Fragmented verse and sharp rebuke in a Philadelphia lodger note
A terse, antiquated quatrain mocks time and pleasure while pleading for a moment of lingering comfort. It ends with a dismissive command from Albert E. Hant in Philadelphia lodging.
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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1893
Page
4
A terse, antiquated quatrain mocks time and pleasure while pleading for a moment of lingering comfort. It ends with a dismissive command from Albert E. Hant in Philadelphia lodging.
The report details Joseph Fellows of Pros tavenne disputing a $1 7400 payment from FE Fox Co Kansas City connected to the Louisiana State Lottery. He recounts legal delays and attempts to recover his winning ticket, with involvement from lawyer Stone and scrutiny of a ticket seller in a complex fraud case.
A column quotes readers on inflated fire loss estimates in frame towns and a physician noting the tendency to overstate losses. It also mentions scientists forecasting Earth's collapse from gas activity, a Leeds England joke about abolishing the decalogue, and anecdotes on royal drawing rooms and healthful room ventilation.
A windowed narrator recounts years of watching Simon Webber and a child, misread attractions, and a haunting past. Webber reveals a life tied to a street corner, a doomed romance with Katie Allen, a lineman’s rescue, a vanished wife, and the red tenement’s demolition.
A garbled selection of quoted opinions and misread lines from Truth and London Truth and the Washington Star. The text juxtaposes a pawnbroker dispute over a shrunk suit with an aside about social climbing and a child’s curiosity about a centipede. It reads like an OCR mishmash of vintage clips.
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