The Lilacs by the Gate by Minnil Irving
A garden scene poem describes the tulip and crocus in twilight. The speaker notes flowers in bloom near an apple tree and a robin in the dusk.
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Newspaper
Iowa Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1892
Page
7
Crippled Sevare Saves Dry Rock Beacon in Gulf Rescue
Sevare, a crippled 15 year old on Galveston Island, lights a beacon to guide the Star of Texas past a wrecking plot. He battles a storm and rising tides to keep the Dry Rock light burning, ensuring the ship reaches harbor safely. The captain thanks him for guiding the vessel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sevare
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic
Texas
Galveston Island
Pietro
Government Revenue Office
Pete
Gath
Touston
Peto
Star of Texas
Shell Cove
Gulf
Revenue Office
Savare
Star of
Texus
Sevare Finds Unlikely Friendship Beyond Dry Rock Watchhouse
A fragment recounts Sevare’s lonely life at the Dry Rock watchhouse where pecrees for his deed attract city friends who brighten his isolated dwelling, reflecting a small community moment from Yan kee Blade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sevare
Pecrees
Dry Rock
Yankee Blade
Midnight Visitor and the American Clergyman
An Oxford anecdote from the Life of Dean Burgon depicts a time‑pressed clergyman hosting an American visitor who asks to be convinced of Christianity at 11 pm. The visitor questions how the Gospels contradict each other, and Burgon refutes him, noting the man later left his living and pursued preaching after hearing earnest sermons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean Burgon
Oxford
St. Mary’s Church
Beford
Barber and Ballad of a Late Night Shave Tale
A North West barber is roused to shave a stubborn suitor for a ball, leading to a comic and violent exchange. The barber’s rough methods end with a bleeding cheek and a wry insult about a lop-sided jawed customer. The excerpt closes with a satirical quip on wives and diets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace Porter
Lincoln
New York Tribune
Knight of the Razor
Waal
Ber
Poverty the Great Puzzle of the Time and Its Remedy
The piece argues poverty stems from lack of opportunity, not lack of wealth or labor, urging reform to remove tax on wealth while funding public revenues from land value. It contends private ownership of raw materials blocks production and trade, creating unemployment and social unrest, and calls for freeing wealth creation and land use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noah
Detroit Journal
Chicago
Indianapolis
Pennsyllvania
Pennsylvania
Spain
Paris
Austria
Germany
Russia
Dantzig
Berlin
Nature
Detroit Journal Five
A Worser Man Than Henry George in Disbarment Case
The Manistee Democrat reports Judge Judkins criticized App M. Smith with an opinion likening him to Henry George and later replaced the name with Johann Most. The piece notes the confusion over George’s ideas and mocks the judge and others for misreading him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry George
Judkins
App M. Smith
C. H. Bender
Smith
Manisteo
Mich
Coal Baron and Farmer Advocate Single Tax Reform
James Kartley argues in the New York World that applying the single tax to farm and coal lands would cut farm taxes by taxing land value only and remove taxes on personal property and improvements. He asserts mining land effects would lower costs, reducing coal and metal inputs for farmers and cutting tariffs on supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Kartley
N. Y. World
Cobden on Taxation and Land Owner Accountability
Cobden warns land owners and the aristocracy against forcing taxation subjects on the middle and industrial classes. He argues the 150 year taxation history shows deep faults in landowners, corn laws, and protective systems, urging unity against perceived fiscal injustice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Cobden
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Tie
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Kate
Vela
Leidal
Shelduc
Cuanales Moreau Harger
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