Tazewell’s Daughter in Political Turmoil and Ruinous Estates
In Virginia and Washington, Fairfax Tazewell harbors bitterness over postwar changes while General Tazewell leans into power plays. Carrington, Hugh, and Maude navigate debts, marriage prospects, and estate pressures as temptations of wealth and status strain loyalties amid a looming political ascent. Meanwhile Shenandoah faces a violent coal strike clash leaving multiple dead or injured.
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Chapthire
Tazewell
Fairfax
Washington
Tome
Carriog
Tall
Hugh
Pel
Itwell
Iihd
Maude
Nim
Buckingham
Virginia
Henry
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Carrington
Royal Court Guests and the Shift in Dinner Party Records
The article describes Queen Victoria’s strict court etiquette and meticulous dinner list records, contrasted with King Edward's move to drop such archival duties and to let hosts screen guests. It notes potential consequences for hosts if an attendee is objectionable, and highlights a reduction in royal staff roles under the new regime.
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Edward
Victoria
Buckingham Palace
New French Lighthouse Dazzles Coast With Long Beam Reach
A new French lighthouse on Isle Vierge off the coast near Ushant projects a beam visible thirty nine nautical miles in clear weather. The lantern sits 944 feet above sea level. The text notes unsettled minds may show in unshilled eyes rapidly jerking from side to side.
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Isle Vierge
Ushant
Food prices rise in London hitting the poor hard
Londoners in the provision trade report food dearer than any time in 25 years. Bacon has climbed by one third to one half due to US hog scarcity. Retailers say fixed wages force the poor to cut consumption or switch to jam. Chickens up nine pence, pigeons four pence more. pork also higher as shops struggle to stock.
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London
United States
Drowning and Train Wreck Mark Day of Eastern Montana News
V from Farang near Fore sythe Afont drowned in Rosebud River as one of the region's largest cattle owners. a Madrid express derailment near Guarda Portugal killed six and injured twenty seven. Secretary Moody ordered construction of a battleship at New York yard.
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Philbrook
Montana
Rosebud
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Afont
Guarda
Portugal
Moody
New York Tury Yard
Crop Conditions Report Highlights Regional Drought and Rains
The report notes drought in Virginia Carolina Georgia parts of Arkansas Missouri and Illinois Texas sees heavy rains promoting rapid growth with boll weevil and boll worm damage. Corn outlook favorable in Kansas Nebraska Indiana Missouri Illinois Ohio. Wheat harvest delayed in Pacific coast lake region and eastern states with scattered beneficial rains. Hay crop stable in central valleys though delayed by rain.
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East
Gulf States
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Missouri
Texas
Missouri Valley
Tower Lake
Rocky “Mountain
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New York
Inehere
California
Ilinois
Kansas
Nebraska
Indiana
Ohio
Iowa
Middle Atlantic
Ohio River
Lake Region
Middle Atlantic States
Pacific Coast
Oregon
Washington
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North Dakota
Minnesota
Mississippi Valley
Lake
Tennessee
Maryland
Carolinna
Michigan
Illinois
Oklahoma
Merchant Ended His Life in Chicago Home
Abraham M. Rothschild, once head of a major Chicago department store and former president of A. M. Rothschild & Co, shot himself in his bathroom Monday afternoon. His death, attributed to insomnia from overwork, followed retirement due to ill health last May. Believed temporarily deranged by friends, he rose from poverty in Germany to wealth, leaving an estate estimated at a million dollars.
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United Mine Workers
Shenandoah
Thomas Beddall
Beddall
Philadelphia and Reading
Joseph Beddall
Torough
John Fry
Fred
Lehigh
Stiney Yacopsky
Chicago
Abraham M. Rothschild
A. M. Rothschild & Co
Mr. Rothschild
Rothschild
Black Forest
Germaany
Steamer Service Increased Between New York and South Africa
Bi weekly steamship service between New York and South Africa points starts due to postwar trade rise. Companies respond to demand for American lumber building materials grain and agricultural implements.
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South Africa
New York
Bank president resigns amid other business duties
Postmaster Cornelius Van Cott, after helping organize Equitable National Bank in New York and being elected its president, resigns to the directors due to pressure from other business. In Pittsburg, Martin Harrihill and two pipe fitters Michael Mustin and Michael Beckawith are overcome by gas while repairing a Clinton blast furnace break and found unconscious on the platform.
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Equitable National Bank
New York
Cornelius van Cott
Clinton
Pittsburg
Martin Harrihill
Michael Mustin
Michael Beckawith
Government actions and political notes from a long report
A compilation of remarks on pensions reductions requests, cabinet campaigning plans for President Roosevelt, historic snuff boxes in the Senate, Count Cassini's smoking, naval and military tech notes, bear hunts in Mississippi, a senator's singing, and financial and civil service updates. Includes pneumatic dynamite guns sold at Sandy Hook and plans for wireless telegraphy stations.
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Senate
West
Missouri
Harris
Kansas
Senator Pettus
New York Harbor
San Francisco
Sandy Hook
Ordnance Department
Roosevelt
Mississippi
Longino
Tallahatchie County
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