Historic Virginia Mansions Preserve Colonial Legacy
Virginia, the Mother of Presidents, hosts numerous colonial mansions and historic buildings. The Society for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities plans to preserve Montville, Patrick Henry’s home, amid bat infestations and potential museum conversion. Eastward, Mount Vernon, Montpelier, Kenmore, Arlington, Westover, Berkeley, and other sites tie Virginia to early American history and notable figures like Washington, Madison, Jefferson, and Henry.
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Virginia
Montville
Patrick Ienry
Society For the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
Washington
Lorenae
Optee
Madison
Pvt
Demecrat
Jefferson
Hose
Peru
Mount Ain
Rappahannock
Richmond County
Tayler
Daly
Germantown
Tate
James Mer
Randulph
Gobm Randolph
Tami
de Geelalants
Poeanhephis
Chelsed van Lerktew i
Gov Nelaty Trois
Stan
York
Kenmore
Frederick
Col Fielding S
Tieth Beresre
Mary Washington
Dreorgeilferd
Tubert Ey Lee
Berkeley
Wallan
Henry Tar Hson
United
Sti
Slanaveauel Peres
Luxurious Clark House in New York City A Nearing Reveal
Senator Clark's 7th Street and 5th Avenue residence in New York rises as a marvel of money's magic. The ten year project, involving bronze fittings and carved marble interiors by Philip Martiny, features eleven stories, a court drive, bronze gates, and a vast art collection with Carrara marble and intricate ceilings. Clark underpays contractors, owns granite quarries and multiple plants, and plans a grand, palace like home with elaborate stairways and private entrances.
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Seimto
Clark
New York
Marvel of Money
Whham Clark
Sth Avenue
Washington Hall
Senator Clark
North Jay
Maine
Bangor
Midble
Ravenswood
New York City
Clark Tose
St. Louis
Philip Martiny
Fatence Gallery
Maryland
Bond
Louis Mosthie
Paris
Ivers Maghle
Ilse
Yuere
Valeri Saga Te
Niaige Sehon
Cleetriein
Prejudice Against Curly Haired Men Seen in Jury Picks
A prominent lawyer recounts a well denied bias against curly haired men in juries. He recalls his mentor warning that such men were stubborn and biased, often voting against the majority, and thus unlikely to serve on juries.
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Leerpiant
Ightie Saath
Ibnacgowrn
Awful Slaughter: Street Cars Kill and Injure Thousands
Public Service Commission figures show Greater New York street railways kill or injure about 11,000 people in February to May, an annualized rate near 33,000. The piece compares these tolls to Civil War battles and Spain’s war costs, noting rail fatalities exceed losses of major 19th century conflicts and far surpass other wars in the same period.
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New York
Public Service Commission
New Rochelle
Haverstraw
Hackensack
Long Branch
Gettysburg
Spottsylvania
Wilderness
Antietam
Chancellorsville
Chickamauga
Josiah Strong
American Institute of Social Service
Spain
United States
Factoids Span Global Trivia From History's Dull Moment
A string of miscellaneous data touches on Abyssinia cartridges, fly wings, Sahara oases, abstainers in England, Spain’s production, Russia’s marital customs, forestry land, London papers, ancient bun notes, Michigan potato ranking, pressed potato meal, Nile fish variety, immigration strains, Venice’s bridge length, Sahara living, US potato prices, New York barge canal contracts, Bordeaux and Marseille expositions, a Siamese jungle, 1906 telegraph pole value, Roumania literacy, rolling Chinese newspaper, New York Transit selling power, natural gas values by state, world rail length, and West Virginia Saskatchewan wheat prospects, all in fragmentary form.
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Abyssinia
Sahara
Arly
Spain
Germany
Russia
Forestry Service
London
Michigan
Nile
New York Barge Canal
Roumania
Supreme Court of New York
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Kansas
ST. Cents
California
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Obscure Crowd Notes on Manners and Global Stats
A fragment from a 19th or early 20th century newspaper column blends humorous social observations about manners with a rapid-fire list of global figures. It juggles reflections on frugality and family, then shifts to statistics on Buenos Aires building activity, English trade with China, Episcopal cathedral funding, and industrial data on locomotion, shipping, and telecommunications. The piece juxtaposes quaint aphorisms with dense numeric snapshots of commerce and technology.
Firsts and Foibles from Ages Past in Odd List
A garbled collection of historic firsts spans coal, windmills, handkerchiefs, dictionaries, spectacles, coins, and books with dates from 60 B C to 1820. The piece also notes London fruit houses, orchids in tropical gardens, a proposed bridge to Falster, and cultural age customs in Japan.
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London
Froit
Braz
bin de Jantero
Zeeland
Falster
Scandinavia
Gjedser
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T. C, Zimmerman
Geneseo
Sialth
Varssia
Garden
University of Oxford
Oxford
Pselaimed
Bishop Burgess
Edinburgh
Perth and Dundee
Houston Post
Venice
Mainland
Atchison Globh
Saint-Pete
AQs_i
Buenos Ayres
England
China
Episcopal
St. Paul
Arabia
Comstock
Actives Es Geel
Vaericans
Rtdesso
B. C
Wynkintle Worde
Edward the Confessor
Pheldon
Argos
Alessandro di Spina
Europe
Abdessa
Charlemagne
Attalus
Pergamus
Japan
Arde E
LN de
Hemis
Thelveis & Pauly
Ludwig
Behning
Hamilton
Nelson
J B. Cook
Stein’s
Music House
Illinois
Stei
Giosman
Chas. Petherbridge
Creamery Co
Cedl
Geneseo Creamery Company
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