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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1897
Page
7
A narrative poem recounts a lone journey from a barren desert toward a City of Love. The lovers endure longing and loneliness, guided by hope, Cupid, and eventual dawn as gates open to a life of mutual affection and happiness.
In a Washington Star anecdote a deacon confronts a parishioner over a damaged church plate button, offering a choice to return or face public shame. The tale contrasts community values with a jokey exchange, echoed by other clippings from the Enquirer and Detroit Free Press.
Fragmentary quotation shows a dialogue with archaic spellings and names. The snippet references a back stoop scene and a quarrel over naming, attributed to the Cincinnati Enquirer. The readable content is sparse and lacks a clear event or outcome.
A collage of short squibs and quips from various papers. Jokes about watches, con men, golf names, conjugations, and a humorous misread widow joke appear in rapid, tongue in cheek snippets. The items cite Chicago Post Detroit News Boston Transcript Yonkers Statesman New York Sunday World.
A narrative recounts two lawyers Leban Adams and the narrator facing a quarrel over a lie. They agree to a duel on the riverbank with pistols. At the last moment both lower their weapons after a plea from friends and lovers, choosing reconciliation over murder, and become friends again.
A Chicago Times-Herald writer recalls riding with an artist near Memphis an encounter with an old man who offered two fine roosters. He explains the roosters’ corn consumption and asserts they are from the north. The piece ends with a humorous aside about Frances and Gertrude.
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