Sylvia Holt and Anthony Graham in a South Africa plan
In a late Victorian style scene Sylvia Holt and Anthony Graham debate marriage and duty as war calls him to South Africa. A tense night ends with a pledge of love as Anthony confesses his folly and Sylvia shows her steadfast affection, altering their futures.
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Graham
Miss Nettlemayne
Miss Holt
Anthony
Sylvia Holt
Nettie Payne
Ansewer
Nettie
South Africa
Anthony Graham
Sylvia
India
England
Mrs. Holt
Miss Nettie Payne
Miss Nette
Mrs. Vernon
Miss Payne
Chaneron
The Wee Cat and Cricket’s Offer in Riley Style
A short poem by James Whitcomb Riley pleads for a simple home and humble joys. The speaker asks only for a hut, a hearth, a wife who smiles, a child’s footsteps, and the comforts of nature, not wealth or grandeur. The plea centers on honest neighbors, love, and daily grace.
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James Whitcomb Riley
Stray Bits Of City Life And A Pair Of Would-Be Actors
A hotel worker’s friend loses the pool hall windfall when a horse named Lucy fails to win at 4 to 1. Thirty dollars vanish after a missing backer is found in the hotel lobby with dark rings under his eyes. In the north city, two young men, one nicknamed Monk, dream of becoming actors.
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Sylvia
Anthony
Nettie
Miss Payne
England
Chet
Monk
Trombone Johnson
Lucy
Noisy pressures crush honest aims in journalism
An anonymous Bookman writer recalls a newspaper career begun with nobility but corrupted by market demands. He details pandering to the Most Law, suppressing news, coloring stories, and levying blackmail to gain influence, ending in cynicism and compromised ideals.
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F. M. Colby
Beneath the Trees and the Poetical Meadow Scene
In a shaded grove a couple converses over a painterly scene of daydreams and poetry. The woman reads aloud her verses about clouds and stars while the man critiques and questions meaning, mixing philosophy with artful imagery and a hinted tragedy.
Primal Maiden and the Rose of a Lover’s Farewell
A dramatic lyric tale unfolds with a pale beauty awaiting a feared crowd and a lover’s fate. She stands by a stone with a rose as symbol, her purpose and holy love evident as she faces the crowd, dreaming of a private garden far from danger. A taunting rival calls a lover vile while she speaks of a rose and a note she has written.
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Aden
Decapitation Riddle Poem The Garden Fount
The passage reads as a lyrical fragment where romantic lines praise fragrance and flowers while a reader pauses mid text. ALS ceases reading as the fan and portfolio drop, and a hand clutches both, signaling a shift in the scene without explicit action. The tone mirrors a dated literary style with lingering sensory imagery.
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Love
Pain
Prize Winner List Of Contributors From Marion Indiana
A compiled list credits A Case of 936 Branson Street Marion Indiana as sender of the best list of authors and acknowledges numerous other contributors with addresses and brief entries touching on items and numbers such as foods and everyday objects, closing with a series of numeric codes and a final entry 221 Story-writer.
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D. F. Rogers
Anna Myers
B M. Knight
Florence Connor
Ida L. Pierce
B. T. McNary
R. H. Marr
S. E. Babcock
F. H. MacFall
Cora Edgewood
J. E. Knox
Can a Journalist Be Honest Man in a Fractured Era
A fragmented reminiscence traces journalism’s moral glare and public panic. The piece cites a New York Commercial reflection on media credibility and a Texan man, George Clark, who pursued land deals near Spindle Top, building wealth amidst illness and separation from kin.
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New York
Atchison
George Clark
George War
Santa Fe
Alvin
Tex
Beaumont
Lucas
Clark
Hogge-Swayne
Texas
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S&s Macquotid
Mother
Nettle Payne
Sylvian
Colonel Graham
Miss Nettle Payne
Earl's Court
Kensington
St. Anthony
Cromwell Road
Tke Walton's Prayer
Maude
Jennie
Honesty and Journalism
RE. R. Chadbourn
Lewiston
Maine
Robert
Earth
Nigne
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