American Girls Marrying French Nobility in Style
A Washington Evening Star writer extols American women who wed French aristocrats, praising their influence on Paris society and industry. It outlines marriages from Miss Shonts to Miss Mitchel, notes dowries, and highlights Americans guiding French social reform and agriculture.
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Aris
America
Europe
Washington Evening Star
France
United States
Rochefoucaulds
Utes
Miss Shonts
Miss Mattie Elizabeth Mitchel
Almanach de Gotha
Isabel
Duc Decazes
Haritoff
Avenue of the Bois
Hvedhard
Monte Carlo
Harstoff
Mitchell
Hussars
Montinirail
Oregon
Sevial
Duchess d'Uzes
Francis de la Roche
Francis I
Paris
Duchesse de Chautneés
Duc de Dino
Marquise
den Talleyrand-Perigord
Roman Russpoli
Piggio-Sunsay
Decazes
Casino
Haritof
Prince Polignac
Winnaretta Singer
Isaac Singer
Campo Selice
Naples
Sicily
Miss Hooper
Cincinnati
Arc de Triomphe
Comte Horace de Choiseul
Duc de Choiseul-Prassin
Miss Forbes
New
Baltimore
Louis
ATV
Learn Et de Chalais
Caroline Fraser
History Makers
Bordentown
N. J
Caroline
Daren
Zephira
Lovely
Mingrelia
Russia
Louis XV
Comte de Chambrun
England
Marquis de Chambrun
Rives-Nichols
Virginia
Washington
Govuw
Miss Longworth
Alice Roosevelt
Chambruns
l'‘Empery Carrieres
Musee Sociale
Leopold Mabilleau
de Chambrun
Harvard
Marquise de Ganay
Miss Ridgeway
Philadelphia
Baronatte
Late Edmund Stattman Remains in Island of Memory
Chicago publisher recalls Edmund Clarence Stattman who once edited a small Connecticut paper. At a New York dentists banquet Stattman read a poem and told of an amateur Connecticut dentist named Jake. Jake pulled a farmer's tooth in a barn with rusty pincers, leaving a huge white tooth in view.
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Edmund Clarence Stattman
Chicago
Connecticut
Aca
New York
Jake
Winsted
Morning Tub tale from Lincolnshire ends with long life
A sister visits an old Lincolnshire cottage resident and recalls a strange daily sponge routine. The elderly woman jokes that she has never been washed all over since infancy, yet she lives to age 13 in a humorous letter to the London Daily News.
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Mina
Lincolnshire
The
London Daily News
Proper Discrimination Splits A Virginia Fishing Party
A New York fishing party discusses fish in Virginia. They ask their boatman Zeke if yellow perch is the best in the area. Zeke answers in misspelled dialect that insists yellow perch is always the best, reflecting stereotype and racial language of the era.
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Virginia
Old Dominion
Darky
Zeke
Yessuh
Ash Leah
Electric Trolley Switching Advances in Automatic Systems
The article explains upgraded electric trolley switching that lets motormen operate without manual levers. It describes three systems from England, St. Louis, and Bristol, using two insulated trolley contacts and electro magnetic mechanisms to control the switch automatically with signal lamps indicating status. The central green lamp confirms proper setup while the motorman stops the main line when needed.
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Messrs. Tierney and Malone
Paris
Cosmos
Georges Dairy
Port
England
Dixon
Leeds
Bradford
Sheffield
St. Louis
Bristol
Messrs. Tierney and
Maloney
LINE WORK ABOVE CANYON NEAR OURAY COL
A canyon trestle scene shows a lineman perched 800 feet above the bottom while poles keep clear of passing teams. The image, redrawn from a Colorado Telephone Company photo, illustrates line-work on rugged terrain. Mauretania's Electrical Equipment. The Mauretania carries vast electrical gear comparable to land plants for cities of 100,000. Nearly 100 tons of cables span 250 miles. Main switchboards split across engine rooms for flood-safe lighting. Over 6,000 lamps illuminate interiors with specially designed fixtures. The ship uses 90 electric motors for ventilation and heating. US electric railways total 40,900 miles versus 225,000 miles of steam railways.
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Colorado Telephone Company
Mauretania
Electrifying The Sierra Nevada Rail Line With Electric Power
Southern Pacific plans to raise capacity on a 136 mile Sierra Nevada segment by electrifying motive power. The single track route carries Union Pacific traffic to central California, features 31 miles of tunnels and snow sheds, steep grades up to 24 percent, heavy and irregular traffic, and multiple tight curves and sidings. Freight trains of 1000 tons plus must run faster to ease congestion, while current locomotives burn oil.
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Southern Pacific Railroad
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Union Pacific
Central
California
Electric light bath cabinet gains medical recognition
Physicians worldwide are adopting baths of diverse kinds including mud and alcohol as healing. Electricity via electric rays is increasingly used in medical work. An illustration from Popular Mechanics shows a light bath cabinet with incandescent lamps.
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Sicians
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Miss Mitchell
Due de Lla Rochefou
Duke
Chambrun
Tanuis de la Grange
Jean de Kergorlay
Gov. Carroll
Maryland
Charles Carroll
Carrollton
Marquise de Breteuu
Miss Garner
Comte Leon von Moltke
Denmark
Miss Bonaparte
Edith Garner
Gordon Cummings
Marquis de Mores
Miss von Hoffman
James Gordon Bennett
Rita Bell
Mount Paul
a'Aramon
Miss Fisher
Meyer
Esse la Rochefoucaulaé
Gombesse
de’ Ghambrun
Canyon
Colorado
Ouray
Col
Southern Pacific
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