Cricket Chorus Signals Summer’s End and Renewal
Lucy Le K Hart in the Boston Evening Transcript reflects on the cricket’s song as summer wanes and autumn promises renewal. The poem pairs summer’s joys with its fading pains, then imagines courage, fireside gatherings, and productive return as days shorten.
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Boston Evening Transcript
Romance on Easter in St Augustine Ends in Gunboat Wedding
A dramatic Easter Sunday tale unfolds in St Augustine as two lovers in naval and tourist attire elude guardians, meet a plan by a scheming guide, and wed aboard a gunboat with Marines as sponsors while onlookers cheer and a furious father and heiress watch. The tale closes with the Angelus over the sea as the couple sails away.
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Is Away From Home A Bartow Philosopher Reflects On Life
In this Columbus era reminiscence Bill Arp writes of a wife away at a daughter’s, the home welcome on her return, and the surprise paint job that rekindles affection. He muses on birds, flowers, nature, faith, and domestic life, praising small acts of love over wealth and fame while weaving biblical references and rural life observations.
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Running Express Trains and the Endurance of Locomotive Men
Cleveland Moffett describes the nerve and brain strain of drivers on fast express services from New York to Chicago. He notes that relays of 14 engines and crews are needed for a single round trip and that even the fittest engineers endure only hours at high speed before exhaustion. The piece discusses human limits and the challenge of finding operators for future 150 mph locomotives.
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New York
Chicago
Southern wealth from farms to factories boosts regional prosperity
A 1900 table cited by the Atlantic Constitution and Memphis Commercial Appeal argues southern agriculture yields exceed 1.2 billion dollars annually, with total regional production near 3 billion when mineral and manufactured goods are added. It urges farmers to hold land as prices rise and notes uncounted mercantile and railroad assets.
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Memphis
Union
Blimber Sees Rhythm in Click of Typewriter Keys
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes Blimber finds poetry in the rhythmic clack of a typewriter. He comments on a charming typewriter girl in his circle as part of the portrait.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Equable climate sparks southern progress praise
A Southern Cultivator note declares that the south will become the garden spot of America as observers acknowledge evident progress and a favorable climate. The remark emphasizes optimistic regional development and the potential for growth driven by steady climate and improvement.
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South
America
Life of the farmer and the life outside the city
A patriotic essay extols farming as the noblest occupation and the source of virtue and peace. It contrasts rural life with urban vice, praising agricultural science, animal care, and nature, while condemning cities for smoke, noise, and moral decay. The author invokes divine purpose, historical praise, and cites Texas Farm and Ranch as the remedy.
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Assyria
Rome
Satan
Texas Farm
Homesickness in Animals and People
A farm note explores homesickness in horses and cows. It describes horses running home across rivers to familiar stables and pastures, neighing loudly upon nearing their old grounds, and a stolen horse returning after five days. Cows away from home show milk yield drops for up to ten days, upsetting buyers.
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Aorse
Jim
Farming notes on cattle, crops, and new products
A compilation of agricultural guidance and observations covering cattle improvement through bulls, pasture water management, weed control, sugar production from cane and beets, the growing reach of telephone services to farmers, and the emergence of evaporated eggs as a durable new product.
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Michigan
Mckinley’s Kind Heart Tales of Forgiveness and Faith
An old editor and bitter rival meets McKinley in past clashes. After libel suspicions and reversals, the editor seeks forgiveness, becomes a laborer, and later receives a presidential gesture of recognition. He eventually finds a comfortable berth, while prayers for the president and his former foe echo at Metropolitan church.
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Prohibition Ox Joke Reflects Moral Quandary
A diner jokes about the deceased’s lifestyle and religion while ordering a “Latter Day Saint Prohibition ox” well done. The vignette, cited to the New York Times, satirizes Prohibition era attitudes toward morality, religion, and politics in a single humorous exchange.
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New York Times
Post Puts Family Clothes Pole Upright Then Overbalanced by Sparrow
Jimson built a clothes post in the garden and fixed it upright. Ten minutes later the post lay across the onion bed after a sparrow perched on top and caused it to topple. Jimson accused his son, who swore a sparrow caused the mischief.
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