Fragment from a poems on lost love and memory
A reflective verse laments lost romance as spring and music awaken the world. The speaker wanders familiar places with a lingering ache, recalling shared moments and a yearning heart that cannot be appeased despite faith.
Not A Gossiping Nurse in a Room Over Caleb Marks
Sairey Weaver, a nurse living above Caleb Marks' grocery and meat market on Dingy alley, recounts life in a rough neighborhood. She details Hardiwick's misdeeds, a drunken visit by friends, and her brave, non gossiping stance while protecting Mrs. Hardiwick and baby, ending with a humorous scene of a cat dressed as a baby. The piece closes with Paris fashion notes and a historical quiz on Lincoln's famous phrase.
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Caleb Marks
Sairey
Sairey Weaver
Nursin
John Tarline
Mr. Hardiwick
Mrs. Hardiwick
Hardiwick’s
Kittie
Baby
Harris
Seymour
Hardiwick
Paris
Times
Pall Mall Gazette
The Pine Tree Diet
A Washington waiter recites a humorous exchange with a Maine born customer about bread milk and pie as a light moment in a Windsor style restaurant note from the Omaha World.
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Washington
Congress
Maine
Omaha
A pessimist and idle chit chat on chance encounters
A collection of brief quips and sketches with sharp witticisms about aging romance awkward recruits and dull dinners. It features lines about Issa Elderly Miss Schmidt and Baron von Geizig plus a joke about a birthday pawn and dinner invitations.
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Schultz
Miller
Issa
Scott
Miss Schmidt
Yaas
Baron von Geizig
Smith
Jones
Doubtful Verdict Quip From Detroit Free Press
A well known thief on trial faced a jury instructed to give him the benefit of any doubt. The jury disagreed as a result. One doubter explained I am certain the fellow was guilty but I had a doubt whether the court wanted him convicted. The moral: The court probably didn't.
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Bimeby Hardiwick
Detroit Free Press
Paper houses and rails promise a future of paper
PareR timber offers many advantages over wood and costs less. The author foresees living in paper houses and using paper furniture and utensils with paper pipes for gas water and sewage. Paper car wheels are used. experiments in Germany have produced a paper rail suggesting railways may adopt paper rails and cars.
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Germany
Coys Defeats Alaric at Vougle Uniting Frankish Realms
Coys, founder of the French monarchy, slain Alaric the Goth at Vougle near Poictiers. He united conquests from the Loire to the Pyrenees and made Paris the capital in 587.
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Coys
Alaric the Goth
Vougle
Poictiers
Loire
Pyrenees
Paris
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