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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1910
Page
8
A reflective piece warns that swelling arrogance and bragging lead to downfall. It cautions rulers and financiers that wealth and status are fragile, likening Croesus to fleeting fame. The speaker urges humility, noting sudden reversals and the unknowable fate of those on high.
A reflective piece on self mastery urging persistent inner struggle to overcome weakness and pride. It contrasts peace from external law with inner battles, advising temper control, moral growth, and resilient self development despite setbacks.
A verse reflects on luck versus effort in seeking success. The speaker recalls an uncle’s inheritance spent quickly and a turn to honest work after brief easy gains. It ends with resolve to pursue steady labor and dignity despite past missteps.
A string of light lines pokes fun at everyday tasks and chance encounters. The banter contrasts brisk steps with funeral fears and dentist visits, and features a quip about opportunity knocking, misheard as a bill collector, underscoring comic urban wit.
Poem-like meditation on love and immortality. The speaker urges the heart to abandon dreams of everlasting life and face death with courage, imagining a distant future of a white daybreak and a sunlit world where joy returns with the unborn’s dawn. The tone blends yearning with stoic resolve.
Beatrice Fairfax counsels a newlywed wife on debt temptations and the impact on marriage. An unnamed bride hides grocery, laundress, and milliner bills and a new chair purchase. The adviser urges honesty, frugality, and open talk with the husband to protect both family finances and the man’s honor.
A wife urges her husband to join the Pen and Ink club after a neighbor, Mrs. Ketteridge, praises her poetry. He teases and dismisses the verses as pretty but meaningless while feigning interest in her cooking and biscuits. She recalls a violet poem and defends the soulful style, even as he reads his paper and resists literary clubs. She hints at writing a paper on Elizabethan poets, and he mocks the idea, revealing tension over shared artistic ambitions at home.
A brisk, satirical piece rails at sensational claims of explorers and public figures. It mocks Peary reaching the pole and Weston crossing the continent, and ridicules sensational threats by a figure called Rooservelt. The verse invites proof of these improbable events while underscoring public credulity.
A dry town debates how to bring rain as a town selectman suggests a mass meeting and a picnic is proposed as the fix by the wise elder, reflecting local humor from the St Louis Star.
A dying baseball fan, told by overwork and nervous strain, is revived when his wife plays a graphophone recording of a baseball game. The revived fan exults and vows to attend the game, insisting the vocal replay saved his life and spurring him to rise despite doctors' warnings.
A playful exchange about trends and money in romance and baseball. The Boston Transcript references the idea of baseball diamonds and a lighthearted question about their expense.
Fragmentary verses describe an orator who disappears while eager souls cheer for a player sliding into third base amid exultant shouts. The oblique inscription hints at a dramatic public moment.
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