The Haunted Tree and Emily's Silent Grave Mystery
A seaside garden tale follows a couple who buy a decayed house with a haunted tree. The wife fears the ivy covered trunk as danger and mystery. a neighbor recalls Emily Gage, a daughter who vanished after glimpses of a lover. The tree is felled revealing Emily’s skeleton, her fate tied to the living tomb of the tree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlie
Gage
Cecil
Cece
gardon
Mr. Warren
Mrs. Gage
garden wall
Emily
Cecie
Susan A. WEiss
Dead Sea of America and Poultry Advice Column
A humorous travel image near the Great Salt Lake contrasts with practical poultry guidance. Tips cover flock size, free range, insect control, milk feeding, coop maintenance, and lice prevention, plus brief notes on farming, politics, clocks, and a tobacco mortality anecdote.
Poem on equality and dignity for all laborers
A Sterling Old Poem laments who judges a man by clothes and status. It asserts that God counts souls not fashion, praising laborers and calling out social hierarchies and the injustice of wealth based privilege. It envisions truth, justice, and boundless love prevailing and storms against oppression.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
God
One Touch of Nature and a Mother's Move
A family moves from an old house to a new city home while a child Grace is absent. A rough worker halts at the doorway and asks to handle Grace’s belongings gently, sharing a touching bond as he recalls his own lost child in glory. The moment underscores a shared human kinship across grief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Carolina
Kentucky
baby Grace
Oddities and notices drift through Pike county life
A jumble of brief curiosities and odd claims. Marriages occur after short courtships in Pike county while leisure is sought. Artificial cork promises use in bottling champagne. Protests and rumors surround engrained topics from Egypts killings to German lectures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pike county
Egypt
Bismarck
Germany
New York
Afterthought of a Garden Kiss Behind the Apple Tree
A lyrical vignette recalls a shy glance and a sly kiss shared in a garden amid mignonette. The speaker mourns the fleeting beauty of happiness and wonders if the kiss was a first, as memory lingers on the scene and the apple-tree concealment.
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Mr. Gage
Denton
WM. A. STEWART
CHANNAHAN
WV RIGHTSON
HarDWARE
CHILD HOLLOW S&S
SOUTH BEND, REMINGTON, ROLAND AND WIARD
TAYLOR & WEBSTER WAGONS
SHANNAHAN & WRIGHTSON
EASTON, MD
INSTRUMENTS
TABER ORGAN CO
WORCESTER
MASS
Bie
Alannant allauwadl
alarreuman
NOAH WALKER & CO
Baltimore Street
wea
LAROQUE
P. CHATARD
Baltimore
GIBLEY
Sibley
Dakota
Rochester
HIRAM SIBLEY & CO
N. Y
Chicago
Ill
Choptank Hotel
DENTON, MD
ANNA SMITII
GREENSBORO
Maryland
WM. H. COHEE
Carriege
Jas. Parnell
MERCHANT TAILOR
THAWLEY & GHINGHER, BUTCHERS
Iotel
M. L. BLANCHARD
P. O. Box
Bridgeville, Del
A. WILLIAMS
Eastern Bay
THOMAS O'DONNELL
DR. A. A. WHITE
M.S. Murcaren
PuHIuip W. Downes
DOWNES & MUTCHLER
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
DENTON, Mo
Caroline
Hin
THE
DAVIS SEWING MACHINE CO
WATERTOWN, N
Tremont St
Boston
Chestnut St
Philadelphia
Public Square
Cleveland
Ohio
Jackson St
T. W. SMITH
RIDGELY, MD
Kia Ni
Dead Sea of America
Great Salt Lake
dead sea of
Ann
Pennsylvania
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