Art Students In New York Face Bohemian Life And Hard Times
The fall art school season brings 3000 to 4000 students to New York with two thirds women. Hard times last year forced students to live on graham bread and apples while studying. Many live in attic studios on Jock Street areas deemed the Latin Quarter. Portrait painters, designers, and models endure deprivations as bohemian life shapes their craft and appearances.
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New York City
New York
Dulli
West
West Bid Street
Chiu
Ansious
Academy of Design
Jock Street
Seventh Avenue
Third Avenue
Art
Otth Streets
Watcs
Daylight Meteor Observed Near Surshine Seating
A daylight meteor was seen recently near Surshine Seating. It moved slowly and shone with a brilliant intense light that left no train behind. The object appeared flat, smaller, and shuddered before breaking into three pear shaped portions. Its head remained brilliantly white while the tail showed varying color, including a rich violet blue.
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Surshine
Chicago Herald
Faithful watcher of Quaker graveyard near Fifth Street
Florence Sullivan, a longtime Fifth Ward fixture, tended a graveyard gate stand for twenty years and guarded the cemetery from desecration. He was promised 50 cents weekly, but has received nothing until the land is sold and funds go to the Society of Friends. The sale has been anticipated for years amid political and legal delays.
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Fifth Street
Spruce
Fifth Ward
Florence Sullivan
Sullivan
Society of Friends
Tie
Mer Sullivan
Beaver
Ma. Tattison
Bill Wold
Philadelphia Inquirer
Deadly Diamond Ring Linked to Spanish Royals
A jeweled diamond and pearl ring hangs in a Madrid park on a silken cord. Believed to be cursed, it has passed through Alfonso III, Mercedes, Queen Christina, and the King’s sister, with each bearer dying shortly after. The ring’s origin and deadly legend trace through royal custody and misfortune.
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Madrid
Bank of England
Spain
Alfonso III
Mercedes
Christina
Boston Herald
The Ker Question in Motels and Kitchens
The article discusses hotel food service and the role of middlemen in supplying warranted eggs for cooks and bakers. It notes the impact of incautious handling, with the Hind Clause causing waste of eggs estimated at 400 dollars monthly, while some hotels use about 120 eggs daily, the Marlborough Hotel about 200 dozen per day, and during the World's Fair the Palmer House reached a high average.
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Marlborough Hotel
Sale of Marathon Plain Tests Historical Values
A fragmentary note recounts Lord Byron's remark about a farmer offering the Plain of Marathon for sale at 6,040 piastres, comparing it to Miltiades’ dust. It cites a letter to John Cam Hobhouse, later Lord Broughton, written from Rome.
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Stantine
Marathon
Miltiades
Phus
Lord Byron
John Cam Tabhone
Lord Broughton
Rome
Harold
Loudon Velo Spaph
Beginning and End of the Civil Wars
Fragmentary notes claim the Civil War began January 16 when South Carolina troops fired on the Star of the West carrying provisions to Fort Sumter and ended with the president's peace proclamation. other stray items cite medicines and marriage remarks from Jonesboro Texas.
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South Carolina
Star of the West
Charleton Harbor
Ripans Tabules Ad Recommends Free Coupon Offer
An advertisement urges readers to order Ripans Tabules for liver and stomach issues and promises a free coupon worth dollars if they send their full name and address to Dobbins Soap Mfg Co Philadelphia by return mail. The copy touts the remedy as pleasant and standard and warns about negligence.
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Dobbins’ Soap Mfg. Co
Philada
Fort Wayne Business College Ad Prompts Mixed Imagery
Fragmentary lines reference Fort Wayne Business College and peculiar phrases about sullenness and a yacht. The text also mentions Glenn's Alphur Soil and a proverb about prejudice having one eye, creating a dated, unclear composite.
Syrup of Figs Promises Gentle Laxative Benefits
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a pure liquid laxative from the California Fig Syrup Co. It claims wide health benefits, cleansing the system, easing colds headaches and fevers, and improving kidney liver and bowels without weakening them. Available in 60c and 1 bottles through licensed druggists, with the manufacturer’s name on every package.
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Gista
California Fig Syrup Co
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Con'r of Health
Brattichelda
Jonesboro
Texas
But
The
Fort Wayne Business College
Suilor
Glenn
Prejudice
Ensio John
Morris
Washlington
U. 3
Atty Sipea
St. Jacobs
Scott
Scott & Bowne
N.Y
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