Light in Dark Days and Winter’s Quiet Scene
Fragmentary verse evokes winter, drifting whiteness, distant birds, and waning cheer, with a call to return to music and memory amid muted days.
Plainfield Courier in Plainfield, New Jersey
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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1891
Page
4
Sailor's tale of a stolen joss idol and a Salem romance
A seafaring narrator recalls chasing romance with Mrs. Crowninshield aboard the Coromandel. He plans to gift curios including a life like idol from a joss house in Sri Lanka, steals it, is thwarted by a river capsize and a native rescue, later replacing it with a blessed copy. The tale ends with Mrs. Crowninshield welcoming him and her baby’s birthday party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare Kinghan
Salem
Mass
Sandseman
Ack Crowninebield
Clara Kinghan
Boston
Crowninshield
Williams
Jack Crowninehleid
Coromandel
Colombo
Kaduwena
Kalang River
Leasily
Buddha
Joss House
Capt. Crown
Ableld
Tom Jackson
Tom
The Mean Thing and Portrait Dilemma at Miss Clamwhopper's
Miss Clamwhopper asks about a portrait from Dobineky and contemplates another writing to match her hair color. Miss Snobberly notes the issue while a servant could deliver the work. Texas Lift mentions China and twenty seven American merchants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clamwhopper
Miss
Dobineky
Miss C
Stee
Texas
China
Madagascar Christmas Dual Year and Two Climates
The Chicago Herald notes Madagascar marks Christmas twice yearly with two New Years observances. Queen Panavalona governs from Antananarivo as Madagascar features tropical coast and cool interior, two fauna and flora classes, and a native Malagasy language.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madagascar
Antananarivo
Panavalona
Lesiaud
France
Moountain
Chicago Herald
The Illuminated Quadruple Constellation Masthead Explained
A 1869 St. Louis Republic report details the largest newspaper ever published in the United States, the Illuminated Quadruple Constellation in New York. At 70 by 100 inches, 8 pages, 13 columns per page, it sold for fifty cents, weighed heavily, with portraits of major figures, the Moon Hoax piece, and a cost of $60 per ream to print.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
James Buchanan
Edward Everett
Henry Ward Beecher
N. P. Banks
Erwin H. Chapin
Horace Greeley
Elizabeth Barrett Browing
Alexander von Humboldt
James Gordon Bennett
Braddock
Monongahela
New York Lad
George Roberta
St. Louis Republic
Women of Turkey and Indians in Delaware Bay
Constantinople letters describe worshippers at St Sophia with heavy veiling and mystic ritual amid white turbans while Indian relics dot the Delaware Bay coast. Dugouts and earthen houses survive in a five acre spoil near Port Penno with arrow heads tomahawks and colonial era bones nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey
St. Sophia
Muhammedan
Ose
Constantinople
Indianapolis
Delaware Bay
Port Peon
Delaware
United States
Port Peno
N. Y. Sun
Blue Roses Impossible Law Governs Flower Colors
A rule states red blue and yellow never appear together in one species. Red and yellow roses exist, but blue cannot coexist with either red or yellow in the same variety. The restriction extends to verbenas and viola family flowers, creating purely two color combinations with no three colors in one plant.
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