Oh Beautiful for Patriot Dream Poem Fragment
Fragment of Katharine Lee Bates lyrics from The Congregationalist praising America. Mentions spacious skies waves of grain religious liberty and brotherhood with idealized alabaster cities. Ends with God shed His grace and crown thy good with brotherhood.
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Pilgrim
Freedom
Acréas
América
America
God Bia Ghine
Avery Fam
Katharine Lee Bates
Congregationalist
Briarley cousins find shared holiday away from the farm
Lena Pierce and Hannah Overton, young Briarley relatives, escape mortgage labor for a July picnic by a brook on the Briarley farm. Lena declares they should take holidays together and stop being Briarleys, as they discover a new bond and mutual longing for rest.
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Shackleford
Hannah
Overton
Waearley Farm
Briarley
Eunice Brimley
Hannah Overton
Briarley Farm
Boston
Lena Pierce
Eunice Briarley
Lena
Eunice
Brinrley Farm
Ena
Lena x
Savings Bank
Eena
Hiram Ftand
Caleb Miller
Caleb
Davidstown
Caleb's Miller’s
Wanted Machinist Cheats Western Ranch Dream
A disappointed Eastern man travels from Pennsylvania to Arizona's Sulphur Springs Valley and answers a help-wanted ad at Jim Musgrove's ranch. The job offers twenty five dollars a month and board to run a makeshift washing-tub machine, but the applicant protests that a machinist should repair and not supply power. The boss jokes that only a wife doing laundry would fit the role.
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Tenderfoot
Sulphur Springs Valley
Arizona
Fl Paso
Pennsylvania
Jim Musgrove
Jim
Dobce
No Escape Dinner Invitation Conversation
A telephone exchange records a society woman inviting a prominent young financier to dinner viewed as a social test. The reply declines each proposed day due to prior engagements, culminating in a frustrated exclamation. Harper's Weekly.
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Harper's Weekly
Survivor of Custer expedition recalls massacre and ice escape
John Thomas, fifty eight, Minneapolis resident and sole survivor from General Custers expedition, recounts the 1876 Big Horn massacre. He describes his role as saddler, the reporter incident, the icy retreat on Tongue and Little Big Horn, and a heroic ice raft escape with ally Andy.
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Mom Ohn Thomas
Cus. Jater
Big Horn
Minneapolis
Aldrich Avenue
the Tribune
William McKee
Thomas
McKee
Mr. Thomas
Custer
Reno
Curley
Terry
Tongue River
Gibbs
Montana
John
Chicago
General Custer
Little Big Horn
Band Bar
Miles
Minneapolis Tribune
Caught in the Ice on the St. Lawrence
A fur trader on a Quebec steamer wharf recalls a past voyage north into the barrens. He and Andrew Damson traveled with Indians in British Columbia, faced a winter thaw that stranded them, crossed a large lake on foot, and found their provisions nearly gone.
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Quebec
Broad St. Lawrence
Barrens
Andrew Damson
British Columbia
Thirteen Year Old Rescues Friend From Train Tracks
In Moran Indiana Mabel A Sheets aged thirteen aided her fellow student Lizzie Disinger age fifteen who fainted on a railroad bridge. Mabel supported, summoned help at the depot thirty rods away and returned to drag Lizzie off the tracks just as a passenger train approached. Lizzie’s fingers froze but both girls survived.
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Mabel A. Sheets
Moran
Ind
Lizzie Disinger
Miss Disinger
Mabel
Lizzie
Plucky Rescue Aided by Local Boy at Cleveland Pier
Twelve year old Charlie Fife dived into twenty foot waters to save Herman Moskowitz after he slipped from the Cleveland shoreline. Charlie stayed with the struggling boy, keeping his head above water until both were brought to the pier. Moskowitz later regained consciousness and was taken to his Erie Street home by the young rescuer.
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Cleveland
Herman Moskowitz
Moskowitz
Charlie Fife
K. Wife
Charlie
Herman
Erie Street
A Belle of Yonkers Hair Color Plan
A Yonkers Herald item notes a woman described as a belle aims for flaxen yellow hair. The brief exchange revolves around whether she dyes her hair red and the suggested flaxen look as the outcome.
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Yonkers
Yonkers Herald
Not Naughty Merely Unselfish In Family Exchange
A playful exchange centers on Ethel sharing codliver oil with Charley, mother questions behavior, and the child defends kindness as the motive. The item reflects domestic humor sourced from Harper's Bazar.
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Ethel
Charley
Mamma
Harper’s Bazar
India Sees 90 Percent Rise in Cigarette Trade
Report notes the cigarette trade in India has surged by about 90 percent over four years, signaling a rapid expansion in production and sales across markets and retailers.
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India
Postum Food Coffee Linked To Heart Palpitation Relief
A Brooklyn man credits giving up coffee and switching to Postum Food Coffee with curing daily heart palpitations. After learning proper preparation he found Postum palatable and invigorating, noting no harmful stimulation and relief since adopting the drink.
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Brooklyn
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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Len
Briarley’s
AAA
Damion
Andy
Garfield
Department of Commerce and Labor
United States
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