Pictures in the Fire Poem by E Blair Oliphant
A poem from Chambers Journal reflecting on shared vision and separation as a couple faces fading images by the fire. The speaker asks for lasting trust and love when the hearth grows cold and the pictures fade.
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Gage
E. Blair Oliphant
Chambers’ Journal
Love in the Klondike Then and Now
A serialized Klondike tale shows Ward McArthur, a wealthy gold hunter, and a city journalist in a staged romance to fuel a newspaper story. The double game intensifies as a new arrival reveals Ward’s claim to riches may fail, ending with a dramatic reunion and confirmation that love outshines gold.
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Ward McArthur
Mr. McArthur
McArthur
John Austin
States
John
Cincinnati Post
Cannibal Natives and Daring Settlers In Pacific Tales
An authoress recounts Queensland and New Zealand travels noting cannibalism amid natives, violent incidents, and wary frontier life. She describes a Cape York settler ready to arm a hundred men, a wreck loot of coral cemented Spanish dollars, and grim histories of savage hostility and courage.
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Queensland
Rowan
Rowan Staid
Somerset
Cape York
Whce
New Zealand
Eve Mountain
Vervain Sacred to Druids Hidden From Sun and Moon
A plant called vervain held sacred by the Druids. They gathered it only when the great dog star rose so that neither sun nor moon could witness the act, preserving secrecy for divinations.
Donizetti at the Birthday of Donizetti in London Sketch
In a London Sketch commentary critics mock Donizetti and praise Wagner while belittling Donizetti. The poem laments fading honors for Donizetti amid modern brass and operatic fashion, contrasting his genius with Rossini Verdi and contemporary tastes.
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Rossini
Verdi
Donizetti
Wagner
In the Mirage A Traveler Reveals Ghostly City Secrets
A married couple confront a man’s tale of the mirage a ghostly city seen after death and near death in desert years past He recounts brigands hasheesh and undead ships while the wife seeks more thrills then fears the shock of his experiences as she clings to him in a tense final moment.
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Society of Womankind
Kensington Gardens
Hire
Barry
Scheme to steal a wife ends with counterfeit cash
In a Detroit Free Press item, Dodson shares a ruse to stop his wife from rummaging pockets. Blobson asks for details, learning the plan involved counterfeit money carried to invite arrest for his wife during shopping. The wife later accepts only checks.
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Dodson
Blobson
Detroit Free Press
Monitors and Torpedo Boats
Overview of monitors as armored floating batteries with revolving turrets and the origin of the term from the Merrimac clash at Hampton Roads. Describes torpedo boats as fast small vessels that must close in and then retreat, and notes the role of a torpedo boat catcher as a larger, better armed craft for defense.
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Merrimac
Hampton Roads
New York
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