Saved by a Woman’s Love recounted in a Victorian tale
A masked cavalier and a lady in Venetian dress share a dance then retreat to a winter garden. The man reveals a past as a rogue actor doomed by fate, and a plan to seek redemption through restraint. After years, a gift of a gold heart signals reunion and forgiveness, then a move to Australia for a hopeful future. Anita Walsh McKnight.
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Anita Walsh
Exchange on the Street Car Leads to Embarrassed Request
A woman riding a street car cannot find a lead pencil for her shopping list. After rummaging her pocketbook, she asks a nearby gentleman to lend his necktie to write with, prompting puzzled smiles from fellow passengers and revealing that she meant to add exchange.
Love Missouri Names and Loveless Marriages Reflections
A Missouri county names survey lists quirky place labels such as Zion Lickfork Polo and Pigeon Creek while noting most christenings aim for harsh or amusing tags. The piece segues into a critique of loveless marriages citing Sir Walter Scott and views on marriage’s motives and gender roles.
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Kansas City
Walter Scott
Lammermoor
Imagination and Filness Experiment Compared by English Doctor
An English physician conducted an experiment on 100 hospital patients by giving sweetened water and feigning that a powerful emetic was administered. About four-fifths of the subjects reacted, mainly men, while the women showed no reaction. Licorice Grown On banks of the Tigris and Euphrates the loorive plant is grown. The rivers run through flat prairies of uncultivated land with hot winds and 104 degrees in three months. The climate then moderates for six months and becomes bleak three months with nights near 30 degrees.
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Tigris
Euphrates
Fragmented Newspaper Poetry Snippets and Wit
A collage of quoted lines from Washington Times and Chicago papers features rural dialect, reflections on common sense, and humor. It includes a rustic exchange about gambling and hardship, a Lowell aphorism on usefulness of poetry, and quips on egotism, genius, and aging speech.
Six Little Marks From School and Secret Thoughts
A compact verse item blending schoolroom punctuation lessons with Ella Wheeler Wilcox on thoughts shaping fate. The poem highlights six marks from school and moral reflection, urging careful writing and mindful inner words as they influence outward speech and destiny.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Holy City Inspires Sheriff’s Court to Mercy
Thirty men lined up before a San Francisco Police Court judge as a former opera singer among them began singing in the cell. The hymn moved the offenders to tears and even the judge to mercy, who dismissed all without fines or jail, saying the song did more good than punishment.
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San Francisco
Hoe
Puts an End to Grievous Pain with New Life Pills
A vintage advertisement promises relief from pain in organs and ailments like backache liver issues and constipation through Dr King s New Life Pills. Sold by Mrs H M Schneider & Co s Drug Store with a 25 cent price and a money back guarantee. Also advertises Mica Axle Grease at 15 cents per can or four for a dollar at George Gavin s.
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George Gavin
Aged Indian Fighter W. O. Clark Heads G A R Vigil
San Francisco reports on veteran W. O. Clark awaiting the Civil War era veterans celebration. Born seventy-one years ago, he claims to be the oldest among living soldiers who served Uncle Sam, including service in the Black Hawk War and act of rescuing civilians. He traveled to California in 1850 and settled in Drytown, Amador County, where he remains active at 86.
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Uncle Reuben's Opinion on Stomach Tablets for Bacon Love
A humorous aside extols Chamberlain's Stomach Liver Tablets as pleasant and gentle compared with harsh laxatives and tonics, urging readers to try them and enjoy bacon. The note lists a seller, Mrs H M Schneiders & Co, and mentions a government payout of 13,305,009 dollars to veterans and dependents in July.
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Mrs. H. M. Schneiders & Co
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