Pere la Chaise a Paris City of the Dead Revealed
The Pere la Chaise cemetery in Paris contains 96000 mausoleums and monuments along 150 avenues. The piece visits famous graves from Moliere to Abelard and Heloise, notes Napoleon era forms, and recounts how during the Commune mutineers used the site as a camp and battles, with grim echoes of those killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pere la Chaise
Louis Oy
Obelisa&s
Moliere
Alfred de Musset
Chopin
Lafontaine
Balzac
Cherubini
France
Marshal Ney
Napoleon
Villeneuve
Trafalgar
Paris
Parmentier
Marie Antoinette
Abelard
Heloise
Eiffel Tower
New York Observer
Business Woman Hotel Aimed At New York Working Women
Mrs. Dunlop Hopkins outlines a plan to erect a chain of worker housing in New York including a business woman hotel an art students home a clubhouse and a model tenement designed with input from professional women and students. The project aims for self sufficiency with 6 to 8 percent returns and affordable living from 4 to 6 dollars per day for single rooms with meals, avoiding charity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Dunlop Hopkins
United States
East Side
Chicago
San Francisco
Denver
Art Students
Mary Gannon
Alice Hands
New York School of Applied Design
Hopkins
Fred Vanderbilt
Gilder
Waldorf
Urgent Care Gone Wrong in Pantomime Night
Aunt Cynthia confesses to giving a patient an entire bottle of medicine after demanding a hurry up cure. The doctor questions the dosage while noting the patient is worse this morning. Strand Magazine records the grim misstep in a comic dialogue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Cynthia
Cynthia
Strand Magazine
Mop replaces scrub brush says New England woman
A New England woman who helped lead a mothers' congress argues the scrub brush is outdated in the region and in progressive western cities. She praises the mop on a stick for cleaner floors, easier use, and greater efficiency, noting she saw scrubworden in a hotel and department building and calls the brush 25 years behind the times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Mothers’ Congress
Times
Washington
Siw
Lincoln Assassin Story from Ford's Theatre Orchestra Leader
William Withers Jr., leader of the Ford's Theatre orchestra, recounts how Booth assassinated President Lincoln after he wrote and planned to sing a commemorative song. Withers describes Booth’s approach, the stabbing at the box, his deposition at police HQ, and his eventual testimony at the conspirators' trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman’s League
Lincoln
William Withers, Jr
Daly
Ford
Withers
Booth
Washington
Washington Post
John Wilkes Booth
George Harry
Billy
Major Rathbone
Robert
Tad
J. P. Wright
Spangler
Mr. Wright
Peanut John
Harry Hawke
A Pretty Sure Test
A London Fun item notes a cruel social test: arrange a meeting with another man to see if Robert loves you. If he truly cares he will kill you. if not, he is merely flirting. The grim suggestion reflects biased humor from the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert
London
From London Town My Lover Came a Rose Song
The poem narrates Amy Robsart and Nora Hopper as speaker or attribution, lamenting a lovers affair with a Dudley named Robin from London. The speaker recalls being plucked like a rose, torn by betrayal, and longs for a return of love despite a queenly duty and a sharp, sorrowful fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Robin A Dudley
Tam
Nora Hopper
Music and the Hair Science Meet Dividing Hair Loss Controversy
A medical discussion jokes about music affecting hair growth and cites Le Temps claims that piano music preserves hair while wind instruments harm it. The piece notes therapists and doctors like Ferrand and Betzchinsky, cites pianists such as Paderewski, and suggests experiments on dogs to settle the issue, ending with a quip about stopping playing when hair falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
le Temps
Paderewski
Ferrand
French Academy
Betzchinsky
The Rise of Mustaches and the Smooth Face
The San Francisco Argonaut notes the growing popularity of the clean shaved look imported from England. It cites army bans on beards and argues fashion now drives facial hair choices, replacing older judgments on what flatters a man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
San Francisco
Lincoln and Twain as Great Writers Despite Folly
Charles Miner Thompson debates whether Lincoln’s humor and Twain’s crude style can still signify literary greatness. He argues Lincoln was great despite polish and suggests Twain deserves sympathetic, serious consideration despite extravagance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Miner Thompson
The
Atlantic
Abraham Lincoln
Mark Twain
Lincoln
Magnitude of Huerfano County Coal Resources
A glimpse at Huerfano county Colorado coal shows about 40 000 acres with each acre holding 100 000 tons, totaling 4 000 000 000 tons, a staggering figure. Also notes on railway collision experiences and a remark about deafness being more common in cold climates.
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Huerfano County
Colo
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Business Women’s Home
William Withers
Amy Robsart
Sorg
Music
Grumbleton
Srough
A. H. Haynes
Riverside Block
Maynard
Enterprise
Fitchburg Bicycles
Main Street
Chas E. Boyce
Main
Church Streets
Hudson
H.p.n.dahl
Ernest Hosmer
D. D
Acton
Horace Tuttle
Walden Street
Concord
J. C. Friend
Atable
C.d.holmes
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex
Cambridge
Fitchburg
South Acton
Acton Enterprise
Ralph N. Smith
Ralph N, Smith
Patrick O’riorden
American Powder Mills
Stowe
O'Riorden
Patrick O'Riorden
Westerly
Quincy
Scotch
U. S. Fowler
Hale
St. Acton
Mas
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