Texas merchant visits New York and makes a deal
Navarro and Platt of Cactus City Texas travel to New York, where Zizzbaum & Son expects a $15,000 stock order. Platt courts Miss Asher, a Zizzbaum model, who rebuffs him revealing her background as a working model. Platt ends the night hopeful about Texas prospects but is left blindsided by Miss Asher’s thwarted advances.
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McClure Co
Cactus City
Tex
Navarro & Platt
New York
John
Platt
San Antono
Texas
Zizzbaum & Son
Broadway
Zizzbaum
Navarro
Pecos County
Zitzbaum
FE Paso
Rio Grande
Son
Abey
Mr. Platt
Hotel Astor
Colorado
Miss Asher
Asher
Helen
Nicholson
Ziszy
Diana
Buyer
Emma
Caracas
Venezuela
Dickens and the Lord Mayor at Mansion House Dinner
Dickens visited London for a Mansion House dinner hosted by the lord mayor for representatives of literature and art. The host’s welcome suggested princes and ministers dine elsewhere, while Dickens felt slighted by the reference to art guests as a change from greatness ending in the butler’s pantry.
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Dickens
Broadstairs
Forster
London Tatler
English Manners in Decline and Modern Remodeling
The piece observes that traditional gentlemen and ladies, once bound by strict rules, now face new dangers as opponents carry explosives. It suggests old patterns are being replaced to fit modern times, and the remaining relics are viewed as museum pieces with limited value.
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London
Of Interest To Women from the Census Findings
The article highlights census data on women workers, noting shifts in shareholding, the rise of women in millinery and farm labor, and widespread female employment across 185 occupations. It also mentions unpaid home labor, aging pioneer Antoinette L. Brown Blackwell, and a desk exercise to reduce a double chin.
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Antoinette L. Brown Blackwell
Ober- Hin University
Obertin
Blackwell
Theological School
Mary Dalb
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