Fashion and manners mix in a rambling society page
The column surveys London dress trends with ladies and gentlemen wearing waxed boots and bright colors, while sharing witty quotes about marriage and social expectations. It pockets anecdotes of a Lang Branch shopgirl with Brazilian bags, a flirtatious bishop’s traveler, and a morbid note on country recreation provoking fear of graveyards.
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London
Oxford
Hove
Lang Branah
Mr. Bergh
Live
Indy Mary Wortly Montague
Woman's Wites and a Brutal Lynching Tale
A fragmented 19th century column blends social musings on female fashion with a extreme lynching case. It recounts a white girl’s murder near Witts-Dary, Sanders charged, a mob trial, and a sought-after execution avoided by magistrate. The piece also notes a New York hospital undertaker extortion scene and a passing remark on a steamboat sawmill on the Ohio river.
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Rirren Boek
Witts- Dary
Cross Coley
Sanders
Nuor
Cie
Hur
Bellesvue Uospital
New York
Ste. Vin
Ohio River
Five acts in arage dy tragedy
The reader outlines a five act drama, listing Act I a young man leaving home with farewell scenes, Act II a wedding and religious rites, Act III a scene of graveyard tragedy and longing, Act IV a destroyed soul’s eternity, and Act V a final moment of despair as the curtain falls with a bell and curtains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aragedy
Hells
Danity
A Dor Witness Dog Ownership Case and Saratoga Night Blackout
A dispute over ownership of a Newfoundland dog dominated a court scene. The animal, seven years old in one claim and two in another, sat beside the judge as witnesses swore. The jury ruled for the plaintiff, citing the dog’s undeniable loyalty. That evening, Saratoga plunged into darkness as a village-wide gas outage disrupted hotels, stores, and trains, prompting police to double patrols and emergency precautions.
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Partiva
Bad bin
Impense Newfoundland
of & Jet Bhick
Uneder
Saratoga
Grand Union
Hanatt
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