Influence versus industry in shaping a young man's career
A reflective essay argues that honest industry and self-reliance trump influential pull in long term success. It cites labor conquering all and warns that reliance on others will fail when support ends, urging steady push and opportunity creation. The piece also moves through a vaudeville of love motifs and personal vignettes.
Am I My Brother's Keeper in Corporate Welfare
A speaker asserts the duty of directors, employers, stockholders, and citizens to safeguard workers wages, assist released prisoners, and support reform institutions. He calls for direct action to prevent poverty and exploitative corporate practices, urging involvement with welfare-focused organizations.
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Stuyvesant Fish
The Old Sheep Wagon Dream on Wyoming Prairie
A speaker prefers life in a sheep wagon on the Wyoming plains over wealth or palace. He cherishes sun and rain, sheep, a dog, and sagebrush calm, waiting for divine judgment as he contemplates death in his wagon on brown hilltops. The piece appears in the Denver Republican.
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Wyoming Plain
Brown
Denver Republican
Framed by Cold Words The Dead Man Speaks
A poem fragment expresses a speaker who laments neglect in life and mockery after death. He notes a nature craving sun and smiles, while others busy with their affairs later weep and praise, failing to hear the dead man’s unheeded plea. The speaker calls their praise foolish.
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Nixon Waterman
Success Magazine
Westminster Gazette Poem Reflections on a Life Lived
A Westminster Gazette verse contemplates legacy and virtue. The author argues that value lies in aiding humanity despite flaws and life’s end, hoping that others may say he did his best and cared for fellow men. The speaker seeks no grand fame but acceptance at death.
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Westminster Gazette
Azure blues in a Pittsburg Bulletin poem excerpt
The verse describes a lover with piercing blue eyes and a sky rich blue mood. It evokes seas, skies, and cobalt harmonies to celebrate a beloved gaze and the color imagery that links lines of affection to celestial and maritime blues.
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Salters
Pittsburg Bulletin
Inside Information
A wife explains to her husband that she knows her neighbor’s life without visiting her, since the modiste and washerwoman who serve the neighbor are now working for her, revealing how she learns intimate details. The exchange ends with a pointed jab at male ignorance in such matters.
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Thomas B. Chrystal
N. Y. Press
Verse on perception and gratitude across social divides
The poem contrasts those who murmur at clear skies with specks of darkness and those in humble huts who praise love and mercy. It contrasts rich and poor, noting some hearts in palaces envy spiritual gifts while others in poverty admire how love provides.
Harvest Moon Haiku of Wheat and Rest
Poem depicts a dusty wheat field scene with mowers and heat giving way to evening relief. Imagery centers on a sunlit lake and riverbank under a harvest moon, concluding with a tranquil night drift and gentle breeze. The piece is a poetic vignette by Charles Wadsworth Camp in the Metropolitan Magazine.
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Charles Wadsworth
The
Metropolitan Magazine
Love's Flag at Half Mast by F Robbins
Poem fragment reflecting on love and faithless hope with imagery of a flag half mast. The speaker laments a love that passed by and contrasts dawns of gratitude with folly in paradise.
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Paradise
F. Robbins
A Wedding Toast by Charles A. Janes
A wedding toast wishing enduring sunshine and harmony. The blessing asks lasting love beyond years of married life and a peaceful, sacred home in eternity as angels watch over the couple.
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Charles A. Janes
The Age of Machinery and Western Canada's Wheat Promise
The article argues machinery benefits workers, citing sewing and painting as examples, and notes Western Canada's wheat crop prospects. It reports estimates of 87.2 to 90 million bushels for wheat, 75.7 million oats, and 16.98 million barley, with optimism about rising export potential and railway expansion. It highlights quality gains in No. 1 Northern grade and foresees dramatic growth as infrastructure grows.
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Elbert Hubbard
Northwest Grain Dealers’ Association
The
Winnipeg Free Press
Canada
Manitoba
J. F. Whalley
Minneapolis
Canadian Northwest
Western
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Cure for Whooping Cough At Mine in Irwin Pa
In Irwin Pennsylvania a mine cure for whooping cough draws attention as small children suffer near epidemic levels. A Jeannette father passes his ten month old daughter into the Penn mine daily for blocks of time over two weeks to ease severe coughing fits and spasms, as advised by a Pittsburgh physician.
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Annabel
Mother
Harry
Jane
Tip
Irwin
Penn Mine
Pittsburg
Western criticism of Hamlet read at Clyde Fitch dinner
Clyde Fitch read from his scrap books a dated 1873 western critique of Hamlet. The critic urges more action and love making, fewer chinning scenes, and suggests a detective angle and a rousing song and dance to lift the piece.
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Clyde Fitch
Hamlet
Pension Head Works Saving
Washington Commissioner of Pensions Warner has cut costs in the service saving the government 201 346 in the last fiscal year. He reduced bureau expenses by 92 552 and trimmed special examiners costs by 60 398 and examining surgeons by 30 000. He also saved 7 242 in salaries and clerk hire and 8 654 in rents and contingent expenses and 2 500 in pension agent examinations.
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Washington
Warner
Odious Comparison Highlights Social Gaps Across Adornment
In a sharp quip a judge contrasts a man’s scruffiness with his wife’s elegance. The remark likens the man to a bartender’s shirt-stud next to the Koh i-noor, underscoring class and appearance tensions in a spoken exchange.
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