Across the Express Car a Grand Round Trip Tale
In a crowded New York to Stamford journey, Clifton aids an elderly grandmother and her companion, facing rudeness from Hatfield. The scene ends with a marriage pivot as grandma's traveling trust earns the couple a future greeting at Christmas. The piece blends social satire with travel hardship and hints at romantic payoff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polly
Clifton
Hatfield
Tara
Mr. Nlutfield
Unfield
Stamford
Grand Central Depot
New York
Thomas
Emperor
Central Park
Gypsy
Lim
Fanperor
Sometime Beautiful Flowers and Singing Birds in a Golden Time
The piece envisions a golden time after life’s troubles when sorrow ends and rest in God’s homestead awaits. It contrasts joyful birdsong with human weariness and imagines eternal hills, cerulean city spires, and shadows free from sorrow for the faithful.
Coon-skin frontier tale and pithy moral sallies
In Oakland county a circuit rider lies broke for cash yet receives unexpected aid from a hunter who paid his way with six half dollars, a tale set amid rough times and frontier dialect. The piece blends quips on religion and virtue with fragments from sermons and parlor reflections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Oakland County
Drift of a grieving parent in antique verse
A fragmented, archaic poem recalls a parent’s sorrow for a lost child. The speaker laments love turned to despair, questioning faith, meaning, and mortality amid wave after wave of memory and doubt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Reale
Night Train Reflections and a Love Triangle
Clarence Hatfield and the narrator travel home after a failed swamp land sale with Beatrice Hale in mind. Hatfield and the narrator rival for her affection while enduring a crowded railway car and curious passengers. A stern older woman and veiled younger woman arrive to claim seats as the journey continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Hatfield
Clay
Clitton
Hatfield
Beatrice Hale
Beefale
Hatficld
Australia
Haitich
Messrs. Jenkins
Jumperton & Co
Dréeseed Din Black
Pears
Afi Jenkins
Juniperton
Ces
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Miss Lisle
Charles
Mr. Clifton
Rees
Grandma Hale
Hale Farm
Pun'shing
Savant
Dan River
U.S
Pennsylvanian Avenue
Washington, D.C
M. C
House of Representatives
Committee On Commerce
Yadkin, Dan
Staunton
Virginia
North Carolina
Yadkin
Dan
Danville
Madison
Danbury
Congress
Ohio
Louisville
Mississippi
Keokuk
Lake Superior
Lake Michigan
Sault St. Marie Canal
Sam
J T. Abeer
Prentice
Earth
Alabama
Alabama Slite
M Montgomery Advertiser
Rome
Teller Committee
Jane
Washington
Aia
Winston Sentinel
Geo. M. Mathes
J. T. Darlington
Geo. W.graham
Raleigh
N. C
Preston Roan
Winston
Laugenour & Boyles
Lewissyville
N.C
J. J. Waggoner & CO
Tobacconists
Richmond
Richard H. Lewis
Wicrares
The
Savannah Medical
Raleigh, N. Co
State Medical Society
Georgia Medical Society
I. W. Durham
Practical Marble Worker
Winston, N. C
Wiite
Beck & Moore
Barrow & Beck
Wrinston
CosiTos
T. Vogler
Wain Street
Merchant's Hotel
Robert. D. Johnston
Fashionable
Crna
Baxb
Jas. A. Gray
NSTON
Ab Crchives
Ilechod Ab Tahediidaks
Tee
Mar Tdi
Ora
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