Tantalizing Maiden, a Twisting Question of Love
A fragmentary poem fragment questions love and doubt. The speaker denies loving yet repeats inquiries about affection while noting acts of kindness and comfort from the beloved.
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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1905
Page
8
Conqueress or Conqueror at the Lake Island Route
A tense scene on a pier features a athletic young man with gray eyes and a stubborn jaw and a girl with sunburned cheeks. They argue about leaving for a lake island as a threatening cloud rises in the southwest. The girl declares she will go, the man resents the plan and a calm water reflects a small sailboat and canoe nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petues
Poe
Harry
Dramatic lake rescue amid storm and romance
A man fights a rising storm to save a girl stranded on a lake boat. They reach shore on an island as lightning and rain surge, then confess love in the gray aftermath. The scene shifts to a historical note on Napoleon and court ceremonies at the Tuileries with terse, documentary detail.
Horizon use inspires sea to the sky quip
A witty line from the New York World muses on the purpose of the horizon. It jokes that without the horizon the sea would spill into the sky, highlighting playful urban humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World
Associated Press
New York Herald
Hearst Transcontinental
STAR
Washington, D
Jefferson City
Topeka
Kas
Guthrie
United States
THE
Star Daily
Book left in the woods features hoots and a McTavish Mac Pherson author
The Philadelphia Ledger notes a story about a man leaving a book in the woods. An owl overhears the odd text filled with hoots and a claim the writing was by McTavish Mac Pherson, prompting disbelief about human language.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McTavish MacPherson
Philadelphia Ledger
Meeting brilliant people tests our composure and wit
The piece notes how to handle conversations with highly informed or brilliant individuals. It contrasts a cautious, guarded approach with the challenge of a truly brilliant person who may overwhelm others with rapid repartee and relentless cleverness, leaving onlookers feeling diminished.
A bird in the hand proverb origin story told
The article traces the saying A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush from Middle English forms like A byrde yn honde ys better than three in the wode to early verses. It notes a reputed moment with Will Somers at Henry VIII's court where a kingfisher was used to illustrate preferring one bird in hand over two in the bush.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hille
Rhode
Babaes
Seven Sleepers of Ephesus Return from Cave
The seven sleepers Constantis Dionysius John Maximian Malchus Martinian Serepon fled to a cave in Mount Celion during Decius persecutions c 250 AD. They slept about 280 years, were found by workmen, awakened, offered ancient coins, and later buried in a large stone coffin at St Victor's church Marseilles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ephesus
Constantis
Dionysius
John
Maximian
Malchus
Martinian
Serepion
Decius
Mount Celion
St. Victor’s Church
Marseilles
Cork house shop and baths in Leipsic headline
A Leipsic hairdresser built a two story cork house and fitted it for a shop and baths. An elephant in Jena killed a man who teased it with a knife, three days later he died. Tageblatt notes Berlin officers scarce in public venues due to longer duty hours since 1890. For 13 cents one can obtain at any German post office a postausweist eingekarte containing 5.
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Leipsic
Jena
Germany
Tageblatt
Berlin
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