Grandma's Ride to School A Nostalgic Verse
A memory filled poem recalls grandma riding to school with a gentle gray mare through summer mornings. The speaker longs to relive youthful days, names places like the turnpike and meadow, and cherishes a timeless love immortalized in memory. The piece ends with a visionary return to school in heaven.
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A Knave of Conscience Opening a Bank Heist in New Orleans
In early New Orleans of 1900, bank president Galbraith faces a bold intruder who bursts into his private office with a pistol and demands money. The desperate young man asserts coercion, threatening violence if help is summoned, while the wary banker weighs his options.
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Hungry Robber Bets His Life in New Orleans Bank Heist
In New Orleans a hungry young robber named Kenneth Griswold robs a bank denouncing the rich and seizing ninety nine thousand dollars. He forces President Andrew Galbraith to endorse a check and flee with the money while a tense police hunt begins and Griswold contemplates an audacious escape.
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Daniel Webster teased by lovers in youth letters
In Youth's Companion excerpts, Daniel Webster appears playful with admirers as he pursued studies in law and politics. A skeptical elder aunt warned that if he failed to rise, he would be a disappointment, though Lydia and others remained characters in his social circle.
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Proper Kafir beer urged as pure and sober choice
A letter signed J. G. Mohafi in the Bloemfontein Post argues that proper Kafir beer is safe and unmixed, warns against spirits and rubbish, and urges fellow natives to drink pure beer, keep yards clean, and influence others through teaching at tea parties. The message cites the London Mail as source.
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Frontier baptism tale leads to Episcopal cat joke
Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady recounts a frontier boy raised to believe in deep water baptism who tries to baptize a household cat. The cat resists, bites, and scratches. the boy, with scratched hands and tears, abandons the effort and exclaims dog gone you go and be an Episcopal cat if you want to.
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Cyrus Townsend Brady
Detroit Free Press
City Tourist or Road to Sunny Dale
Local discussion questions if the road remains the route to Sunny Dale after decades of use. An elderly resident asserts it has been the path for fifty years and likely continues to be.
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