Seavening Prayer for Life's Opening Voyage.
Poem fragment prays for protection as life moves from childhood to old age asking the Lord to guard shortening days.
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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1901
Page
2
Poem fragment prays for protection as life moves from childhood to old age asking the Lord to guard shortening days.
A broker manager uses a clerk to cover book tampering and a man is framed as insane. The clerk uncovers the fraud through a mysterious entry, while facing confinement, brutality, and a rescue by a loving niece who pleads for mercy in a grim asylum.
A narrator recalls brutal warders, a pleading girl, and a daring nocturnal escape from a haunted asylum. The sequence leads to the exposure of Lemuel Ripley in a doctored books scandal, with Ripley jailed awaiting trial and the narrator receiving a grateful reward and a new life.
A historical account describes life in Corea where girls lose freedom after childhood, becoming chattel without independent identity. Daughters are secluded in women’s quarters while brothers roam the men’s side, education for girls is rare, and a wife sheds her surname for her husband’s clan. The piece notes motherhood as the only respected milestone.
A visitor notes Glasgow's devotion to temperance permeates public life. Authorities and citizens alike advocate restraint, yet many drink whisky daily, with temperance principles seeming strengthened by the very habit. The piece portrays Scots as hardy, viewing whisky as a mere liquid like air.
Aaron Fierre de Coubertin, chairman of the international Olympian committee, spent six of eight hours in sport without prior training. He rode, rowed, cycled, played lawn tennis, rode motorcycles, and engaged in fencing and boxing, claiming daily exercise trains readiness for any call to endurance. Good humor lights talent like a blue sky.
Fragmentary verse-like prose shows a speaker's late night reflections beside a bed. Recurrent misspellings and dazed imagery evoke a damp mood and fatigue. The fragmented lines mention sleep, dressing, and a reluctance to rise, with references to a figure named St Nicholas.
Mrs Coady a California primary teacher at Oakland fosters kindness to animals to win pupil affection by keeping a large cat as a shared prize. The piece also describes stamp production and safety of stamps, a niece Bettie’s remorse over bird rescue, and a mother bird returning to care for fallen youngsters.
In a brief scene from the Christian Register a girl recounts Seth’s careful nest repair. The mother bird cries and circles the tree until Seth returns the box and the nest is restored. The mother resumes guarding and soon teaches the chicks to fly, ending the narrator’s bid to steal a nest.
In a Youth's Companion tale, Barbara Bennett and Jess Kinsey share noon recesses near a laurel bush. Jess fabricates concerts featuring the Kinsey baby until a twist reveals the singer was a mouse, inspiring both girls with a playful, sobering lesson about imagination.
A quip from the Atchison Globe notes that when men amass wealth their first sign is returning to their old town wearing a stovepipe hat, a humorous take on wealth and vanity.
The Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburg Railway reports timetable notes dated May 11 with 100k East and services from Falls Creek to Punxsutawney and Bradford. Stops regulated by signal allow offloading and boarding for points north and south of Punxsutawney. Trains 2 and 5 run regular. Pullman sleeping cars on Buffalo and Rochester legs. Edward G. Lapey, General Passenger Agent, Rochester, N.Y.
Blatraville to Salteburg and other towns on multiple schedules listed. Timings include 800, 1040 am and 285, 700 pm weekdays Sundays. leave Blatraville for Butler and Huttor Branch stations. Blairsville intersections to Pittsburg and Altoona with numerous time points. Contact Watt Pass Agt Western District Fifth avenue and Simiintela Street Pittsburg Pa. J Baut Cenon Jr Wood General Manager.
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