Count de Lisle’s New York soiree sparks salon intrigue
In a February gala at the Trent house Count de Lisle unveils a grand reception with Sallie Matchin as co hostess. Wealth, mystery, and social whispers swirl around the richest man in the world and the murder-haunted mansion.
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Harry Trent
Sallie Matchin
Trent
Raven
Olympia
Darke
Paris
Nabon Ili
Maurice Solange
America
Solange
Dupont
Keppel Darke
Sing Sing
Long Island
Harry At
New York
Nassau Street
Count de Lisle
Olympia Raven
Trent Mansion
Hellespont
Newport
Saratoga
Mexico
Napoleon
Maximilian
France
Golconda
Europe
de Lisle
Mrs. Harry
Stogg
Ammonia and Borax Cleaning Tips in Home Care
Practical guidance on using ammonia and borax for cleaning and refreshing fabrics, whites, walls, floors, and carpets. Includes household uses, methods for whitening garments, scenting spaces, and a religious lesson excerpt following the cleaning guidance.
Evening Tea Scene Reveals Class Tension in New York
In a refined salon an accomplished pianist charms guests with Chopin and Grieg while two women in an alcove spar over status. One is from a blue blood family adored by the rich, the other a modest grammar school head. A misstep reveals delicate social fault lines. New York Recorder.
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Springfield Homestead
Grieg
Tschaikovsky
New York
Heller
New York Recorder
A calendar gift travels far to cheer a daughter abroad
A mother creates a unique calendar by sending 365 leaves to friends who fill each date with personal greetings. Bound together, it becomes a daily surprise for her daughter living abroad, who must wait each day for the new message and never know who will write next.
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Ead
Harper’s Bazar
Common Sense Shoes and Rational Dressing Debate
A matron criticizes fashionable rational dress noting that it often hides fad and discomfort. She shares her own solution using nun's serge, a simple bodice, belted blouse waist, and looser sleeves for comfort. She claims her self made outfit outshines advertised ease.
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6Matron
Diverse Tech Glimpses From Nineteenth-Century Notes
A mosaic of scientific curiosities and predictions spans from fashioning paper linen that mimics damask to forecasts of English speakers in 2000. It notes blue liquid oxygen, iron casting molds, the Irvine line-throwing gun, and Dr Kikodze’s pneumonia blood findings with white cell increases.
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M. Olszowski
Moscow
Kikodze
Boies Bluff in Ottumwa Fines Case Dubbed Vote Gimmick
The Ottumwa Courier reports Governor Boies faces a Democratic setup as fines from Jordan’s saloon suspensions are to be collected by a Democratic clerk, sheriff, and county attorney. County official Walsh doubts any substantial proceeds, while the Cedar Rapids Republican notes the election clash between the plow-handle and jug-handle tickets.
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Boies
Courier
Walsh
Jordan
D. H. Emery
Law and Order League
Ottumwa
Cedar Rapids
Army rifle and saber modernization noted in Europe
The Austrian technical troops will be armed next fall with Mannlicher rifles and Werndi rifles will be stored away. New rifles will be shorter and lighter than the ordinary Mannlicher. Sabers will be replaced with hatchets. The great telescope of Lord Rosse is described with a six foot speculum and fifty five foot focus.
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Rosse
Strange City Contrasts and Letter Proportions
A collage of curious facts notes Denmark oiling lighthouses for storms, New York and Pittsburg bank counts, a ragpicker in New York, Chilean generosity, American tramps in Santiago, and a glance at typeface letter frequencies showing varied counts from 28 to 140 for different letters.
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Denmark
Boston
New York
Pittsburg
Chicago
Philadelphia
Santiago
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