Hope and decay weave through the waning year
Poem reflects on fading hopes and fleeting joys as the year ends. It contrasts fragile optimism with decline, noting that love persists even as reappointments fade and sorrows pass. The imagery of withered branches and leafless heart conveys persistent longing.
Night on the lonely prairie thrills with true ghost tale
A group of college girls hear Lucile recounts a real summer night experience on the prairie. A woman awakes on a moving train and survives a night of fear after a phantom collision as a robbery gang threatens the vehicle. The tale ends with a railway telegraph operator revealing the events matched a recent heist pattern.
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Raila
Jook
Families of Olden Days and Remarkable Large Lineages
The article notes unusually large families in the north of England with examples from 1707 and earlier, including a Cumberland couple with thirty children at their thirty-first birth. a man claiming lineage as the seventh son and thirty-ninth child. and the tombstone of Nicholas Hocker as the forty first child. It cites Peter Smith of New Jersey with seven thousand descendants dining together and recounts instances of long-spanning generational weddings, such as the first Earl of Leicester and later unions through 1873. The piece discusses hereditary lines and rare marriages dating back to 1704, 1758, and 1834, culminating in a Bristol genealogical note about a man linked to the Blenheim year and a father born in 1680 marrying late.
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England
Cumberland
Thomas Greenhill
Duke of Norfolk
Conway
Ieve Lyeth
Nicholas Hocker
Qgonway
William Hocker
Alice
Hanan
Peter Smith
New Jersey
Péter
Thomas Beatty
Drumcondra
William Frost
Galphay
Earl of
Leicester
Francis Maude
Net Warden
Mat Boty
Grterensen
Bristol
Phisowe
Charlesy
Londori
Shoes With Fancy Buttons Create Fashion Sensation
Chicago Inter Ocean notes fall fashion focus on shoes with fancy buttons including imitation sapphires brass military styles and blue accents. Designers promise variety in heel height colors and leathers matching every gown from street to evening.
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Lidy
Chibago Inter Ocean
The Farmer and the Actor Debate What Home Means
The actor admits life on the farm feels like a sequence of acts with meals and a country dance. He reflects on the question what is home, noting everyone defines it differently.
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Voral
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I Ronn
Miny
Alot
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Thorn
Joe Het le
Ison
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