The Hermit of Crawford Notch and His Dream Life
The New York World recalls English Jack, a reclusive hermit at Crawford Notch who lived forty years in the woods. He shared twilight chats, recited Poe and Bryant, loved nature, fished, and spoke of a distant heart he believed he found in dreams by dusk and in glimmering pools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawford Notch
Glone
Annabel Lee
Poe
Jack
Engliah Jack
John Burroughs
John Muir
Thoreau
Whitman
Bryant
New York World
The Hermit of Crawford Notch and a Sailor's Saga
An aging hermit near Crawford Notch, famed by summer visitors, dies in his ninetieth year after fifty-eight years guarding the memory of a lost love. A sailor named Jack, once saved from a wreck and tethered to the Simmons family, endures trials at sea and on a desert island before fate brings renewed ties to a ship at anchor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hesbe
Poe
White Mountains
Crawford
Notch
White
Jack
Kies
Captain Simmons
Simmons
Mary
Jock
Sees-Yuse the Umatilla Guide Hero of the Columbia Crossing
Sees-Yuse, a Columbia River Indian headman of the Umatilla, Cayuse and Walla Walla peoples, earned fame eight years ago for swimming laden with a child across the swollen Columbia at Umatilla. He braved ice floes and deep wounds to reach shore, later receiving heirship lands and living on the reservation while remaining a famed local figure visiting Pendleton weekly to gaze at a painting of himself in Major Moorhouse’s office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia River
Umatilla
Oregon Journal
Sees-Yuse
Pendleton
Ore
Lee Moorhouse
Moorhouse
Less and Lass. A Fragmented Exchange in a Great Age
Brinkley proclaims a great age with gunpowder and wireless telegraph while Cynicus notes moneyless foreigners seeking loveless marriages with heiresses. The judge is interrupted as the exchange hints at social tensions and satire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brinkley
Cynicus
Cuticura Aids Skin and Hair Care
It is criminal to neglect the skin and hair and Cuticura Soap and Ointment offer relief for rough hands dry skin and failing hair. A postal to Cuticura Dept. L Boston yields a sample and a 32 page booklet on skin and scalp treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dept. L. Boston
Pinhead Barbs Fuel Heated Exchange
Published dialogue shows a heated exchange with insults, including phrases described as a pinhead commentary. The remarks reflect a contentious confrontation and suggest a hostile clash over height and perceived aggression.
Paxton Toilet Co Antiseptic Douches Publicized
An old advertisement touts Paxtine Antiseptic douches for pelvic catarrh at 26c a box or prepaid from The Paxton Toilet Co Boston. It also touts Red Cross Ball Blue for laundry and hints at arbitration wages andGarfield Tea claims for liver and kidney relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Faxton Toilet, Co
Boston
Mass
Also Mentioned on This Page
Annabel Leo
Jbo
Boy
Ita Highest
Garfeld
Joe
Sint Sree Teytas
Samuel Ptceer
Bears
the Centaur Company
New York
I. Soe
Castoria
Sporn Medical Co., Chemists
Goshen, Indiana
Plymouth Sanitarium and Hospitals
Plymouth, Ind
Aecend Ji Carter
Buwen Way
Cnca Visting
Fort W. E Wayne
Ema
Georde Evans
Dept. K
Phiadelphia
Wayne CO
Wardwood
Chicago
Dota Taees S .C
N. Y
FT. Wayne
Adidrons
Chesebrough Manufacturing Company
State Stract
Consolidated
Ytogn
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