Apple Blossoms Dream Amid City Grief
A speaker laments urban sorrow and longs for a rural path of apple blossoms. They recall a meadow, a mirroring stream, and the scent of orchard air as a remedy for fatigue and unfulfilled ambitions. The poem urges leaving the city to seek nature’s quiet, restorative path.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Success Magazine
Homeward Bound Silas Mace Leaves City For Woodville
Silas Mace quits Freeman & Co after three months as an underpaid office boy. He flees the city with a sickening homesickness, boarding a train to Woodville. Back home he finds a new portrait with his mother’s prayer and decides to remove it from sight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elias Mace
Freeman & Co
Mr. Graham
Gra@am
Silas
Eccles
Mr. Freeman
Tim
Freeman & Cor
Woodville
Giles
Silas Mace
Waloud
Rome
Abel Bee Koners
Rurhells
Rumnells
Rugged
Lany
Cap
Georre
Chen
Ernie
Ersey
South Jersey
Prodigal Son Returns to Save Mother’s Farm
A Liberty Town hotelkeeper, William B. Haddon, returns home after years away, winning the sheriff sale of his mother Mary Haddon's Yardville farm by purchasing the property with a higher bid. The revelation comes as a stranger named Henry Ivins claims his identity, recounting a Westward journey and a long-hidden family connection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Haddon
Yardville
William
B. Haddon
Liberty, Town
N. J
New York Evening Telegram
Jaames Haddon
Will
Chicago
Tiernon
Urial
Fara House
Wiliam Hayes
William Haddon
Iowa
Henry
Ivins
Howard
Young
Wit of the Youngsters and Schoolroom Laughs
A collage of playful lines from a family scene and a classroom. A punchy joke about a physiology book prompts a dad’s kitchen table talk. Curtis prefers the twelve piece pie over squash despite the two pies and diners’ tastes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L Polatoris
Small Bey
Vitri
Mather
Talyley
Johnny
Het
Curtis
Also Mentioned on This Page
Siles
Mother
Bloomfield
Sheridan
Doughty
Prine
Prodigal
Dolly