Alone With The Baby
A poem from Chicago Revard narrates a mother and Rowland planning a day alone with a baby. The speaker describes care duties from feeding at the glass or bureau to singing and bedtime, promising a joyful, shared day despite interruptions and unknowns.
The Block Island Love Story Ends In Tragedy
On Block Island a young woman known as Jo waits daily for her missing sailor father. When a deadly storm wrecks the steamer and she saves him, she dies at the cabin door while he dies of grief beside her. They are buried together at sea, Jo's star dress lost in the wreck.
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Block Island
City Head
Toa
Old Hess
Dad
Juss
Lfe
Klock Island
Bess
Great Hotel
Peach
Thsbermen
Musta
Murat
Ale
Handa
Earth
Honeelloy
Cole
Dad's Jo Appears on Object In Milwaukee
A fragment reads roughly in script, “Dad's Jo!” inscribed on a surface in Milwaukee Wisconsin, suggesting a personal inscription or nickname tied to a nearby item or memory.
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Milwaukee Wisconsin
Train Car Duel and a Headache Cures Quiet Night
In a durty dining car a showdown unfolds between two rough men and their bear claw scarf. A bystander demands calm, scolding them to stop talk of bars Indians ranches and shooting. The incident ends with relief as the men sit back and one reads a dime novel.
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Ohio
Indiana
Detroit
Kree Press
Desert natives drink from mallee tree roots
Mr. David Lindsay described an expedition across an arid Australian desert where natives obtain water by tapping the roots of the mallee tree. The tree stores moisture from the air, enabling survival in a nearly waterless region.
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David Lindsay
Million Lobsters Handled On Maine Farm Pound
The Boston Globe profiles a twelve acre lobster pound at Southport Maine producing about one million lobsters annually. Lobsters are measured for a ten and a half inch legal limit and those under are kept. larger catches are hauled by drag seine to barrels. The farm operates with feeding called feeding the chickens and notes old shells and oddly tame giants. Ages of lobsters range from four to six years, with some believed to live up to twenty five years.
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Southport
Boston Globe
Heston
Alon
Reindeer Herds Rise Near Alaska and British Possessions
An Episcopal missionary describes vast reindeer herds beyond Alaska’s line by the Rocky Mountains near British possessions. Doctor Sheldon Jackson has imported Siberian reindeer for years, and the mission diet centers on venison with meat praised for its endurance and nutrition.
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Alaska
Rocky Mountains
Sheldon Jackson
Siberia
Porcupine River
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