The Farm Childs Lullaby
A lullaby poem about a sleeping child amid harvest imagery. It envisions safety and plenty through winter, with animals and nature joining in the refrain of bye to the little one. The verse celebrates abundance and reassurance as winter approaches.
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Bob White
Leax
Lippincott’s
A Summer Journey of a Poverty-Stricken Office Girl
The tale follows Jo a Sharp & Sniper’s clerk of twenty three with two dependent sisters who rejects a marriage proposal while recounting poverty and toil. She injures her pride on a lonely train journey to St Paul where Fred Langley reappears revealing he found her old letter and reunites briefly amid family hardship.
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Fred Langley
Sharp & Suiper’s
Sharp & Sniper's
Egg
Dells
Witch's Gulch
Devil’s Elbow
Fred
Sophia
Mark
May
Judge Featherby
Sharp & Sniper’s
Sid
St. Paul
Wisconsin Prairies
Illinois
Iowa
Milwaukee
Teachers’ Association
Mr. Langley
Sis
Mignon
Boundary Line
Minnesota
Mississippi
Minnehaha Springs
Minneapolis
St. Anthony’s
Women and Matrimony and Men Who Refuse to Marry
Essay notes a counter view to Maud Gonne's stance that a woman of brains should not marry. It cites Mrs. Payne Whitney Myra Kelly and others who pursued careers after marriage, and highlights Mrs. Leon-Whitney Mrs. Clarence Mackay Mrs. Sage and their public roles and charity work.
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Maude Gonne
Capt. McBride
Paris
Pittsburg
Joan of Arc
Payne Whitney
Helen Hay
Myra Kelly
Miss Kelly
East Side
Leon-Whitney
Clarence Mackay
Long Island
Russell Sage
PUBLIC SIGNS OF MOURNING IN DC DRAW CRITICISM
Washington Post examines the excesses of official mourning in the national capital noting draped offices and near continual half mast flags. The piece argues reforms reduced department closures to funeral days but decries ostentatious displays that obscure who is being mourned.
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Congress
Root
Hay
Washington
Washington Post
Gathering the Herbs From Old Maine Traditions
An article notes how Mainers historically gathered herbs for remedies. Pennyroyal spearmint and peppermint wild catnip goldthread and burdock leaves were dried for canker coughs and colds Thoroughwort lobelia wintergreen smaltweed mayweed checker berry Labrador tea and chokecherries are stored with rum for stomach pains.
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Bangor News
Praise and Gratitude Teach Margaret New England Manners
Old Lady Hanson disciplines her granddaughter Margaret with praise withheld and tasks to earn approval. Margaret, initially hurt, learns to sweep, cook, wash, and iron to win her grandmother’s favor. The exchange ends with a cautious compliment and the reminder that perfection comes slowly.
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Hanson
Margaret
New England
Pilgrim’s Progress
Deepest Australian Gold Mine Reaches New Depths
The New Chum Railway mine at Bendico Australia holds the world deepest gold mine title with a main shaft plunging to 3900 feet nearly three quarters of a mile, marking a historic depth milestone.
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Bendico
Australia
New Chum Railway
German doctors urge ending afternoon study vows
After reviewing 16 000 scanned records, three German medical experts argue that afternoon vows or long study sessions exhaust students and harm vitality, urging abolition of such practices.
Local Reporter Seeks News. Judge Delivers Wry Quote
A reporter asked a man for news today and received the judge style remark that he knows nothing in particular. The exchange highlights a humorous, resigned response amid a quiet day in town.
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News Today
First American Automobile Displayed in Racine Photo
A vintage illustration shows the first American automobile, tied to Racine Wisconsin, featuring a vertical engine in the rear axle. Rev J W Carhart, linked to the Texas project, describes a noisy erratic contrivance that scared horses and was banished from public highways after an accident that killed a horse and seriously injured the owner.
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Racine
Wis
America
J. W. Carhart
Texas
Taxpayers Eye Legal Action Against Alleged Fraudster
A terse community note indicates taxpayers consider pursuing legal action over alleged fraud. The report names no individuals but mentions a single attorney involvement and ongoing scrutiny of the case.
Notable Book Notices and Author Visits Stir Readers
Elizabeth Cher Waltz enjoys wide success with The Ancient Ha mark. Miss May Sinclair plans a country visit while E P Dutton & Co publishes The Russian Revolutionary Movement by Knoxni Zilliacus. George H Warner, author of The Jewish Specter, winter sites in Tryon, N C. Frederick Chamberlain writes Round the World in Ninety Days travel sketches. Joel Chandler Harris releases Told by Uncle Remus. Florence Kelley edits The Right to Childhood and other rights. Arthur Stringer crafts a desk from wreckage. Edna Dean Proctor’s Songs of America includes Columbia's Emblem. Unitarian Association issues Augustus Conant in True American Types.
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Miss May Sinclair
E. P. Dutton & Co
Kxonni Zilliacus
George H. Warner
Tryon
N. C
Warner
Charles Dudley Warner
Frederick Chamberlain
Boston
World
Philippines
Remus
Joel Chandler Harris
Florence Kelley
National Consumers’ League
Macmillan Company
Citizens’ Library
Arthur Stringer
O’malley
Lake Erie
Stringer
America
Europe
Australia
American Unitarian Association
Augustus Conant
Robert Collyer
Illinois
Johnny Gilley
Maine
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard
Nic
Fragmented musings on travel and town life in a Minneapolis page
The text presents a jumble of reflections and anecdotes about travel, urban changes, and local figures in Minneapolis. It references shifts in venues, banker conversations, and a sense of widespread curiosity about progress, with scattered names and places embedded in a noisy, incomplete narrative.
Harvest Moon Bash by the Barn and a Red-Ear Kiss
A narrative poem recollects a harvest night under a pumpkin moon bright as noon. A narrator boasts husking corn, sees Si Smith kiss Samantha Ladd, and narrowly outdoes him with two red ears while teasing the rival and the crowd.
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Jones’ Huskin’ Bee
Si Smith
Samantha Ladd
Weighty Matter and Honeymoon Pinch in Happieman Dialog
Mr Happieman jokes about a honeymoon and wealth while Mrs Happieman reveals she is solving a problem of saving enough money to live in style. The exchange highlights their concern with finances and future lifestyle as they discuss how long it will take to save a sufficient sum.
Preacher and Masseuse Debate on Work and Interest
A garbled line suggests a preacher discusses his work while a different speaker, a woman, voices complaints about interest. An Atchison man favors squash as a good idea, hinting at local humor or opinion polls.
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Atchison
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