Paris Flair and American Notices in a Turbulent Era
A medley of society notes and anecdotes: Aimee of opera boufle fame returns to America with a new French comic company, while Mrs. Hubbell stands as godmother to Provident Arthur’s son. Wendell Phillips relocates to Boston amid quiet retirement, and Rochester touts Angis Gibbs as the country’s oldest practicing lawyer born in 179? with fifty-five years of active work. Reports on Miss Linzie Sargent pursuing medical studies in Germany, Patti’s concert fee quip, Queen Victoria’s looming maid duties, and a parade of European and American figures ricochet through a gossip-filled page. A humor piece recounts a Fifth Avenue household, a London journal on American trade, and a vivid street brawl between a transfer-team horse and a man.
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Mlle
Aimee
Opera Boufle
America
Seation
Hupi
Provident Arthur
Arthur
Wendell Phillips
Boston
Linzie Sargent
Semany
Pavitic Medical College
Itia
Patti
J. A. Haverly
Sotto
United States
Henry Labonchere
Gordon Arthur Howell
Wheat notes and a tale of a yard bet on a horse
A jumble of agricultural figures and a peculiar anecdote on a betting gentleman who claimed a horse could be made to fall three times in a level yard. The piece also includes statistical contrasts on wheat yields by state and a religious anecdote about a man who killed himself after a mistaken claim of contrition. It mentions various names and places in a dense, clipped newspaper voice.
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Fifth Avenue
New York
Kalakaua
Sanddwigh Islands
Austin
Texas
Wonan
Ayn Haven Register
A Frien
Barrett
Chicago Times
Louis Begeebucns
New York State
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Union
South Carolina
Ohio
Viels
Indiana
Albrecht Schuette
Collinsville
Jig
Wade
Reid
Sultan’s Friday Prayer in Constantinople Flourish and Fear
The Constantinople scene shows Abdul Hamid II processing in public for the Friday prayer amid a vast crowd, guards, and colorful pageantry. The event underscores the sultan’s precarious rule under the watch of powerful paschas, with soldiers, Circassian escorts, and cheering troops signaling his visible yet constrained authority.
Ram and Deacon clash in chaotic church scene
A fractured humorous piece recounts Mollie and a ram causing chaos in a church pew as the deacon tries to restrain the beast. Amid shouted jeers and comic missteps, the ram disrupts services before a comical exit scene unfolds, with local echoes of other oddities and notices.
Oldest biscuit in America found in Tennessee tale
Captain EM Simmons brought home a relic baked July 1861 by B A Cain of the 6th Tennessee. The biscuit survived four years’ service, then his mother kept it in a drawer until his return. Only 33 of 100 men from the company survived the war, and the biscuit remains as a preserved wartime memento.
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EM. Simmons
Burua Ngar Jackson
Tenn
America
B. A. Cain
Tennessee
Texas
Captain Simmons
Ite
Honetetia
Zea
Siviatel Svs
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