Heroes on a Brooklyn Bridge Job Show Silent Valor
A Chicago resident honors a pair of Brooklyn Bridge painters for risking life to keep the span safe for pedestrians and trains. The narrator interviews the men about danger, family dependents, and pride in duty as workers ascend the main cables in perilous conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fulton
Marathon
Miltiades
Leonidas
Joshua
Jericho
Angrelian
Zenobia
Napoleon
Solferino
Sedan
Chicago
H. H. Koblsaat
Grant
Galena
Ills
West
Lee
Virginia
New York
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Bridge
C. Darton
Cameos and red neckties spark social squibs
A Boston piece notes Mme Carnot’s coronet of cameos drawing attention to the craft and its workers. A Chicago News column recounts Regent Street’s red neckties and a quip from Rev Gunsaulus about vanity, folly, and a mailed gift to a friend abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme. Carnot
Grand Carnot
Boston Record
Regent Street
Gunsaulus
Adam
Eugene Field
London
Chicago News
Chicago couple ordained together as Unitarians ministers
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Sprague of Chicago were recently ordained together by the Unitarians, an uncommon event for a husband and wife to enter the ministry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. W. Sprague
Chicago
In the Woods and Courtly Anecdotes From an Era
A poetic excerpt evokes woodland fauns and Puck with Pan’s pipes amid Edith Sessions Tupper’s verse in Outing, followed by prose on ecclesiastic mistresses from Bernalde de Verville and a note on Charles I coronation robe color shifts, citing De Quincy and Merlin’s prophecy in the Dry Goods Chronicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Puck
God Pan
Edith Sessions Tupper
Jennie
Bernalde de Verville
Charles I
England
de Quincy
London
Genoa
Merlin
Dry Goods Chronicle
Seeing Remote Mountains Across Distances
A collection of scattered notes on long distance mountain visibility from various observers. Emile Metzger, E Hill, J Starkie Gardner, Waymper, J Hippisly and Sir W Jones claim mountains including Keizerspicht Merapi Mont Blanc and the Himalayas were seen from remote points in Sumatra Java Greenland the Swiss Alps and elsewhere with distances from 24 miles to 200 miles. Also brief humor and sleep guidance pieces appear from the New York Press and Chicago Tribune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emile Metzger
Keizerspicht
Sumatra
Guy Merapi
Java
E. Hill
Mount Blanc
Piz Muraun
Dissentis
J. Starkie Gardner
Piz Landyard
Waymper
Greenland
J. Hippisly
Sir W. Jones
Himalayas
St. Louis Republic
The Messenger Boy Displays Betty Doll Carriage Fun
A Washington Square messenger boy wheeled a Betty doll on castors, linked arms with it, and paraded past onlookers like a social guest. The scene mixed whimsy with shop display culture as bystanders laughed at the playful gesture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Square
Betty
New York Evening Sun
Also Mentioned on This Page
Dar
Lucifer
Elilah
Brownie
Sprite
Fay
John
Charlie
New York Press
Chicago Tribune
Dr. Carvem
Arch Street
Starkey & Palen
Wat
D. Ken
Congress
Phila
Cron le Conrad
Luth'n Observer
W. Cusnina
D. D
Rochester
N. Y
Penn Nixon
Inter-Ocean
W. H. Worrmeaton
New South
H. P. Vrooman
Quenemo
Kan
Many A. Livermore
Melrose
Mass
E. C. Kyiout
Philadelphia
J. Mocsup
T Police
Blandfore
Dorsetshire
Englai Jacon Yvann
Rowse
New South Wales
Meena
G.wingraham
M. D
Amsterdam
N.Y
Dyche &Co
Chieneo
N. M. White
Dillon
Levay
Louis, MO
DMS
Liebig & CO
Geary Street
San Francisco
Broadway
City
Montana
Linena
Irene
K. Broadway
Butte City
Levi Strauss & CO
T. W. Poindexter & Sons
Montana Street
Dillon, Montana
General Merchandise
Dillon Brewery
Jos
Montana St
R.C. Halliday’s
Dillon, Mont
George J. Staudaher
Dillon Jewelry and Gun
L. Kupfer
Prop’r, Dillom
Mont
Howard and Elgin
Rockford
Tribune
Tuckerman
Workman
Cleveland
United States Court
Washington Post
David Lamont
Great Northern
Montana Central Railway
Great Northern Railway
Eastern Railway of
Minnesota
Wellman and
Sioux Falls
Duluth, Watertown and Pacific Railway
Butte
St.Paul
Minneapolis
Union
Helena
Great Falls
St. Paul
J. E. Dawson
E. H. Hopsarp
Tray. Pas
B. H. Lanetey
M. C. R. R. Helena
F. I. Wurryey
Pas
Great Northern R. R. St. Paul
E. V. Maze
J. W. Larisa
Daiing
Argenta
Bannack
Pacific Express
HR Depot
F. L. Graves
Weightman & Anderson
Props
Tripunn
Tre Trrnvnz
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