Father and child delight in playful tender verses
A nostalgic Houston Post poem by J. M. Lewis exults in a father's joy and protectiveness toward his baby. It recalls lazy days, picnic like life, and dreams of heaven while cherishing the child's kisses, laughter, and improvised mischief.
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J. M. Lewis
Houston Post
Cooley
Chicago Daily News
Out of the Ashes A Romance in New York Studio
Beth, a metals worker in New York, shares a budding bond with John Timson, a landscape painter. When his fire destroys his studio and paintings, he risks the flames to save his work, and they confront loss together. A new life dawns as their love deepens.
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Elizabeth
Beth
Nature
New York
New Hampshire
Washington Square
John Timson
Timson
John
Dull
Eighth Street
Institute
Brooklyn
Missouri
St. Louis
League
Jersey Woods
Ruyter
Academy
Mr. Timson
Woman’s Home Companion
St Louis World Fair as a Great Educator
A Western college president extols the Louisiana Purchase Exposition as a supreme educator. Exhibits in Agriculture Transportation and Government buildings offer practical lessons seen rather than read, proving the fair's value over books, with Japan and other nations showcased and lodging prices kept affordable for visitors.
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St. Louis World’s Fair
St. Louis
Cascades
Western College
Europe
Philippine
Japan
Commodore Perry
United States
Mississippi Valley
New York
Chicago
London
Poetic Reflections and Snippets From Various Papers
A collage of poems and verses from Good Housekeeping, Chicago Daily News, New York Sun, and Chicago Record-Herald. It includes maternal devotion, boyhood tales, young love, farm work, and a playful nursery piece featuring Johnny at Grandpa's.
European Chinese Understanding Delayed by Fatal Poisoning
A Chinese worker injured in Pekin was saved by leg amputation at a European hospital. Relatives, hoping to reach him in heaven, gave him arsenic to die so he could claim the leg in the afterlife, a grim tale cited from Smith's Weekly.
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Pekin
Smith’s Weekly
Cleveland’s Yeast Joke Reveals Future President’s Wit
On a Madison Avenue car bound for Grand Central, a group of young boys teased Grover Cleveland about his size. He laughed then quipped that their mothers should have fed them yeast to improve their breeding as they left at Thirty Fourth Street.
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Trover Cleveland
Grand Central Station
United States
Madison Avenue
Cleveland
Thirtyfo
Two Injuries and a Hole in the Book
A daily paper notes a borrower returned a book with holes in pages 215 and 216. The library entry records the damage as two separate holes. A quip from Youth's Companion jokes about faults and penalties for damaged books.
Poem Verse Appears in Atlanta Constitution Note
A short lyrical excerpt quotes F L Stanton from the Atlanta Constitution. The piece reflects resilience through night into dawn with hopeful language about pulling through and a new day. It mentions a rose and a world of light following sorrowful lines.
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F. L. Stanton
Atlanta
Constitu *Tion
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Ralph Henry Barbour
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Buffalo
Sis
God
Phila Butler Bowman
Johnnie
Joseph
Joe
Brother Joe
Katherine L. Daniher
Good Housekeeping
Young Times
Horace Seymour Kelier
N, Y
Johnny
Grandpa
E. Kiser
Chicago Record-Herald
South Dakota
Chicago &Merican