Picnic Through Life Ends With Blindness and Hope
Laura and Harlow Graham marry and start a simple home, facing Laura’s cooking rise and Harlow’s sudden blindness. She plans to run the store and keep him hopeful, while a quiet charity from friends arrives. After a brief burst of hardship, the clot dissolves and sight returns, ending their picnic life and jokes about a dog and tin cup.
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Laura
Harlow
Iater
Harlow Graham
Alarlow
Stone
Noah
Tam
Laural
Hoerlow
Milton
Fiction Founded on Fact and the Dr Jekyll Link
Washington writer notes that Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde drew on a London doctor's brain disease cases. He claims most fiction rests on real life experience, not pure imagination. A London correspondent mocks “spetting” errors and cites a letter with thirteen spelling mistakes in five letters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Louis Stevenson
Washington
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
London
R. E Bartlett
Charles Edward
Timepiece Theory: Towns Shape Watches and Manners
A Chicago collector, A G Graham, argues atmospheres influence watches of old type. He notes Chicago and St Louis watches gain five minutes daily while Philadelphia watches lag five minutes. He claims human movement and local pace shape timekeeping and manners.
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A. G. Graham
Chicago
St. Louis
Philadelphia
St Louis
JAPANESE PATRIOTISM AND OTHER CURIOUS ITEMS
A Japanese village favors soldiers with chestnut cakes after long northern railway stops. An old woman sacrifices for the troops, blessing their victory and safe return. Also noted are a cryptic Boston tongue twister, Stevenson's view of gender in fiction, a live snake found in rock, and a quip about meat eating and beauty.
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Kuriso
Higashi Nasa-nomura
Japan
Matt McLaughlin
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King St. Walter
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Iizo
North Ho
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Wasieen Ave
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West xi Ave
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Acea
Thanseem & Siolage CO
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Streut
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Journal ‘Oltiew
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Harson
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Kansas Avenue
Mk Als Gat
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Aust
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Kan, Ave
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