The House Where I Was Born
A poet recalls the old house of childhood in a Leslie’s Weekly piece. He paints decaying beams and empty rooms as symbols of time and lost innocence, noting the eastern window’s moon and star and the shift from wonder to disappointment. The memory ends with a question about prophecy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Leslie’s Weekly
Tommy
Philadelphia Bulletin
Kwoter
Newitt
Philadelphia Press
Wederly
Singleton
Chicago News
Willy
Santa Claus
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Daly
Riley
Brooklyn
John
Bagsleys
New Yorker
Reuben
Chicago Record-Herald
New York Weekly
Dashaway
C Cleverton
Bride
England
Miss Bosting
Miss Fluttey
Mr. Haggard
Miss Flurtey
McCall
de Coursey
Michael Brannigan de Coursey
Michael Brannigan
Samuel
Tom
Shadows Over the Dakota Ridge
Caleb Frye, a fragile young New Hampshire student seeking health, stays at John Driver’s Dakota ranch with Frances Darrow and Howard Deane. Frye, who loves Frances, overhears a romance between her and Deane, finds rare white asters, and contemplates his fading hope as autumn closes in. The scene sets a tragedy of unspoken love and unfulfilled longing amid the hills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dakota
Eid
Caleb Frye
New Hampshire
Old John Driver
Frances Darrow
Driver
John Driver
Howard Deane
Frye
Deane
Mr. Frye
Race With a Moose on Maine Highway
Ernest G. Judkins, bookkeeper for the Kineo company, had a remarkable highway encounter with a moose near Deer Head, Maine. He chased the animal for about half a mile, as his horse strained to catch the agile moose, before the creature vanished into the forest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Judkins
Maine
Ernest G. Judkins
Kineo Company
Deer Head
Ies Judkins
Mr. Judkine
New York Sun
Frivolous Notes From Laughing Pages
A collage of witty one liners and cartoon captions from early 20th century humor columns. Quick quips touch on society, money, marriage, and small embarrassments with a breezy, punchy tone. Names of magazines and writers appear as context for the jokes.
Student is mortally wounded by trap while pursuing a girl
In a prairie chase a student tries to stop a girl near a spring. Caleb Frye is wounded by a trap and dies on the grass as others carry him away. The scene ends with a hermit thrush song and the line I am going up the mountain path toward eternal summer.
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Aed
Caleb Frye
Deane
Frye
John Driver
Howard Deane
Chicago Record-Herald
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Mother Driver
Frances
Cordelia
Sarah
Detroit Free Press
Ayer
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Perrin
Reierson Machinery CO
Morrison Street
Oregon
Portland St. Helen’s Hall
Thos Gillard
Elgin
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Alot Hever
Merling Remedy Company
Chicago
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New York
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Menton Paper
Washington
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