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Newspaper
Belmont Weekly Dispatch
Location
Belmont, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1889
Page
1
Belmont New York dealer J H Bissell promotes the county’s largest and best furniture line with compelling prices and a call to visit early for shoppers.
A note introduces a new delightful breakfast drink described as palatable and appealing. The brief promotes a tasty beverage that can accompany morning meals and adds curiosity about its ingredients and preparation.
In a tense breakfast scene at the McIntyre estate Ally vows to help, Miss Vane contemplates a new life, and James Vogdes faces a perilous choice as Alice and Tom wait nearby. Charlotte probes his ambitions, hinting at leadership and destiny for Virginia.
Joe Page kept an anxious watch on the door all day for four. Vane, Alice is a lively housekeeper type in a cheerful parlor. Ally is vivacious and stout tempered and enjoys gossip. Joe pats her head, praising her as a thorough little housekeeper. A neighborhood whisper hints Vodges’s involvement.
Miss Mollie Robbins a Chicago society beauty and heiress to nearly half a million is taken to Philadelphia after a Johnstown flood delusion. Her mother and brother seek insanity treatment and a hoped reunion with her fiancé to restore reason. The account notes her wild Broad Street Station scene and a firefighter like insistence on finding the safest road to heaven.
Two American ladies Miss Howe and Miss Burbank aboard the steamship Thingvalla leaving New York bound for a three month tour along the Norwegian coast to as high as North Cape. Both are Hartford high school teachers seeking a world-enriching outing.
Mrs Clarence Peck of Chicago ordered an ultra deluxe infant trousseau from a Twenty third Street shop. The set included a steamer trunk with monogram plate, hand embroidered linens, lace caps, wrapped garments, and six piece suites all made to order. The items feature rare lace, silk, and damask details, with pieces valued for their artistry and delicacy, reflecting wealthy New York custom.
The Princess of Metternich, famed for her taste and style, sat in the ladies tribune during the Grand Prix in Paris. She wore a sulphur colored silk dress and was escorted by Ridgeway, a prominent figure in the American colony, amid Parisian society circles.
The Albany Argus reports Maggie McDonald of Waterford married John Butler after a yearold romance sparked by a dam crossing incident in the Mohawk River at the head of King's canal. Miss McDonald aided by Butler and others from Vines' mill and Gilbert's mill. Snow plants persist near Emerald Bay with a specimen stem eighteen inches long documented by a visitor.
Mansfield Ohio notices detail Annie Davis’s death by drowning after failing to win a school prize for best composition. A separate feature from Rushford Car in the Minneapolis Journal describes Peter Anderson visiting relatives, a Wisconsin birth, and an extraordinary hair growth paired with a silk turban and large scalp bulge described in vivid terms.
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