Home Demands and New Year Reflections at Ollapodrida Den
A narrator in a cozy study on New Year Eve contemplates family life and club habits. Dorothy upstairs, Johnnie in trousers, and memories of the Ollapodrida club color a quiet night of introspection and reconciliations. He weighs pulling away from clubs to focus on family, while Dorothy urges balance and a renewed home life.
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Dorothy
Johnnie
The
Ollapodrida
Old Father
George Augustus
Tin Box
A Poem of Farewell to the Old Year
A reflective verse bids farewell to the passing year and greets the new with memories and quiet hope. The speaker laments a loss and honors a departed loved one, Alice Jean Cleator, whose memory sustains them through coming shadows.
Meetin' at Zion Chapel Sparks Mixed Faith Feud
Uncle Pete and Sist' Mournin' quarrel over a revival at Zion Chapel where a Baptist minister clashes with Methodist members. Tensions rise as rumors of jealousy and passion fuel a chase outbursts, culminating in a beaver tossed to the street and a door slammed.
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Eva Williams Malone
Daily Story Pub. Co
Uncle Pete
Pete
Peter
Deep Water
Uncle Peter
Yosef
Zion Chapel
Bradder
Ras’ Simpson
Bradder Peter
Bradder Hawkins
Rushton
Young Sisters
Bradder Hawking
Mohner
Jackley
Mohners
de Wattah
Nolens Volens
Tragic Verse Noted From New York Truth
A brief poem fragment from the New York Truth recalls a fatal twist of fate on the thirty first day of December as a lover bids farewell until the new year. The tone is somber with a hint of tragedy implied in the exchange.
None to Turn Over, I Won't Turn Anew
Dialogue fragment shows a couple in a stalled moral exchange. A woman accuses John of failing to change while he admits he cannot. The line ends with an unfinished implication about a newspaper post.
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John
Book and Heart by George Seibel in the June Critic
A poem portraying a lifelong библиотеп a bookman who piles tomes, smiles at prize volumes, and grows attached to leather bindings. Time wears books and readers alike, yet a critic may one day revive the worth within margins, binding the soul in Grolier-like splendor.
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George Seibel
Good man paves path toward Christian life in any place
A reflective moral maxim notes that a righteous man progresses three quarters toward true Christian living regardless of his home or given name, emphasizing steady virtue over status.
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Shadowland
Alice Jean Cleator
Iran
Gilbe
N. Y
Truth
Paradise
Morocco
Cave
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