Rise and Fall of a Star in Miss Marion Taylor Career
A historical sketch traces Marion Taylor later Mary Ann Taylor from schoolroom to theatre. Guided by a teacher and a backer Mark Downes she pursues an acting path, secures a manager, and stages a Juliet debut that critics deem flawed. Critics scorn her stage presence while her patron balances ambition and risk in a rising but troubled career.
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Marion Taylor
Mary Ann Taylor
Macbeth
Queen Catherine
Mary Ann
Marion
Virginius
Hamlet
Mark Downes
Mark
Taylor
Comang
Kaveev
Juliet
Sta
Hipa
Lor
Rise and fall of Marion Taylor in Juliet role
In a New York Clipper account, star Marion Taylor fails as Juliet after a promising Romeo and Juliet run. The piece condemns her lack of character and presence, notes Mark Downes’ financial loss, and chronicles Marion's cynical retreat to social life and eventual second marriage to a mechanic.
In a German Crash at Emperor's Funeral
An American woman recalling the German Emperor's funeral describes a terrifying crush as crowds surged forward. She and her 11 year old son suffered near suffocation, with women killed and a horse trampled. She notes the delay, the crush, and that German press suppressed casualty reports.
Etiquette at table fingers eating listed by Chicago Herald
The Chicago Herald lists fashionable table manners including olives never with a fork lettuce dip dressing celery on the tablecloth strawberries with stems bread toast tarts and small cakes fruit eaten with a spoon except melons and preserves cheese eaten by finger tips and even small pieces of bird taken by hand at lunches ladies avoid forks for chicken pieces at dinners or luncheons.
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Chicago Herald
Courting in Mexico City The Silent Romance
A correspondent recalls a two year flirtation in Mexico City where a man and a young woman above watch each other from a third story window and perform a row of gestures like an imagined tattoo without speaking a word. The scene ends with the observer noting the pantomime may translate poorly into spoken language.
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Mexico City
Must Wait Until She Grows Up
A mother answers a child asking for a dress like Sister Clara's, saying such low-cut styles are not suitable for little girls. The dialogue captures a parental stance on modesty in clothing.
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Sister Clara
Epook
Fragments of Love and Satire From a Bygone Era
A collage of verses and anecdotes from a late 19th or early 20th century paper. It mixes sentimental reminiscence of a vanished sweetheart with comic vignettes about opera nights, a scheming nurse, and socialite gossip. References include Whitcomb Riley, Miss Georgie St. Clair, and Mrs Lilly, plus London suffrage rhetoric and society notes.
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Georgie St. Clair
Miss St. Clair
Algernon Lilly
Aly
Alaska Climate Across Seas Warmth Weather and Rain
Alaska shows sharp climate contrasts from Arctic freezes to Pacific warmth. The Pacific Japanese current moderates winters along the coast, while the Arctic Ocean preserves a polar regime inland. Bering Sea sits between, creating a wide range of temperatures and heavy rainfall in Sitka. The moist air fuels lush vegetation and oddities like totem poles, croquet in slick coats, and mossy fronts along Yukon banks.
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Cave Ganks
Yukon
Kulu
P'guch
Ohio
Kansas
United States
Arctic
Alaska
Arctic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Bering Sea
Artic Ocean
Siberia
British North America
Tering Sea
Bering Strait
Polar Sea
Alaskan
Pacific
Tropics
Aleutian
British Columbia
Washington Territory
Oregon
California
England
Hammerfest
Norway
Quebec
Montreal
Labrador
Arctic Aire
Japan
Sitka
Equatorial
Arctic Circle
Aleutian Islands
Eri Cuil
Deadly snake fight and ocean predator scenes reported
The article recounts a violent clash between a king snake and a large black rattler near Tallahassee with spectators including enslaved people. It also describes a Pensacola navy yard encounter where a porpoise hunts a shark, a cultural note on native bathing habits, a humorous Civil War era anecdote about a stolen Virgin slipper in Mexico, and a Rural Irish humor piece about a party and a fiddler.
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Tallahasse
Jackson
Rattler
Moccasin
Pensacola Navy Yard
William H. Ballov
Burlington Route Far Outpacing rivals in traffic
The Burlington & Ohio Railroad sees strong passenger and freight growth with a wide excursion surge to Chicago during the National Republican Convention. Over 12,000 strangers rode the line in June, plus substantial livestock shipments to the Union Stock Yards. For six months in 1885 26040 cars were moved, and in the first half of 1888 the line carried 24425 cars, about 24 percent of the Yards’ total, outpacing all other roads.
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Burlington Howe
Chicago Veravks
Burlington Road
Chicago
Burlington
Union Stock Yards
TSS
IST
USS
Miner Harrington Wins Lottery Prize and Invests Shares
John Harrington, an Atlantic Mining stamp mill engineer, won 250000 in a Louisiana Lottery drawing. He collected 35080 through the National Bank of Houghton and invested in Calumet and Hecla Mining stock, buying twenty shares. He will receive about 100 in dividends the first month. He has lived in the Lake Superior copper district twelve years. his sons work in the mill.
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Mining Gazette
Gazette
John Harrington
Louisiana
Ile
Ustt Institution
National Bank of Houghton
Calumet & Hecla Mining Company
Harrington
Lake Superior
Atlantic Stamp
Piro
Chicago dealer proclaims pawnshop prices shock locals
A Chicago sporting goods dealer asserts that some residents view theft as trivial by paying twenty five to fifty dollars for collars and up to one hundred dollars for dogs. The remark highlights alarming attitudes toward pet theft in the city.
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Chicago
Thority
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Les
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Mr. Lilly
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Prince of Wales
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America
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Sidney
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Globe
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Haakon Gray
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Elliott's Business College
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Spain
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N.Y
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Lacey
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Clark & Madiven St
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P. H. Sharidan Curtivs
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Michigan
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Iowa
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Tiffin
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Jones
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Binghamton
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Radway's Sarsapaklitan Regoly
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Soda
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Arm & Hammer
Brant
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