Insurgents Spark Hope For a People’s Party Rise
The Chicago Tribune poll of Democratic editors shows Bryan and Harmon tied for first with Roosevelt a strong third, signaling broad discontent with the party order and a push toward an insurgent movement. Indiana Republicans face a critical choice on Insurgency versus the Interests as they vote tomorrow.
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Honest East Aurora farmer loses pine grove to cash offer
An East Aurora farmer with $10,000 in the bank sold a beloved pine grove after a stranger offered $200 for the trees. The buyer’s portable sawmill cut them, a fire destroyed the lumber, and the man who owed money vanished. The farmer laments the loss of the grove and its memories.
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East Aurora
New York State
Ali Baba
Easter Fashion Whatsits and Press Agent Prattle
Percy the press agent debates hats suits and color with the Show Girl in a playful restaurant exchange. He explains professions dictate attire, jokes about spring fashions, and notes Easter mood while the Show Girl questions his choices.
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Percy
Two Sonnets on a Dreamy Waterside Love
A reflective poem moves through longing and grief by a riverside. The speaker questions how to love a woodland goddess amid despair and fading colors, then imagines elevated, merciful devotion beyond earthly limits. The verse contemplates love against dawn, storm, history, and loneliness.
Baseball and Grandma in Chicago Talk
A writer recalls a Chicago streetcar memory with a mourning grandmother who asks about the Cubs. The piece notes how baseball dominates daily life in Chicago from morning to afternoon and the public’s strong, practical knowledge of teams and standings.
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Chicago
Elis Parker Butler
Success
Cubs
Back and Forth on Chicago Move to New York
Dialogue shows a daughter asking to quit Chicago for New York while a parent cites earnings as the barrier. The exchange highlights themes of financial limits and long commutes suggesting a family weighing relocation versus income.
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Chicago
New York
Concealed in a Crown A Murderous Chess Plot
Reginald Palfray travels with the dying uncle’s lawyer Mr. Hardshore aboard a train to secure a will. After a fatal heart attack, suspicion falls on Reginald. A poison in a chess queen crown reveals the plot and a confession follows as Madame Cambronne collapses.
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Bendhu Lodge
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Reginald Palfray
Symptons
Reginald
Bendley
Alice Benyon
Bernard Mawgan
Mawgan
Madame
Reginaldo
A Dinner Tale of Romance Versus Realism
Winston Churchill described the contrast between romanticism and realism in fiction at a New York dinner. He used a young couple example where the romantic man pledges to surround his beloved with comforts while the realist girl quips about all this on thirty-nine a week.
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Winston Churchill
New York
Jack
Looms and Loomis Standout Visitors at Canyonville Depot
In Canyonville the homeliest man title shifts as Charles Stattel Loomis tours lectures at the depot. Hank Loomis, long known for his looks, confronts the news with disbelief while Steve Billings notes Loomis’ professional status and the crowd’s reaction.
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Canyonville
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Hank
Charles Stattel Loomis
Waal
Steve
Maxgazine
Oh sighing pines in springtime verse
The poem speaks of sighing pines and springtime imagery as a laughing wind passes, bringing mint, snowdrops, honeysuckle, primroses, and violets. It contrasts sun and shadow in a twilight dawn and hints at lonely hearts recalling memories and shattered hopes tied to spring.
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