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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1917
Page
1
The Newton Courier-Times recounts Sedley Crayden of Crayden Hill dying after years of a strange self restraint in his chair. A servant Rudolph Heckter implicates a mysterious manuscript and a possible basement bone hoard tied to Crayden’s elder brother James in a framed tale of mind and mortality.
A husband recounts a baffling disappearance and brain fever from shock. He offers over fifty thousand dollars in rewards, appeals to papers and detectives, and laments the murder rumor while praising Jim’s remarkable mind and shared honesty.
Fragmentary text mentions longing for return and puzzling phrases with unclear references. No identifiable people, places, or events are established.
The writer notes placing a fountain pen in his pocket at 10 20 before a walk and returning to find the pen used and ink nearly spent on the desk. He expresses disappointment that someone writes so much and finds it disconcerting.
The narrator recalls a clash over metaphysical beliefs, contrasting Jim’s faith in the eternity of forms with the narrator’s mechanical view. He dismisses abstract idealism, asserts that only the real is real, and jokes about Hobbes as he finalizes his own simple confession of faith.
Fragmentary lines ponder whether a person who seems dead has ceased to exist or continues in another form. The passage questions reality and existence with a sense of paradox and wonder.
A narrator describes stopping exercise and avoiding physicians. Inside the room the hallucination fades, but on return the figure sits at the desk writing. The speaker refuses to consult a doctor and vows to endure the ordeal alone.
A reader notes a persistent visitor as he grows more importunate while the author seeks calm among books. The encounter unfolds with the visitor reappearing in the chair, marking a new persistent moment.
A narrator recalls a gradual intensification of a hallucination of a man named Jim. After dinner and a twilight return, the figure sits in a chair under strong light, prompting the narrator to cry out before confirming it as a hallucination. The mysterious presence persists as the poker is raised toward it.
A narrator asserts a guiding presence at his desk is not real but a memory picture from twenty years of conscience. He recalls staring steadily to make the figure vanish and reflects on a poker mark, a servant’s curiosity, and a possible upcoming disclosure of his writings.
A narrator describes an unnamed man who quits today after exhausting efforts. The man ignores the narrator while continually writing, prompting the observer to read over his shoulder and accuse the writer of taking an unfair advantage.
The query asks if entities can emerge from consciousness. It explores whether thought alone can generate independent beings or objects, highlighting debates in philosophy about mind creating substance or meaning through intentional acts.
The narrator recalls a late night argument about whether the soul is an eternal form. Tension rises as the speaker threatens to strike with a poker. The other character answers that he would continue to exist regardless, provoking a chilling confrontation.
A speaker asserts the phrase Fabric of fancy as mere surface. He denies any living Jim in a chair. He recalls sneaking to the cellar at night to inspect soil around the chimney and finds it undisturbed. He concludes the dead do not rise.
A narrator recalls TI appearing only in the chair, a fabric of fancy. He sits all day, meals brought to him, escaping the sight of TI for hours, then finds TI seated again at 11. The visitor exists only in imagination, a coy presence in the brain.
A contemplative passage questions the nature of existence and perception. The speaker ponders whether a brother’s brain and chair represent higher planes, debating if an eternal form can be a real yet attenuated hallucination and whether hallucinations are real entities.
A man is described as highly unsettled today. his attempts to write are thwarted after the servant takes the pen from the room, rendering both him and the narrator unable to write.
The speaker wonders if the servant never seeing him proves the phantom is a mental construct or a product of morbid inner awareness. The passage explores perception and reality through self-questioning.
A writer laments a recurring theft of his pen and claims hallucinations as a culprit. Three servants fail to see the culprit, while the ink runs too fast and the pen malfunctions. The writer insists he did not break it and notes the specter appears to know him yet never speaks.
A narrator describes a tormenting hallucination that repeatedly manifests as a man in a chair. He strikes his head to force it away, failing to dislodge the vision and growing frustrated by the relentless, popping appearance. The fixation leaves his head sore and drives him to alternate strategies.
The speaker argues thoughts are real entities created by thinking. A phantom sits in the chair using ink, proving ideas have reality. The passage frames thoughts as inescapable, persistent, and substantive through personified existence.
The passage ponders whether humans can produce real entities from the historical process and thus infer a Creator. It argues making life implies the possibility of making larger creations like mountains or solar systems, suggesting a future capacity to generate vast, complex objects.
A narrator claims to have found sight and declares superiority over others after his brother’s death. He describes entering a cellar, breaking ground to verify, and reconstructing his brother as a being that resembles him, asserting he is unlike others.
A person reports a brother sitting in a chair at night, causing insomnia and fear. Each morning the figure remains when the study door is opened, driving the narrator toward desperation and thoughts of seeking medical help.
The narrator describes finally obtaining blessed sleep after a night of weariness. They slept in a chair with blankets provided by a servant and felt relief throughout the day, banishing thoughts of the helper from their mind and chair.
A fragment notes discomfort with chairs and beds as people struggle to sleep for long hours. The text hints at ongoing weariness and a search for lasting rest without offering concrete remedies or outcomes.
A speaker cannot sleep, haunted by a figure who sits upright in the dark. Night after night, the narrator longs for rest yet paces a vigil, staring into blackness and thinking of the person who remains there.
The narrator explains that servants think they are crazy and, as a result, has avoided summoning a physician. This remark frames the tone of isolation and suspicion surrounding the speaker.
A declaration of perpetual occupancy in a chair, promising to stay night and day with no intention to leave. The speaker asserts final authority over their position and rejects any future departure or change.
A speaker reflects on two weeks without seeing a man and asserts they will never meet again. They express achieving mental balance necessary for philosophical thought and note completing a full chapter today.
A reflective note on endurance and stillness as weeks, months, and seasons pass while the speaker remains in place enjoying a paradoxical peace. The passage emphasizes the monotony and solitary routine of a life fixed in one chair.
A speaker declares he has remained in the chair for nearly two years, believing his earlier vision of someone was a hallucination and that the person never existed. He admits fear to leave the chair and insists on staying.
Old actors fear the witches song in Macbeth and many seafarers dislike the play. Sea omens include a following shark signaling doom, Mother Cary’s chickens predicting storms, and dolphins in calm signaling bad luck. Unlucky ship names, starboard versus port lists, discarding worn clothes to summon wind, and blue hulls bringing misfortune are noted.
James Hayden of Montana argues the best farmers come from other occupations rather than traditional farming. He notes Montana’s shift to agriculture, with immigrants turning to farming and many becoming wealthy due to rich land. He cites investigations showing successful farmers are progressive, intelligent professionals like doctors and merchants who apply their systematic rigor to farming.
The article notes Hetty Green, long famed as the wealthiest woman, converted from Quaker to Episcopalian faith a few years before her death. Lawyers in transfer tax cases cite her strong attachment to the church where she wished to be buried beside her husband in Bellows Falls.
A Useful Service. Weather news is now received regularly by wireless at 270 amateur radio stations in nine northern and western states. Operators can deliver the latest forecast to their neighborhoods as soon as it is issued.
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