The Path Across the Fields
A poem describing summer beauty and a dusty bare path through fields. It contrasts nature’s splendor with toil worn by weary workers walking the sunburnt grass under care. The speaker recalls a fair summer memory while envisioning the path’s stark reality. Elmira Telegram.
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Elmira
Pauline's Pendant Mystery at Masterton Priory
In Sir Nevil Masterton's priory Pauline's diamond pendant vanishes after a safe lockup. Suspicions fall on Lady Masterton and Aunt Prissy, but Carter reveals the truth: the pendant is hidden by Aunt Prissy, who confesses she took it in jealousy to shield Pauline from scandal.
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Nevil Masterton
Masterton Priory
Pauline
Bir Nevil
Sir Nevil
Priscilla Masterton
Priory
Aunt Prissy
Sir Nevill Masterton
Lady Masterton
Mise Lydia Beaugarde
Majontic Theater
Carter
Sherlock Holmes
Sahe
Sir Nevill
Masterton
Rayner
Fand
Miss Priscilla
Mr. Carter
Miss Masterton
Scotland Yard
Norning
Priscilla
Nevil
Nev
Australia
Prissy
Witty quotes on rivers and marriages amuse readers
A Detroit Free Press quip highlights the Mississippi River’s crooked course causing a steamer to meet itself. A humorous note from Lippincott's ponders cravings and money shifting tastes. A contrarian thought claims divorces happen in heaven and marriages in the other place, reflecting playful views on love and luck.
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Mississippi
Detroit Free Press
Mount of Olives and Gethsemane in historic claim
The Mount of Olives east of Jerusalem, rising about 2000 feet, has long been linked to key biblical events. The article notes recent sensational claims that Kaiser Wilhelm acquired it via Abdul Hamid, amid descriptions of Gethsemane and rival Ascension sites now under Moslem and Greek Catholic control.
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Gethsemane
Mount of Olives
Kaiser Wilhelm
Germany
Abdul Hamid
Turkey
Jerusalem
Kidron
Solomon
Jesus
Maybrick's Prison Reform Tour Draws U S Attention
Florence Elizabeth Maybrick, once imprisoned in England for her husband’s murder, tours the United States studying penitentiaries and institutional life. She advocates reform and praises industrial work in prisons, recounting past campaigns and public petitions for her release.
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Flor Eearer
Florence Elizabeth Maybrick
United States
Maybrick
Mra Maybrick
A Wife to Order and the Odd Plan of Thomas Day
A historical note recounts Thomas Day, author of Sandford and Merton, seeking a wife molded to his ideals. He sought a woman plain, honest, devoted to learning, and shunned by fashion, arranging for two orphan girls to be bound out and one to be wed to a friend, with Day committing to marry the other or providing a dowry.
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Lucretia
Sabrina
Day
Paris
Thomas Day
Sandford
Merton
Yerkes Ward Heir to Million Dollar Estate Plan
Emilie Grigsby, ward of the late Charles T. Yerkes, inherits one million dollars from the Yerkes estate and plans to sell the Park Avenue mansion built for her before moving to Europe. The magnate’s friendship with Miss Grigsby sparked a public scandal at his death.
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Emilize Griosdy
Emilie Grigsby
Charles T. Yerkes
Yerkes
Park Avenue
Europe
Tracton
Miss Grignby
Making of a Picture in Washington Drawing Scene
A playful scene shows Washington urged to sit, an alderman cautioning him about art. The father of his country answers loudly asking what kind of picture that would create, prompting the alderman to abandon further meddling with the painting.
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Washington
Delaware
Philadelphia
Indian Chesterfield Poetic Greeting to Returning Missionaries
Miss Caroline Courteney, at Wolf PointMontana Presbyterian Indian Industrial School, recalls First Eagle with humor and reflects on Indian language poetry. She praises resilient children like seven year old Cora Moore a climber who reads in winter, and notes a playful exchange with a trickster boy William Black Thunder.
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Engie
Caroline Courteney
Presbyterian Indian Industrial School
Wolf Point
Mont
New York Press
First Eagle
Miss Courteney
Sero
Cora Moore
Cora
William Black Thunder
Bad Knife
Maps Help a Man Sleep In Mental Geography Seportiie
A man seeks sleep aid at a downtown drugstore and learns a geography based mental sequence to calm thoughts. The drug clerk explains that shifting focus to naming states, counties, capitals, and seats can narcotize wakefulness and quickly lead to sleep, recurring as a daily relaxation routine.
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Philadelphia Record
How Soldiers Reduce Waist Size and Stay Trim
Soldiers keep fit by a brief lean meat diet and hot water to shed about two pounds daily. After three or four days of abstinence, they revert to normal meals, restoring balance with the uniform.
No Longer Cheap The nation’s cost of living rises
Harper's Weekly notes spiraling prices and wage changes as the Senate raises its pay, signaling a widening gap between costs and wages. The poem laments the era of rapid price increases and discusses the impact on the public mood.
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Talk
Senate
Harper’s Weekly
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