When Fate Relented Casgriah and the Whistler
In a sunlit autumn community a stylish young woman Miss Stiles grapples with longing for freedom from genteel life. A flirtatious encounter with a witty whistler rekindles youth as fate lures her toward risk and romance, ending with a rueful acceptance of inevitable change.
The Artist's Compensation Critique in London Review
A London Saturday Review pessimist argues that art and literary work suffer from chaotic pay scales. He notes Harrods and army stores as examples, saying many skilled creators struggle financially and risk madhouse or pauper's graves without genius or strong bargaining. Public life and business profit more from the game than art.
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Harrod’s
Army Aml Navy
London Saturday Review
The Last Victory and the Silent Rest
Fragmented verse laments a waning fight with distorted phrases and archaic diction. It evokes exhausted soldiers, fading defiance, and a final, weary vigil as battles echo through memory and time.
My Florida Hen Farm Profits From Rhode Island Reds
A Massachusetts woman details her move to Florida and profits from Rhode Island Red chickens. She explains breed choice, free foraging, single daily feed, and six to eight dollar potential per bird, while noting vermin, snakes, and pig deterrence as challenges. She compares Florida and Massachusetts yields, and highlights hotel and private sales for eggs and dressed poultry.
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Rhode Island
Florida
Plymouth Rocks
Rhode Islanders
Frat Tehson
Massachusetts
Orthern
Senator Penrose recalls bears and a milking tale
At a Philadelphia club dinner Senator Boles Penrose ridiculed a reform movement as promising incredible things. He told a rural tale of Jack Travers of Pike County recalling a bear, a cow Sukey, and a mistaken milking that ended with the old man laughing at his misadventure and milking a “she bear.”
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Boles Penrose
Philadelphia
Jack ‘Travers
Pike County
Jack
Porter's Lake
The Classified Columns Prove His Wants Are Many
A witty exchange contrasts a poet and the practical party as the modern newspaper’s classified columns reveal numerous wants. The remark links doughnut humor to a dyspeptic truth about contentment and desire in everyday life.
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Practpal Party
Surprise for the Deity in a Child’s Remark
A girl bursts in to tell her father a grim truth the Brown family faced the loss of their infant. The child, three days old, asks if God will be surprised to see the baby return so soon, eliciting a thoughtful, gentle exchange about death and faith.
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Sarah Brylen
Sarah
Mins Stiles
Whistler
Sally
Miss Stiles
Trained Nurse Praises Resinol Ointment Use
A graduated nurse from Augusta Maine reports healing an ulcerated leg after four weeks with twice daily Resinol applications. She also notes satisfactory results using Resinol on children’s faces and other ointment needs. The piece includes other brief snippets about products and proverbs.
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Isadore E. Cameron
Augusta
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