Sorrento Maine Shines as Bay Area Summer Jewel
Across Frenchman's Bay the village of Eden hosts Sorrento a flourishing summer resort with a grand hotel and cottages. Led by W H Laurence Sorrento blends elegance and enterprise boasting an electric plant a six mile avenue fine drives and a popular hotel with social events and prominent residents from Franklin Jones Whitney Sinclair and Greely. Beauty the Irish setter delivers mail entertains guests and the town attracts a wide circle of summer guests and Boston and New York elites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Laurence
Castine
Mr. Laurence
Sorrento
Edison
Laurence
Bar Harbor
Bey
Naples
Charles Sumner Hawes
Harvard
Colonel Butterfield
Boston
Cleveland
Gray Gables
Clevelands
Beauty
Jones
Sorrento Hotel
Mt. Desert
Rhode Island
Elizabeth Hamlin
Maine
Gayettes
Frenchman’s Bay
Izaak Waiton
Long Lake
Priest
Hattienners
Grace Sinclair
Mr C. Record
William C. Whitney
the Navy
Isaac Lawrence
New York
A. W. Greely
Arctic
Henry L. Fuller
Morton Prince
Frank Jones
Charles A. Sinclair
Portsmouth
Alexander B. Wilbur
Payson Tucker
Maine Central
Daniel S. Lamont
S. V. Benet
Ordinance
U.S. A. of
Washington
Sinclair
Eva S. Cochran
Yonkers
N. Y
Cora Wiley
Annie Edmands
Bunker Hilley
C. C. Dike
Frenchman’s Bay Company
Dike
Miriam Dike
Murray Boocock
James §. Bailey and
Brooklyn
H. A. Groesbeck
M. KE. Villalunger
New York City
G. D. W. Braman
Mandell
Samuel Butterfield
Benjamin Brewster
G. W. W. Brewster
G. A. T. Priest
F. K. Priest
Mt. Desert Ferry
Maine Central Railroad
Hattie E. Connors
Sullivan
Miss Connors
Little Wharf
William H. Laurence
New England
Marion Howard
Special Trip to Cottage City from Boston
The Old Colony Railroad offers a special August 14 round trip for 150 dollars from Boston to Cottage City, via New Bedford and the Gay Head steamer. The voyage includes a two hour sail from the Vineyard, Buzzards Bay, and Vineyard Sound, with a return boat from Cottage City at 4 p.m. Martha's Vineyard thrives with summer visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Colony Railroad
Boston
Cottage City
New Bedford
Gay Head
Vineyard
Buzzard’s Bay
Vineyard Sound
Martha’s Vineyard
South End Babies The Post Doctor Among Them Yesterday
The Post’s physician visited South End dwellers, noting improved housing but persistent poverty. He observed crowded basements and nurseries offering care for children, including a tragic death, while mothers work to support families. Public charity meets pride and independence, yet a helping hand remains essential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South End
Boston
North End
Porter Street
Chapman Street
Post
Rococo Sideboard Promoted For Apartments at Paine's Store
A sketch of a Rococo design sideboard from Paine's Furniture Company at 48 Canal Street highlights its suitability for apartments. The piece is advertised at a low price of $47, noting it could have cost as much as $365 the previous year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paine’s Furniture Company
Canal Street
Death of Gideon Haynes ex-warden at Nantasket Hotel
The Hon. Gideon Haynes former state prison warden died yesterday forenoon at the Hotel Nantasket from Brights disease. A lifelong political figure from Wal tham to Boston he helped elect Governors Gardiner and Banks and served as prison warden from 1858 for fifteen years. He later worked in coffee business in South America before returning to Boston and remarried, leaving three sons and six daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gideon Haynes
Nantasket
Bright
Walter Haynes
Sudbury
Mass
Mr. Haynes
Henpite Young
Waltham
General Banks
Haynes
State House
Senate
Gardiner
Banks
State Prison
South America
Boston
Chitendier Hodges
London
England
Gideon F. Haynes
Emma Hopkins
Charlestown
Steamers Arrived at Boston and New York Aug 7 8
Shipping news lists arrivals: Lancastrian and James Watt at Boston from Liverpool and Matanzas. Cephalonia at Queenstown from Boston. Olbers at New York from Rio de Janeiro and St Lucia. Gera at New York from Bremen. Exeter City at New York from Bristol and Swansea. Norwegian at New York from Glasgow. Orizaba at New York from Mexico and Havana. G W Clyde at New York from Hayti. Also note boastful ad copy praising Hub Punch by H Graves Sons Boston as daguerreotype era began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Liverpool
James Watt
Matanzas
Queenstown
Cephalonia
New York
Olbers
Rio Janeiro
St. Lucia
Gera
Bremen
Exeter City
Bristol
Swansea
Glasgow
Orizaba
Mexico
Havana
G. W. Clyde
Hayti
Fiddling Dan Meeker and the Hand and Dagger feud
In Tulare county Dan Meeker the fiddler defies town gossip and land squabbles. Amelia Judds falls for him and runs away to Visalia’s circus. Amelia’s mother storms, but Ephraim Judds forgives, and the couple's later life amid rough crowds and frontier law unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan Meeker
Dan
Jetty Amelia Judds
Amelia
Mrs. Judds
Tulare County
Mr. Meeker
Mister Meeker
Meeker
Satan
Amelia Jane Judds
Betsy Judds
Patterson Corners
Bobbie
An’s
King’s River
Cross Creek
Goshen
Lemoore
Ite
Judds
Pitas
Melia
Visalia
Mary Ongworth
Pete Carimin
Hyer
Bobby
Ephraim
Tulare City
Munson
Grangeville
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fair Sorrento
Hotel Gayettes
Eden
Frenchman's Bay Land Company
Quincy House
Wentworth
Rockingham
Miss Rice
Library Association
South End Babies
Mtainn
Mystic Park
Medford, Mass
Boston and
Lowell
Mystic Park Station
Lawrence
Scollay Sq
H. E. Willis
GAR
Chand Streets
Com
Spestaculiar Muss Robinson
Tet Myriad
Oston Museum
R. M. Field
Arles Mathews
Lipman
Rovayo Reeed
Austin&Stone’s
Austin
Theatre
William Austin
George Milbane
Sole Propriateg
Mons
Alexandre Duman
THE
Clemenceau Vase
Eleanor Warren
Parisia
Pace Artless
Wife Siren
Life of Today
Lavender and Tonson
Charlie Banks
the Ross
Ed Parker
F. W. Bowers
Sisters Webb
Agnes Kington
Nellie Bryant
Dan Biggs
Mrs. Wilson Bangs
ST. Clairs
Globe TI
John Stetson
Corman
Criss Minstrels
Evg
Isle OF Champagne
Tremont Theatre
Abbey & Schoeffel
Puritania
Pauline Ball
Eugene Tompkins
Richard Colden
Old Jed Prouty
Ladiva
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