New Year Resolve: Courage, Virtue, and Hope Ahead
A long reflective essay urges readers to turn New Year resolutions into real life gains. It champions breaking bad habits, seeking beauty and goodwill, improving home life, and aiming at duty, God, and unfading truth. Emphasis on self discipline, kindness, and steadfast integrity guides practical steps for the year.
Courage of Captain Plum on Beaver Island clashes with mysterious old man
In 1856 Captain Nathaniel Plum hides on Beaver Island at sunset waiting to embark on a dangerous venture. A pale old man spies his letter and confronts him, hinting at a secret deal involving powder guns and a hidden payoff. Plum discovers he is already expected and follows into a candle lit room where secrets unfold.
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Old Year and Youth Clash in Snowbound Verse
The poem narrates the Old Year waiting amid snow for blessings, voices of a poet, children, youth, and maiden debating gifts and renewal. A final Youth and Maiden bless the Year as it goes, while Jessie Annie Anderson is noted at the end.
Starting the Journey New Year Guidance Poem
A lyrical pledge of guidance and support to a child as New Year opens. The speaker promises to walk beside the youngster through life, offering strength, cheer, and a reassuring presence as they seek a better future together.
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Vale of Tears
New Year's Hymn and Fish Embryology Notes
A verse on New Year blessings opens this page, followed by a scientific excerpt by James H. Henshall detailing fish egg diversity and counts across species. The write up compares egg sizes from catfish to eel and notes large differences in abundance, with numbers for brook trout, salmon, grayling, shad, striped bass, cod, and more. A short vignette ends with a child humor about a railroad accident damages inquiry.
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