteenth of a second separates Greenwich and Paris time, urging costly efforts in Paris to locate the missing fraction. The discrepancy affects longitude, national borders, and even the nationality of thousands, making the pursuit globally significant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
France
Greenwich
Paris
Toronto Mail and Empire
Make Me a Child Again Poem of rural chores and longing
A nostalgic speaker longs to return to boyhood filled with farm duties from sunrise to night. He recalls freckles hayseed and simple chores such as milking cows feeding hogs tending hens and teaching turkeys to swim. He imagines a life of freedom before harsh parental rebukes and chores persist through the day.
Silent Strength in Quiet Reticence
A reflective piece counsels calm restraint after conflict and hurt. It extols silence as a powerful force, comparing it to a disciplined regiment amid battle and noting time heals and shapes wiser speech. The author recalls writing letters in haste, then choosing silence to avoid regret.
Colored man charged with horse theft and killing near Chestertown
Charles Brookins, a colored man, is charged with entering Edward Lusby’s stable near Chestertown, stealing a horse owned by Charles Forman, riding it across fields to a stream near Wilbur Eliason’s, and killing it. He allegedly skinned the horse and sold the hide in Chestertown for 1.50. Constable Chas L. Gill arrested him at Kate Gibson’s house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Brookins
Edward Lusby
Chestertown
Charles Forman
Wilbur Eliason
Brookins
Chas. L. Gill
Kate Gibson
D H Cook Ftorist Card Noted In Easton Journal
The Journal reports the card of D H Cook, ftorist, Easton, appears in today’s issue, highlighting a local business listing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. H. Cook
Ftorist
Easton
Journal
Today
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Smith & Walls
LAW Building
Denton
Chickering
Mathusher
Bush & Gerts
Weaver
Ludwig
Mason & Hamlin, Weaver and Carpenter
Wheeler & Wilson
J.W. Wheatley
Maryland
Queen Annes
I. T Ly
Love Point
Stevensville
Seaceses Chester
Nattows
Reas
Winchester
Tone Pense
Bowes Beaee Reece Reece Reaee
Geenmoe
Centreville
Domingda Mae Dils
C. dJand Been
Anne Downes
Tuckahoe
Tale
Oreees Lu.a
Sasengers
W. D. Uhler
Gaga
Speeon
R. T. Garter
Masonic Building
Tewera Perrnlalye
Downes
Wright
Lewis A. Crossett
Arbuckle’s
Florida
Porto Rico
Pratt
Winfield
R. Wright
Oliver and South Bend
Tilghman Harvey
Burrsville, MD
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Home
Delaware
Dover
Planters’ Mutual
Washington County
Gilbert Hagadone
Denijon
Co. H. Bullock
Journal Building
Old Eph
Holland
H. E. Armstrong
Andrew Jackson
Asylum
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