Plays and Parties Show Selfish Fads in Married Life
In a banks of social vignette Alicia and Dick recall a tea party with six week marriage, detailing friends Vera, Angie, Cerise and Daisy and their hobbies. Alicia’s jab at the women contrasts with Dick’s mock praise as they mock the idle chatter of material-minded spouses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alicia
Dicky
Claire Haughton
Angie New
Véra Sweet
Daisy Meadows
Vera Sweet
Vera
Paderewski
Leschetiszky
Melba
Angie
Angela
Stagestruck
Cerise Lovelace
Vitot
Doucet
Felix
Miss Meadows
Daisy
Claire
Harley Everett-Work
Mrs. Jeune
Princeton
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Drinks of Our Forbearers and An Old Wine Debate
The excerpt discusses Elizabethan era drinks mad dog and dragon’s milk, noting their ale bases and ginger flavors. It contrasts modern tastes with medieval English wine ideals, cites a 12th century standard, and laments the disappearance of the era’s robust beverages, while referencing The Chicago Times-Herald take.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mad Dog
England
British Museum
Paris
Triune
London
Port Negus
Chicago Times-Herald
What Makes Them Feel Uncomfortable in Sunday School
In a Roxbury Gazette note the teacher asks children what makes them feel unhappy after misdeeds. The prompt cites a common reply Dear Child A lickin as a blunt example. The piece reflects church school discipline language of the period and its moral tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
John Doe
Elizabeth and
Canal Streets
Roxbury Gazette
Manufacturing Spiders' Webs For Balloon Cover
A net of spiders webs is being manufactured at Antananarivo's professional school as an experimental covering for a navigable balloon. The project is led by M Renard, head of the French military balloon school at Calais.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antananarivo
M. Renard
Calais
Horseless carriages and comic exchanges in era dialogue
The excerpt features playful banter about a horseless carriage and humorous remarks on its novelty. Dialogues from New York Herald Alley Sloper and Sketch type captions show exaggerated reactions to technology and photography in a lighthearted, satirical tone.
Dauber and Criticus Dialog From Sunday Journal
A brief exchange from New York’s Sunday Journal recalls youthful risk for art. Dauber claims he could have died for his art at twenty, while Criticus replies with playful sympathy.
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Criticus
New York
Sunday Journal
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America
Stationer’s
St. Louis Star
House of Representatives
Samuel J. Randall
A. W. Greely
U.S. A
North American Review
Lincoln
Mr. Grow
Grow
White House
Speaker
Washington Post
Gerry Society
Patsey
Cuyler Reynolds
Reynolds
John V. L. Prayn
Albany
Pruyn
Robert Burns
United States
Henry Stevens
James Kenox
John Carter Brown
Stevens
Mr. Pruyn
Captain Moody
Chancellor Pruyn
Russia
Dr. Richmond
Burns
Gimel
Caniel
Richard
Henry VII
Hector
Wire
Hathaway Wire
Stockbridge Manures
Bowker’s
Clark’s Cove Bay
Swift
Lowell
Canada
James Devane
West Acton, Mass
Eliza
Jason
New York Herald
Balaam and
The
Ally Sloper
New English Curate
Glenwood Ranges
Concord Junction, Mass
Tuttles
Jones & Wetherbee
South Acton, Mass
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