Indian Summer in American Verse and Prose Echoes
The article surveys the Indian summer theme in American letters and folklore. It cites weather bureau notions, Thoreau, Longfellow, Whittier, Foss, Stanton, Angus, Doherty, and Holmes, linking October warmth to Saint’s Days, poets’ musings, and painterly imagery across regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott Watson
United States Weather Bureau
Thoreau
Cocord
Gee
Europe
America
Lydia Hunstley Sigourney
Aii
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Old House Costs and Market Prices in Regan Memoir
The article discusses John Regan's 19th century accounts in The Western Wilds of America, detailing a timber framed house cost and common prices like butter ten cents a pound, eggs eight cents a dozen, sugar six cents a pound, coffee ten cents, whisky twenty five cents a gallon, and farm prices swings with low harvest prices and eventual good returns for holdouts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Regan
America
Scotland
Spoon River
Atllinois
Western Wilds
Jon Regan
IMG
Ellisville
Tabor
Bester
Colby
Publicity Antics of Agents and a Tsarina’s Oranges
The tale recalls agent P Bernard Shaw and Willie Williams, famed press man, who finds drama in a French actress’s demand for no publicity. It also hints at a Russian court anecdote about Catherine the Great and the first Petersburg oranges on Potiomkin’s table in 1781.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernard Shaw
Fost
Russia
Potiombin
Catherine the Great
Imaginative Crime Quote Sparks Uneasy Reflection
A fragmented quotation from Thomas Bailey reads about fear and steel with a bloody purpose, invoking eerie imagery and warning against violent imagination. The garbled OCR text hints at haunted themes and cautions against letting imagination lead to harm.
Glasses and Hosepiece Screws Remain Unsecured
A partially legible note indicates that the screws in the hosepiece are not secured. It mentions issues with the eyeglasses and implies ongoing problems with fastening components. The fragmentary text preserves the core concern about hardware connection stability.
Wild Goose Chase Origin in Race Description
The phrase wild goose chase originated from a horse race described as follow the leader. Two horses ran 120 yards with the leader free to choose ground while the follower stayed close. The chase ended when exhaustion forced one horse to falter, granting the other the final lead.
Apparent Quiet on Bench Sparks Curious Exchange
An elderly man sits on a park bench listening as a newcomer converses rapidly, but the older listener hears nothing. The scene captures a tense, strained moment as the two sit in silence with only a muffled exchange breaking the quiet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park Bench
True Story Magazine
Printers Kept Busy by Commerce Department Totals
The Department of Commerce records show 3927 items with 277 49 school books valued at 3 949 and fiction totaling 36 553 597. The remainder includes juvenile 31 047 004 volumes, religious and philosophy at 22 220 526, with other notes on light and daily items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department
Mainder
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John G.C. Brainerd
Mrs. Sigourney
Longfellow Gxes
Hig
Whittier’s
Stephen Henry Thayer
Sam Walter Foss
Marian Isabel Angus
Topazes
Harvast
Minna Irving
Tadian-council
Fran L. Stanton
Cornelia R. Doherty
Pop
Jayreas
Wille
Williams
Thoma Bailey
Atwater
Kent
RADIO
Sousa-cuanens
Atwater Kent Radio
Atwater Kent
Ser
Central Station
Atwater Kent Manufacturing Company
Wisszhickon Ave
Atwwater Kent
Pras
Philadelphia
Canada
Nealeen
Sioux City
Auto Parts Auto Sal
Fashange CO
Sourity- Lowe
Chas. H. Fletcher
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