Return to the River Life Delays a Millionaire Father
Henry Yates abandons Wall Street pursuit and reunites with his daughter Edith aboard the Valley Queen on a Memphis to New Orleans river trip. He confronts his past as a river clerk and questions the value of wealth and social status for love, as Edith’s future and Houston’s suit loom.
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Yates
Allen Houston
Edith
Houston
Henry Yates
West
New York
New Orleans
Mr. Yates
Memphis
Lfe
Tke
Valley Queen
Mammon
Bluffs
Wall Street
Allen
Mississippi
Crescent
Edith Yates
Boston Globe
Humorous Fragments from a London Pageant of Wit
A collage of quips and captions from 19th century humor columns. Jests about marriage, money, flirtation, and social types appear as quick exchanges and cartoonish vignettes. Notable gibes reference a woman’s fate after loss, motor car boasts, and light social satire from Philadelphia to New York papers.
Life story of Mrs Catherine Muerling ends in almshouse
The Utica Globe summarizes the fallen life of Catherine Muerling. An heiress turned war widow and artist her fortunes rose and fell across Europe and America. After losing husband children and wealth she wandered penniless until she found shelter at the Home for Dependent Adults on Blackwell's Island New York.
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Gardia
Marto
Henry Doyd
Cince
Ques Victoria
Ehirope
Mre. Muerling
Catherine Muerling
Blackwell's Island
New York
Henry
Paris
John Muerling
Stockholm
Ising Oscar
Sweden
Utica Globe
Filipino Babies Learn to Walk Early by Bamboo Device
The New York Press notes Filipino infants are trained to walk using a bamboo socket device inside a one room house built on stilts. A crosspiece rotates as the baby attempts to lean, frightening the child but prompting a treadmill-like session until the child learns to walk, reducing need for nursemaids.
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New York Press
Definition of Pa Fray Echoed by Puck
A fragment quotes a line attributed to Puck about a fight being called a fray by those who have never fought. The brief text references a definition from Pa and a dialog about perception and reality in conflict.
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Puck
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