{"id":9353,"date":"2026-10-16T19:27:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T00:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/?p=9353"},"modified":"2026-10-16T19:27:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T00:27:04","slug":"saturday-october-17-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/?p=9353","title":{"rendered":"Saturday October 17, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<table>\n<tr><th>Hour<\/th><th>Title<\/th><th>Author<\/th><th>length<\/th><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Midnight<\/td><td>The White Carnation<\/td><td>Francis Montgomery Livingston<\/td><td>32:12<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>1 AM<\/td><td>The Ship that Saw a Ghost<\/td><td>Frank Norris<\/td><td>34:40<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>2 AM<\/td><td>Funeral Oration of Pericles, from The History of the Peloponnesian War<\/td><td>Thucydides<\/td><td>20:00<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>3 AM<\/td><td>Honolulu<\/td><td>W. Somerset Maugham<\/td><td>58:03<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>4 AM<\/td><td>Reviews And Essays:  Frank Norris<\/td><td>Willa Sibert Cather<\/td><td>31:45<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>5 AM<\/td><td>The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.<\/td><td>Edgar Allan Poe<\/td><td>43:18<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr class=\"history\"  ><td>6 AM<\/td><td>American Language &#8211; 1:6-2:2<\/td><td>H. L. Mencken<\/td><td>37:04<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"history\"  ><td>7 AM<\/td><td>American Language &#8211; 2:3-2:5<\/td><td>H. L. Mencken<\/td><td>48:31<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"history\"  ><td>8 AM<\/td><td>American Language &#8211; 2:6-3:1<\/td><td>H. L. Mencken<\/td><td>48:31<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"history\"  ><td>9 AM<\/td><td>American Language &#8211; 3:2-3:3<\/td><td>H. L. Mencken<\/td><td>43:13<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"history\"  ><td>10 AM<\/td><td>American Language &#8211; 3:4<\/td><td>H. L. 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