A Day of Memories
A reflective poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox about a gray rainy day reviving old regrets and memories. The speaker confronts memories that return unbidden, stirring emotion and questioning fault for past joys and lost hopes.
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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1885
Page
2
A Barrel of Soft Soap Misadventure at the Statsons
Giles Statson and family face a comic mishap when Judy falls into a barrel of soft soap while attempting to hang beef. Martha Ann and the men help extract her, sparking laughter and a lasting quip from Giles about “a little more soap.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Giles Statson
Judith McIntosh
Statson
Mr. Statson
Jake
Judy
Martha Ann
Mrs
Martha
Giles
Mney
Airth
Ryder
Tom Ryder
Mar
Martha Ann Statson
James Hovey
Jabe
Val
Mrs. Statson
Oldest Preacher in the World Revealed in County Longevity
The county shows remarkable ages with many residents over eighty. Thomas Tenant of Vineyard Township, born 1771, aged about 114, arrived in Arkansas in 1819 near Little Rock and settled in Vineyard Township. He served in the county Legislature and is described as a venerable itinerant Methodist preacher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington County
Peter Mankins
Peter
Mankins
Thomas Tenant
Vineyard Township
Arkansas
Little Rock
Social Life in Mexico Described by Galveston News
The Galveston News portrays Mexican society as mirroring class divisions with rich and poor coexisting in Mexico City dwellings. It notes courtship through window barriers, family ties, adoption customs, and a pattern of Spain influenced meals from coffee and bread to a lighter comida in the afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of
Mexico
Cortez
Spain
United States
Vassar College
Republic
Alli
Amusing Bits From The Street: Tricks And Quips
A collection of wry jests and clipped anecdotes about prying burglars dentists lovers and other townspeople. It riffs on misheard sayings insults and comic misunderstandings from rural life and shows how humor survives in everyday oddities.
A Water-Lily Nine Falls From Heaven In River Tale
A poetic piece describes a white water lily as a nine on the breast of the river, marvel of bloom and grace. The speaker asks if it fell from Heaven to the Golden City, but the lily claims it grew from darkness in the river, gaining glory and grace from the ooze below. White souls are said not to fall, yet the lily rises from humble sands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elephant
Africa
George
Arizona Paper Seeks Epic Poem On Seventeen Year War
An Arizona newspaper advertises payment of 1 dollar for a 100 line epic poem about the Seventeen Year War heating public imagination. Poems must be sound in wind and climb with new metaphors and rhyme. only ten words may use poetic license. The paper reserves editorial rights and may repurpose successful verses into editorials on navy needs and crop failure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona
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Ella Wheeler Wilcor
Key West
Osceola
Mich
Ife
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