A Nez Perce Lochinvar Unwilling Bride Duel Tale
A midsummer camp of Yakimas Nez Perces and Umatillas ends in a wager over a squaw named Looesa. Konewock and Blue Heron duel in cards wagering ponies blankets and finally the her fate. Blue Heron abducts Looesa but Teenat asserts her freedom and rescues her. Blue Heron pursues across desert night as a rare lightning storm erupts over the Blue Mountains.
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Columbia
Konewock
Curio Hunters
Blue Heron
Nez Perce
Teenat
Old Teenat
Looesa
Coulee
Blue Mountains
Walla Walla
Grande Ronde
Fort Lapwai
Blue Heron Bravely Crosses Flood With Captive In Tow
Blue Heron ferries a reluctant Looesa across a swollen Walla Walla River as storm waters rush by. A fallen cottonwood tree storms the current, nearly dragging them both under. He dives to rescue her, then drags her ashore where she tends to him and the chase ends with her nursing him to health.
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Blue Heron
Walla Walla
Looesa
Loosea
Cupid
San Francisco
End of Engagement Signals Financial Strain
In a brief Brookly Life exchange, a couple faces an impending breakup as one partner notes the end of their engagement while the other estimates a year to settle mounting bills, highlighting financial stress amid relationship change.
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Brookly
Idle Moment of Pride and Wealth in Dialect Verse
The piece presents a dialect poem reflecting on wealth, pride, and indifference to news of money. It contrasts self-satisfaction with the world’s hustle, noting the narrator’s lack of funds and comfort in this absence while observing white wealth and losses from a wary, reflective stance.
Proud Remembrance Of a Repentant Act Poem
A speaker recalls pride in helping a humiliated stranger and treating him as a peer rather than pitied. The contrast with wealth and social status is drawn through two poems, one praising equal dignity before the crowd, the other denouncing greed and worldly success in favor of moral worth.
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S. E. Kiser
Chicago Record-Herald
The Magic Sword Poem Recited by Youth's Companion
A poem by Emma C. Dowd extols a wondrous blade surpassing Excalibur. Its power splits waters and mountains, makes forests fall, and yields life to the wielder. The verse claims nothing mortal withstands its magic. It ends with a bold vow I will.
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Earth
Emma C. Dowd
Moonlit Nightdreams in a Boston Budget Poem
A darkling scene unfolds with a summer moon and fireflies in a misty vale. Torchlight dancers sway while a red star glows over woodlands. A spiritual, dreamlike hush fills the garden as memories rise in incense and power. Boston Budget.
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Darkling Steep
Misty Vale
Boston
Idle toilers and busy loafers in verse and art
A Washington Star excerpt reflects on idleness and the restless worker, contrasting the man bred to idleness with the overbusy soul who never pauses for joy. The piece moves to a dairy scene where a woman’s work inspires a poetic image of affection and butter pat imagery by M S Bridges in Puck.
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Washington Star
M. S. Bridges
Puck
Marguerite's wedding tale defies old luck rules
In a Baltimore World note the bride Marguerite enters wedlock with a twist on superstition. She is described as old and blue while adopting borrowed blushes and a brand new bridal trousseau, challenging the traditional luck charm of the day.
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Trousseau
Baltimore
Bread and Lasses Nostalgia in Harlem Lite Verse
Poem reflects on childhood lunches with bread and syrup as Grandma Jones, Lor bless her bones, feeds youths in Harlem. It contrasts a halcyon past with adult life and growing experience.
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Grandma Jones
Lfe
I. L. Jones
Harlem
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