Lucile Lindsay and Dr Harrisse on the Malta voyage
On the Malta voyage Lucile Lindsay captives Dr. Harrisse with her charm and wit. They discuss art drama and a past love as a romance unfolds amid shipboard conversations and memories. Lucile later marries Dr Johns after a confession and a year later Harrisse rereads a faded letter.
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Tom
Lucile Lindsay
Capt. Hamerton
Hamerton
Faust
Marguerite
Harrisse
Beacon Street
Dr Johns
Malta
Doctor Johns
Lucille
Notice to personal crisis reports
The Spokane Spokesman warns that suicides at night complicate reporting and risk misnaming the deceased. It suggests the most favorable time for obituary coverage is between 1 p.m. and afternoon, urging thoughtful timing to ensure accurate details.
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Brolp
Spokane
Local Sculptor Finds New Market Abroad
An elderly Kittery resident, famed for ship figure head carving, shifts to supplying idols and graven images for Central Asia. The two year contract shows adaptable craft amid changing demand. The last line notes the familiar motto you eat too much and you eat too fast.
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Wimeoelf
Kittery
Central Asia
Single Tax ideas spark cross country debate in farmers circles
A cascade of editorials from Boseman Montana to Indianapolis debates on the single tax and land value theory. Writers urge taxation of land speculators to free productive workers while railing against railway monopolies and legal structures favoring capital over labor.
Shifting the Land Value Tax Debate Goes On
A letter by A E Davis of Independence Oregon explores shifting land value tax from landlord to tenant. The Detroit News editorial consensus is cited, arguing tenants pay land value tax through rent and that the tax cannot be shifted to buyers or sellers. The piece contrasts single tax effects with current taxation, noting community value absorbed by taxation and rents adjusted by housing supply and competition.
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A. E. Davis
Independence, Ore
George
John Stuart Mill
Mr. Davis
Detroit News
West
Adam Smith
Penance in Sackcloth and Penalties in Old Scottish Kirk
The ancient registers of Scottish Presbyteries reveal strict discipline with punishments for minor sins. Offenders like George Thompson endured six Sundays in sack-cloth and a £4 Scots fine. others paid small sums for Sunday work or misdeeds. Witchcraft accusations and public penance appear, with dancing and playing on Sundays leading to excommunication or sheets as penance. Annie Young faced multiple admonitions and a ten mark surety to reform.
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George Thompson
Andrew Clark
Presbytery of
Glasgow
John Provant
Margaret Brotherstone
Agnes Gourley
Maury Martin
Mungo Craig
Annie Young
Gods Rose Tale of a Rose Dropped From Heaven
A richly dressed lady drops a single red rose at a gallery threshold. A ragged child hesitates to touch it, thinking it a divine gift. The lady explains the rose is both hers and God's, then offers it, but the girl backs away afraid of such bounty.
Irony Should Be Kept Like a Surgical Instrument
The author quotes Charles Lamb on irony warning against its casual use. He cites Elijah’s mockery of Baal prophets as sparing and suggests irony is a rare tool, best used for a necessary operation to avoid lasting harm and lasting enmity.
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Charles Lamb
Elijah
Baal
Brooding a Unwholesome Occupation
The piece warns that brooding is an unhealthy occupation of the mind and can lead to melancholy and insanity. It recalls Ben Hur rowing on alternate sides to maintain symmetry and urges using all faculties to stay in poise and avoid fixation on a single subject.
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Ben Hur
Do Honey Bees Get Drunk In New York’s Horse Chestnuts
Bees swarm around the horse chestnut blossoms in New York as the trees bloom. An old tradition claims the bloom contains an intoxicant that makes bees drunk and unable to fly, causing them to fall and become prey for ants.
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