Goulds's $60,000 Bath The Last Word In Luxury
New York society notes Miss Helen Gould plans a private Lyndhurst bathhouse at Irvington on the Hudson. A 138 by 63 foot red brick structure will house a four to eight foot deep pool fed by a spring with filters boilers and city mains as a backup. The design includes a two story Doric front a tropical lounging room marble steps oak doors and glass skylight with puttyless glass and electric lighting to create a luxury bathhouse to be completed by Easter.
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York
Croton
Palm Beach
Geome Day
Helen Miller Gould
Miss Gould
Irvington
Rome
Bach
Lynd
A. M. Hunter & Son
W. A. Clark
Fifth Avenue
New York
Lelena
Mont
Crow as Awkward Lover in a Garden Scene
A writer recalls keeping crows for years as neighbors with a shy mix of humor and insight. He describes a crow with a mother and three children perched above, the birds’ courtship during mating season, and the crow’s comical attempts to croak softly. The piece notes hostility from smaller birds and a river polluted by gasworks refuse helping the crow find food, concluding with a nod to Lowull’s My Garden Ac quaintanen.
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Saint Preux
Mississippi
Tennyson
Parnell Remembered as Brave Man in Downfall Tale
Recollections recount Parnell as a brave figure whose fall is among history's most pathetic. A rumor attributes Gambetta an exchange about managing the country, suggesting a plan to taint him with a woman, who instead loves the patriot and contributes to his undoing.
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Parnell
Capt. O'Shea
Gambetta
T. P. O Connar
Hobble skirt joke cartoonist apologizes over design
London reports cartoonist W. K. Haselden admits creating the hobble skirt idea months before its Paris emergence. He recalls imagining wild dress concepts, from the knee and elbow room to the pneumatic matinee hat, and expresses remorse for the fashion danger while noting a shift back to eastern dress aesthetics.
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London
Paris
W. K. Haselden
Haselden
Squirrel Makes Good Fight At Terminal Station
A Birmingham crowd watched 10 boys chase and scratch a captive squirrel at the Terminal station. Each boy was bitten or scratched as they tried to hold it. Finally the animal was placed in a paper bag and became calm, leaving the boys proudly marching away with the squirrel.
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Birmingham
Terminal Station
Two New Party Games Gain Popularity in London Host Houses
Two new games draw crowds at country house parties this season. Fantasia is a cardless table game with heavy bets, while roulette with cards uses four decks and stakes on cards instead of numbers. Hostesses praise the games for entertaining guests who cannot play bridge.
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London
Girl 16 Seeks $20,000 Year for Daughter's Needs
A New York heiress Eugenia Ladenburg seeks a $20,000 annual allowance for the coming year. Her mother, Mrs. Emily Ladenburg, claims her income is $8,000 and lists detailed yearly expenses including maid, governess, clothes, travel, automobile, horses, grooms, Europe travel, theater, country estate, rent, tuition, teeth treatment, and music. The petition to County Judge Edgar Jackson at Mineola, L. I., asks for the court’s approval. a decision was reserved.
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New York
Emily Ladenburg
Edgar Jackson
Mineola
L. I
Eugenia
Miss Ladenburg
Meadowbrook Colony
Ladenburg
Europe
Walks 800 Miles to Wed in Tacoma Tale
Allan Rowe of Fairbanks Alaska walked 800 miles to Forty Mile after navigation closed so he could marry Mrs Lawrence in Tacoma Washington. The remarkable journey highlights dedication and a personal vow amid frontier conditions.
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Tacoma
Wash
Allan Rowe
Fairbanks
Alaska
Lawrence
Explore Big Austrian Cave Near Obertraun
The mammoth cave of Europe near Obertraun in Austria is described by engineer Hermann Bach after a climb of Alpine explorers. A natural tunnel formed by an ancient stream leads to crystal pools and a vast hall with a cone shaped debris pile and many passages ending in deep abysses. Food shortages forced the party to retreat.
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Vienna
Europe
Obertraun
Austria
Isa
Hermann Bach
Dachstein
Upper Austria
Itallan
Menders
Jail Placed Rooster To Aid Typhoid Patient
Geneva City Marshal Fred Baker jailed a bantam rooster to rouse Henry Kent, a typhoid fever patient in Geneva hospital. The bird crowed near Kent’s window, unnerving him until the physician suggested confinement to the city jail as a means to help his recovery.
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Geneva
Fred Baker
Henry Kent
Geneva Hospital
Kent
Wireless Links Coltan Italy to Clifden and Glace Bay
William Marcon personally directed an exchange of communications between the wireless station at Coltano and stations at Clifden Ireland and Glace Bay Nova Scotia inaugurating a new service. It is expected wireless dispatch rates to America will be greatly reduced.
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Ireland
Canada
Pisa
Italy
William Marcon
Coltano
Clifden
Glace Bay
Nova Scotia
America
Rains Black Cats Find Homes in Woodbury NJ
In Woodbury New Jersey an incident involving unloading about twenty cats drew a response from W T Cozens of the American society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. All the cats, described as jet black, were eventually adopted into good homes.
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Woodbury
N. J
W. T. Cozens
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Helen Goulds
Crow
Maria
F. Waldemar Hooslop
Linden Avenue
Brooklyn
Squirrel
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