Maboeuf and the Indigo Dream in Montparnasse
Maboeuf, a sixty-something botanist and book collector, ends his churchwarden days and moves from Rue Mezieres to a hut near Austerlitz. His life centers on flora, old engravings, and quiet pleasures while Mother Plutarch reads aloud, sparking Maboeuf’s fond reverie of legends and dragons.
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Col. Fontmercy
M. Mabovuf
St. Germain
Gillenormand
Canteretz
Tue Mezieres
M. Maboeuf
Canterett
M. Maboeeuf
Plutarch
Boulevard Montparnasse
Fatou
Salpetriere
Austerlitz
Mother Plutarch
Marius
Buddha
Poverty a Good Neighbor of Misery in Marius Life
Marius, drawn to poverty and solitude, avoids crowds and spends days walking Parisian boulevards and Luxembourg paths. He rents a cheap room at Maison Garbeau under the name M. Martius and visits old generals like Count Pajol and Gen. Fremion for talk of his father, dressing carefully for rare social evenings when funds allow.
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Maboeuf
Marius
Champ de Mars
Luxembourg
Maison Garbeau
M. Martius
Count Pajol
Bellavesne
Fremion
the Invalides
Raphael's Prophecies for September 3 1908
Forecast covers general advice and personal outcomes. The text warns against quarrel and law issues, notes a troubled year in business, and predicts a child born on this day will be rash, headstrong, and generally unlucky in business requiring hard work.
The Things I Love Rondeau Redoublé
Poem voice confesses preference for indulgent fare and pleasures over wholesome choices. The speaker cites lobster, chop suey, vaudeville, and rich meals as favored, while condemning study and diet as grindings and dislikes. The refrain centers on choosing unhealthy delights despite knowledge.
Heart's Desire Verses by Bishop William A. Quayle
A Northwestern publication shares: Heart's Desire lines set to sea imagery and divine refrain. Quayle writes of being sung to by the sea and God’s rain, with life as a mart walked through by divine heart.
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William Alfred Quayle
The Sad Tale of a Neighborly Rift
A suburban sage reflects on injuring a neighbor’s feelings over a $25 loan refusal. The neighbor, sociable and helpful, had borrowing habits that included tools and small sums. The rift began after a brusque refusal, and a week of quiet tension followed as trust frayed between the two men.
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Pye
Kind Boy Brings Slipper for Mother’s Shoe Repair
A kind old lady meets a young boy entering a cobbler shop with his mother's slipper. He explains a tack sticks out on the sole and he wants it fixed so his mother does not notice the fault or get hurt. He shows thoughtful concern behind the repair.
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Sonny
Wealth Growth Admired in Blackburn Cascan Royal-Pilis
A short item lauds Blackburns Cascan Royal-Pilis as a merchant whose early ten cent article predicted rapid wealth, portraying him as a meritorious self-made man in a few years.
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Blackburn
Diagnosed at onset of Athena Pussziled case
Doctors struggled to determine Zeps' trouble with his daughter on the brain as Lippincott's is noted in the fragment indicating a medical or literary reference.
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Athena
Zeps
Lippincott’s
Women who pamper dogs while babies starve
Beatrice Fairfax laments fashionable London dog pampering and contrasts it with starving infants. She condemns women who spend money on dogs over children, urging maternal devotion and care for vulnerable babies. The piece extols motherhood as essential and criticizes pampering dogs as inhumane.
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London
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