The Angel of Trouble and Olive Charters Walks Away
Olive Charters faces a tangled future as her aunt’s stock tips implicate her in Marrable’s schemes. Wynter offers a lift and a day in Westchester, where their quiet picnic deepens unseen tensions and hints at a fragile independence for Olive.
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Mrs. Gascoyne
Olive
Marrable
Madame dEncos
Ercles
Fifth Avenue
Miss Charters
Eturtica
Wynter
Westchester
Wynter Manor
Pelham Bay
Voynter
Harvard
Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made Of
A reflective piece urges readers to pursue practical action over daydreams. It contrasts grand dream experiences with waking life duties and stresses self-improvement and diligence in everyday roles to build lasting success. It highlights the value of learning, effort, and focusing on one’s calling.
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England
New York
Agnes
Zilla
Eloise Johnson
Zila
Aggie
Attorney and hostler duel over a mare’s age in court
The cleverest lawyers clash with a judge over the mare’s age. The hostler reveals he had it from the mare herself, provoking laughter and a restrained courtroom struggle as decorum tries to hold.
Separation by Thomas Hardy
A fragment of poetry depicting longing and distance. Rain on windows and creaking doors frame a lament for separation. The speaker laments the miles and the unseen barrier between lovers, emphasizing the ache of absence over time.
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Thomas Hardy
Very polite exchange at the parlor chair
Featherstone recalls introducing Miss Twilling as very polite. FE visited last night and invited her to sit in the only arm chair. She replied, After you.
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Olive
Winter
Toms
His Method Pie Scene Reveals Quiet Tension
A fragment shows characters debating a character named Binks who avoids pie with inward misgiving, preferring to eat it with a knife. The dialogue hints at underlying nervousness and odd ritual in a tense scene.
Song of Liberty and Agnes Begin Her Business Life
The North Pole flag message from 1891 is echoed by Ella Wheeler Wilcox in a verse praising freedom. Agnes starts her business life after enduring cruel teasing, poverty, and a harsh home, insisting on self-reliance by quitting school, taking a job, and buying shoes with her own earnings.
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Commander Peary
North Pole
National Society of the Daughters of the Revolution
Independence Hall
Philadelphia
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Agnes
Larin’s
The World’s Great Dreamer Roger Bacon’s Enduring Fame
Roger Bacon, famed as a near equal to Leonardo da Vinci in scope, pioneered reason as guiding method and contributed to astronomy, chemistry, sanitation, and early concepts of submarines, flying machines, and the dangers of ecclesiastical ignorance. Born 1214 in Somersetshire, England, he faced persecution, spent years imprisoned, and died in 1292 amid reflections on lost opportunities due to others’ ignorance.
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Roger Bacon
Leonardo da Vinci
Bacon
Iit
Somersetshire
England
Call of the City I Exile's Eastward Longing Poem
A first person verse laments city life and restless longing for the old bustle. The speaker, a child of the city, hears a voice calling eastward while days feel drear and nights filled with regret, craving quiet, fuller life elsewhere.
Will Power in Character and Uncle Will
A dialog contrasts two youths Jones and Brown. Jones lacks support but has willpower and drive, while Brown benefits from a powerful uncle's will backing his ascent in life. The exchange underscores influence, ambition, and inherited opportunity shaping success.
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Jones
Brown
Earliest Version Eye Joke in Cleveland Plain Dealer
The fragment notes a dialogue about romance and rib imagery. It presents a playful exchange with the line Eye asks if it is the first rib loved, and Adam swears in affectionate terms. The snippet reflects a literary or humorous aside from the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Adam
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Courage Over Fear in Don’t Be a Rabbit Essay
Winifred Black urges readers to abandon fear like rabbits in a burrow and face danger boldly. She likens domestic abuse to a brutal captivity and champions courage as essential to kindness, truth, and noble acts, urging mothers and children to step into the open and fight for life.
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Australia
Brute
Carnera
Two Girls and a World of Choices in Verse
A Boston Herald verse celebrates a fearless young woman embracing independence and potential marriage, imagining her choosing a good husband “on the spot” or remaining single. The quatrains highlight varied eye and hair colors and endearing portraits of youth and romance.
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Talgiarl
Boston Herald
Burroughs Questioned Over Heavily Priced Interaction
A terse exchange references Burroughs with a light joke about knowing him to the approximate value of forty dollars. The dialogue hints at familiarity and a casual assessment of acquaintance without revealing further context or details.
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the Angel OF
Meta Simmins
Sidney Warwick
Wynter and
Olive Charters
Beatrice Fairfax
Zastoria
Featherstone
Miss Twilling
Ringway
Fair Freedom
Earth
Columbia
Freedom
France
Thomas B Gregory
Call OF the City
Winifred Black
Burroughs
Bryces
Bryce
Vonnegut Hardware CO
Washington St
Indiana
Carl. L. Rost
North
Haineis Street
Claypool Hotel
Polk’s
Cat
Mam County
Tate
Minnie E. ‘Broich
Meer Bee Ee
Jen
Southeast Corner Market and Circle
Marion Trust
State Life Insurance Co
Woodreff
W. E Ralphice & Coal CQ
Joos East
Pratt Street
Armstrong Laundry
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