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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1910
Page
3
Daily arrivals expand the selection in Eastern Oregon. Watch repairs offered at lower prices than elsewhere. Twenty years of experience with fitted eyes. Permanently located with customers vouching for satisfaction. All goods guaranteed to satisfy.
A street found note from La Grande Oregon addresses a stranger as Angelface. The writer pours romantic longing with vivid, comic imagery and compares feelings to absurd, dramatic visuals, ending mid sentence as the letter breaks.
A reflective narrator recalls scenes from a bustling city including a wedding, a drowning rescue, and a suicide attempt on a bridge. He recounts a sister tale from twenty years earlier of a once-wealthy girl driven to misfortune after the 1873 panic, ending in a courtroom and a life of drifting and despair.
An ornate, archaic love note uses rich imagery to express longing and devotion. The writer pledges deep affection and warns of sorrow if reciprocation fails, evoking mortality and enduring sentiment through metaphor of vines, marble, and a poisoned rat.
A woman wanders into oblivion then resists and is saved by a magistrate who offers a plan. A young man volunteers to marry the girl, but she chooses the narrator’s plan to send her to a home for indigent girls. The narrator pledges to help, finding no kin to assist and deciding to take action himself. She later agrees to the narrator’s plan with relief and hope.
The Old Cheshire Cheese in London is famed for a grand pudding admired by Gladstone, Dickens, Thackeray, Tennyson, Trollope and Whistler. The dish, a large steamed creation with beef kidneys larks mushrooms oysters and long simmering, draws crowds and storied praise from notable figures.
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