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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Chateaugay Home Trade Improvement Society</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 23:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[False logs, missing records, autonomous agents, frightened officials: Calvin sees confusion. Cub sees a trail that still has to earn its proper name.]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 02:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Office of Municipal Diminution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A seventeen-pound ledger records everything the town no longer does, while the machinery required to maintain those absences steadily acquires weight and staff.]]></description>
		
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		<title>THE WET-WEATHER BILLIARD ASSOCIATION</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Wet-Weather Billiard Association promises to enliven dull trade. Its greatest achievement may be proving just how complicated an ordinary purchase can become.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Newspaper as Compositional Field</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What happens when an 1884 newspaper becomes not merely evidence, but a bounded compositional field whose forgotten fragments can generate new narrative structures?]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Natural Wonder Improvement Co.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At W Mountain, Hiram Bellows makes a cavern easier to study—and discovers that every improvement quietly changes the evidence Science came to examine.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Hotel That Lacked Nothing</title>
		<link>https://chateaugaylakearts.life/2026/09/05/the-hotel-that-lacked-nothing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A traveling show needs one best hotel. Chateaugay offers two, and the attempt to rank them turns ordinary hospitality into escalating comparative precision.]]></description>
		
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		<title>MINIMUM SAFE WITHDRAWAL</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Any fool can scare a raccoon once; trouble begins when the raccoon starts taking notes and testing every household assumption around Chateaugay Lake.]]></description>
		
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