Notorious padrone system and the Mulberry Bend drift
Special correspondence reports on Italian immigrants in New York, focusing on Mulberry Bend where 12,000 to 18,000 Italians live amid filth and disease. The piece details living conditions, diet, employment, and the Mafia, with claims of corruption and criminal networks affecting the community and crime trials.
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Padrone
New York
Mulberry Bend
Worth Street
Bayard
Board of Health
Williams
Blackwell’s Island
Capt. McLoughlin
California
United States Secret Service
New York Police
Mafia
Drummond
FaLes-Curtis
President of Honduras portrait and prospects in New Orleans
Special Correspondent profiles Louis Bogran president of Honduras elected in 1883 and 1887. The article notes trade beginnings with England and Germany, growing North American involvement, and potential riches in indigo hides coffee mahogany and mineral wealth. Ports Omoa Puerto Cortez Trujillo Amapala on Tiger Island.
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New Orleans
Louis Bogran
Republic of Honduras
Bogran
Soto
Honduras
South American
North America
Pacific Ocean
Omoa
Puerto Cortez
Trujillo
Amapala
Tiger Island
Tegucigalpa
The Genuine Yankee Type in Immigration Debate
Opinion on immigration from Italy and Poland contrasted with the view of a “watered” life blood of the nation. The essay reflects on Boston scenes in Faneuil Hall and State House portraits, noting a perceptible but minority Yankee core amid rising immigrant presence.
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Italy
Poland
Mississippi River
Curtis
Boston
Faneuil Hall
Old State House
Tremont
Washington
New England
C. R. Henderson
Detroit
Frea Press
Spaniards guard girls with strict family chaperonage
Edgar L. Wakeman notes Spanish norms that shield women with vigilant family oversight. In schools, social events, and outings, a daughter rarely goes out alone, always accompanied by relatives. Lovers are open and formal, with engagements arranged through family approval, reflecting dignity and communal control.
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Nina
Calle Ancha del Norte
Calzade de la Reina
Prado
Edgar L. Wakeman
Etiquette and Gentlemenship Across Social Ranks
The piece argues minor manners define a gentleman including restraint at meals and dress, noting etiquette is not stiffness. It cites rising American society where a waiter can become president, and that good manners can exist even in servitude, with a reference to M. E. W Sherwood’s Philadelphia Times quotation about Uncle Tom as a gentleman.
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United States
Tom
M. E. W Sherwood
Philadelphia Times
Aborigines in California Seen as Unfit Neighbors
John 8 Hittell argues in Overland Monthly that after 119 years in California there are no first rate farmers or skilled workers of pure aboriginal blood. He cites perceived social failures, theft near camps, and cycles of dissipation, contrasting with white settlers who built wealth through labor and thrift.
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California
John 8
Hittell
Overland Monthly
Waiter Confuses Spring Wine With 1974 Vintage Chicken
In a New York Sun item, a customer accuses a waiter of a silly error in a restaurant. The waiter asks to verify and then corrects the mix up, noting the incorrect pairing of a spring wine with a 1974 vintage chicken.
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New York Sun
Different Salutes Across Continents From Gates Of Etiquette
An observer notes how greetings vary by nation as people bow hat lifts kiss embraces or salute with a touch of the nose. The piece surveys Malay, Chinese, Japanese and Moorish customs along with German Dutch French Belgian and Egyptian practices.
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Spain
Germany
New Zealand
India
Gold Coast
Belgium
London Globe
Getting Ahead of Hotel Men and the Watch Scam
A Globe Democrat Advance Agent recounts hotel men bled by showmen using fake sentimental watches. A traveling circus man carried cheap ready made watches with moving inscriptions and cried to landlords to reclaim debts. The “From Mother to Willie” and similar pleas spurred tears, but few watches were redeemed.
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Willie
Globe-Democrat
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