Lady Violet Montargis and the Monaco Confidences
A narrator recalls meeting Violet Montargis later known as the Hon Frances Dalrymple at Monaco. He details her alluring yet cold persona and recounts a country-house tale involving Philip Drummond’s suicide. The account reveals Violet’s fascination with names and a troubling intimate scene surrounding Drummond’s death.
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Monaco
Violet
Violet "Montargis
Frances Dalrymple
Thames
Keeley Halswelle
Grosvenor
Philip Drummond
Violet Montargis
Lionel Trotman
Miss Frances
Drummond
Violet ‘Montargi
Paris
Vienna
Buda-Pesth
Otder
Debon
Nair
John M. Marquand
Atlanta Constitution
Norse Myths and Electric Wonders Highlight 19th Century Chronicle
The piece blends Scandinavian myth explanations of Valhalla Niflheim and Nastrond with a 19th century science note on Lick telescope photographs of the moon. It also recounts a fatal mine explosion with a severed hand clinging to a furnace rod and describes an electric lawn party in Connecticut featuring electric music, lighting, a cigar lighter teapot and phonograph.
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Valhalla
Niffheim
Death
Hel
Nifheim
Iceland
Nastrond
Wade
Voluspa
Nidhogg
Lick
Professor Holden
Hartford Courant
Frederick Miller
Davia Héller
Hercules
Miller
Brazil
Connecticut
Oaken Hall
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First National Bank
U. S
Asher W. Minn
A. Mener Wellman
Friendship
N. Y
Elmer W. van Slyke
Carpenter
E.W. van Sijke
N.Y
Pullman
New York
Boston
Cleveland
Philadelphia
ChicaGo
Cincinnati
T. Loutis
Belmont
Hornellsville
Wellsville
Daily
Atlantic - Frelness
Pacific Express
St. Louis
Points West
Dunkirk
Bradford
Salamanca
Jamestown
Titusville
Meadville
Oil City
Dayton
Buffalo
Express
J. Demmer
Gro. E. Alley
Rinzarsox
Lackawanna
Angelica, N. Y
Wayland
Perkinsville
Ny Brook
Burns
Arrport
Hornellsville LveiLveArrwass
Fanaseras
Garwoods Swains
Grove
Birdsall
Bennetts Angelica
Belfast
Cuba
Hinsdale
Olean
Chas. H. Wammond
G.P.A
HH. Badger
Gen’l Sup
T. Angelica
Ayer
O. Lepper
Fort Wayne
Ind
M Ayer
Jaime Rufus Vidal
San Cristobel
San Domingo
Geo. B. Hunter
Altoona
DR. J.C. Ayer & CO
Lowell
Mass
W. H. Scott, M. D
50 Cent Tea
Allegany County
W. H. Scott
Green House
Choice
Mary Butts
Burlingame
Friendship, N. Y
Isurgeon Dentist de
WM. H. Clark
City Drag
the Dispatch
James L, Thornely
Hell
Tuner Pictures
L. J. Cross
Friendship, WN. Y
J. Gross
Bill Heads
F. P. Merriam
St., Friendship, N. Y
TD. Ridgeway Knight
Munich
Acme
Maresilles White & Duzitall
Lautz Bros. & CO
Buffalo, N. Y
Simmons
Bos
Masso
Wie
Babcock, Shannon & CO
Albany, N.Y
McCracken & Bro
LTP Ag VE
Mark
G. Roakus
Central
Ave
Rochesa Io
KE. A. Potter
North South St
Engine House
THE
Dispatch
C. L. Slafter
Mitchell
Perkins, Campbell & Co
Barness
South St
Belmont, N
Fitne
Granite Works & Quarries
Barre, VT
Quincy, Mass
Clark Bros
Champion Force Pumps
Eve
Allegany County, N. Y
Western
Cremona
Wellsville, New York
Belmont, N. Y
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