The Manicure Lady Reflects On June's Passing
The Manicure Lady shares reflections on June a month of events including Roosevelt's return and local chatter. A humorous exchange with the Head Barber unfolds about marriage, poetry, and a star-eyed mystery, ending with relief that June has gone.
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George
June
Roosevelt
Jeff
Johnson
The Smoking Room Poem by La Touche Hancock
The speaker reveres a snug home space as a sweet haunt for friends and meerschaums. He notes that the charm lies not in pipes or liquor, but in stanch friendship and humorous talk. The piece celebrates calm fragrance and weary brains resting in quiet companionship.
Day of Farewell and Quiet Waters
A lyrical meditation on loss and memory as a loved one is laid to rest. The speaker recalls the day of love and faces a night of quiet, distant seas, empty ports, and a war's red ending seen from afar. The verse moves from intimate farewell to vast, somber landscapes and ashore reflections.
Getting the Dope and the Lawyer's Phrase
A fragment from a jail scene shows a lawyer claiming annihilation of insanity as the only hope while the prisoner expresses uncertainty about what to say and how to proceed in a tense exchange.
Wise Unto His Day in a Washington Star quip
A farmer quips about sending a political ally to the legislature. He says the man never favored the speaker, and in current sentiment a legislator would not dare grow rich. The exchange is noted in the Washington Star.
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Farmer Corntessel
Washington Star
Her Post Graduate Course by Nell Brinkley
Nell Brinkley humorously urges girls to learn life and love with a man as the true graduate study. She mocks academic phrases and old fashions, noting heart ache and late nights, but insists the lesson is worthwhile if mastered.
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Nell Brinkley
Why Women Lie To Appear Well Connected
A social exchange reveals Miss Woodard fabricates a storied family past to seem distant and refined. Mrs. Brooks and others note the prewar wealth and heirlooms she claims, while neighbors later expose the truth of her modest origins and the damage of such deceit.
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Miss Woodard
Ory
The Old Maid by George Barlow
A portrait of a woman who devoted herself to steadfast love. She never married while suitors passed and rivals faded. Her life remained quiet and content, her faithfulness lasting through time as seasons changed and her beloved aged with her.
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Lote
George Barlow
A Word for the Honeymoon
The author disputes claims that honeymoons are a long chain of disillusionments. It argues the period is unsettled yet largely joyful, with some gloom but many hours of happiness. It notes possible mismatches in marriages but maintains the average honeymoon is happy.
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Marie
Herbert Urner
Cupid
Beatrice Fairfix
Dan Cupid
Elmer Crssiston Returns to Open Medical Office
Winifred Doss recalls Dr Cassilton as Elmer Crssiston, a newly graduated, brilliant young doctor, plans to open an office in Three Pines. The Doss family keeps ties to Three Pines, while old advisory talk hints at troubled marriages and disillusionment after bright starts.
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Beatrice Fairfax on young marriages and happiness
Beatrice Fairfax notes report on bright young faces marred by gossip and cites nine newlywed couples six weeks married. She remarks some men should never be trusted while contrasting social expectations with cheerful newlyweds.
War Sonnets and a Three Pines Romance Fragment
A fragment blends Ella Wheeler Wilcox war verse with lengthy prose about Winifred, Dr. Cassilton, and romance in Three Pines. The poems uplift war as a proving ground, while a probate of affection explores Miss Winifred's crushes and the comic misfit doctor who may yet win a heart, amid family chatter and social expectations.
Happy Bride Stella Can You Cook
A brief fragment presents dialogue about a wedding or bride named Stella asking about cooking. The piece notes Belindo remarks that a certain matter does not matter. Fragmentary and unclear surrounding context limits further detail.
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Yau
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Jokes and quips from old newspapers colliding in one excerpt
A collage of humorous exchanges from Harper's Weekly Baltimore American and Everybody's Magazine. Brisk skits include a sewing machine agent joke about ownership and domestic authority, a Mrs Growler knockers quip, a classroom question about a Roman history date, and a Sioux City physician misreading a waiting clerk.
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Bridget
Harper's Weekly
Antony
Cleopatra
Everybody's Magazine
There Shall Be No More Sea Poem by Elizabeth West
A reflective poem exploring Paradise and Hell awaiting souls, contrasting heavenly peace with the sea’s soothing power. It ponders if water and divine love can still comfort the lost, suggesting a mother Sea might cradle woe in Hell. The speaker fragments loyalty, grace, and dreamless sleep in seeking solace.
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Elizabeth West
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Exarth
Earth
Old
Hell
Bath tub rescue saves two toddlers from danger
A mother returned to find two-year-old Harold and three-year-old Montague clinging to each other in the bathroom after a scare in the tub. Montague cried he saved his brother as a moment of panic ended with both unharmed.
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Montague
Harold
Mother
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