When the Crops Are In Sweet Farmer Pride
The excerpt portrays farmers finding happiness and relief when harvests arrive. It contrasts rural plenty with city life, notes the constant work and pests farmers battle, and ends praising the farmer's satisfaction and resilience as described by Frank E H in Farm Journal.
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Farm Journal
Vagabond Worker Hurries to Catch Train After Farewell Note
Rossiter, torn between hope and despair, plans a final farewell to Miss Densmore and heads toward the Hintonville train. He entrusts a penciled note to farm manager Parmelee and leaves the Rossiter field with resolve and uncertainty about his future.
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Mirca
Miss Densmore
Kean
Joe Becraft
Rossiter
Jack Parmetee
Mr. Parmetee
Hintonville
Mrs. Merton
Miss Merton
Becrafts
Ife
Parmelee
Drift toward the hills ends in a strange fatal blaze
Rossiter travels away from town toward the Oskenonto and Hintonville. He camps near a straw-stack where a sleeping man is found. a later inquiry reveals the stack burned with a man inside, a grim consequence that haunts him as he reaches the station at Hintonville.
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Rossiter
Hintonville
Miss Densmore
Blue Creek
Oskenonto
Harkana
Susquenango Canal
Consious
Merton Farm
Bob Pankhurst
Bob
Har
T Dawson
Night at the College Gymnasium Amid Flickering Lights
A man observes a college gym scene as music, moonlight, and streamers decorate the hall. He climbs to the third floor and sees banners trophies and gauzy fabrics as interlude music swells and dancing continues beside the chapel and gym.
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Illica
Merton Farm
Ever
Anen
Evening Star Reporter Rossiter Faces Old Desires and News
In a quiet college town, Philip Rossiter reflects on his rise at the Evening Star, his love for Sylvia Densmore, and the lure of hometown news. He frets over a possible engagement news from the Merton farm as ball preparations stir the campus.
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Monroe
Philip Rossiter
Fortune
The
Evening Star
Commence College
Rossiter
Sylvia Densmore
Hintonville
Merton Farm
Jack Parmelee
Mrs. Merton
Miss Densmore
French visitor puzzled by tram car wording in Liverpool
A Parisian writer in the Liverpool Daily Post questions why passengers are told not to board or leave a tram while in motion. He suggests misreadings of border and boarding, noting travelers have moved on and off while the car is moving.
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Liverpool Daily Post
Liverpool
The Ruling Passion in a Dying Wife
A dying wife, famed for gossip, asks if the doctor and nurse are engaged. Her final moment centers on this sly question, revealing her playful pulse of wit as life ends. Her husband stands by, awaiting words of love that never come.
Didn't Specialize Too Much Inspires Broad Legal Insight
An anecdote at a college talk shows a professor warning against over specialization in law. A former student who aimed only at constitutional law returned after eight years, saying he adjourned his justice court to attend the commencement. The tale highlights balance between law fields and practical experience.
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Dlay
Accomplished Statesman Quotation About Henry Clay
A Kansas City Journal quotation ponders Henry Clay’s career asking if he was president, noting he was not elected. The exchange playfully contrasts being right with achieving the presidency, concluding he was right but not elected.
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Henry Clay
Kansas City Journal
Engaging Remark Draws William Dumhead Nelson Visitor
In a snatch of dialogue from the Princeton Tiger, Miss Olemade gushes over a visitor named William Dumhead Nelson, noting he would be engaged for the evening as she declares her rapture. The playful exchange centers on social calling and romantic sentiment.
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Dumhead
Nelson
Miss Olemade
William
Princeton Tiger
Fragmented Quips From Various Papers On Wit And Work
A collage of short humorous exchanges and cartoons from several papers. Jokes touch reading, marriage, hypocrisy, and a boy’s phase chasing failed plans, with light sarcasm about daily life and work. Named papers include Yonkers Statesman Philadelphia Press Washington Star Baltimore American.
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Yonkers Statesman
Clara
Dora
Satcheller
Phamliman
Philadelphia Press
Cadleigh
Baltimore American
Coal Carrier Seeks Help at College for Delivery
A Yorkshire coal carrier arriving at Eng ra ton College asks a professor where to unload. The professor explains in archaic terms that the coal must traverse the quadrangle and pass under an arch to the exterior curtilage, where an opening will let him empty his cart, though the worker mishears as a coal hole.
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Yorkshire
Delive
Maister
Brooklyn Earle
Science and Industry Notes on Language, Gas, Silk, and Oil
A survey of topics including English vowel sounds, gas versus electric usage, a ship launch bottle technique, Greece silk production from mulberry leaves, rising India cigarette trade, California fruit shipments to Japan, and oil well performance in Baku. Oil wells averaged 1292 feet depth with 292 barrels per day initial output versus 1100 feet and 330 bpd in 1901.
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Francis T. Bowles
Navy
Greece
India
America
Japan
Baku
Russia
Why do you think the affair is platonic
A brief, satirical line from a Chicago Post quip about a rumored romance. It notes economic motive as a joke, suggesting both parties lack money and desire it. The remark plays on social gossip rather than reporting an actual event.
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Chicago Post
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