Name in the Mirror Returns to Summer Resort
Doris Graham spends a uneventful summer at a cliffside resort seeking escape from city life. A letter from Archie reveals past romance, and a mirrored memory of their youth surfaces as she confronts her true feelings. The reunion renews bonds with her friend Doris and the village post office scene replays their earlier romance.
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Cris Graham
Doris
Archie Olmstead
Doris Graham
Doris Fearing
Archie
Ein Dus
Punishment by Ostracism in Ancient Athens
Ostracism was used by Athenians to banish citizens whose influence harmed the state. A voting day fixed, with names written on tablets. six thousand votes needed to exile. Today ostracism means to ignore or exclude from a social circle.
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Aoman
Men of Genius Roiled by Sudden Pessimism In Art
The Kansas City Times notes that famed writers such as Lord Byron Ruskin and Rossetti faced a sudden morbid revulsion toward their work during periods of overwork. Byron destroyed poems and bought volumes to prevent publication, while Ruskin doubted religion and his past writings though he produced Sesame and Lilies in 1865 and Praeterita later. A 1871 preface signaled his shift in ideals.
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Lord Byron
John Ruskin
Kansas City Times
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Ruskin
Common Prayer Book Didn't Suit Occasion
A Sioux City climber turning Episcopalian sought hymnals and literature in a bookstore. He rejected the Book of Common Prayer as unsuitable, asking for something “a little more selecter.” The tale appears in the Minneapolis Tribune via FE. C. Dewitt.
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FE. C. Dewitt
New York
Sioux City
Minneapolis Tribune
Moslem Pilgrim Rites and Zem Zem Water Beliefs
Describes the Mecca pilgrimage rites seven circuits around the Kaaba and kissing the Black Stone, then to Zem Zem spring where pilgrims dunk two white shirts tied with strings. Shirts are dried in the mosque court and kept as burial garments. Zem Zem water is said to shield wearers from fiery judgment.
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Mecca
Hagar
Ishmael
To End Church Debt Amos Skinner’s Invention Plan
Amos Skinner boasts of a miracle collecting box with separate coin slots. He claims the device will bring millions as every citizen buys one. Silver money lands on velvet while coin drops trigger a large bell.
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Amos Skinner
Skinner
Chinese Legend of the Willow Plate Love Story
A mandarin's daughter Ti Chi and secretary Cising flee to elope but are pursued. They hide in the warden's cottage and escape to their home. The enraged father swings a whip but the lovers are transformed into turtle doves. The willow sheds its leaves at their elopement.
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Ti Chi
Cising
Qate
Life begins and ends in the choices we make
A reflective piece from American Magazine argues that life’s outcomes hinge on deliberate effort not luck. It warns that even small, initial actions shape significant futures, while many neglect to build and overlook plans that foreshadow fate. The idea centers on starting now to influence later consequences.
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Hfe
Bees misled by scent says scientist Millet
French researcher J. E. Millet asserts bees are guided by odor, not brightness or sugar. He reports experiments showing bees bypass scentless flowers with stores of honey and visit flowers with sweet perfume even if low in sugar, and that they attempt to extract honey from artificially perfumed blossoms.
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J. E. Millet
Orchard Oriole Described as Beneficial Fruit Tree Pest
The orchard oriole also known as basket bird ranges from eastern North America to the gulf coast. It is noted in Nature Magazine as a natural predator of harmful insects and larvae that injure fruit trees, offering potential agricultural benefits.
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North America
Central Plains
Gulf of Mexico
Sys Nature Magazine
Oscillophore inventor claims new vibration science
An inventor in the West announces a device called an oscillophore that purportedly groups human electronic vibrations to read age race sex and personal traits and even detect latent diseases. The piece muses on vibration as a fundamental energy and the potential to reveal hidden aspects of humanity.
SAWS By Viola Brothers Shore
A fragment from Viola Brothers Shore quotes on life and womans behavior with sayings about time neighbors and folly. It cautions against idleness and the idea of sunless rooms and marriage motives, reflecting social advice tone.
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Viola Brothers
Civic Pride as the Heart of a City
In a 1927 Western Newspaper Union piece Roger W Babson emphasizes civic pride as the chief asset of a city, beyond wealth or machinery. The essay recalls Emerson and Elihu Root on spirit over material things, urging communal tone, virtue, clean entertainment, crime control, and local loyalty.
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Roger W. Babson
Towson
Mien
Emerson
Elihu Root
Paul
Western
Union
Ethics and Business Dissertation Letter from Japan
A Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph clipping quotes a correspondent from Japan describing a dodgy scheme to dodge nondelivery penalties for a bar machine. The author urges forging a letter to mislead, praising Mr B and suggesting deceptive wisdom to prop up a “geo business edifice.”
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Japan
Yokohama
Geo
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph
Know Your Sweetheart by His Handwriting
Edna Purdy Walsh surveys handwriting traits to infer travel tendencies. It notes slant, pressure, letter flow, and letter size as indicators of motion, action, or nervous energy, warning to balance signs with other clues before judging personality.
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Delver
William Harvey
Bond of Brotherhood Between Poetic Souls
A New York stenographer known as a poetess writes inspirations, then transcribes them for her local paper. En route from New Jersey a foggy North River crossing on a ferry causes unease among passengers as a distant notes of a hearse whistle recalls Shelley’s drowning, prompting a pointed remark from her companion.
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New York
New Jersey
North River
Nale
Shelley
Harper’s Magazine
Mock Pumpkin Pie Wins National Prize Recipe
A recipe labeled Mock Pumpkin by Shrine Magazine’s service bureau won first prize for Mrs L Rosethal of New York City in a national contest. The entry includes corn meal based filling with sugar, spices, eggs and milk and a from-scratch crust baked until firm. The dish resembles pumpkin in name only and is served with whipped cream atop cooled pie.
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Ruby Douglas
F. A. Walker
Barbara Bourjaily
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Leonard A. Barrett
First National Bank
LE Mars, Iowa
Edna Purdy Walsh
Character Reading Magazine
Globe-Post
Snyder
C.J. Snyder
Craig
Towa
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