Acrostic Love: Bank Clerk and Poet Find Bride on Bridge
Reggie Blake, a bank clerk in Raymead, writes a poem after an editor's note and initially misreads a romance as a misdirected acrostic. Dora Westwick, the real subject, and Blake meet on Campion Park bridge, fall in love, and discover the verse secretly addressed to her. The couple wed after a year of courtship and a playful reveal of the acrostic truth.
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Puss
Cii
Hsu
Titu
Baymend
Rerete Blake
The
Bik
Gasmead
Gasmead Was Dull Enough Aftrr the Exhilaration of Dite
Mr. Bloxam
Haymound Argus
Ran
John Bloxam
Repeie
Dane
Jock
Jeneth
K Brown
Hauke
Westwick
Campion Park
Regele Blake
Campion Villa
Reginald Hake
Mr Westwick
Desmesne
Blake
Dora Westwick
Raymead Argus
Reggie Blake
the Argus
R. B
Raymead
Weiting
Dora
Miss Westwick
Reggie
Pannell
Fiat
Curusse
Joora
Baymdad Argus
Bergie Blake
Jove
Ituggie
Chance
Indian Wealth from Oil in Creek Lands Spurs Wealth Boom
A Tulsa report explains Glenn pool oil yields 125000 barrels daily with Creek owners taking 12500 barrels a day worth about 41 cents per barrel. Royalties total 1872625 yearly to 120 owners averaging 15650 each, plus lease bonuses. Government oversight ensures steady monthly annuities and protection from selling rights.
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Glenn Pool
Glenn Poo
Tulsa
Kansas City Times
Hhis
United States
Supreme Court
Cleveland's Valuable Jade Book Worth 2000 in Market
A rare Heber Reginald Bishop collection titled Collection of Jade is housed in the Cuyahoga building safe in Ohio. The two volume, hand made book costs about 2000 per copy with 450 color illustrated pages, crushed levant binding, and copper plate etchings by eminent French artists.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cuyahoga Building
Ohio
Cleveland Public Library
Heber Reginald Bishop
Bishop
New York
Metropolitan Museum of New York
Europe
Cleveland
Levant
Pioneer 76-Year-Old Retraces Oregon Trail With Ox Team
Dezra Meeker, an Oregon pioneer aged 76, travels by ox team in a prairie schooner to Yonkers on a quest to revive the historic Oregon trail. He plans to reach New York City this week to present his mission to local authorities.
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Pioneer
Oregon Trail
New York
Dezra Meeker
Yonkers
New York City
Meeker
Washington
Missouri River
Pacific
Dave
The Rock of Ages Painting and its Profits
A historical account traces the Rock of Ages painting by Rev. Johannes A. Oertel. It summarizes its creation in Rhode Island, rise to fame via photographs and chromos, the earnings for James and Oertel, and its eventual copyright challenges and flooding market. It notes Oertel’s move to North Carolina and the copyright loss after rivals copied the design.
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Johannes A. Oertel
Bavaria
America
Newark
N. J
Westerly
R. I
National Academy of Design
New York
Oertel
James
Providence
R. J
Augustus Storrs
Brooklyn
Paris
London
Graves
Queen's
Liverpool
Chile
Pyrenees
Protestant Episcopal Church
Lenoir
North Carolina
Blood Spouting Lizard Confirmed by Scientist
New York Zoological Society curator Raymond Ditmars reports a Mexican horned lizard can emit a jet of blood from its eye. After photographing and measuring the reptile, a quick head lift and eye bulge produced a visible blood jet lasting about a second and a half, leaving a wall of 103 small blood spots.
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Southwest
Raymond Lee Ditmars
New York Zoological Society
Reporter's slips at Helicon Hall fire noted
Lippincott's recalls how a New York reporter miswrote Grace MacGowan Crooke as the cook and altered a line in Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poem My soul is a lighthouse keeper to My soul is a lighthousekeeper. The tale mocks rushed news gathering and typesetting errors in journalism.
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Lippincott’s
Helicon Hall
Upton Sinclair
Grace MacGowan Crooke
New York
Grace MacGowan
He who purposely eut his friend would cheat his God
The fragment suggests a moral edict about betrayal of a friend being a betrayal of divine principle. Readable words imply warning against intentional harm and hypocrisy, likely from a religious or ethical column in a historical paper. No clear events or names present.
Motor Proof Roads
A Philadelphia Press piece notes heavy high speed automobiles damage roads. It cites Singland and London Engineering on dust, surface wear, and stone road failures and argues roads must be built to bear motor traffic. A tar seal with fine stone dust plus sand can reduce dust for about 300 dollars per mile annually.
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Singland
London
Proposal links suffrage to domestic science precondition
A columnist argues women should have the ballot but requires ten years of domestic science study as a prerequisite. The piece frames the plan as a legal condition for voting rights, reflecting contemporary debates on civic duties and gender roles.
Transplanting the Old German Yew Breaks Records
The New York Sun reports a historic transplant at Frankfort on the Main where the 66 foot yew tree, about a century old, was moved a mile and a quarter from the old botanical garden to a new site. Preparations began three years ago with root tendril clipping and gradual lifting onto a 13 by 6 foot crate. The operation required a massive wagon, rollers, and timber supports to spare underground pipes, while the tree is watered daily and propped to stand against wind. Authorities hope it acclimates to the new home despite uncertain outcome.
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New York Sun
Frankfort-on-the-Main
Germany
Botanical Garden
Clams and a Wisconsin Governor Tale
A Cleveland Leader excerpt recalls a clambake joke about former Wisconsin Governor Jere Rusk. The tale centers on a banter over clams and “low necks” versus “little necks” and ends with a guest calling the governor a fool at the seashore.
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Cleveland
Jere Rusk
Wisconsin
New Jersey
Rusk
Dan
Jere
Envy and Wrath Shorten a Man's Days
A fragment from Evessiast'icus warns envy and wrath shorten life while true gladness and joy extend days. The aphorism notes care accelerates aging, contrasting negative emotions with a contented heart's longevity.
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Jas
Don
Ezra Meeker
His
Ezra Melker
Philadelphia Press
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