Cemetery Ride and a Shattered Life
A driver picks up a thin man carrying flowers heading to Cypress Hills Cemetery during a heavy rainstorm. The man recalls his wife Martha, who spent her life trying to elevate him from a mill bookkeeper, revealing fragile, intimate pain and the sudden fragility of life.
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Cypress Hills
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The Build Up by Rube Goldberg
A fragmentary piece describes a narrator's partner Martha boasting about improbable feats and disguising truths about a mill payroll heist. The tale hints at broken heart spells and medical concerns, with a casual, humorous tone.
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Rube Goldberg
Town Dinner Speech Blunder Ends Quietly
The narrator recounts Martha pushing him toward a grand speech for Mr Clawson and the town council. He endures a lively prep, but at the dinner he is skipped, the crowd enjoys others, and his hoped surprise speech never comes, leaving him with a dreadful feeling and Martha disappointed.
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Clifton Hotel
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Bank
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How to Prepare Cement Floors for Rubber Base Paints
Rubber base paints resist alkali and are used on cement floors and basements. Remove old paint with paint remover, wash with turpentine, dry thoroughly. Etch new or old floors with muriatic acid solution then rinse and dry. Apply two coats, ensuring the first is dry before the second.
Orange Pumpkin Pie and Other Desserts for Fall Menus
Rich pies and pastry ideas for cooler weather with new crusts and fillings. Includes Orange Pumpkin Pie recipe and variations like Lemon Chiffon Pie and Honey Crumb Pie, plus fruit fillings and methods. Provides step by step baking temps and ingredients.
Sewing Circle Patterns for Simple Jumper and Blouse
Fashion pattern description for a school jumper with two shoulder buttons and a nipped waist, plus a puffed sleeve blouse with a peter pan collar. Pattern No 1678 offers sizes 4 6 8 10 and 12 years, with yardage for jumper and blouse. Also features a princess frock pattern No 1674 in sizes 12 14 16 18 and 20 with minimal pieces. Send orders to Fashion magazine.
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Crossword Puzzle Solution Clue List for Puzzle 81
A compact answer list of crossword clues including horizontal and vertical entries with definitions and solutions. Names include Faith, Odour, Iberian terms, and animal and object clues across and down with standard crossword conventions.
Question and trivia prompts from Ask Me Another
A list of ten trivia questions covering caste counts border canal length fox native status gravity least force taste tuna names Shakespeare wife fortune telling feet Belgian Shakespeare introduction of smoking and pre Columbian tobacco use with a note on East Indian smoking before Christ
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India
Panama Canal
North America
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Mixed breeding changed the red fox in this country
Between 3 000 and 4 000 miles separate shores. The native American red fox mixed with the European red fox after 1750 yielding the present fox. Equator, horse mackerel, long-distance running favors the man. Ann Hathaway. In China, palm and nail readings by fortune tellers. Maeterlinck.
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Ann Hathaway
China
Maeterlinck
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