When We All Lived Together Nostalgic Poem by Josephine Pollard
Josephine Pollard reflects on childhood memory in a nostalgic verse about family life, the loving mother and father, and the joy of growing up at home. The poem contrasts happy past days with later separations and the longing for a home that once felt eternal.
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Olysinn
Josphine Pollard
N. ¥. Ledger
Colonel Harvie
Captain Morton
William Staines
Tom Harvie
Eton
India
Tom
Staines
Iarvie
Morton
Stalnos
Harvie
Rendors
King’s
Plymouth
H. M.S. Ganges
Eastern Empire
Hooghly
Calcutta
Sean
Panion
Isatdodims
Rosa
Porson
Sahib
Fred Bent
Flint
Bent
Tha
Thera
Jove
Race for Life in India a Tiger Ended Pursuit
Colonel Harvie recalls a perilous bicycle race in India thwarted by a tiger. A chase through jungles ends when a shikaree shoots the predator, saving Harvie's life as fellow officers aid and carry him to camp. The tale centers on the famed bike and the near-fatal encounter.
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Harvie
London Society
Help Me Across Papa May Die and Rise in Grace
A Detroit Free Press reminiscence recalls baby May’s death and miraculous return as she whispers Help me across papa before passing, her family moved by faith and longing. The piece laments death’s power and seeks comfort in divine mercy and the promise of heaven.
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Baby May
Yin
Etter
Noarest
Tos Ae
New Jerusalem
Detroit Free Press
Wordplay and wit fill a murky page of clippings
A garbled column of quips references Mrs Langtry birth year and ages, stray puns about bulls and bears, opossums in Hart County, a New York critic on Mrs Langley, a dark closet fart joke, and musings on Lollia Paulina. It also notes Burdette’s poetry, a fashion jest about fourageurs, a French aside, and a Denver Tribune fable about future possibilities.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Lollia Paulina
Agympina
Miss Paulina
Norristown Herald
Denver Tribune
Science and Industry Highlights and Legal Note
A survey of brass bedsteads gaining popularity in America, Lord Oughton’s 60,000 acre Florida estate, and sugar ventures in Jamaica are noted. Wild cocoons from China, Japan, and Australia are processed into felt for hats and furnishings. An ambulance course in Glasgow teaches urgent first aid. Also covered are U.S. pin production, amber processing changes in Dantzig, flour storage advisories, and a court ruling in Oregon that temporary Chinese workers are not liable for county road taxes.
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America
Lord Oughton
Florida
Lord Houghton
Jamaica
China
Japan
Australia
Wilkesbarre
Deady
Oregon
Illinois Canal Commissioners report year ending 1899
The Canal Commissioners J O Clover Martin Kingman and B F Shaw submitted to the Governor their annual report on the Illinois and Michigan Canal and the Illinois and Little Wabash River improvement for the year ended November 30 1899. They note navigation opened March 18 1862 and closed November 30 1862 with no interruptions and report receipts exceeding disbursements by 4177 56 while earlier years showed deficits.
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Cansl
Clover
Martin Kingman
B. F. Shaw
Dew
Illinois & Michigan
Ilinois
Little Wabash
Springfield Recruiting Enlists Colored Infantry Recruit
The Springfield recruiting officer orders enlistment for colored infantry. Other items note deaths in Griggsville and Shelbyville, a Decatur court damages case, a Chicago letter carrier confession, a fatal West Side affray, a Cairo house fire, a Macon County temperance revival, and various local incidents including theft, arson risks, and legal notices.
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Emanuel P. Dearnoff
Decatur
Wabash Road
Chicago
Paul Kuhl
West
Thomas Nevey
Bofmie
Cairo
Macon
Marry
Witneis
Daniel Fry
Wataka
Iraquola
Logan County
Mayfrid
Ofiles
Board of Supervisors
Father Damon
Jatin BH. Mulkey
Illnois Supreme Court
J Wo Horn
Shelbyville
JH Horn
Rockfort Insurance Company
Charles Gilman
Addiaay Banderas
Sife Elde
Mercy Hospital
Ula i
Chicipo
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Zeng Republican
GRO. Burt
Loret
Fran
Levon
Ponce
Dvone
Science and Industry
New England
Cuba
South America
Canada
England
United States
Dantzig
Afiller
Illinois State News
Esee Diadurseta, B
Bole
Illinois
Itema
Springfield
Colored Infantry
Abe McKenney
Por Nu
Temperance Agitatora
Marna
Macon County
Lin
Catherine Cable
Joer Tur Han
REM Saat
Beng Froghbene i
Stee
Sprite
Serento
Beolia
Rob Rogers
Rochford
Saybrook
McLean County
Charles Lugwell
Huning
Anderson County
Georgia
Williams
Edijson
Snipps
Woodruff County
Ark
Lelrou
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