Courage as Comfort in Hardship
Poem by Robert Mackay from Success extols Courage as a constant beacon amid sorrow and loss. It portrays courage as angelic, unwavering, soothing the distressed soul through battle, death, and isolation, affirming its valor and friendship.
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Robert Mackay
Mother’s Arms Keep a Lone Boy from Fears
A Detroit Free Press verse reminiscence on the comfort of a mother’s care. The speaker contrasts a loving mother with a distant father and recalls how a mother’s embrace steadies a frightened child and keeps him from loneliness.
Poem Excerpt Reflections On Fame And Humble Rest
A reflective verse traces the speaker’s longing for lofty fame and the enduring value of simple toil. The speaker recalls a voice urging a return to tears and hope past, favoring the humble retreat beneath the hill over dazzling heights. The poem emphasizes modest labor with other men as sweeter than acclaim.
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Charles Hanson Towne
Enchantment and Rural Yearning in Classical Verses
A poem fragment pair contrasts country life at Uncle Dan’s with city comforts and electric fans. It moves to a tranquil ode where nature’s quiet shifts the speaker toward a deep, shared memory with a beloved. The lines evoke summer skies, blue hills, and timeless pasture.
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Charley
Uncle Dan’s
Uncle Dan
S. E. Kiser
Chicago Record-Herald
Easy Living and Command in Verse and Prose
A compilation of poems and verses reflecting on ease versus duty, grandeur of skies and clouds by Arthur R. Ford, and a harsh portrait of coercive authority narrated by S. E. Kiser. The Washington Star is cited for the first item.
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Washington Star
Water Refrigerator A Farmers Efficient Drinking Water System
E C Bennett describes a homemade water refrigerator using a windmill driven tank to deliver cool pure drinking water from a deep drilled well. The system channels water to the house and stock supply, stores milk and perishables in lower shelves, and avoids ice for health and labor benefits.
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Sage
Iowa
E. C. Bennett
Orange Judd Farmer
Precedents at Naught as Business Women Challenge Axioms
A Chicago Chronicle critique argues business women reject trade norms while asserting half the class endorses checks wrong end up. Vignettes include a hotel register nickname, hiding room keys, 25 miles to withdraw cash, and unusual payment habits. Some run poultry farms and forego receipts, yet all call themselves capable businesswomen and resent aspersions.
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Woman In Business
Chicago Chronicle
Thinning Potatoes for Seed and Soil Conditions
The article advises against thinning potato stands and favors using large seed tubers cut to two or three eyes. It notes thinning can weaken plants and yield more from heavy soil when ground is packed, recommend deep cultivation under the row after emergence to loosen soil and improve roots for potential yields.
Soapsuds Wash for Fruit Trees Against Lice
Strong soapsuds applied with an old broom or whitewash brush makes one of the best washes for fruit trees and will aid materially in destroying lice.
The Teacher Snubbed Miss Corelli at Stratford-on-Avon
A report claims Marie Corelli wrote to the Stratford-on-Avon seminary principal asking for windows to be closed during piano practice to avoid distraction. The principal allegedly replied sharply that if Corelli imagines such practice would halt her composing another work like The Sorrows of Satan she would order twenty more pianos.
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Miss Corelli
Marie Corelli
Stratford-on-Avon
Shakespeare
Corelli
Pie Clue Sparks Confusion Over Mother Figure
In a humorous exchange cited by the Boston Transcript a boy receives a second piece of pie and does not ask for it, prompting jokes about whether the woman is his mother. The anecdote highlights the child’s reaction as a lighthearted social cue.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Johnny
Boston Transcript
His Economic Difficulty
A humorous exchange notes Wabsley hesitation and a struggling supply of words versus demand. The Chicago Tribune quote highlights a sharp linguistic mismatch observed in speech.
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Wabsley
Chicago ‘Tribune
Neighbor Tests Patience Over Violent Piano Player
A flat-dwelling man vents at his wife about his downstairs neighbor, Smith, joking that she would “make an elegant carpet beater” due to her persistent pounding. The wife asks why. The husband replies that she has the “regular a beater's touch.”
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Remar
Smith
Supreme Court Upholds Foot-Ease Trade-Mark Infringement
The court sustains the Fest Base Trade-Mark against Paul B. Hudson and a Brooklyn retailer over Dr. Clark's Foot Powder. Allen S. Olmsted of Leroy, N Y owns the Foot-Ease mark and is credited with pioneering national advertising. The decision upholds the mark and enjoins sale of spurious powders, with future suits planned against additional infringers.
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Supreme Court
Paul B. Hudson
Dr. Clark
Allen S. Olmsted
Leroy
N. Y
Gossip to lying and a cure for consumption note
A string of quotes from different papers hints at gossip and memory. It cites the Atchison Globe and Philadelphia Times discussing deception and a cure for consumption praised by a reader, with a brief line about a father’s deafness miraculously improving after a night of singing.
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Atchison Globe
Philadelphia Times
Hoxsie's Croup Cure Promoted As Life Saver for Children
An advertisement extols Hoxsie's Croup Cure as a life saver for children claiming no opium and a price of 50 cents. The piece also includes quoted maxims from Wellspring and Ram's Horn praising wisdom and merit.
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Hoxsie
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