Long Island Nassau County Estates Highlight Gilded Wealth
A survey shows northern Nassau County from Great Neck to Cold Spring Harbor hosting America’s most concentrated country estates. Rich residents, grand clubs, and roads of stone mark a landscape within 30 minutes of Manhattan, with yachts, motor cars, and social life centering in autumn.
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America
Long Island
Nassau County
Great Neck
Cold Spring Harbor
Sound
Manhattan
Hempstead
Oyster Bay
Cold Spring
New York Yacht Club
Hast River
United States
York
Meadow Brook
Nassau
Piping Rock Country Club
Western Hemisphere
Madison Square Garden
England
Kent
Devonshire
Texas
Europe
Long Island Millionaires Colony Shaped by Pratt Estate
Charles Pratt, Standard Oil magnate, helped launch a wealthy Long Island retreat near Glen Cove. His estate drew other affluent buyers, expanding the community as autos made travel easier. Noted mansions arose at Great Neck, Center Island, Wheatley Hills, Roslyn and beyond, with the Pratt property remaining a showplace.
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Charles Pratt
Standard ~ Oil
Nassau County
Glen Cove
Long Island
Pratt
Henry Davison
Peacock Point
Howard Gould
Harvey Laden
H. Bramhall Gilbert
Dr. Satterwhite
Great Neck
Colgate Hoyt
Center Island
E. D. Morgan
Wheatley Hills
James Byrne
W. D. Guthrie
W. J. Matheson
Clarence Mackay
J.P. Morgen, Jr
Mackay Place
Roslyn
Father's Quoit Hit Child in Washington County
Four-year-old Effie Griffith of Independence, Washington County, was struck in the face by a quoit pitched by her father D. B. Griffith at the Belleview camp meeting grounds. She sustained severe facial injuries, was taken to a Wellsburg hospital, and doctors fear her condition is not improving.
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Washington
Effie Griffith
Wellsburg
W. Va
Independence
Washington County
Belleview
Effe
D. B. Griffith
Griffith
Luckless Age in Aunt Phoenie’s Talk of Automobiles
Aunt Phoenie laments changing luck in a rural tale. She argues modern cars reduce horseshoes and four leaf clovers, noting fewer lucky items around. She recalls needing to source a horseshoe from the country to nail over her bed.
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Phoenie
London’s Stone Beasts Enter London’s King Edward VII Gallery
Residents and visitors ponder classify the stone carvings outside the new King Edward VII Gallery at the British Museum. The beasts appear as a cross between a British lion and a Sphinx and are said to be not an artistic success.
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London
King Edward VII
British Museum
Coins Unearthed After Horse Uncovers Treasure Trove
A horse kicked up 148 coins on John McEwen’s Ontario farm near Ogdensburg New York. Six pieces flew out, revealing three Spanish coins, one British, one French, and 143 US half dollars dating 1805 to 1828. Under English law the treasure goes to the crown. police hold the coins.
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John McEwen
St. Lawrence River
Ogdensburg
N. Y
United States
Rideau Canal
Great Britain
Teeth Found in Oil Well Hint at Ancient Burials
While drilling at Frank Engles farm near Sapulpa Oklahoma teeth specimens emerged from 65 feet. Local physicians who examined the particles believe remains of a human were found and that the site is an ancient burial ground of prehistoric man. A geologist estimated filling earth and rock to 5 feet would take over a thousand years at that spot.
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Frank Engles
Sapulpa
Oklo
No Grass On His Grave Hatton’s Curse Tale
In Watau ga county North Carolina a burial scene is described where a grave bearing no grass remains bare for forty years. Locals say the interred man Hatton was exceptionally profane and died with curses on his lips, explaining the stark surface and lack of vegetation.
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Watauga County
North Carolina
Blue Ridge
East Tennessee
Hatton
King of the Lobsters At Fulton Market A 31 Pound Giant
The largest lobster sent to Fulton market New York City was received in the fish stall of John Dias. It weighed 31 pounds and measured 24 inches overall with claws. This titan crustacean is part of a family of three. Its mate weighed 20 pounds and measured 18 inches while the offspring weighed 11 pounds and was 15 inches long.
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Fulton Market
New York City
John Dias
Water Turkey of Florida In Indian River Birds
In Florida's Indian River region the marshes host many waterfowl including pelicans gallinules water turkeys cormorants and ospreys. The water turkey Piotua anhinga is famed as the awake bird and is described as a snake that becomes a bird when shot.
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Indian River
Florida
Turkey
Secret Oasis Revealed by New Rail Link Near Luxor
A newly opened railway line from a point near Luxor into the Libyan desert makes the oasis of Kharga more accessible. Scientists studying Kharga and other oases find Libyan oases lie in depressions on a high plateau around 5,000 feet up, with oasis bottoms 100 to 300 feet above sea level, held up by sandstone beds that supply water.
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Luxor
Libyan Desert
Khargeh
Novel horse car railway on Langeoog island tramway
A novel horse tramway operates on Langeoog in the East Frisian Islands. Tourists travel four miles between the mainland and the island by boat at high water, then ride the tide dependent tramway to reach the island.
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Langeoog
North Sea
Germany
Prague man's coffin buried with pawnshop clue
A Prague resident who recently died left a will directing that his coffin be found at a local pawnshop. Police issued a search to locate the coffin as part of the will’s unusual instruction.
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Prague
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