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Oddities and gossip from an old paper column
A collage of lighthearted items and rumors from a historic page. Notes include a thunderstorm fatality, Paris electric lights, Bowles and the Republicans, Kellogg dining habits, Rhode Island heads and gunshots, beauty contest wives, silk care tips, a Dubuque wedding gift, General Butler remarks, a New York satire line, remonetization debates, Salt Lake City marriages, Noah’s ark joke, Ben Holliday misfortunes, and nobility marriages with a cautionary will.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward King
Boston Journal
Paris
Worcester Pres
Bowles
Dorsey
Arkansas
Ohio
Conover
New Jersey
Dubuque
New York Herald
New York Mail
Salt Lake City
John” Thay
Hamburg Butler
Scallaway Patterson
Noah
Burlington
Ben Holliday
Oregon
Countess Pourtales Gorgier
Polly” Holladay
Baroness de Bussiere
Countess Pourtales
New York
Europe