The Story of a Grave and Hawkins in the Desert
Hawkins, a grim hotel clerk in a desert refuge for invalids, becomes obsessed with a grave and a dead enemy. Haunted by visions, he slowly softens, redeems himself, and dies at the grave after a pilgrimage driven by guilt, love, and repentance.
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Hawkins
Dia
Sing
Hawking
Aleekly
Trenzind
Desort
Hawkine
Thwekée
Hawkins Siut
Cay
Melville Echoes on a Summer Piazza
The narrator compares a tranquil summer scene to the sea, noting rolling grain like waves and dandelion spray on a quiet piazza. Herman Melville’s voice surfaces as a distant, uncanny parallel to distant shores and unseen houses beyond the trees.
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Melvilly
Herman Melville
Poisoned Gloves in Royals Mystery Across Paris Notre Dame
The article recounts historic speculation on Queen Jane of Navarre’s death, blaming a perfumed glove poison linked to Catherine de Medici and a Florentine perfumer. It notes the royal wedding in Notre Dame amid rumors, the examiners’ caution, and the era’s disbelief in visible poison traces. It then shifts to a brief history of mapmaking from Tahiti to Ethiopia, mentioning Sethus I and Rameses II.
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Jane
Navarre
Paris
Prince of
Margaret
L Fee
Nathaniel Wraxwell
France
Rane
Florence
Florentine
Catherine de Medici
Wraxwell
D’aubigne
Europe
Cathedral of
Notre Dame
Margaret of
Valois
Tahiti
Peru
Sethus I
Rameses II
Aristagoray
Not Bigger but Higher and a Village Tale
A short tale about Geneva three years old who compares a creek and river on a motor trip to a town by the Ohio River. A relative tests her, and she asserts the river is higher, not much bigger. The second vignette shows Mrs Dawkins facing gossip later proved a lie, with skepticism about the truth.
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Geneva
aWell
Great Speed Under Difficulties
Extract from the New York Evening Post October 2 1807 notes Fulton’s steam boat left New York with ninety passengers for Albany against a headwind and was judged to move six miles an hour despite difficulties.
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New York Evening Post
Fulton
New York
Albany
Bank Statement Certification in Jones County Iowa
We, M. J. McNeilly president and C. A. Burmeister cashier, of the named bank, swear the financial statement is full true and correct to the best of our knowledge and belief.
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Center Junction
Iowa
Jones
A. LD
Jones County
M. J. McNeilly
C. A. Burmeister
A. Burmeistier
Bertha M. S. Burmeister
J. M. Young
J. M. Moses
J. B. Hanken
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Macmillan Co
Manhattan
Girl Scout
eTtoda
Mrs. A
Mrs. Dawkins
Mr. A
S.seceseeseoee
Jones County Fair Association
Speed Department
Princessei Reisettre
Miscelian
Faex
T J. Georgi
Deering
Dane
U. S
de Laval
Emerson Brantingham
Roy Cooley
Chas. Burmeister
Edison
Frank A. Locher
ICES
Vaporub
A. M. Maurice
Dd. S
Lowell
Greenberg Furs
Charles Greenberg
Chas. Greenberg Furrier
Second St
Cedar Rapids, Ta
Cedar Rapids
2Nd St
12Th Ave
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Michigan
Chicago
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