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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1893
Page
5
A fragmentary poem portrait imagines a speaker lamenting death tonight and a visitor arriving with grief. The speaker jests of debts and a cravat as he imagines rising from a cold corpse to question unpaid ten dollars. The tone blends whimsy with morbid humor.
Bessie discovers canceled notes misused by Beverly d Arcy to force marriage. She flees with the papers, confides Burt Jeffry, and exposes the scheme. D Arcy confronts them. Burt and Bessie unite to Defy the would be claim, finding love and justice amid danger.
A collage of anecdotes and essays on women, marriage, and gender roles drawn from various newspapers. It includes statistics on a woman's odds of marriage by age, a critique of perpetual female framing, humorous vignettes about women and money, and a detective tale about wartime con games, all reflecting early 20th century attitudes toward gender and social behavior.
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