Old Cellar Dreams and Sleep in Verse Echoes
A collage of poem excerpts and verse excerpts from Adela S. Cody, Francis Annesley, and Nixon Waterman, plus a Chicago Record-Herald item, exploring mystery, death, providence, and human understanding. The pieces blend imagery of cellars, sleep, fate, and forgiveness with reflections on progress and enlightenment.
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Éréam
Francis Annesley
Chambers’ Journal
Is Life Worth Living
A Washington Star verse fragment questions life's value when weather and nature lift the mood. The speaker admits lacking time to argue the solemn or sublime, noting springtime scenes and birdsong as distractions from existential debate.
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Washington Star
Evening Quiet on Midway Street
Poem fragment describes a calm village street at day’s end with open windows, evening meal scents, shadows lengthening, a tree toad and whippoorwill, dew falling, and a lone star over pines. James Buckham titulaire.
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James Buckham
The Untruthful Daisy and Found Poetry Appeal
A verse pairing contrasts ambition with heartbreak and a daisies tale of love in two excerpts. First, a reflection on suffering for high aims, then a daisy guessing game ending in heartbreak and concealed emotion. The pieces sit in a midcentury newspaper frame with a lyrical, moral undertone.
Tired to Work or Play in Brooklyn Life
A poem titled by Joe Cone in Brooklyn Life laments exhaustion across daily acts from walking and writing to eating and sleeping. The verse repeats the refrain of being too tired to perform any activity, painting a portrait of persistent fatigue.
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Joe Cone
Brooklyn
France's Workman's Superannuation Bill Faces Debate
The French government pushes a workman's superannuation bill in the chamber of deputies with Premier Waldeck Rousseau and Millerand backing. Critics warn of heavy budget costs while supporters praise paternal protection for 8.3 million workers, including agricultural laborers, with gradual pension rules and employer contributions.
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England
Chamber of Deputies
Waldeck- Rousseau
Millerard
Ministry of Republican Defense
Chicago Post
Chamber
Senate
France
Denmark
New Zealand
Living marionettes in European theatre exploits optics
The article describes living actors appearing as tiny marionettes via mirror reflection and a phonograph soundtrack. It notes audiences in Germany France Paris and Berlin witness reduced-size performers while the performers remain visible through the mirror. Expert M F Kerlande calls it a novelty using optical laws.
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Germany
France
Paris
Berlin
M. Guy Kerlande
FARM WATERWORKS WITH A 170-BARREL CISTERN AND HOSE SYSTEM
A farmer describes a self built cistern holding 170 barrels with frostproof cover and a wide network of hydrants valves and hoses. The system allows drawing from the cistern or well and includes animal troughs and a stable hose layout to prevent zero weather issues. The plan hints at future kitchen and bathroom upgrades.
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Creamer
New Yorker
Dolls Hospital: Red Cross Flag Over New York Dolls Clinic
In New York's Sixth Avenue shopping district a Red Cross flag floated above a three story building signaling care, yet the sign announced a Dolls' Hospital. Only stuffed dolls receive treatment from expert surgeons and nurses in white uniforms led by a superintendent called Doctor capable of amputation and replacement of limbs.
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Sixth Avenue
New York
Red Cross
Miss Caroline Hazard A Leader in Education at Wellesley
Miss Caroline Hazard succeeds Alice Freeman Palmer as president of Wellesley College. A non graduate, she is highly cultured and connected with college life. Her father sits on Brown University’s corporation and she earned MA in 1899 at Michigan and Lit D from Brown.
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Caroline Hazard
Alice Freeman Palmer
Wellesley College
Miss Hazard
Corporation of
Brown University
America
University of Michigan
Hints for Shepherds on Sheep Breeding and Wool Quality
Practical guidance from Wool Market and Sheep emphasizes dipping lambs after shearing, breeding and feeding for wool value, and the profitability of mutton with wool as a product. It advocates docked lambs, sharp knives for clean cuts, and selecting show animals by true breed characteristics while promoting pasture crops like rape kale peas and vetches for flocks.
Queerest Street in China Arrives in Canton
A Canton street ranks as one of the world’s queerest with only dentists and apothecaries. The entire street is roofed in glazed paper and features an abundance of signs, cards, and billboards.
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China
Canton
Beautiful Ladies Advise Suffering Sisters on Peruna
Miss Kathleen Graham of Washington D C and Miss Florence Allan of Chicago praise Peruna as an invigorating tonic and rejuvenator for a tired system. Dr S B Hartman of Columbus Ohio announces he will oversee female catarrhal cases this summer with free advice.
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Kathleen Graham
Florida Ave
N. W. Wash
D. C
Florence Allan
Walton Ypace
Chicago
Ill
S. B. Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Ohio
Food Influences Egg Flavor Says Farm Journal Note
A Farm and Fireside item explains flavors in eggs depend on hen diet. Garlic feeding may change egg taste within days. A disputed idea suggests odors transfer if the egg is laid on a strong-smelling surface, but shell hardening after atmospheric exposure is noted.
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