Hobo Convention Nods to Rest in Clifford Illinois
A large National Hobo reunion in Clifford Illinois showcased diverse hobos from all walks of life. The event featured long distance sleeping contests, pies hung as prizes, and novelty tests while officials debated new rules that would likely be rejected.
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Boes
Alberquerque
Clifford
Ill
Association
Sam
Weary Willie
Rufus
Tom
Dan
Hank
Peter
Louie
Walter
Francis
Mike
Teddy
Unwashed
Roll Call
Sighing Sinkers
Desplaines Street
Chicago
Sinkers
Dinky Dan
Min
Uv de Order
Riverview Park
The Warped Sense of Humor and Social Peril
A essay on humor stresses that a warped sense of humor harms relationships. It warns against laughing at others misfortunes and sharing embarrassing jokes. The piece urges discretion and fitness in humor to avoid losing friends and notes humor is unpredictable and rarely repeats itself.
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Georgia
Grace
Queen Mary Sleep Weel in Fontainbleau Verse
A Scotsman guards the Queen in exile near Fontainbleau. The poem by Robert Gilbert Welsh speaks of watchful protection over Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, as dangers loom in Edinburgh and France. The verse evokes Mons Meg guarding Edinboro and a watcher by Canongate and High Street until the Queen returns home.
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Mary Stuart
Fontainbleau
Robert Gilbert Welsh
Appleton's
Gate of Dreams and the Slug Horn Quest
A reflective poem fragment from Uncle Remus' Magazine recalls a youth’s summer wanderings to the Gate of Dreams and the awe of radiant sights and better lands. The second verse, from Appleton's, imagines Childe Roland facing a perilous ordeal with a horn blast and a triumphant, though unseen, outcome.
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Gate of Dreams
Clarence Ousley
Uncle Remus’ Magazine
The Starlight of Home Poem Recital
A nostalgic verse celebrates home as a guiding light guiding from sea to shore. It contrasts starlight and blue light with clear light and true light, weaving images of love, lilies, dreams, and the homecoming scene. The refrain emphasizes reunion and affection.
Untitled Poem About Loss and Consolation
A speaker reflects on failure and worldly applause, contrasting earthly defeat with spiritual meaning. The verse imagines Christ beside a suffering figure at life’s end, offering steadfast comfort as mockery and pain persist. Celia Myrover Robinson frames the crucifixion as a model of endurance.
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Christ
Celia Myrover Robinson
Return of Summer Eyes and Quiet Ways
A nostalgic lyric fragment speaks of a lost beloved and a longing to return to peaceful evenings. The speaker recalls sunlight on corn and wind across wheat then laments shabby paths and forgotten words. Desire is expressed through fevered touches and a plea to understand.
I Will Give Thanks to God of the Open Air
A short verse by Henry van Dyke from God of the Open Air offers thanksgiving for sun warmth water shade breeze and twilight thrush song. It expresses gratitude for each element of nature and a carefree heart before God.
Fragmentary Whittier verse on fate and dust
The excerpt contemplates the tangled relation of will and fate and the boundaries of the soul. It reflects on providence and human frailty, noting we are but dust and urging humility in language and judgment.
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Whittler
Sentry's Cowardly Trick Revealed By Third Degree
Retired soldiers recount a western post mystery where a private feigned illness to avoid dangerous night sentry duty. The crew trapped him after stern questioning as the tale exposes his method of absorbing nicotine by moist tobacco under his armpits to mimic sickness.
How to cook a husband recipe from a magazine
An old admonitory verse attributed to an Englishwoman's domestic magazine parodies cooking by describing catching a husband and placing him in a jar of carefulness near conjugal love. It urges tenderness secrecy prudence and moderation as the proper flavoring for a harmonious marriage.
Old Hen Exchange Sparks Family Spat
In a humorous kitchen scene the apparent head of the family reveals the animal on the table is an old hen. The real head of the family praises the grocer for calling it a poor choice. Maria notes the joke as the meal unfolds.
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Maria
Hev
Free Luncheons for Poor Children in New York
During vacation days in New York City the poor children of the Lower East Side of Manhattan received 26 043 luncheons through the home delivery system of the Children's Relief Society.
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New York City
Lower East Side
Manhattan Island
Children’s Relief Society
Bamboo cultivation gains traction in U S from import sources
The Department of Agriculture shows Chinese and Japanese bamboo can be profitably grown in the United States and will test drought resistant varieties from India to expand cultivation.
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United States
Department of Agriculture
India
Market snapshot shows varied prices across regions
New York on call money 1 percent and sterling at 4 86 55. Grain and livestock markets show Minnesota flour patents at 5.35 to 5.75, wheat No 2 red around 1.08, corn 4 0 4, oats 52 to 54, and hogs at 5 50 to 6 00. Regional notes include Cleveland wheat 1.02, corn 83, butter 29, sheep 2 25 to 4 00, and hogs 5 70 in Cincinnati area.
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New York
Prime Mercantile Paper
Sterling Exchange
Cleveland
Minnesota
York State
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Chaiphan
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Fontainebleau
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Edinboro
Beside the Gate of Dreams
Childe Roland
Hell
Neilhardt
Henry van Dyke
Mae
Ping HG
Toledo
East Buffalo
Pittsburg
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