Mama reads a tender tale to a child like me
A nostalgic mothers story recalls a night when a father carried a child to Grandma Iranima's door. The tale hints at growth, loss, and memory as the parent-child bond unfolds through gentle dialogue and shared fantasies.
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Iranima
Isora's Bridal Vow chapter XI a London lodging tale
In a brisk Victorian scene Miss Kent and friends discuss rent payments and a mysterious American lodger. Agnes, Lily Graham, and a London girl seek shelter while a lost child ad appears. A curious stranger offers to watch the shop as Mrs. Trotter steps out to report a baby’s disappearance.
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Miss Marham
Jrst
Miss Graham
America
New York
Agnes
Mrs. Graham
Annie
Hreans
Helen
Jross
Lily Graham
Hampshire
London
Frances
Helen Marham
Miss Kent
Mrs. Trotter
Rudolph
Verona
Lily
Hester Trotter
Sa.m
St. Mark’s Bell
Fleet Street
Notable Personages Mentioned in Brief Notices
A medley of short entries notes figures such as Rosina Vales and Cecil Clay planning a memorial volume, John Bartlett the Cambridge publisher aged 74, Rev. R. A. Thompson funding a mission steamer for Japan, Teall linked to Poe's Raven, and Lady John Scott connected to Annie Laurie. Thoreau’s publishing history, Bryant’s early verse, Dr Roux’s prize and Pasteur tie, Caroline Phelps Stokes ending a library gift, General Booth on millennium hopes versus newspaper men, and assorted odds and ends including patent salves and teething remedies crop up in a collage of notable personages and curiosities.
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Germany
Rosina Vales
Cecil Clay
John Bartlett
Cambridge
R. A. Thompson
New Britain
Conn
Japan
Maxwellton
Henry D. Thoreau
William Cullen Bryant
Job
Dr. Roux
French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences
Roux
Pasteur
Caroline Phelps Stokes
New York
Anson AG. Phelps
Ansonia
General Booth
Salvation Army
Hope Springs Eternal In'the human breast
An old article fragment blends moral insight with a product ad for Hostetter's Stomach Bitters promising thorough remedies for crills fever rheumatism dispersia liver kidney trouble nervousness and debility. It touts appetite sleep and flesh regain with a wine glassful thrice daily amid light jokes about workers and wages.
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Hostetter
Tonii Ag
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Isora
Margaret Blount
Francis Kent
Helen Makham
Mins Wixslow
Mr. Cray
Dr. Pierce
Uing
World's Ispensary Medical Association
Main St
Buffalo
N. Y
Fred Hunt
Glenville
Schraqe
Reet
Chicago
Revuro
Willie
George
Jim
Hood
Mr. R. Forrestal
Hood’s
Tam
Ricuanp Fornestatt
Oelwein
Iowa
J. H. MicLean
Colchi
Colchester
Ster Rubber Co
Gounty
National Reform Press Association
N. RB. P.A
N. RP. A
Wastes Sewararea Assox
Daily Telegraph
UNION
Carcago
Dernorr
Ravens Ir
Des Moprins
Ostana
Lixconm
Wisfield
Dallas
Dexven
Bearts
Morgan Lee National Reform Press Associat
Walter Baker & CO
Walter
California
Grocas
Baker & CO
Dorchester