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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1891
Page
4
A fragmentary poem recalls a winter scene with a kiss and memory. A speaker reflects on love, sorrow, and distant dreams as snow covers a bed and a remembered touch lingers. The piece hints at longing, loss, and timeless yearning through a mournful, atmospheric lyric voice.
Six trainees on a Maryland bound training ship ride home share a car. An elderly woman laughs off a collision and listens as the cadets spin tall tales about a quirky Manx cat and a rumor laden yeast sample from a peddler. The scene blends memory and humor aboard a journey home.
A rambling reminiscence describes a bearlike creature frightening a narrator at home and near a barn. The story recalls schoolyard lore, a train ride, and a child’s imagination about a mysterious animal, ending with a comment from Margaret Vendegrift in Harpers Young People.
Bees built up a heavy waxy store in a church garret causing honey and melting wax to spill over the pulpit and pews when heat loosened the wax. The roof collapsed under the weight, burying parts of the interior in sweetness.
A fragment describes a salt mine drill hole about six inches in diameter bored in rock by a primitive iron drill. It notes patience shown by generations over forty years to reach the coveted brine, illustrating enduring mining labor and technique.
A Paris Salon scene features women exhibitors across 65 painters 199 sculptors and 50 young ladies at work. Almond meal baths and meelskin cloaks illustrate a bustling craft effort. The article highlights vast female participation in the event.
The Toronto Globe discusses why women keep ages private, arguing intuition guides many female choices and that curiosity about age is idle. It suggests women suppress age revelation, noting their visions may overreach but remain a positive trait.
The Fifth Avena Hotel clerk notes hotels built for powerful visitors include multiple exits and private communication rooms to avoid unwelcome crowds. Prominent men may slip out via hidden doors and register desks to escape lingering inquiries while still meeting chosen guests.
A dapper member of the Southern Society boasts he can out-stutter any stutterer. He hurries to catch a train with a girl, reaches the station moments before departure, and frantically stammers to the ticket agent to obtain tickets for both of them. The rush ends with the train leaving as he struggles to explain what happened.
A Detroit Free Press column edges into satire with a Tokio bookseller ad praising cheap prices and abundant stock. The fragment notes humorous lines about delivery, packaging, and customer service, then shifts to a street vignette and moral reflections from Rev. Samuel Johnson.
OCR reads bus timetable snippets with departures from Plainfield and connections to Adams, Batson, Gaston, Tamaqua and nearby towns. Crude times show morning and evening runs with noted stops and routes through Weerwakp and Alientown.
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