Miss Frances Coleman Visits New York Social Set
A Virginia socialite, Frances Coleman, famed as a beauty from a long-standing family, visits New York and draws attention among the city’s exclusive circles. The piece mixes social gossip with a later historic note about Queen Anne’s scepter and a curiously tangled account of Westminster statue history.
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Frances Coleman
Virginia
New York
Gotham
Queen Anne
City of London
Westminster Cathedral
Francis Bird
Gage Surplus Plan Aims to Use National Banks as Depositories
The Chicago Chronicle notes Secretary Gage proposes making all clearing house national banks public depositories. Government receipts would be deposited based on bank capital and assets with the government holding a first lien. Banks would pay interest of 2 percent on deposits and need only the first lien for security.
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Gage
Chicago Chronicle
Cheeky broker seeks invite to Morgan yacht race
A New York broker who befriended J Pierpont Morgan asked for an invitation to view the Cordatt yacht races. Morgan declined noting he had lent the yacht to a friend and offered to seek invites from others such as Gould Goelet Astor, if the broker could assure entertaining the inviter.
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New York
J. Pierpont Morgan
Mr. Morgan
Cordatt
White House Too Small for Roosevelt Family
The Roosevelts occupy the five bedroom White House in Washington with six children and several servants. The article notes the mansion’s layout and recent renovations amid questions about adequate space for state and private functions. It also recounts Roosevelt and Wood’s career up to their Cuba trip and their futures in the military and government.
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Roosevelt
White House
Washington
Maryland
Virginia
James Hoban
Duke of Leinster
Dublin
John Adams
Jefferson
Lincoln
Eccentric Burial Customs in the Royal Mausoleum
Constantinople reports describe an unusual burial method for Ottoman royalty. Inside the Valide's mosque complex at Stamboul the sultans lie in three-dopa coffins housed in oblong wooden cases with rooflike tops draped in shawls. Princes and princesses are set apart by a white turban at the head, and the sultan’s tomb is bounded by walnut balustrades with mother-of-pearl inlay.
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Constantinope
Valide
Stamboul
Constantinople
Will directs burning of forty three thousand five hundred dollars
After Harvey Scott died in Faribault Minnesota a will ordered burning of thirty nine thousand? no forty three thousand five hundred dollars of his estate. He sought to deprive distant relatives of any benefit. The probate court sided with the heirs and the money will be divided among beneficiaries in Pennsylvania Ohio Minnesota and California. The Duke d Abruzzi Arctic explorer will lead the Italian cruiser Giovanni Bausan on a tour of American waters next winter.
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Harvey Scott
Faribault
Minn
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Minnesota
California
Duke d'Abruzzi
Giovanni Bausan
Verestchagin Returns from China for War Scene Series
Russian painter Verestchagin returns from China where he gathered material for a new series of war pictures. He plans to exhibit the works in various capitals.
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Verestchagin
China
Swedish queen in precarious health condition
The queen of Sweden, who sent personal words of sympathy to Mrs. McKinley, has been an invalid for many years and is now said to be in a precarious state of health.
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Sweden
Austin Dobson Pursued Engineering Before Poetry Fame
The early life of poet Austin Dobson shows he planned to become an engineer, with his parents urging him to pursue a civil service path before turning to literature.
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Austin Dobson
Civats
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