Moon Lotus Moonlight Meeting on Japanese Garden
Russell Lane, artist, visits a missionary in Japan and postpones departure to view the moon lotus bloom. He meets a mysterious local girl, saved from a fall by Russell, as the lotus opens and legends of fate surface in a single charged moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sanod Koga
Tokyo
Russell Lane
Lucius White
Russell
Mr. White
Sanokoga
Luna
Millia
Sunset Hill
Fujiyama
Ricksha
Russel
Harashi
Jook
Fussell
Lotes
Ares
Tokio
Day of Yankee Mill Girls in Biddeford Mills
An elderly Maine resident recalls 65 years ago in Biddeford cotton mills where most workers were farm girls. The overseer hired a recent immigrant. the roommates refused to work with her, leaving only the laundry woman as an outsider. A French Canadian girl sang and acted in French, entertaining the group with language jokes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddeford
Maine
Old Country
Importing Plant Dlamages And Quarantine Lapses
The piece warns that crop diseases like potato wart spreading from Newfoundland threaten the United States and worsen hardship for farmers. It accuses lawmakers of ignorance and negligence for lacking quarantine laws and notes the disease’s history in Hungary as a warning. The fragment also includes unrelated lines about swimming lessons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Senate
Hungary
The Wedding Gown Mystery in a Village Storm
Emmie frets over Elmer Hayes and Rose Greene as heat and social pressure press on her. A sudden storm drives her path to the lake, where Elmer finds her and proclaims his love. Amid torn dresses and village chatter, truth surfaces as he reveals whose wedding dress lit up Miss Still’s shop.
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Himmie
Miss
Elmer
Rose Greene
Sarah
Emmie
Miss Still
Rose
Hilmer
Alice Robbins
Harry Stevens
Mike
Emmis
Ammie
Galing
Fide
Jo Wortley
N&jo
Alligators and the Lesson of Disturbing Nature
A Harper's Weekly inspired reflection notes how overhunting alligators in Louisiana disrupted ecosystem balance. The loss led to rising muskrats and pests harming levees and crops, teaching that rapid disturbances in nature bring unforeseen consequences. The piece ends with a jab about fashion and suffrage.
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Louisiana
Bayoua
North
Olga
Harper's Weekly
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Moon Lotus
Bolla
Mary Breas
Troe
Boggs & Buhl
Pittsburgh, PA
Vaiah
Geo. D. Leydie
S. Pattison Co
Phila
Daugherty
Philadelphia
A. T. Taylor & Son
Peeler & West
J. Wilson Shields
Rayne
Hume Pa
M. Jack
Matthias Conrath
Indiana
Savings & Trust Company
John 11
Charles C. Millen
Washington Town
Alonzo Allison
Mxeentor
Crookside
Sindelkabury
Luvin
Howe
Ngrupe
Sete
Deck
Dubels
Buchheit Bros
Philadelphia St
Buchheit . Bros
Indiana, Pa
Pennsylvania Railroad
Atlantic City
Cape May
Anglesea
Holly Beach
Ocean City
Sanate City
Avatan
Stone Turbor
Retaboth
Del
Geown City
North Asbury Park
Qeean Grove
Bradley
Pittsburgh
Auntie City
Ording Th Anderson
D. PA
Sixth Avenue
Soithfeld Street
Pitaburgh
Peterson & CO
Steving
Undvertakers & Embalmers Bell
American Union
Hika
Tndiank
Calla
Peoples
Insurance Agency
Citizend Bank
Robert Mullen Thomas Pealey Mullen
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