02 Oct 1909
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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1909
Page
1
A reflective meditation on silence and prayer as the speaker seeks peaceful slumber. The poem invokes a stream of melody from a higher, almost divine source and desires wakeful listening that leads from sleep to dream and then to death. George du Maurier's voice frames the tranquil, fatal arc.
Hartley Dale a famed dramatist returns home after a night of triumph to find a threatening intruder seeking to force him into confessing moral guilt over the heroine Dorothy Barnes. A tense confrontation ends with a shot and Dale’s uncertain fate as a storm rages outside.
The article highlights irrigation as a key driver of Pacific Coast development, boosting land value from $20 to $500 per acre and enabling smallholders to own farms. It notes Oregon’s eastern and southern regions shifting from wheat to fruit and diversified farming, with the Rogue River Valley producing the big red apple and Bartlett pear, delivering sustained high returns and broader social growth.
A collage of curiosities spans aviation balloons and ostrich feathers on ships to lifespans and lobster imports. It cites figures on beggar letters in London, dam proposals on Lake Erie, and notable people like Lillian and Annie Russell, Eleanor Robson, Nazimova, with costs of early ocean liners and exotic locales, ending amid architectural notes on a Rostock area hunting lodge.
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