Nun on the Battle Field Franco Prussian War Scene
A poem recounts a grieving nun amid Franco Prussian War carnage. She tends a fallen soldier with tenderness and faith. Bullets strike nearby as she blesses God and dies, a martyrlike figure amid the crimson grass.
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D. Sullivan
New York Tablet
A Family of Longing and Lost Art in a Heat of August
A weary mother in a Maine inspired home reflects on a life divided between art and domestic duty. Crayons from youth evoke memories of a lost romance with Tom Vernon, wealth, and a failed marriage, as daughters later uncover the mother’s hidden artistic past. The piece blends memory, regret, and a quiet tragedy.
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Arthur
Maine
Aurillia Talmage
Tom Vernon
Hudson
Tom
Lonnie Scotland
Edna
Lucille
Mother
Mamin
Chicago Ledger
Boston Courier
Baron Treaxyson
Norristown Herald
Fall River
Papa
Onkers Gazette
Bread and field toil as cure for poverty rises
A broad argument asserts humanity can feed and clothe all, reclaim unused US land, and shift labor from clerks and shopkeepers to farming, with Virginia and Ohio cited as vast untapped acres and a critique of social inequities driving people to idle work.
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United States
Middle States
Virginia
Kentucky
Ohio
Indiana
South
Turkey
Palestine
Earth
Globe
Nature
Ditfer
Paris
America
David Swing
The Children Good Advice To Little Men
Poem offering moral guidance for boys with lines on truth, courage, kindness, and self control. Cites caution against slander, deceit, and rash action while urging restraint, honesty, and steady virtue. Attributed to D Miller M D.
Oddities and nature tales amid domestic life
A miscellany of short pieces on neatness shaping character, sea star biology, a clever monastery cat, ants and amber, a graveyard tale at You Bet, professor humor, a humorous divorce quip, and witticisms about names and manners.
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You Bet
Henry de Groot
Gasaway
The Paragrapher Snippets and Quotations Mix
Humorous quips and clipped anecdotes fill a column of assorted jests and verses. Brief musings touch on poetry, fortune, and daily life with names like Newman Independent and Chicago. The mix includes a stray note about whale bone prices, a Sunday school joke, and a stray line on Treland population decline.
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Manda L. Crocker
Simon
Boston
Philadelphia
New York Sun
Mother Earth
Yourh
Kamtchatka
Siberia
Irkutsk
San Francisco
California
Boatblack
Proverd
Brooklyn Times
The
Gazette Des Hopiteaux
Little Man
D. Miller, M. D
Conclave
South America
Africa
Floppy
Oman
Stockton Maverick
Dumley
Miss Doddclum
Peoria
Ill
Rascal
George Eliot
Barber’s Gazette
New Jersey
Newman Independent
Hall Times
Bos Ler Courier
St. Paul Herald
Carl Pretzel
Indianapolis Herald
Brooklyn
Johnny
Higginson
Treland