An Autumn Prayer Recited in Autumn Leaf Imagery
A Baltimore American poem reflects on autumn leaves, love, and the cycle of life. It contrasts vibrant fall colors on Olympia old Wasaes water with life’s fragility, wishing for endless sweet days, and ends with a plea for a peaceful gloaming when life slow.
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Baltimore American
Cruel Measures Rally Troops in Philippine Skirmish
In Camp Chicobang the captain argues war ethics as Wilcox, a cadet, witnesses brutal reality. A night raid yields captives and a grisly grave scene where Ellard and Brady are found, Brady dead, Ellard bound. Wilcox shoots insurrectos after Brady’s burial, muttering that cruelty follows necessity.
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Messares
United States Army
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Ellard
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Enormous U S Egg Crop Outpaces Other Industrials
Success Magazine notes the United States egg and poultry earnings at 280 million dollars for a recent year, surpassing values of gold, silver, wool, sugar, and tobacco. Home wheat, hogs, oats, and other crops trail behind, with the egg trade forming a vast, almost train-length shipment of crates and cars.
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United States
America
Staples
Success Magazine
Separation Advice Mocked by Magistrate in Cruelty Exchange
A humorous tale transposed from Jugend shows a man seeking divorce assistance. The magistrate asks about the wife’s faults, and the applicant claims brutality and mistreatment. The magistrate jokes that no help is available and suggests the SPCA instead.
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A Correction on Honor and Profit in Detroit Tribune
A quoted dialog from the Detroit Tribune contrasts honor and profit as a correction to a familiar saying. The exchange centers on recognizing misapplied esteem and the ease of being imposed upon by goodwill.
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Detroit Tribune
Perils of Surf Bathing Urge Precaution and Lifesaver on Duty
The Savannah News argues surfing risks persist despite laws lowering accidents. It urges a trained lifesaver with a long line on duty at beaches, constant watch for distress, and proactive safety measures to protect bathers from strong currents and reckless moves.
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Savannah News
Selous Notes Doves Courtship Through Feigned Bowing
Edmond Selous observes doves bow during combat and nesting as a courtship ritual. He argues the bowing evolved from feeding behavior and may illuminate the origin of human kissing, noting the parallel pleasure birds derive from billing and feeding contact.
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Edmond Selous
Cheerfulness as a Remedy for Illness
A Success Magazine piece argues cheerfulness is a sovereign remedy that boosts patient recovery. It says a physician's hopeful presence inspires confidence, improves outcomes, and even lifts long bedridden patients by contagious optimism and mental influence.
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Success Magazine
Daily Recitation Shows Faith Behind Frugal Sardine Meal
Detroit Trillane notes that faith makes it possible for a man to eat a cheap can of sardines in daily recitation. The piece uses a homespun voice to frame thrift and belief as practical supports.
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Detroit Trillane
girl works to remove street wear and iron dresses
A girl resolves to change her life by leaving the streets and spending part of the week ironing and preparing her clothes. The plan aims to present a more respectable appearance and preserve dignity.
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Tia
Patience and Charity in Raising a Boy Guidance
The piece reflects on parenting, praising patience as key and noting charity toward a son. It hints at future study of cannibal races to determine if any eat their kin, suggesting curiosity about unusual cultures.
Senator Mitchell Life’s Bitter Public Private Plight
A New York Press profile recounts Senator John H. Mitchell’s tumultuous life mating two families. Born John Hipple, he fled Pennsylvania amid a vengeance feud, changed his name, built a career in Oregon, and later became a prominent senator with a large, divided family and a life kept private for twenty two years in office.
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Pennsylvania
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Senator Mitchell
Sarah Hoon
Hipple
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San Francisco
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Tradition of the flood among Pueblo Indians tale
The Pueblo children shape a clay Noahs ark with animals like mountain goats and antelope. A flood myth recounts a great deluge, a giant turtle appearing, a sacrifice of a youth and maiden, water vanishing, and the people migrating northward to a dry region.
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Noah
Spectacles Captivate Audience at Arctic Explorer Talk
The lecturing arctic explorer declares some spectacles unforgettable as audience member Farmer Fodder asks for the maker's address. The exchange appears in a Cleveland Leader themed reader's note with rural dialect and local curiosity.
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Cleveland
His Remedy Causes Schism In Home In New Orleans Paper
A fragment notes a household rift sparked by a remedy and a flirtation theories, with the Times Democrat reference suggesting social tension. The readable lines hint at personal conflict and moral questions within a family.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Anonymous Novels and Noted Figures in Late Nineteenth Century Letters
The piece surveys anonymous literary works from The Macmillan Co and profiles Gustave Kobbe as a longtime music critic. It notes Abbotsford visitors and mixed commentary by Ruskin and Dean Stanley, and discusses Dr Felix Adler as a philosopher and ethicist at Columbia. Hon J M Longley comments on shifts in magazine content toward entertainment and progress reporting.
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Sign of the Fox
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Signora
Abbotsford
Walter Scott
John Brown
Ruskin
Dean Stanley
Felix Adler
Adler
Columbia University
Internationa Journal of Ethics
J. M. Longley
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View of the Grand Canyon from a photographer’s romance
A desert journey to the Grand Canyon ends with a blindfolded reveal atop a cliff as a wife contemplates the vast, colored depths. The tale, from McClure’s Magazine, pairs wilderness awe with a painter husband’s cautionary passion and a dramatic vow about never trying to paint that scene.
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Grand Canyon
McClure
Fragmented meditation on ambition and social classes
A scattered excerpt discusses estate, wealth, and leadership with references to New York and public figures. It touches on insurance bonds, trust, and the urge for progress, while questioning who will lead and who can attain status in a changing society.
Making an Audience Laugh Says Warfield on Humor
David Warfield argues true humor cannot be taught but must be felt or understood by the comedian. He notes American audiences prefer restrained humor and stresses grasping the line of thought behind a joke to truly communicate its humor. He also says overloading a fast worker spurs frustration.
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David Warfield
Success Magazine
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