A Woman's Romance Soldier Lover Torn From Her
In Hancock New York Fanny Reid, 21, defied her stern father to secretly love Riley Bellows of the One Hundred and First New York Infantry. After repeated confrontations she was confined to her room for months and never saw Bellows again. Years passed with her seclusion, her father selling the hotel, family tragedies, and a fire that spared the piano connected to her vanished romance. Now thin and aged, she still guards her past, insisting on privacy while ruling the estate with a fierce will and the word Wait.
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Hancock
New York
Fanny Reid
Riley Reid
One Hundred and First
New York Infantry
Reid
Quartermaster Bellows
Fanny
Bellows
One Hundred and First Regiment
Amined and Repaired by L A Chase Co at Fort Hal Sq
A fragment notes work by L A Chase and Company located at 161 Fort Hal Square on electric motor repairs and related services. The snippet specifies the firm handling examination and repair tasks for electric motors.
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L. A. Chase & CO
Fort Hal Sq. H
Origin of the Ryan family name request
A reader from Boston writes to the editor asking for information on the origin of the Ryan family name. The brief note dated December 15 seeks etymology and historical background.
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Sir
Ryan
Boston
John Ryan
A Lord of Idrone and the Ryan Lineage
The text traces the Ryan name to the Lords of Idrone in County Carlow. It notes Cormac, brother of Eng han or Owen, as ancestor of O Righin later Anglicised Mulrian Ryan and Ryne from O Harte's Irish Pedigrees, with Owen listed as number 97 in the Mac Morough pedigree.
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Ryan
Idrone
County Carlow
Cormac
Enghan
Owen
Mac-Morough
O'Righin
Mulrian
Ryne
O’harte
Judge Questions Family Peace After Bitter Quarrel
A Brooklyn Life item records a judge asking if the couple can live together without fighting. Mrs ulearay responds, in dialect, that they cannot be happy together. The brief notes a domestic dispute tone and public sense of conflict.
New York Coiffures at the Opera Fashion in Dec New York
New York fashion notes describe theatre dress as brilliant despite hard times. Ladies wear extravagant hair ornaments, including birds wings and jeweled sprays for full dress or theatre. One young lady displays two blue bird wings on a coronet band with pearl twists.
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New York
Fashionable coronal bands and jet butterflies in 1900s coiffure
The piece describes hair bands circling the head with hair twisted to a central knot, pink roses at band ends, and jet butterfly ornaments. Styles vary from roseed ends to crimson rosettes, with newer trends showing elaborate knots and black velvet ribbons. It notes many women appear bonnetless at theatres, revealing well coiffed American ladies on dress parade.
Hamlin Leaves Washington for Boston to Speak at Banquet
Assistant Secretary Hamlin travels to Boston today and will address the Young Men's Democratic Club on Monday. He has been asked to speak in Philadelphia on Jackson Day, January 8, and Secretary Morton hopes he can also address a Democratic association in Lincoln, Nebraska, the same day. He has partially accepted the Philadelphia invitation and may travel to Nebraska if released from official duties.
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Washington
Hamlin
Boston
Young Men’s Democratic Club
Philadelphia
Jackson
Morton
Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
Boston union meeting shift to Bromfield Street Church
Daily Boston noon meeting of the Evangelistic Association of New England will unite with the Evangelical Alliance at Bromfield Street Church. Ianuel Hall meetings are discontinued. Major Brewer and Salvation Army staff will conduct the rest of the week’s meetings in the church audience room.
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Boston
Evangelistic Association of New England
Bromfield Street
Ianeuul Hall
Evangelical Alliance
Major Brewer
Salvation Army
Electric motor testing offered at 161 Fort Hill Sq
If your motor costs too much to run, have it tested at 161 Fort Hill Square. The service promises assessment of efficiency and potential repairs to cut power use and lower operating costs.
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L. A. Chase & CO
Fort Hill Sq
Boston Theaters Buzz With Arrivals and Repertory
The week features new productions at the Globe and Boston Museum. Richard Mansfield stages The Merchant of Venice with elaborate Shakespearian flair. The Prodigal Father debuts at the Boston Museum with Maggie Cline singing between acts. Austin & Stone showcase a tall world woman with a cash prize for removal. Maude Adams and John Drew return to Hollis Street for a three week engagement. The Palace Theatre hosts Fay Foster burlesque, and The Black Crook headlines at the Lyceum with the Creoles.
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Boston Museum
Glen MacDonough
Maggie Cline
John Drew
Maude Adams
Hollis Street Theatre
Henry Guy Carleton
Fire gutted Delta Upsilon house in Williamstown blaze
Fire discovered in the Delta Upsilon Chapter house on the second floor short on time, the college hose delayed response. The Samuel Mather homestead, bought six years ago for about 5000 dollars, housed the fire. Loss about 4500 dollars with 4000 dollars insured. Residents from New York, Garrattsville, Washington, Waukegan, Chicago lost personal effects. Smith uninsured. Town relies on hydrant pressure. bleachery workers aided. This marks the third society house fire in a year.
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Delta Upsilon
Samuel Mather
Society
Herbert M. Mutrie
New York
B. W. Mather
Garrattsville
Dwight Smith
Washington
Fred Whitney
Wauiegan
Ill
Dudley Strickland
Thomas Hoyne
Chicago
Smith
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Rudyard Kipling
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