The House on the Hill in The Children of the Night
A short review notes the House on the Hill as a bleak scene of loss. Roosevelt’s Outlook appraisal ties the poem to themes of absence and decay, with winds and ruin framing the halted memory of those gone away.
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Roosevelt
Treacherous Alps Capers End in High Profile Arrests
On the Jungfrau slope a staged alpine incident leads to the capture of Zimmer and Jones by Leroy. The narrator, held at risk on a perilous ascent with Miss Greystone and Pierre, learns Leroy’s ruse uncovered a network forging bank notes with plates from Turin.
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Abraham Kk. Greystone
Pierre
Miss Greystone
Florrie
Leroy
Zimmer
Hans
Henry Dozer
Jones
Fiarrie
Ben
Pep
Mountaineer
Herr Zimmer
Mr. Jones
Basel
Turin
Grindewald
Zimmer and Jones
Elsmeer
Grindelwald
Greystone
Europe
Immy
Jungfrau
Rascal
Bank of
France
Monsieur Leroy
Boston
William Buckley
The
Tatler
Making Silk Hats and the Malformed Forefinger
A silk hat maker explains hat construction from linen foundations to silk overcoat. He describes how heated brim shaping thickens his right forefinger making a long yellow horny nail. Hat curling is described as skilled, artistic work with distinct signatures. Boston Transcript notes the craftsman’s view.
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Boston Transcript
Brother of Pittsburg Phil Abjures Horse Racing Forever
William Smith, brother to the late Pittsburg Phil, declares horse racing a delusion and snare. He says he spent his fortune on the turf, notes increasing rivals and horses, and will quit racing after Phil’s death, keeping only small track visits. The World reports his verdict.
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William Smith
Pittsburg
Phil
Bill
Saratoga Track
New York World
The Comical Conflagration and Breakfast Banter
A fragment from Sunday Magazine portrays Gentle Jane dying in a humorous blaze and a scene with Mrs Starvem and Mr Newcome over breakfast. The exchange includes a desire for ten derloin steak poached eggs on toast lamb chops hot muffins coffee and cantaloupe.
Animated bustle at the picnic provokes ant hill joke
A reader recalls a story describing an animated bustle at a picnic and attributes it to someone sitting on an ant hill. The quip playfully links the phrase to the mishap, illustrating how a single mishap can spark a vivid local expression.
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Houston
Reverend dispute over foreordination and free will
The Rev. Dr and Rev. K Mowatt discuss the clash between foreordination and free will in a Chicago Tribune note. The debate recalls a sermon delivered six weeks earlier, suggesting unresolved doctrinal tension within their discussion.
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K. Mowatt
Chicago Tribune
Sunday-school Chorus Teases Eve’s Origin in Eden
A Cleveland Leader piece quotes a Sunday school exchange where a pupil asks if Adam was happy in Eden and the teacher replies that happiness ended when the Lord made him a wife.
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Adam
Garden of Eden
Yessum
Cleveland
Truthful or liar cited in Philadelphia Press quote
A fragment quotes Mr Goodman James and a character named Jimmy the office boy debating truthfulness. The Philadelphia Press commentary labels the speaker as a truthful man needing a liar. The passage reads as a snippet of street dialogue with no clear event or outcome given.
Propriety and gossip mix in midcentury column snippets
A collage of dated quips and clippings from papers like Detroit Free Press and Columbus Dispatch features humor about hotel keepers and proprietors, a minister as a sharp shadow, kitchen duties, and odd exchanges. It blends weather talk and light anecdotal lines, reflecting a bustling, gossip‑driven slice of life.
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Columbus Dispatch
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Harrison
Avenue, Montclair
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Chestnut Street
Bridge
Nod
Franklin
Park School Hall
T. S&s. Brown
H A. Connolly
Ernest V. Cockerarl
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Ruep
Munn & Co
Scientific American
Munn & Go
New York
F St
Washington, D.C
Napa
Washington
Ninth Street
United States
Omee
Washington, D. C
Giggone Domenigo
Chestnut St
Passaic Avs
Me Calls Go Magazine
Sam E the McCall CO
West 31St
Hobart Trust
Passaic, N. J
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Harry Meyers
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