Last Chance romance ends in oil strike on wall street
John Paine, secretary to Charles Palms, falls for Margaret Palms while wheeling a risky Last Chance stock deal. He injects his uncle's urging funds, buys stock, watches it soar then crash, and in a twist wakes beside Margaret as a telegram promises $300000 for his land, confirming a hopeful oil strike.
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Old Trinity
John Paine
Wall Street
William Street
Charles Palms & Co
Paine
Charles Palms
Margaret Palms
Margaret
Jack Paine
Mr. Palms
Fifth Avenue
Jack
Pennsylvania
New York
Charles
Horgan & Eby
Joy Land
Caarces Paine
Trinity
Drexel
Pennsylvania Laad
Mining Exchange
Last Chance
Yong
Palms
Palms & Co
Stern
L. C
L. O
Papa
Goumage & Monnan
Public libraries and fiction demand versus value
A London librarian notes that heavily advertised books are often popular yet unread. One vast volume was drawn eleven times in a month while failing to satisfy readers, showing artificial demand. Libraries should wait to judge a new novel’s worth and avoid claiming rejections when they simply have not chosen it.
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London
Library World
Monosyllable Rhythm in Classic Verse
Notes on the frequent use of single syllable words in famous lines such as Lead Kindly Light and Milton. The passage cites Paradise Lost examples with short, stark terms describing movement and places.
Inconsistent Beliefs Spark Curious Debate
Brown and Black discuss human credulity and the paradox of faith. They note Greene’s doubt of hash yet appetite for croquettes and mince pie, highlighting contradictory behavior and common biases.
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Brown
Black
Greene
Hash
Aunt Sue's odd art critique at city gallery
In a humorous scene at the local gallery Aunt Sue proclaims the painting poor and claims the artist’s signature smells. Her odd verdictovershadows expectations that she is not an art critic.
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Aunt Sue
The King and the Reader in a Barnside Tale
A fugitive king hiding in a barn reads to a young girl aloud from a tale of King Charles. The girl feeds him eggs and asks questions as two pursuers close in. The scene ends with the king handcuffed to a loyal companion and led away to his kingdom, leaving the reader in desolate silence.
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Jack
Charles
Harden
Iris
Lfe
Susan
Sammy
Towser
Thare
Jim
The Nose Compared to Scent Yet Humble to Humans
A London Globe excerpt argues the human nose is an apologetic pimple beside horse and dog senses. It notes our senses sort and measure sight and sound, yet smell remains undeveloped for complex harmony analysis. Our nasal faculty cannot neatly classify scents into pleasing keys or harmonies.
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London Globe
Being a Good Fellow
A New York Press quote contrasts two men. One spends all income on family and is praised after death, while another saves for family security through insurance and bonds, yet is labeled a curmudgeon for prioritizing prudence over generosity.
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New York Press
Monahan-Poor Clancy! Donegan-Why sounds like a comic exchange
A Philadelphia Record cartoon dialogue mocks a dramatic misfortune as a man with severed legs imagines the savings in shoes and pants, joking about half-price costs. The banter highlights resilience and irony in a humorous economy-themed snippet.
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Monahan
Clancy
Donegan
Philadelphia
A Fair Backslider By James Arthur Cook
Saturday afternoon Miss Meeson the district No 4 schoolteacher meets a lean tramp at the schoolhouse door. She lectures him on vices and offers reform if he promises to quit drink swear and stealing. After a struggle with three more tramps she realizes she herself slipped and doubts the plan though she hopes the reform may still work.
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Miss Meeson
Joner
Alar
Eddecashun
A Sporting Parson and His Odd Pranks
Miss Mary Louise Boyle recalls Rev. Loraine Smith a sporting parson who favored the episcopal color hunted in purse not pink. He rearranged parish tombstones and on a cold winter Sunday opened with a humorous offer to preach a sermon he brought while hinting at cold beef and ale at the rectory.
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Mary Louise Boyle
Dickens
Lever
Browning
Lowell
Ennyson
Loraine Smith
Travelers in Bolivian Andes Share Quiet Exchange
A traveler recalls a midday scene high in the Bolivian Andes as two taciturn drivers exchange a brief, silent greeting and news in a calm, unusual moment between passing carts. The mood is drowsy under a vertical sun and the exchange ends with no news.
Court rejects woman's letters as evidence amid handwriting dispute
The New York Herald reports a court refused to accept a woman's letters as evidence despite handwriting experts testifying she wrote them. The decision noted conflicting evidence and the presence of five fingerprint-like markings amid the documents.
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New York Herald
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