Verses Grave and Gay He Is My Little Man
Poem about a four year old boy who adores Wild West fantasies and dreams of meeting an Indian chief. The speaker admires the child’s heart and soul despite his rough appearance with red hair freckles and snaggle teeth. The child’s eyes, like his father, reveal truth and love.
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Buffalo Bill
Neta L. Pierson
Washington Home Magazine
Western Canada offers hunting and farming life unmatched
A Western Canada feature extols abundant game and a comfortable rural life. It notes mallards, snipe, deer and wapiti, moose by lake shores, and rustic markets for butter and eggs, plus easy settlement through Canadian Government agents advertised elsewhere.
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Canada
Dead Return to Life Feigning in Strange Events
Reported cases of apparent revival or feigned life shock readers. A Russian betrothal ceremony performed beside a gravestone after a death, a bicycle race winner who died at the finish, and a derelict ship where a captain died at the wheel yet steered for miles before perishing.
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Australia
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San Francisco
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To a Violet in a Poem by Isaac Bassett Cheate
A reflective poem praises a violet as a gentle link between mother nature and human emotion. The speaker marvels at the flower's modest beauty and asks nature to help their simple thoughts connect with the violet’s breath. The verse explores tenderness, faith, and enduring affection inspired by blue violets in the grass.
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Isaac Bassett
The Great World A Hymn To Home And Faith
A lyrical meditation on love of the familiar world and home, contrasting it with distant dreams. The speaker expresses attachment to the world’s light, dust and daisies, winter and spring, and the comfort of loved ones, faith, and a near azure home.
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F. L. Stanton
Atlanta Constitution
The Flames Sink Into Ashes as Quarrel Ends
A dramatic scene by a hearth shows two sitters in stiff chairs on either side of a fading fire. Shadows climb the wall as the pine-knot expires and the quarrel dissolves into ashes, the room growing dark and still.
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Blanche Trennor Heath
Detroit Free Press
Lady Mary Sez I Take I to Mary Poem Excerpt
A dated verse from F L Stanton quoted in the Atlanta Constitution contrasts rural labor with city wealth. It features a speaker noting domestic duties in exchange for poverty versus a Mary who aspires to the city and a millionaire. The fragmentary line reads as a critique of traditional roles and aspirational class envy.
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F. L. Stanton
Atlanta Constitution
Summum Bonum and Reflections on Speech and Duty
Poem fragment musing on true virtue versus noisy rhetoric. Compares humble, faithful work to loud orators in the marketplace. Cites Peter McArthur and S. E. Kiser with notes on time, past, and hopeful days to dawn.
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Peter McArthur
Atlantic
Poem Excerpt Promises Love Guides Through Dark Paths
An Atlanta Constitution reader poem by F. L. S. frames life as weary yet hopeful. It asserts love and living prevail despite Fate along life’s road, ending with a rallying note that the gods forgive and love leads. The verse blends personal sentiment with timeless faith.
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Atlanta Constitution
Exterminate the Asparagus Beetle Now to Save Next Year
Orange Judd Farmer outlines urgent measures against the asparagus beetle. Use trap plants sprayed with parts green and water, dry Paris green in flour for dusting, hand-pick young beetles, and spray after the cutting season to prevent both broods. Target early and late generations to protect next year’s crop.
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Orange Judd
Rain and Sunshine Boost Fruit Flavor Variability
In wet seasons fruits grow large but with less sugar and poorer flavor. Dry seasons increase sugar content and flavor. Prof Troop of Indiana notes rain reduces sugar in strawberries melons and musk melons while drainage and potash fertilization improve quality. Variety selection also helps maintain flavor across varying weather.
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Troop
Indiana
Remarkable recovery after back surgery on Long Island
Joseph Lennon of Glendale Long Island survived a four hour operation by Dr Herbert K Noble after a fall from a platform in August. Three vertebrae were removed and Lennon gradually regained movement. By mid March he could stand unaided and by Monday walked the ward length. Census of progress noted as he regained use of arms and legs.
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Glendale
L. I
Joseph Lennon
Jamaicca
Lennon
Herbert K. Noble
Fruit Bark Beetle Threats to Western New York Orchards
A New York bulletin highlights the fruit bark beetle as a major pest last season, especially damaging peach orchards in western New York and scattered plum and cherry plantations. It punctures bark on trunks and limbs causing gum exudates, while twig punctures in plums and cherries injure foliage. Remove dead brush, use caustic washes, and burn infested twigs to reduce beetle numbers.
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New York
St Johns Bread Promoted From Lissa Island
Agricultural agents on Lissa shipped cuttings of St Johns bread a leguminous tree suited to dry calcareous soils in southern states Porto Rico and Hawaii The tree bears at 15 years and yields 450 to 650 pounds of pods per tree Pods are sold for cattle feed used by brewers and distillers Pod value on Lissa ranges 5 50 to 8 50 per annum per tree from the New York Sun.
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Lissa
Adriatic
Agricultural Department
St. John’s
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Wn. Y. Sun
Altogether Too Earnest Summer Resort Warning
A Chicago Post quip notes a man deemed too earnest and unsophisticated, likely to ruin a potential flirtation at a summer resort by proposing within the season’s first two weeks, provoking a wary female exchange.
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Girl In Blue
Chicago Post
Quotable Mirth and Wisdom From The Philadelphia Record
A collection of aphorisms quotes emphasizing blunt speech and skepticism. The first line notes that unthinking speech reveals true thought, while the second warns against superstition, attributed to Ben Jonson.
How Mothers May Help their Daughters into Womanhood
A guidance column urges mothers to watch for signs of puberty in their daughters and to support their development. It promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a time of trial aid and includes a reader letter from Miss Good seeking Mrs. Pinkham's help.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Miss Good
Mrs. Pinkham
Miss Pearl Goon
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