Fellow That Lost His Grip Poem By Ernest McGaffey
Poem recounts a man’s struggle with hardship and despair in a lonely city. He reflects on being unlucky, losing motivation, and seeking relief as time flees. The speaker pleads for help and compares life to a sinking ship while awaiting salvation. From Ernest McGaffey in the Current.
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Big Jim
Hill City
Joe
Red Star
Carter's Peak
Ace
The Gambler's Daughter and the Drunkard's Fate
A New York World tale tracing Aleck Boyd's romance with Miss Danser, the banker Daniel Danser, and a family wrecked by drink. Aleck descends from promising reporter to ruin, ending on a Brooklyn shoreside stretch as death overtakes him. a cautionary tale of temperance and moral consequence.
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Mary
Aleck
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Boyd
Miss Danser
Danser
Jordan
Blackwell’s Island
Elizabeth Street
Tyron Row
Staats Zeitung
Brooklyn Bridge
Sponovinaay
Howard
New York World
Revolver Craze in Paris Worries Policymakers
A London Telegraph Paris correspondent reports that revolvers flood Paris shops at affordable prices. A 16 year old named Doulet fired at a boy and wounded a seamstress in Fau bourg St. Martin while the girl and two companions watched. Doulet was arrested and attempted suicide, then cried for the girl as she urged mercy. A second incident near a suburb wine shop left a workman with six bullets.
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Paris
London Telegraph
Colorado
Gavroche
Doulet
Faubourg St. Martin
Yesterre
Harvest Song Echoes in Fields and Chicago Times
Fragmentary verse heard as a harvest song with reapers in a rustic field setting. Mentions magpie, grain falling, and a humane plea to spare children, anchored by a reference to Chicago Times and a dated celebratory mood.
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Chicago
Times
Onions and Crime Penalty Echo in Danville Breeze
The Danville Breeze warns that if civilization keeps advancing, the penalty for eating raw onions twice as heavy as for house breaking will be seen in the next century.
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Danville
The Smoking Car and Its Shifting Rail Traveler Image
A look at the smoking car as a summer rail relic shows crowded cars in heat, casual dress, private flasks, poker chips, and social signals. The piece contrasts old shirt sleeve travel with modern habits and notes changing manners and appearances among passengers.
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Atlantic City
Broad Street
Seashore
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