Portrait of a Poet In Death at Washington University Hospital
A physician reports the death of a prominent American poet whose likeness matches Napoleon in facial structure. The deceased, about five feet ten inches tall and weighing around 145 pounds, had raven black hair and gray eyes. A European physician called him the greatest critic and best American poet living. The shroud was prepared by the wife and her friends.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Europe
J. J. Moran
M. D
Washington University Hospital
Broadway
Baltimore City
Edgar A. Poe
Baltimore Street
Lightstreet Wharf
Prat Street
Poe
Mr. Poe
Chen
Elysian Bowers
Earth
Perdition
Virginia
Lenore
Death
Maria Clemm
Eddie
Nelson Poe
Reynolds
W.N. Poe
John C.S. Monkur
Ife
Bradshaw’s
Maltby House
Philadelphia
Havre de Grace
Wilmington
Baltimore
Light Street Wharf
College
Westminster Burying Ground
Fayette and
Green Street
Poes
Mtr
N. Poe
Rocky Mountain News
Jim Barker
Blue Lizzard Gulch
Paso County
Mike Irving
Jim
Slater
Zimri Bowles
Zimri
Irving
Mad Gun Mountain
Territorial Penitentiary
Zim
Big Canyon
Colorado
Arkansas
Zimri Bouls
Granite Mountain
Arrapahoes
James Barker
J. P
el Paso County
Pinon Mountain
Missouri
Raymond Thurston's rise from idle fortune to partner
Raymond Thurston, once blooded in wealth and leisure, loses his patrimony in a market crash. He accepts a driving job, endures social scorn, and, through perseverance and Bertha Haines’s support, earns a junior partnership at the Haines firm. His pride is tempered by hard work and a worthy union.
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Raymond Thurston
Amable
Thurston
Idlenes
Raymond
Bertha Haines
Amabel
Europe
Amabel Bereclay
Bertha
Haines
Mr. Thornton
Papa
Ned Thurston
Harvard
Mr. Haines
Promised Lana Meant for a Distant Reach
The scene speaks of longing as the subject walks toward a promised lana. Trees glow with enchantment while distant birds nod their heads. flowers fade from view as the traveler counts days and hours toward the goal.
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Lana
Vignettes of street wit and tragic news from Dallas
A Detroit man notes a woman wearing glasses to hide a nose pimple and a pupil mishears moral text as Keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips from girls. Actress Lottie Morford commits suicide in Dallas after a fearsome letter from Hartford about her child’s worsening illness.
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Lottie Morford
Dallas
Texas
Hartford
Charles H McKenzie of New York Police in Crimean Charge Survivor
Survivor of the Charge of the Six Hundred Charles H McKenzie a New York City policeman from the Thirty second precinct recounts his front line experience. He earned a Crimea era medals including Alma Balaklava Inkermann Sebastopol, the Navy medal, and a British army conduct medal. He later served in India and in the American Civil War before joining the police force.
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New York
Charles H. McKenzie
Thirty-secon
Metropolitan Police
London
McKenzie
Seventeenth Lancers
India
England
Mississippi
Red River
United States Navy
Alma
Balaklava
Inkermann
Sebastopol
Meaner than a Trifle
A terse line notes that someone who gives a trifling amount with a mean spirit is simply meaner than the trivial act itself.
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J. H. Foster
Opera House Block
E. L. Wilkinson
Union Block
Newcomer’s Grocery
Zimmerman
Georgiana C. Glenn
M.D. Pew
van Wert
McCurdy’s Block
Thos. J. Cole
J-K. Woods
Washington Street
Bridge
John W. Underhill
van Wer
North Walnut Street
R. M. ‘Thomas
Swineford & Sons
T.D. Brooks
Sherman
D.L Corbin
Inmee
Fugate
McCurdy
A.N. Kroudt
Swineford’s
W.N. Longsworth
van Wert, O
Longsworth & Pennel’s
J.L. Reid
Melodeon Hall Building
Melsheimer
W. W. Depuy
DePuy House
C. B. Stemen
J. W. Sherrick
BH. C. M’gavren
Geo. W. M’gavren
H.C
William Smith
A. L. Teubner & Co
Main
Jackson Sts
Attorneys AT Law
G. E. Wells
Heist’s
E Courts of
Ohio
H.C. Glean
Heist
John Darnell
Irney
Heist’s Block
J.B. Brodnix
J. N. Alexander
G. M. Saltzgaber
Alexander
James M. Barr
LAW
Price
Ira P. Shissler
Price & Shissler
Mineys AT Law
First National Bank
W.j. Beers
J.S. Brumback
Jas. W. Evans
Arber
A. P. Linn
H. David & Allen
Grocers
Queensware and Glassware
Seouth
Washington ST
S. Swineford & Sons
Arcprae Bloch
Main and
Washington Sts
van Wert, Ohio
A.p.woonahay
East Main Street
America
Bulletin
Delphos Hydraulic Woolen Mills
Delphos, Ohio
Conklin
Gaiters
H. J. Moennig & CO
Agricultural Implements
Delphos, CO
Clark, Richey & CO
Capital
J. M. C. Marble
I. D. Chambers
T. Wrocklage, Alex. Shenk
DR. R. Real
Joseph Boehmer
Peter Phelan
Jos
Cluars
Tormaud
Depot
Pouches
John L. Stauter
Ofhlilo
J. W. Hetrick
Corner
Jackson and
Market Sts
Ueenswre
Joseph Cassel
Charles Gordon
D. Newcomer’s Grocery
Main Street
Galaxy
Idgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allen Poe
Zerald
J. J. Morgan, M.D
Zim. Bowles
Hank OF
Andrew
Burt
Delphos
R. K. Lytle
Oscar Jettinger
A. J. Moennig
Vice Press
Commercial Bank
Delpehoss, Ohio
The
Grand Orient
Queensware
Best
W. G
W.G
Heaven
Les
Traveler's Life & Accident Ins. Co
Connecticut
National Life Ins. Co
North British and Mercantile Ins. Co
London and
Edinburg
Delpros Iron Company
Delphos Foundry and Machine Shops
J. M. Evans
W. T. Dolbey
Union Brick
A. S. Burt
the “Light Brigade
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