Two Lovers and a Southern Widow at Oakdale Stable
Carstairs, a diffident racing man, visits the Witheringtons and befriends widow Clara Chalmers. Amid horse racing intrigue Princess Bonnie’s withdrawal reveals Clara’s Virginia roots and her bond with Carstairs as Phil’s illness shifts affections.
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Carstairs
Billy
Harvard
Witheringtons
North Broadway
Young Witherington
Philip
Phil Witherington
America
Guidders
Samuel
Phil
Fenny Dell
Witherington
Mrs. Chalmers
Johnson
Mr. Carstairs
Philip Witherington
Gaiely
Clara Chalmers
Mr. Carstraits
Old Carstairs
Clara
Ronald
Blount
Princess Bonnie
Crockett
Oakdale
John Stephens
Mrs. Witherington
Bonnie
Stephens
Sir Ronald
Billy Carstairs
John
Caratalis
Virginia
Bill McKinley and the Big McKinley Bill Song
A regional campaign verse from 1891 praising McKinley and his tariff bill. It claims labor prosperity, rising wages, abundant harvests, and growth in industry from east to west with ships, rail, mills, and Looms driving progress.
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Lloyd Wyman
Painesville
Maj. McKinley
Cleveland Leader
Bill M'Kinley
Bill McKinley
McKinley
Big McKinley
Bill
Popular Voice in 1906 Convention Supports McKinley Nomination
The St Louis convention is praised as faithfully representing the party’s wishes with strong support for Maj. William McKinley for president and a gold standard platform. Grover Cleveland is denounced within his own party, seen as the most unpopular figure amid internal splits during the year 1906.
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Republican Party
St. Louis
Maj
William McKinley
Grover Cleveland
New York
Whitney
Ohio
Judas Iscariot
Altgeld
Illinois
Cleveland
Delaware
Bayard
Viois
Judge Gresham
Massachusetts
Olney
Manning
Wairchild
Bissel
Lamont
Kentucky
Carlisle
Endicott
Mississippi
Lamar
Arkansas
Garland
Hoth
Georgia
Hoke Smith
Alabama
Herbert
Harmon
Nebraska
Sterling Morton
West Virginia
Fifty-Third Congress
Wilson
Chicago Inter Ocean
Emancipation Hopes Cited By Leslie's Weekly Chronicle
A brief note from Leslie's Weekly envisions future emancipation from untoward control, suggesting progress toward greater autonomy in coming years.
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Leslie’s Weekly
Party reform and the rise of a cleaner leadership
The article argues that party sentiment favors strong leadership freed from boss control. It notes several large states rejecting old party machines and placing trustworthy, reform-minded people in campaign management. It highlights shifting power away from entrenched rings and toward a broader, fresher party bloc.
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St. Louis
Bette
Indiana
Iowa
Missouri
Ohio
National Committee
Addicks
Delaware
Cuney
Texas
Political Drift Sparks Light on Democratic Platform
A roundup of editorials from Chicago papers and others criticizing the Democratic Party. They mock reform maneuvers by Cleveland and diehard sound-money leaders, warn of populist temptations, and argue past alliances doomed fiscal credibility.
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Chicago Times-Herald
Cleveland
Whitney
Democracy
Ben
Chicago Tribune
Carlisle
Chicago Inter Ocean
Democratic Party
Ma. Cleveland
Kingston
N. Y
Freeman
Troy Times
The Quirky Hen and a Daily Lesson
A poem about a brown hen that lays one egg daily from a tree. The speaker notes the oddity and draws a moral: do good works in the right place, as misdirected efforts yield little. Grade 8 students in Sharp, NY.
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Queer
Bombardier Beetle and Globe Fish Defensive Tricks
A Philadelphia Press item describes two sea and land creatures with unusual defenses. The bombardier beetle ejects a volatile fluid that forms a blinding blue smoke cloud and may be fired up to twenty times, though it usually ends its pursuit early. The globe fish inflates into a 12 to 16 inch globe with sharp spines to deter predators, then collapses back to escape.
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Philadelphia Press
Wrens Establish Cozy Home in Old Coat on Porch
A Greenfield resident described wrens nesting in a chilly old coat hung on a back porch. The tale notes a laborer’s coat used in cold weather and the wrens making a snug shelter in it.
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Ingiah
Mabel Taylor
Greenfield
Dave
Wrens
Wrens Shelter Nest in Farmer’s Pocket Tale
A Chicago Record note describes a wrens nest made from straw and strings inside a farmer’s pocket. The birds cozy the space, the wind rocks them to sleep, and when the farmer seeks his coat the nest is found and left intact, with wrens peeking out again.
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Wren
Chicago
Dog and master fish together on South Sialnfield stream
Sir William Clawson of South Sialnfield N D owns a highly intelligent fishing dog. The animal helps land fish by signaling bites and assisting when gigging, leaping into the water to grab caught carp and delivering them safely to shore. The dog reportedly never loses a fish.
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William Clawson
South Sialnfield
N. d
Clawson
Mr. Clawson
Cincinnati Enquirer
Nesting greybirds entertain residents in Jesmond doorway
In Jesmond England a pair of greybirds or song thrushes built a nest inside a house porch. Residents observed the birds repeatedly entering and leaving the nest without apparent disturbance to the “happy couple” as they collected feathers provided for nesting.
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Doorwiy
Jesmond
Ingland
Brave Boy Slays Bear in School Expedition Tale
Sidford Hamp narrates a September wildlife excursion with professor and ten pupils near Lincoln Peak. Phil, chasing a woolly animal, intervenes to rescue a fellow student from a grizzly. he splits the bear’s skull with an axe but suffers fatal chest wounds, collapsing beside the dead animal.
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Phil
Lincoln Peak
Tinkers
Ittle
Iestead
Blinkers
Bunkers
Sidford
Hamp
In &T. Nicholas
Oyster vs Crow on Suffolk Beach
A Suffolk beach tale recounts a crow seizing an oyster that opened to feed. The mollusk clamped shut, strangling the crow, which plummeted and died. The piece adds a note on the Belgian queen who plays the harp admirably.
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Oxford
Suffolk
Corvus
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Caroline Shelley
Patent Office of
Great Briting
M’kinley
Lucapo Inter-Ocean
Finnxey
Bombardier Beetle
Wriens
Vigtin
Faqing
Phi
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