Miss Helen Miller Gould to Wed Late in January
New York December 18 announces that Miss Helen Miller Gould a prominent New York woman is to become a bride late in January. She is forty four and will marry a man identified with railroad properties and the Gould roads. The couple met two years ago during an inspection tour in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Miller Gould
New York
Helen Mil
St. Louis
Ler Goud
America
Jewesry
Ertun
Japan's Curious Museum in Nara Oldest World’s Repository
A世界 museum in Nara claimed as the oldest in the world, founded before 756, with about 3000 mostly pre 756 items from China and Korea, opened annually for a spring inspection. only European visitor Dr. Otto Kummel is noted. The article also describes a Japanese village festival Omita in Isobe and a folk belief tying chopped bamboo to survival at sea via a peculiar life insurance-like practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Nara
Otto Kummel
China
Korea
Isobe
Wide World
Patti's High Charges in Historic Singer Career
The text notes Adelina Patti consistently earned top fees, never less than 4000 a night, peaking at 52000 on a last tour, and receiving a share of gross receipts beyond 7000. On November 9, 1904 at the Academy of Music Philadelphia she set a world record by earning 8200 for that concert, the highest single performance fee in history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patti
Adelina Patti
Academy of Music
Philadelphia
America
New York World
Dining Room Cranks Tale From a Bellevue Waiter
A New York Tribune tale notes a chatterbox waiter who dissects cafe habits. He describes a steady patron who demands boiling hot coffee with extra hot bread, half eaten crusts, and salt and pepper on grapefruit. The waiter claims to be a crank on speedy service and the anecdote ends with another waiter remarking on the ongoing chatter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellevue
New York ‘Tribune
Locating the Poles and a Patchwork of Witty Snippets
The excerpt surveys polar measurements by Peary and Amundsen noting slight axis shifts in 428 days yet not impacting calculations. It then relays a Budapest suicide tale, a February wedding quip, a joke about a forged anniversary, a doctor patient punchline, and a pair of brief witticisms on wisdom and brevity, all from various 19th and early 20th century papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peary
Amundsen
Christian Herald
Fragmented Tales of Wit and Wisdom Across Borders
A collage of quirky vignettes and readers’ anecdotes from late 19th century papers. Jests about manners, a tale of a lakewood boy and mother, a judge and his trotting mare, the fate of Disraeli’s forgotten letter, and notes on eyebrows and a will in rime. Also light sketches on weather, artful hogs, and Mont Saint Michel tours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Disraeli
Williams
England
England and In the Very Town In Which Mrs. Willyams
Superscience and Charity Quoted in Galventor News
A fragment from Galventor News contrasts modern science with tasting oysters and judging tongues before eating. It also cites a Futter quote criticizing charity as pride and ostentation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galventor News
Also Mentioned on This Page
HN Gould
IRIS
R. M. Leonard
Main Street
Jackson's
Espethe Waterman
Parker and Moore
Evening Farmer
Janos Mergessi
Budapest
Danube
Mergessi
Hewitt—Gruet
Jewett
Hewitt
New York Press
Chicago Tribune
Green
Detroit Free Press
Rowland Grey
W.S. Gilbert
Mr. Grey
Hamlet
Richmond
Tabourettes
Richmond Ranges
N. Buckingham & Coo
State Street
Mamma
Lakewood
Billy
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Gallagher
Beaver
Morgan County
Harrodsburg
Tipton County
Pittsburgh Dispatch
County Dublin
Ireland
Evermore
Thomas Andrew Armstrong
London Telegraph
Louisville Courier-Journal
Tray
Ethel
Mont St. Michel
Mme. Poularde
St. Malo
Brittany
Chateaubriand
Jules Lamaitre
Fuffil
Brooklyn Eagle
John A. Sleicher
Leslie
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!