Aunt Lilly and a Ku Klux legacy in the cane brake
Aunt Lilly, an aging Black woman, hauls a heavy bundle toward her cabin near the Great Cane Brake while memories of a past white mob murder haunt her. She envisions a stone for her son, funds a grave marker, and guards a nephew hiding from pursuers as sheriff Emmet Carter nears the scene.
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Tony
Jacob Morton
Lilly
Freeman
Morton
Hisse
Freem
Pomp
Pompey
Cap Morton
Dan
Uncle Dan
Geowge Estes Gwine
Emmet Carter
Pulp Yields From Wood Cord Measured For Papers
A cord of wood typically produces about one ton of mechanical pulp and about half a ton of chemical pulp, illustrating the varying outputs from a standard timber cord in early papermaking processes.
White captain reports friendly Seris on Tiburon Island
Capt. F. E. Thompson of the schooner Estrella returns to San Francisco after a nine month Gulf of California voyage. He landed five times on Tiburon Island, met Chief Francisco and Son Ponchito with 15 Seris, exchanged gifts, and photographed the chief despite superstition. He describes the Seris as hospitable, skilled with spears, and living mainly on sea life, with a cautious view of their cannibal image.
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F. E. Thompson
Estrell
San Francisco
Gulf of California
Tiburon
Francisco
Freshwater Bay
Ponchita
Pearl Point
Dewey
Thompson
Capt. Thompson
Canibals
Capt
L’hassa
Gulf of Southeen California
Guaymas
Gulf
Ponchito
Tiburon Island
Penguin rescue aboard mid-Atlantic bird shipment
R E Jones returning from a 2000 bird purchase in Europe described a penguin break from a crate during a winter storm on the mid Atlantic voyage. He and a sailor pursued the escapee across slick decks until the bird was recaptured and secured for the Big Island park aviaries.
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mid-Atlantic
R. E. Jones
Minneapolis Journal
Big Island Park
Jones
England
Penguin
Mr. Jones
London
Africa
FISH THAT SWALLOW SAND DURING NORTHERN FISH MOVEMENT
An official of the fish commission in Washington notes that North Sea cod migrate from shallow southern banks to deeper northern waters and ingest sand as ballast during the approach to migration. Sand in stomachs varies in color and quality with location, and is discharged after arrival at southern banks on return migration.
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The
Fish Commission
Washington
North Sea
A Novelist's Mission in Victorian Times
The piece argues Disraeli's writings suffer neglect because fiction is deemed beneath serious statesmanship. It contends novelists reveal life with intelligence, observation, and humor, offering deep portraits of human nature beyond surface appearances. Melville on Victorian novelists.
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Disraeli
Melville
New Theory of Sleep by Sir William Gowers
Sir William Gowers proposes a theory that sleep results from a break and make action among brain cells. He says brain activity arises from nerve cells and dividing sapring cords that end in knobs. Previously believed in permanent terminal connections. now these are in opposition and separable, with sleep caused by their separation, supporting narcotic-induced sleep.
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William Gowers
Moana
Ancient chariot race curses from tomb inscriptions
Archaeologists reveal imprecations once used by racing chariot owners, quoted from Douglas Jaden's Carthage and Tunic. An example invokes binding Victorious and his horses, hindering their spring, and precipitating the driver from the chariot in the hippodrome.
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Douglas Jaden
Carthage
The Formidable Bent Pin in a Class Clash
A witty exchange between two pins unfolds with the nickel-plated safety pin scoffing at inferiors and the ordinary pin retorting that some have seen seats in top schools. The banter hints at class snobbery in a tiny social scene.
Not Evenly Balanced Salary Question Sparks Prostration Concern
A witty debate contrasts salary with work. One asks if pay should match effort. The response says no, that would be excessive, implying the worker would be overworked to the point of nervous prostration. The dialogue reflects humorous social commentary.
Fragmented Advice and Verses From Unclear Source
A fragmented text blends quips on gender, traffic, beauty, bears, and table manners with a stray verse about a stream and a Christmas note. It references a Chicago husband wife incident and urges practical maxims amid garbled lines. The readable bits hint at a light colonial-era miscellany without a clear event or person to anchor a single story.
Passages on Life and Everyday Ironies in Fragmented Prose
A collage of misquoted verse and loud musings in a Chicago suburb voice. It blends reflections on sorrow and strength with snippets of observation about daily routines, forests fires, smoky lakes, and fishing mishaps, ending with a note on autumn fashion and a humorous image of attic rats.
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Shortstory Pub. Co
FE Thompson
Seais
Wlzand
Cary FE
Thompson Ee
Tiburon Liland
Silvera
Waren
Kent
Chicago
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