Adelaide A Procter Poem Reflects on Love and Progress
The verse extols beauty in growth toward a deeper life and divine love, urging acceptance of change as part of life’s mystery. It suggests human affection deepens when it seeks an infinite depth of love and bearing, with a reflective moral about gifted incompleteness.
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Cats and chaos in a Manhattan flat tale of visitors
The Blackstones invite Hon. Regulus McShane to stay in a narrow flat famed for its cats and a notorious magazine closet. A cat battle rages at night, shoes and ink explode, and the district attorney’s visit ends with a court-ordered shoe shipment after a domino of clumsy mischief and a dead feline outcome.
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Burlesque Tale By Twain And Warner
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner discussed turning the modern novel into a burlesque. They planned while walking, began the work on returning from Boston, then refined the manuscript together with their wives reviewing progress each evening. They named the chief character Colonel Eschel Sellers, a change later made to Mulberry.
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Antrim barrister surprises Lord Morris with accent
In Lord Morris’s Irish court a young junior barrister named Clements from County Antrim spoke in a strong north of Ireland brogue. The judge asked the registrar for the newcomer's origin and expressed astonishment at the freightful accent in his life.
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Days of Gray In March Romantic Verse Fragment
A poetic fragment by John Tracy Jones from Woman's Home Companion evokes gray days in March and the mystic mist over the eastern sky. It describes nature’s pull toward youthful spring, dreamlike valleys, and a subtle exchange of happiness as May seems near.
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Photo Returns Love Across Deck of Idena
On a heat soaked voyage home a lascar stoker jumps overboard for shade and is saved as sharks circle. Captain Assheton comforts dying Private Robinson who entrusts a photo to be sent to his beloved. Miss Phyllis Welsh shocks by recognizing the image and demands the keepsake.
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Curious Zambezi Greetings Between Paddler and Stranger
Captain Gibbons notes an odd ceremony witnessed after landing on the Zambezi. A paddler and a stranger, possibly kin, sit facing each other and exchange hand grips then lips to a dirty surface. They mimic spitting into each other’s faces and then resume chatter, seemingly unbothered by the ritual.
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Nebraska the bird center of the United States
The state hosts more bird species than any other U S state with 417 distinct species noted by ornithologists. Of these 225 breed locally while the rest are migrants visiting seasonally before returning to breeding grounds. Nebraska’s diverse landscapes attract hundreds of songbirds including southern mockingbirds and cardinals in the southeast and mountain-adapted species from foothills venturing into Quivera country.
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Married life quarreling husband pleased in days past
Mrs Snow recalls a change in her husband who grew fussy over the years yet was easily pleased at their wedding. Mrs Cordeal notes the contrast, remarking that he must have been pleased then. San Francisco Examiner.
Fire Island Mud Column Wonders Captivate Viewers
Description of a vast burning mud lake on Java labeled Fire Island with a circumference near two miles. Columns of soft hot mud rise and fall like timbers. two gigantic bubbles at the western edge inflate and burst about three times per minute.
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A Conclusive Calculation
A breakfast exchange shows Mabel defending a young man named Herbert who calls a girl nightly. Her father deems the habit excessive, while Mabel argues Herbert is unusually discreet in speaking seven nights a week without revealing all he knows.
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