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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1938
Page
2
Quick vignettes show social foibles and jokes from a mixed column. A mysterious confidences exchange hints at propriety while light humor punctuates domestic scenes. A gag about bathing costumes and mistaken phrases adds whimsy to everyday life.
A fragment from Sidney Lanier retells a feudal Scotland scene where the old servant Hamish misses deer, endures a harsh whipping by Lord McLean, and the tale ends with Hamish seeking courage after the failed hunt. The text preserves the era’s tone and moral tension.
Sidney Lanier faced numerous roles as poet and musician, lecturer and lawyer, teacher and civil servant while supporting a family and pursuing writing. Adversity, war interruptions, and later migrations strained finances until his death in 1881 at age forty in Macon Georgia.
The excerpt recalls a dramatic scene where Hamish leaps with a child from a cliff after a bold rescue, while Lady McLean and onlookers react with shock and vengeance. It contrasts with a prose-based meditation on the Song of the Chattahoochee, praising Lanier’s view of nature as a manifestation of God and duty, from Bell Syndicate-WNU Service.
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