Cork a City of Ireland Shines With Modern Echoes
Nora Creena writes of Cork as a bustling port city with American ties via Cove and Queenstown nine miles away. She notes shops selling American goods, a mix of old world charm and new energy, busy streets, markets, carriages, and a street musician, all in a twilight setting as a “beautiful city” seen on a first visit.
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Waverland Recounts A Lost Love In New World Sojourn
The narrator recalls a humble governess whose influence spurred his reform as he travels with the Duke to New York. They discuss memory, change, and the small acts shaping lives. In Sandy Hook they tour, view electric harbor lights, and note American art’s rising stature as ex presidents pass by on courthouse steps.
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Chicago Sightseeing With Ex Presidents In A Bustling West
The journeyer describes Chicago’s energy and grandeur after the 1871 fire, touring the Board of Trade, panorama galleries of Shiloh and Gettysburg, and Lincoln Park. Encounters with locals reveal brisk trade, land issues, and a vivid portrait of a city rising from ruin.
Potter Palmer era and Chicago’s Lincoln Park noted
In a narrative travelogue the narrator recalls visiting Potter Palmer's residence and hotel in Chicago, noting the ivy clad house, Palmer’s stable blocks, and Lincoln Park as a social garden. The piece shifts to practical home remedies and lemon uses, then to a Tennessee encounter with a gunman and a discussion on violence in a rural setting.
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Dusting the Corner Again Aged Talk Reveals Two Men
A visitor asks about two former assistants John and Jim after twenty years. The lawyer recalls John as trustworthy and proud to see him still dusting the corner, while Jim has become a landowner owning the corner and surrounding blocks.
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A Valuable Man Street Car Patron Wrathful Exchange
A streetcar passenger condemns the conductor of car 1 492 as brutal, while the superintendent remarks that the man inspires many complaints yet keeps the peace and prevents theft. The exchange underscores tensions between riders and transit staff.
Moliere Breakfasting with Louis Quatorze sells for 30000 francs
A Paris studio tale recalls Gerome's painted scene Moliere Breakfasting with Louis Quatorze. An American buyer offered a thousand francs per head for the work, but the artist refused, comparing the piece to no ordinary commodity. It eventually fetched 30,000 francs.
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