{"id":9366,"date":"2026-10-22T19:11:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/?p=9366"},"modified":"2026-10-22T19:11:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:11:03","slug":"friday-october-23-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/?p=9366","title":{"rendered":"Friday October 23, 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>Death&#8217;s Duel<\/td><td>John Donne<\/td><td>57:39<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>1 AM<\/td><td>The Adventure of the Engineer&#8217;s Thumb<\/td><td>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/td><td>52:23<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>2 AM<\/td><td>A Bargain with Peg-Leg<\/td><td>Frank Norris<\/td><td>20:33<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>3 AM<\/td><td>Elder Brown&#8217;s Backslide (1885) by Harry Stillwell Edwards<\/td><td>Alexander Jessup (editor)<\/td><td>44:37<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>4 AM<\/td><td>May Day Eve<\/td><td>Algernon Blackwood<\/td><td>52:05<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr class=\"novel\"    ><td>5 AM<\/td><td>Under Western Eyes &#8211; pt 1 ch 2:1-2<\/td><td>Joseph Conrad<\/td><td>48:28<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"western\"  ><td>6 AM<\/td><td>Meadowlark Basin &#8211; ch 18-19<\/td><td>B M Bower<\/td><td>34:11<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"history\"  ><td>7 AM<\/td><td>American Language &#8211; 5:5-6:1<\/td><td>H. L. Mencken<\/td><td>50:40<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"adventure\"><td>8 AM<\/td><td>Connecticut Yankee.. &#8211; ch 26-27<\/td><td>Mark Twain<\/td><td>41:29<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr><td>9 AM<\/td><td>The Dual Personality of Slick Dick Nickerson<\/td><td>Frank Norris<\/td><td>33:46<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>10 AM<\/td><td>Chapter 06 Brown of Calaveras<\/td><td>Bret Harte<\/td><td>29:17<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>11 AM<\/td><td>Philip of Pokanoket<\/td><td>Washington Irving<\/td><td>47:56<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Noon<\/td><td>Berenice<\/td><td>Edgar Allan Poe<\/td><td>26:29<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr class=\"novel\"    ><td>5 AM<\/td><td>Under Western Eyes &#8211; pt 1 ch 2:1-2<\/td><td>Joseph Conrad<\/td><td>48:28<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"western\"  ><td>6 AM<\/td><td>Meadowlark Basin &#8211; ch 18-19<\/td><td>B M Bower<\/td><td>34:11<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"history\"  ><td>7 AM<\/td><td>American Language &#8211; 5:5-6:1<\/td><td>H. L. 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