Luxurious Yachting Costs Exceeding Ordinary Wealth
A feature outlines how expensive steam yachts are in the United States with fleets under New York and Corinthian clubs, detailing maintenance payrolls, voyage costs, and per-guest expenditures. It notes annual outlays of up to 700 dollars daily and about 75 dollars per day per guest on foreign cruises. It also introduces Xylomin, a German wood fiber thread rivaling cotton and linen in strength and dyeability, at much lower prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New York Yacht Club
Corinthian Yacht Club
Marblehead
Atlantic Yacht Club
England
France
Germany
Seven Seas
Broadway Magazine
Xylomn
Plauen
Cunard Ships Named Lusitania and Mauretania
The Cunard Line continued its tradition of naming ships after European subdivisions. Lusitania denotes the historic region encompassing much of Portugal and parts of Spain, while Mauretania refers to the Mauri across the Strait of Gibraltar, tied to Morocco.
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Cunard Company
Europe
Lusitania
Mauretania
Portugal
Estremadura
Toledo
Strait of Gibraltar
Morocco
New York Times
Prince Edward Promises Humane Laws and Sin Abolition
As a nine year old, Prince Edward told his nurse he would one day be king and enact three laws. He would ban cutting off puppy dogs tails as cruel, prohibit bearing reins on horses as cruel, and strive to do away with all sin.
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Prince Edward
Prince of Wales
Army maneuvers in Italy test dogs for scouts
A small group of scouting and messenger dogs is attached to the First army corps in Italy as an experimental element. If results merit, dogs will be used by the intelligence department. The pioneers are Scotch collies, a note highlighted by the London Glebe.
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Italy
First Army Corps
Intelligence Department
London
Palmes academiques adorned ushers at Palais Bourbon
Paris Intransigent notes the Palais Bourbon employs about six ushers with palmes academiques on their coats and a peace guardian who lacks visible ribbons. The text mocks the holders as hardly able to read or write, claiming they are numerous.
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Palais Bourbon
Palmes Academiques
Academy
Legion
Paris
Brevities From The Nations And Provinces
King Leopold I buys Chateau Lormoy near Paris to furnish it richly. Weyler finishes Cuba memoirs. Schiff stables to feature white tile and porcelain feeds. Halford retires at sixty four after Harrison’s reward. Dr Heaton hauls a nine foot albatross off Nova Scotia. Roumanian queen funds “Vatra Luminosa” for the blind. Augustus Wood marks fifty five years in the same Lebanon NH shop. Patrick Mahoney seeks three days pay from 1862 Civil War era. Elwood Meade to head irrigation investigations in Australia with $15,000 yearly. Ex Judge Burton, G A R chief, born Cleveland now in Missouri, is IRS collector in Kansas City.
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Leopold I
Belgium
Chateau Lormoy
Paris
General Weyler
Cuba
Mortimer L. Schiff
Long Island
Sige Halford
Harrison
Thomas
Heaton
Boston
Nova Scotia
Roumania
Augustus Wood
Lebanon
N. H
Wood
New Hampshire
Patrick Mahoney
Brookfield
Mass
Springfield
Elwood Meade
Bureau of Irrigation
Department of Agriculture
Laramie
Wyo
Irrigation Investigations
Australia
Charles Germman Burton
Grand Army of the Republic
Cleveland
Missouri
Kansas City
Plays and Players In New York Theaters
Alla Nazimova opens in The Master Builder by Ibsen. Frank Gilmore joins Mary Mannering for Glorious Betsy as Jerome Bonaparte. Ida Fuller appears in La Sorciere in New York after years in Europe. Dennis O Sullivan signs with Joseph Brooks to star in Peggy Mahree starting soon. Edwin Arden’s career began after an accident. Charles Balsar joins Harrison Grey Fiske to play Paul Sylvain in Leah Kleschna company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alla Nazimova
Ibsen
Frank Gilmore
Shinberts
Mary Mannering
Jerome Bonaparte
Betsy
Aida Johnson Young
Ida Fuller
Europe
New York
Dennis O'Sullivan
Joseph Brooks
ENGLISH ETCHINGS AND LONDON TRANSFERS
Fifty thousand dollars a year is spent on Regent's park in London. A syndicate forms to build roads for motor cars. King Edward rules a diverse realm. North Gosforth church near Newcastle sold at auction with no bids. English departures to the continent rise yearly. In ten years a caretaker may be needed in England.
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Regent's Park
London
Edward
Turkey
Palestine
Africa
North Gosforth
Newcastle
England
Continent
A Cheerful Giver in Harper's Weekly
A short dialogue shows Mrs Wyss directing a debt collector to take all he can carry while Mr Wyss responds from the library with AP tone reflecting a humorous scene in Harper's Weekly.
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Justin
Mrs. Wyss
Mr. Wyss
Harper’s Weekly
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W. A.watking
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E. J. Jenkins
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