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Newspaper
Elkhart Daily Review
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1908
Page
8
A lone night telescope on the beach witnesses a pale womanly figure emerge from moonlit mist. The narrator questions reality, recalls a shipwreck dream, and visits a fishing village where locals react with fear and ritual concern.
After the Prestonpans battle a Scottish farmer wrote a biting ballad about the incident. An English officer, angered by the ridicule, challenged the poet to a personal duel at a designated place. The farmer, busy with his hayfork, faced the challenger.
A heated stand off with a challenger inquires for a duel while a traveling troupe’s negro brass band falters before the theater. A sulky cornet player groans for pay as the bandleader presses workers on stage.
Quotations from Chicago Tribune and Washington Herald parody life insurance and authorship. A desk clerk hesitates about affordability while a note from an employer makes a man doubt his worth. a novelist’s title The Dungeon elicits a wry cellar-side jab.
A brief verse from Brooklyn Life describes an aunt’s daguerreotype. The narrator praises a girl’s hair eyes face shoulders and grace, imagining wooing her, with lines counting attire costs and admiring the pictured likeness. The tone is affectionate and nostalgic.
The D and B Line steamers offer a luxurious Detroit to Buffalo lake trip with elegant cabins and comfortable state rooms. Fare is three dollars less than all rail, with weekly departures and a call for a pamphlet and Great Lakes map.
Fragmentary timetable notes specify southbound and northbound departure times including 8:57 am and 1:25 pm for south, 12:05 pm and 9:35 pm for north, with the last train ending its run at a terminal.
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