Dream Poem by Anne Reeves Aldrich
A fragmented lyric of a dream with imagery of laurels gold and lore. The speaker reflects on emptiness after visions of bounty and honors and ends with the author’s name Anne Reeves Aldrich.
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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 21, 1901
Page
6
A fragmented lyric of a dream with imagery of laurels gold and lore. The speaker reflects on emptiness after visions of bounty and honors and ends with the author’s name Anne Reeves Aldrich.
A journalist recalls a 1901 Mexican mine siege near the Sierra Madre where Yaqui fighters numbering 4000 to 5000 threatened a frontier camp. The defense mixed fortifications and explosives with a bravely pursued infant hostage rescue, ending in a dramatic capture and a comic, consoling scene as an Apache youth, Dick Hoyland, joins the US Army.
A concise quip from Smart Set laments unsafe streets where cars bikes and horses share park roads while pedestrians face only funeral rites, highlighting urban perils and the need for safer rights for walkers.
A quirky exchange unfolds as a damp nosed man denies planning to leap over mountains before they appear. The other man, known for hearing things, misinterprets and jokes about his wife. The vignette captures sly humor and wordplay in a brief dialogue.
A London judge Mr Pritt Lewis faced cases with amusing names such as Alabaster versus White and Halfpenny versus Penny. Elsewhere a Bloomsbury prison mismatched nuptials with Prior and Nun, Doctor and Patient, Beans and Bacon, Too good and Best, prompting the cleric to postpone.
A waiter girl, graceful and diligent, moves through a crowded restaurant serving patrons with patience. A grave silent man orders a Swiss cheese sandwich, rye bread, two doughnuts, and an eel, while others watch the scene with curious admiration.
Mrs Spoor feared plagiarism by The Atlantic Monthly editor James K Lowell and tested him by sending a story written in her own hand. Her sister copied the tale first, and Lowell replied that the idees were clear though the d’s might not be hers.
Dean Alford describes a Scots lad in a military school who shows a Venice drawing with the name printed Venice as Vennice. The master notes there is only one hen in Venice, prompting the boy to wonder how many eggs the city has. This curious mispronunciation highlights a joke on aspirates and homophones.
A Philadelphia Record quips that a figure named Hoax-He is ordinary, likening him to meat in a sandwich and to being stuck between a sore crust and the under-bred.
The Pacific coast log rafting industry led by Captain H R Robertson grows with pile rafts towed from Seattle. James D Leary aided the venture, improving Pacific rafting and cutting piling prices in San Francisco from 16-20 to 10-12 cents a foot, saving about 154000 yearly for 70 foot piles.
A vividly told reminiscence recalls Martin Miller the schoolmaster and his pupils in a small New Jersey town. The Little One story frame school near the city hospital shows incomplete whitewashing on the west side, a badge of earlier days.
A reader recalls Delia Jones giving a birthday book with the gift card left unread. The incident reveals the misstep of not removing the card from the present.
Limewater is easy and inexpensive to prepare and should be kept in every home. Place a piece of unstacked lime in an earthen vessel, add one quart of water, let stand, then filter. Store in a dark cool bottle. A teaspoonful added to water or milk neutralizes deleterious substances and aids digestion, especially for children.
A damaged OCR fragment references conversations about conventions and a person named Mr Sapteigh. The text is incomplete with unclear context and items.
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