The Yearly Drift Toward Night and Loss
A reflective poem on aging and the fading of brightness with each year. It contrasts darker, colder seasons with love, friendship, and memory slipping away. The speaker notes growing solitude, shifting shores of life, and the enduring hope of renewal through time and memory.
Eagle Nest on a Cliff Trunk Feat Ends in Rescue
A London syndicate prospecting party finds a pair of young eagles on a cedar protruding from a 1000 foot cliff. I crawl out along the eight inch trunk to reach the nest and ward off the birds with a bowie knife. The tree sinks, I cling, and Pete Bowers and a rope rescue pull me back to safety.
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Yuba
Bob Paxton
Benath
Jilay
The Language of Nature in a Boston Dinner Table Exchange
A Boston dinner table scene sparks a quip about a torrid month and a hot one. The perspiring man replies with a playful pun revealing human nature’s urge to speak at high temperatures. The Heaton Globe notes a caution that no man can satisfy all public demands and the appeal for more will persist.
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Boston
Heaton Globe
Satiai
No Sand in the Sugar Says Noted Chemist
Dr. H W Wiley of the U S Department of Agriculture counters broad claims of food adulteration. He notes most sugar is pure, syrups mix with maple or honey, coffee is often chicory and beans, tea may gain weight from salts, and canned goods risk lead and copper coloring. He stresses most foods are pure and wholesome.
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H. W. Wiley
United States
A Street Car Ambulance Saves Life in West Side
In a west side street a man fell and injured himself. A nearby doctor urged rapid transport to safety. With no cab or nearby lihery, a streetcar was improvised into an ambulance. The car sped to the home or hospital, saving the man's life.
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Chicago
Amusing Dinner Misadventure In Keane Garrison
Col Masse invited to dine with Mme Voisin, but neuralgia kept him away. His orderly Guy delivers a letter and serves a dinner with champagne. The ruse ends with ten francs paid for flowers, and the colonel bedridden for three days in a humorous garrison tale.
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Keane
Col
Masse
Voisin
Dinbec
Bub
Guy
Mme Voisin
Mimeoisin
Gay
Mme. Voisin
Mime
V Voisin
Desert
le Brogres
Lowell and Poe Friendship Sours Amid Editorial Feuds
The article recounts how Lowell and Poe parted ways over editorial clashes at the Broadway Journal and accusations of plagiarism. It notes Poe’s lasting resentment toward Lowell after public disputes, a 1845 Boston visit controversy, and Poe’s condemning reviews in The Southern Literary Messenger.
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Lowell
Pie
Poe
Briggs
Broadway Journal
T'oo
Hoston
Hosno Lyceum
Bostonians
F. W. Thomas
Scribner's Magazine
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