In the Firelight. A Fragment From a Meeting of Enchanted Tone
A fragmentary verse item presents a bewitched scene where a speaker named Helen Weld cites a meeting and a spell. The text evokes enchantment and magical imagery with references to Paradine and a garment.
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Helen Weld
Hardship and Hope on the Ocklawaha Frontier Log Cabin Life
A Maine lumberman recalls crossing to Florida in the 1800s with his wife and children to settle along the Ocklawaha River. They build a log cabin, girdle trees, fish and hunt, and survive a dangerous swamp flood by constructing an elevated platform, while painting the broader life of early Florida lumbering and settler adversity.
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Ocklawahs River
Florida
Ocklawaha Dome
Pennsylvania
Hoga
Susquehanna
New York
Chesapeake Bay
Numberman
Jacksonville
Palatka
Lawderman
Jadsonville
Ocklawaba River
St John’s
Ocklawaha
Prarest
Decksemville
Orange Creek
Staples
Cekiawaha
Apel
Sol
William Drysdale
N. YY
Times
Hollow bricks promise fireproof homes and silent rooms
A Philadelphia Record excerpt extols hollow brick construction as fireproof, weatherproof, and soundproof. It argues outer walls of brick with insulated centers can resist heat, dampness, cold, and noise, claiming imagined homes could endure a century of flames while keeping interiors safe and quiet.
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New England
Aidel
Horeas
Philadelphia Record
Bear It Heroically and The Soldier Who Died Like a King
A vivid World War I vignette shows a blue jacketed private grimly bearing a missing thumb as comrades mock his pain. Moments later another wounded soldier returns from the line, steady and silent, clutching his chest, reflecting the grim toll and stoic culture of the trenches.
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Troy
Asckiter
Alot
Bert
von Torre
Hurdote
Brookipn Kagte
Vicksburg
United States
Leather Garments Through Ages And Modern Leather Fashion
Leather history traces early use of animal skins from coarse robes to tunics worn by Goths and Cromwellian Roundheads. Advances in tanning and fabrics shifted demand, with leather later returning in shoes and garments as modern soft pliable leathers enable varied apparel. The piece notes historic and Aztec embroidery, perforation to improve porosity, and the growing role of tanneries in fashion and decorative arts.
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Alaric
Rome
Don
Steppes
Door Akin
Cromwell
Iit
Shoo and Leather Review
Glacial Analogy From Hillside Observations
Prof N B Shaler notes how post snow thaw reveals bent stems and displaced stones on a hillside, illustrating glacial action on a small scale as akin to large scale ice age movement, in a Chautauqua column.
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Mississippi
N. 8. Shaler
Chautauquem
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Lees Rema
Tomy Garment
Sid Wertin
Aren
Merida
Maine