Mexican Streets and Parks Describe City Life and Legends
A correspondent in Mexico City paints a vivid portrait of the Iturbide area and surrounding parks. He notes indigo scarfs worn by women, abundant greenery, stone benches, and markets with cheap fares. The piece recalls chapultepec views, Montezuma’s legacy, and relics in the museum while reflecting on the impact of Spanish conquest.
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Mexico
Fifth Avenue
Broadway
New York
Lazzaroni
Tropics
States
Montezuma
Chapultepec
City of
Alameda Park
Popocatapet
Maximilian
Miramar
Lone Lorn Women Strike City Life Hard for Singles
Special Correspondence notes New York as a tough arena for working and nonworking women. High costs, social scrutiny, and crowded lodging shape harsh realities for widows, spinsters, and claimants of income. The piece highlights loneliness, limited opportunities, and the lure of society amid urban pressures.
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New York
Europe
Delmonico’s
Cupid
Boston
Boston Miscellany From Prentice Mulford Letters
A Boston correspondent surveys local life including Tremont Temple Sunday school crowds, transit delays on Tremont and Washington streets, rising single women, an enterprising Boston Conservatory of Music scene, and a satirical note on cloisonne process plus travel notes from Mexico and a Gen Hancock anecdote about riding the line at Gettysburg.
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Boston
Tremont Street
Washington Street
Massachusetts
Boston Conservatory of Music
St. James Hotel
Ann
Hancock
George M. Curtis
Gen. Hancock
Gettysburg
Longstreet
Massena
Wagram
Croffut
Kansas City Journal
Chateau of Chenonceaux Becomes Home to French Leader's Son-in-Law
The Chenonceaux chateau in France houses M. Daniel Wilson, son-in-law of President Grevy. The interior features tiny beveled mirrors with gold trim and metal teardrop accents. A solid silver bath uses swans heads for water, aided by a mirror to reflect swan imagery. An ante-room offers cigars after the bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chenonceaux
France
M. Daniel Wilson
Grevy
Dr Brown Sequard on Muscles After Death
The article cites Dr. Brown Sequard’s claim that after death muscles show slow contractions and elongations during rigor mortis, suggesting muscles retain vital powers in a chemical state preceding final death. It also notes Berlin’s crowded tenement at Ackerstrasse and critiques Dr. Koch’s discovery failing to lower consumption death rates.
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Japan
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Brown Sequard
Arkansaw
Ackerstrasse
Berlin
Dr. Koch
Felix G. Oswald
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M. H. Dran
Boston Chips
Prentice Mulford
el Pilas
Fannie B. Ward
Plymouth Rock
Langshans
Brass Back
Jersey Blues Chihuahua Pekin Ducks
Newfoundland
West
Noah Thurman
Colorado Springs
Colo
Cinches
Main Street
Greeley, Colorado
SPURS
E. Hart
A. M.nixon
S. G. Fuller
A.igo
H. C. Watson & Co
Union Bank
A. Tco
M. Rath
Riverside Marble Works
Blake Streets
Denver, Colo
M. Rauh
Sryson & Co
Portland
Maine
Hayden &Ickinson
Lawrence Street
Denver
Randly
Haturi 300K Co
Weld County
A Greeley Merchant SA
W. R. McCrenny
Longmont, Colo
Colorado
J. A. Cammett
Breckenridge
W.T. McConnell
White Pine
Thomas Kennedy
Leadville
A. W. Jones
Rio Grande
Salida
Frank Hall
Chamber of Commerce
Glines
Union Pacific Railroad
Wyoming
New Mexico
Horne
Vr. Horne
O.D
Express
C. K. Williams
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