Luxuries of the Simple by Wallace Irwin
A husband laments his wife seeks a simple life in the hills with a country cottage and animals while insisting on luxe comforts and high costs. He notes their seven thousand a year income yet argues they cannot afford the rustic dream. The squabble over uptown luxury versus rural simplicity unfolds in verse.
Work Worn Hands and a Mother’s Enduring Love
A worn mother in a crowded home endures endless toil to care for her children. She recalls past comforts and the harsh present, then dreams of a brighter family life as her loving offspring gather around her, proving that love endures beyond hardship.
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Judith
Herbert
Marion
Darling
John
Margaret
Muzzer
N. O. Times- Democrat
Wit and politics mix in sharp two party quips
Dialogue fragments present as brief jokes from a Yonkers Statesman style exchange about gender roles and political activity. The husband and wife discuss a man’s lifespan and a wife joining a political group with the punchline about running the machine.
Do We Forget A Christmas Night Poem by S O H Dickson
Poem reflects on memory and enduring love after loss during winter and Christmas. Acknowledges lingering sorrow yet asserts a hidden, lasting love remains alive in the heart despite years and distance.
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S. O'H. Dickson
the Pilgrim
Wifey and the Match Chronicle
A humorous verse describes a wife lighting a match with bold, costly attempts around a house. The speaker fights the flame as the wife grins and pins the fault on men, ending with a witty zing from the New York Sun.
Steel Rider Echoes the Gleaming Line
A dramatic verse fragment describes a railroad locomotive’s power linking city forest and field. The speaker embodies the engine’s strength will and perception, with a towering bell and smoke mirroring a guiding pillar of cloud and flame. Interpretive lines frame the machine as an extension of human courage.
Waiting Flowers and Birds Signal Changing Seasons
Chicago Chronicle notes bulbs and blossoms hint at spring across regions. Robins migrate north bringing hopeful songs while crocuses, lilies, and daisies await bloom. thrushes pair in orchards as nature edges toward renewal.
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Southland
Northland
Chicago Chronicle
A Versatile Menu and Musing in Old Newspapers
A collage across papers shows a gentleman's table of steaks and beans alongside sugar cookies while a lady receives pickles and wafers. Poetic verses reflect stormy weather, faded summers, and contemplations on peace, love, and despair from multiple papers.
That Which We Share in Hard Times
A well known literary woman recalls a severe trial when her husband fell gravely ill and her earnings suffered. While nursing, heat and fatigue pressed, a poor Italian maid named Mrs Poli offered a small banked sum to help, revealing a compassion greater than money.
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Edelstein
Pusheck
Mrs. K. Hekel
Paris
Logan Co
Ark
Marie Klager
Sulphur Diphtheria Cure Claims High Efficacy
Ancient medical claim describes using flower of sulphur mixed in water as a gargle to cure diphtheria. A noted physician allegedly treated every patient with rapid relief within ten minutes. The method includes swallowing gargle and even blowing the sulphur into the throat when needed.
Premature Repentance in a Delirious Moment
In a Cleveland Leader excerpt the ailing husband clings to his wife and pleads for truth. He asks her to call his partner to retract an earlier threat to foreclose a mortgage, claiming delirium and a crisis past. The wife reassures him the doctor says recovery is near.
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William
Cleveland
Markets report from New York and other cities on April 5 1905
In New York flour steady and markets mixed with No 2 red wheat at 1.11 per bushel. Corn around 53 4c, oats 37 4 39c, cattle and sheep varied with steers 4.95 to 6.20, veals 4.00 to 7.75, lambs 8.00 to 8.50 and hogs at 6.00. Cleveland reports Minnesota spring patent flour 6.00 6.40, No 2 red wheat 1.12 percent, oats 3 35c, butter 29c, eggs 17 c, potatoes 40c, timothy hay 11.75 12.00, cattle steers 5.50 5.75, sheep 5.60 6.00, lambs 6.75 7.00, Yorkers hogs 5.65. Toledo cash wheat 1.69, corn 49 2c, oats 32 4c, cloverseed 8.55. East Buffalo cattle 5.75 6.00, sheep wethers 6.00 6.25, lambs 7.75 8.00, hogs 5.70 5.60.
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New York
Cleveland
Minnesota
York State
Toledo
East Buffalo
Manager quotes soprano earning potential in nightly rate
The Washington Star quotes a manager who asks how high a soprano can sing and answers with a blankly stated five thousand dollars per night confirming a high pay for performances. The remark highlights the market value of top vocal talent and shifts focus to remuneration.
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Washington Star
Who Owns the Railroads
H T Newcomb compiles statistics showing millions hold railroad securities. Depositors in six eastern states directly own stock and bonds totaling over 442 million dollars. Insurance companies, educational institutions, and fiduciaries hold large sums, totaling more than 1.5 billion dollars in railroad securities.
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H. T. Newcomb
District of Columbia
Massachusetts
Guaranteed Cure for Piles drug advertisement
Pazo Ointment promises cure for itching bleeding or protruding piles with a six to fourteen day refund if ineffective. A testimonial from N. W. Samuel of Ocean Grove, N J praises Piso's Cure for Consumption for coughs and colds amid a remark about Japanese fighting like Christians.
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N. W. Samuel
Ocean Grove
N. J
The Strain of Work and Kidney Pills Endorsement
Lieutenant George G. Warren of No 8 Chemical Washington D C testifies that Dean's Kidney Pills cured his kidney trouble and strengthened his back after lifting heavy weights. He says he lifted 600 pounds without adverse effects and that other remedies failed over five to six years. For sale by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY 50 cents.
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George G. Warren
No. 8 Chemical
Washington, D. C
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
The Substitute. Mrs Fluffy
A witty exchange from Detroit Free Press notes a husband writing verses for his wife and to another speaker, a quip about receiving checks instead of poems. The humor hinges on affectionate husbandry versus material gifts.
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Fluffy
Duffy
Detroit Free Presa
Stop Suffering Like That Remedy Ad Declares Cure
An Atlanta Constitution advertisement touts Pusheck's Kure as a universal remedy for rheumatism pain weakness indigestion and many ailments. It claims rapid cures when other medicines fail and offers home delivery from Dr. Pusheck in Chicago.
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Pusheck
Chicago
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