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Newspaper
Pekin Advance
Location
Pekin, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1912
Page
3
Long town notes describe social visits, school progress, gatherings, and farming tasks. Mentions of D. Green’s illness, Alvada Graves convalescence, Jerry Brown’s Ill return, and local hunts, sales, and institute attendance. varias items include fox hunting, fur trading, and a final reflection on life and sea gulls by the river.
A hostess tells two young girls during a Christmas feast to choose between two apples. One apple is redder and sweeter, the other lighter. The mother urges fairness by imagining the father would share, while Esther asserts she is her mother’s child. The tale ends with the mother narrator recalling the scene.
Robert Luce, newly elected lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, began campaigning at age seven and stayed in politics his life. A precocious child, he attended Harvard, wrote for a Boston daily, and produced extensive literary work. He later recalled dining with William Dean Howells in London, who praised his growing writing talent despite his doubts.
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