The Squire's Daughter and the Half Church Between
A narrator watches the squire's daughter in church, lamenting the distance between them. He muses on class barriers and longing as the stained glass light falls on her, creating a dream of romance across a half church. The refrain repeats how there is only half a church between them.
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Tam
Tsay
Kedzie
The
Agricultural College
Lansing
Mich
Boston
Bodleian Library
Charles
Edward Hyde
Earl of Clarendon
Weare
Tunbridge
Earl
Wensday
New Yorker
Cupid
Texas
Anvnip Evangelist
Hell
Nellie Gray
Boston Courier
The Wayward Son and a Father’s Silent Grief
An elderly man recalls a noble yet ruined youth whose letters disclosed a fatal end and a mother’s despair. A stranger listens as the tale of happiness, loss, and the unspoken ties of family unfolds, ending in a tragic roadside embrace and a quiet disappearance.
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Edmund
Earth
Gentl
Senkon
Oman
Edward Dilson
Edward
Cather
The Little Folks Features Tales and Garden of Crows
A blend of children’s tales from Golden Days and St Nicholas includes a moral demon stration with Theoretic Turtle, a clever crow in Plainville Connecticut, and a charity tale where Madge and siblings share five cent pieces to aid poor Jane and her mother. Also notes on Lyre invention and curious facts about Siberia’s coldest place and a Georgia student surviving on 30 cents a week.
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Mary
Germantown
Plainville
Conn
Unionville
Frederick Hart
Shanghai
Robbie
Ernest
Harry
Madge
Tim
Tarry
Siear Jim
Mamma
Jane
How New Orleans Narrowly Escaped Destruction
Butler recalls Farragut's earlier capture of New Orleans. A plan to fire on the city was foiled when a lookout, aided by a religious Farragut, delayed the broadside. Mumford, a gambler, tore down the flag from the customs house and was later hanged after appeals failed. Butler valued information from African Americans and kept discipline with stern justice.
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New Orleans
Mumford
Butler
Metropols
Farragut
Wartford
Bylis
United States
Custon-House
Hartford
Tarragut
Gen. Butler
Massachusetts
Kautz
John Lt. Broome
Canal Street
Custom House
Bell
Buchanan
Jeff Davis
Nightmarish humor and oddities fill a dusty column
A collage of quips, jokes, and anecdotes from old newspapers. The piece weaves satire on singing, fashion, faith cures, courtship, editors, and wedding lore with brief sketches of a blind humorist and a returned carpenters tale about a dead rat under a floorboard.
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Sriv
Wayward Son
Arvide Baldwin
Litle
Our
Father Wyan
Father Ryan
Detroit Free Press
Cologne Cathedral
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
New York City
Pacific Coast
Ifi Onty
Tin Beaver
Wells
St. Nicholas
East
Esther J
Paul
David
Ewes
Pesalin
Isaiah
Col
Acts
Zachariah ii
Philemon i
Timothy
Sam
Eather
Ll Smart Crow
Greece
Asia Minor
Egypt
Werkhofanck
Siberia
Turenie
Athens
Curva
Bien Butler
New Orlea
Arkansaw Traveler
Ayn Arkan
Justice of the Peace
Arkensaw
Estelline Bell
Nellia Gray
Nellie
Roscor Ge Onkling
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