The Maid of Maiden Bane Sequel to The Bow of Orange Ribbon
A serialized love story recounts Cornelia receiving a revealing letter from Joris Hyde aboard ship to America. Amid domestic tensions, Cornelia bonds with Madame Van Heemskirk while Rem’s dishonor shocks Arenta, who confronts her brother about the letter’s betrayal and loyalties.
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Hyde
America
Cornelia
Rem
Jacobus
Decter Moran
Madame
Vasily
Joris Hyde
Madame van Heemskirk
Harry
Joris
Katherine
Arenta
Fractured Affections Test a Family on Letters
Rem Van Arens flees to the sea after a damaged love triangle leaves Miss Damer, Lord Hyde, and Cornelia Moran amid accusations. Arenta defends Rem while Peter Van Arens imposes accountability, and Cornelia faces a looming marriage to Dr. Hyde, as family tensions flare over a silenced letter.
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Rem
New York
Boston
Arenta
Cornalia
Mary Damier
Bastor
Cornelia
van Ariens
Arental
Miss Damer
Lord Hyde
Willie Nicholls
Barrymore Refuses to Perform for Club Men
Famous actor Barrymore rebuked a group of New York clubmen who asked him to “cut up.” He declined to perform a routine, stating he would do a headspring but could not sneak a piece. He then left the club, never returning.
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Rice Barrymore
New York
Barry
Southern Strawberry Picking Men Shipped North From Norfolk
Norfolk growers shipped 12 200 crates of strawberries in a day totaling about 732 000 quarts. The peak week saw 300 to 400 negro pickers working from daybreak earning 1 to 1 25 dollars daily. Average yield is 2 500 quarts per acre, crop is 20 percent short but berries are better than usual. A plantation owner described distant workers as resembling a giant flock of black birds.
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Norfolk
Knowledge Pathalongs in Wise Exchanges
A youth asks the sage for the first step toward knowledge. The sage replies that the initial discovery is recognizing your own foolhardiness and ignorance as the starting point of true learning.
Too Lonesome in Prague Consul Recalls Home
Judge A A Freeman of New Mexico recalls his Prague posting and its loneliness. He served eight years as assistant attorney general and was appointed consul to Prague by President Grant, but found the ancient city beautiful yet isolating, longing for something modern and familiar.
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Old City
A. A. Freeman
New Mexico
Ebbitt
Freeman
Postoffice Department
Grant
Prague
Bohemia
Washington Post
Captured the wrong lion on Burton Holmes tour
Burton Holmes, famed lecturer and social lion hunter, recounts a misadventure in an eastern city. A prominent hostess invited him, but the crowd gathered for the intended guest, and the head waiter mistook him for the lecturer, creating a humorous mix up at a hotel reception.
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Walter Game
Burton Holmes
Mr. Holmes
Jairus Daughter and the Little Maid in Heaven
Harriet Prescott Spofford in Youth's Companion imagines the moment Jairus’ daughter dies and returns to life, describing the mercy, music, and heavenly presence guiding a young soul. The poem contemplates the afterlife, love’s warmth, and the bittersweet question of earthly memory versus celestial peace.
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Earth
Harriet Prescott Spoffold
Mechanical piano attachment provokes amused remark
Very Human, F. L. Colver, president of Frank Les Popular Monthly, Publishing company, hosts friends at his Tenafly home where a mechanical piano attachment misbehaves. A guest comments on remarkable devices, while Colver notes the gadget needs coaxing to play.
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F. L. Colver
Frank Les
Popular Monthly
Tenafly
Mr. Colver
Mr. Colyer
New York Times
Union in Strong Secures Second in Size
The International Longshoremen's Union now ranks second in U S. membership with 142000 members.
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International ‘Longshoremen’s Union
Fire Losa in Britain records record yearly loss
Britain reports a record fire loss totaling sixty million dollars for the year, marking the highest fire-related destruction recorded in the nation. The figure represents the costliest year on record for fire damages across industries and residences.
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Britain
Duncan Curry Praises Liptons Shamrock III In Dock Reveal
Duncan Curry writing in the Chicago American hails Sir Thomas Lipton’s Shamrock III as a promising America’s Cup challenger. He notes the schoonish lines, fair deckings, and elegant hull, predicting stiff competition for Reliance while comparing Shamrock III favorably to Shamrock II and Valkyrie II.
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Chicago American
Duncan Curry
Sir Thomas Lipton
Britain
Fife
Erie Basin
Gowanus Bay
Shamrack Il
Romance of a Gold Camp Sanatorium Tale of Two Miners
J A Chaifes once linked to Bret Harte and Tennessee's Pardner has been placed in a sanitarium in Oakland California. Chaifes and his partner Chamberlain lived since 1849 in a Tuolumne County mining camp. Chaifes saved Chamberlain from vigilantes by pleading to Judge Lynch when a rope was around Chamberlain's throat. The pair, both over eighty, stayed on washing placer gold to live.
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Bret Harte
J. A. Chaifes
Tennessee
Pardner
Oakland
Cal
Chaifes
Tuolumne County
Chamberlain
Vigilance Committee
Lynch
Chaffee
Mrs Florence C Bethune Drives Cruelty Probes
Florence C Bethune, society wife and activist, has helped arrest eight men for horse cruelty and testified in court in each case. She vows to target mail delivery contractors for horse mistreatment and has turned over thirty six sick and homeless dogs to the society in the past year.
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Society of Prevention of Cruelty
Florence C. Bethune
New York
St Louis Man Seeks Legal Sanity Restoration
Siegfried Pariser of St. Louis asks a court to declare him sane by law so he may manage his affairs under American standards. Once declared insane in Berlin twelve years ago, he seeks to remove that finding to access a portion of an estate tied up by the German ruling.
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St. Louis
Siegfried Pariser
Berlin
Sig. C. Gelbart
Pariser
Politicians and Children in a New York Hotel Corridor
Senator Arthur Pue Gorman at the Fifth Avenue hotel avoids an interview. A reporter pressed for remarks, but the senator, calling politicians like children, said they should be seen not heard as he walked along the hotel corridor.
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Arthur Pue Gorman
Fifth Avenue
New York
Europa
Ang,dowy
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Amellia E, Barr
Marquise
Itaime
Cornela
Peter van Arens
George Hyde
Cornelia Moran
Philadelphia
Barrymore
Jairus
Heaven
Lipton
Shamrock
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