Storm and Sea Destiny on Florida Coast Romance
In the wake of a devastating cyclone, Patrick Cambel and Elsie Kildare endure a perilous night on a wrecked pier. They confess love as they cling to survival, then face a fortune earned through dubious means and a moral crossroads after dawn.
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Pisie
Pat
Cambel
Camber
Elsie Kildare
Elsie
Patrick Cambel
Sam
Gulf
Point Sebastian
Cambell
Teo
Tisie
Florida
Miss Kildare
London
Everglades
Port Edes
Nutt
Het Ouly
Social Hour Notes on Spooner and Moral Tales
Hudson resident deplores Senator Spooner resignation praising him as a top legal mind. The column weaves anecdotes about Spooner, a New York broker, a school pin tale, and a Harvard preacher, ending with a joke about appendices and moral nature amid Torreyite clashes.
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Hudson
Wis
Spooner
Senate
Aweel
The Cyclone Night on the Hotel Piazza
A sultry tropical evening at a hotel on the pier drives Cambell and Miss Kilgare to wander the boardwalk. They fear a storm as thunder crashes overhead and a heat wave keeps everyone indoors while the sea and town seem to close in.
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Cambell
Miss Kildare
Miss Kil- Gare
Cembel
Cambel
Sebastian
Do You Wear a Soup Strainer
A witty exchange on manners at the beach pits a stylish couple against social pretense. A pretty girl chides a man for licking soup from his mustache after every bite, arguing it is rude and unsanitary. The scene ends with a pointed remark about romance and etiquette.
Reference Request From Discharged Servant
Dialogue shows a discharged servant asking for a reference. The employer derides the request while the servant insists on a civil citation of four months lived in the household as a possible inference for future employment. The exchange highlights class and judgment themes in a domestic setting.
A Lawyer's Recipe For Mending Hearts
A playful verse frames a lawyer offering a cure for a broken heart. He suggests a timeless remedy, a cement made from gold dissolved in a woman’s tears, as the secret to healing love’s wounds.
Ungrounded daydream or a novel moment misread
A young man in Harper’s Weekly is troubled by a remark from Alice about home life after work. He wonders if she meant a scene like a novel with him reading, comforting, and erasing her cares. He voices concern that the idea may be misinterpreted.
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Pat
Cambell
Timbuktu
Ibly
Mabel
Cambe
Mabel Duvernay
Mabel Kildare
Harper's Weekly
Alice
War era peddler tale sparked Decoration Day musing
Ex-Congressman Cowherd recalls a Jackson County ferns peddler during the war to note that even on Decoration Day the crisis keeps people at home. The anecdote links patriotism with a light jab about ferns versus army service.
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Bill Club
Jefferson City
William
Cowherd
Jackson County
Camphor Grove Plan Highlighted by Hood in Florida
S F Hood of the agriculture department aims to beat the camphor trust by developing camphor groves in Florida. At a Huntington dinner celebrating distillation of camphor leaves he shared a seasonable agricultural anecdote about suburban planting and unusual seed repurposing.
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S. F. Hood
Department of Agriculture
Florida
Huntington
Governor Hughes Corrects Misquote At Delmonico Dinner
New York Governor Hughes joked about a misquote from a prior article during a Delmonico's dinner. He noted the error was accidental and caused him discomfort until it was fixed. The anecdote referenced Schenectady, a fortune hunter rumor, and a wedding tale with a typographical blunder ending oddly.
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Hughes
New York
Delmonico’s
Schenectady
The Voiling of Yvonne at Brittany Coast Rescue
In Brittany a Breton girl Yvonne saves two American sailors Marlin and Elphinstone as a storm drives them toward danger. She lowers a hair rope tied to her bonnet as a lifeline, guiding them to shore near St Malo. The rescue ends with Yvonne speaking of paradise and Rat-a-Pat.
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Stote
Breton
Brittany
Paris
Marlin
Elphinstone
Harvard
Henley
St. Malo
Eyrie
Yvonne
Mame
Nol
Elpinstone
Martin
Jack
Jacque
Seu
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Theodore Shells
Keys
Harriman
Ile
Johnny Jones
Johnny
Boston Transcript
Samuel van Vranken Holmes
Buffalo
Charles J. Bayne
W. R. Hearst
Rat-a-Pat
M'Sea Marin
Mphinstone
Belgium
Victoria
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