Magnifying Eyes and a Night of Mirage
A tale follows Inez Claire and Roy Alton amid deceit and love triangle. Beatrice, the cousin, tempts with betrayal while a gipsy seeress warns of treachery. Roy’s return and Inez’s forgiveness end in a quiet wedding, with Beatrice excluded. A second vignette shows Ben Adhem dreaming magnified vanity, waking to realize it was a dream.
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Inez Claire
Inez
Roy Alton
Beatrice Laven
Beatrice
Roy
Hash
Inze
Olneys Set to Lead Washington Social Life in Capital
Washington notes describe Secretary Olney and wife Mrs Olney preparing to head the social scene. They recently moved from Senator Edmunds’ house to a fashionable center district near foreign ministers and notable figures, with Mrs Sheridan and Gen McClellan families prominent nearby. Madame Dominguez, wife of Argentina's acting minister, joins the circle, as the French Embassy undergoes a grand remodel with new interiors and modernized amenities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olney
Argentina
Washington
Olneys
State Department
Department of Justice
Senator Edmunds
General Grant
Bellamy Storer
Cincinnati
Secretary Olney
Sheridan
Phil Sheridan
Thomas Nelson Page
Hegenmuller
Austria
Mary Sheridan
Diplomatic Corps
Congress
George B. McClellan
Rhode Island Avenue
McClellan
Philadelphia
Georgiana Heckscher
New York
Jane Fuller
Jane
Senator Elkins
West Virginia
Elkins
Madame Dominguez
Senor
Don Vicente Dominguez
Dominguez
K Street
Childs
England
Senor Dominguez
Porter
France
China
Monsieur Patenotre
Judges Draw Straws Criticized in Tallahassee Editorial
An editorial condemns the idea of Supreme Court judges drawing straws to select a Chief Justice. It argues the clause about such a spectacle is undignified and contrary to intelligent government, urging the proposer to punish himself for the rest of his life.
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Supreme Court
Union
Tallahassee Tallahassea
Croesus in France and Italy in the past era
The piece surveys wealthy Europeans led by French Rothschilds and Italian Prince Torlonia. It notes Paris millionaires earning at least 10 thousand dollars yearly, Worth the milliner hosting annual dress galas, and public fortunes built by Pasteur and Dr Evans. Torlonia, once Italy’s richest, left a vast legacy and was famed for philanthropy and influence in Rome.
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France
Italy
Legion
Paris
Parisian
New York
Worth
Evans
Prince Torlonia
Genoa
Torlonia
Rome
Abany Journal
A Thoughtless Father and a Real Estate Office
A merchant questions a traveling man about his son asking what he is doing now. The man says the son is in a real estate office and the father boasts of training him to be honest and truthful. The merchant mutters that some fathers have no judgment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mahomet
A. W. Bellaw
Yankee Blade
Exiled Keenan Builds Montreals Sherbrooke Street Homes
John Keenan, banished from New York over involvement in a Broadway surface railway conspiracy, resides in Montreal and is constructing a row of houses on Sherbrooke Street valued at about $100,000.
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John Keenan
New York
Montreal
Sherbrooke Street
Toronto Mail
When Emancipation Comes A Lady Policeman
A brief, unclear dialogue notes a woman near death with a remark from a female coroner about a possible emoiice in the first degree and a suggestion to hang her husband. The excerpt reflects era attitudes and gender roles.
Copper Mines Unveiled Vast Underground Network
The Calumet and Hecla mine holds over seventy miles of passages with dense networks and many shafts. A vein has been worked two miles, with the fifty-fifth level ten feet apart. John A Salzer Seed Co of La Crosse has bought the Northrup Braslaw Goodwin catalog trade, becoming the world’s largest catalogue mail trader.
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Calumet
Heelsopper
John A. Salzer Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
Northrup, Braslaw, Goodwin Co
Minneapolis
Chicago
Salzer Seed Co
W. N
Bloomers and Skirts Ride Through Belding Oregon
In Belding Oregon female cyclists wear bloomers and a short skirt while riding. As they pass the town limits the skirt is doffed rolled up and strapped to the handlebars creating a notable display of reform era fashion and cycling practice.
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Oregon
Belding
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George B. M’clellan
Mme. Dominguez
P. O
New York City
W. L. Doucas
W. L. Douglas
L. Douglas
Brockton
Mase
Jay EY See
Quinn
Mali
W. B. Eddy & CO
Whitehall
N. Y
Senora Soto
Co. M. Lawrence
Gardiner
Maine
Chicago Chronicle
West
the Chronicle
Washington St
Coospy
Frisian Fur Co
Bracket
Uig
hKuchester
Patrick O'Farrell
Washington, D. C
Stephens
Lebanon
Oni
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