Diamonds and gems past and present in studio chat
A Lon don jeweler Mr Streeter retires recalling 1846 starts, Cape and Brazilian diamond trends, platinum settings, and cautions on gold mounts. He notes emeralds soar, cat's eye fades, Alexanderite, pearls, sapphires rise, and a $25,000 diamond theft. The piece blends reminiscence with quotes on memory and forgetting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Streeter
London
A Streeter
South Africa
Cape
Amsterdam
Brazil
India
Russia
Burmah
Second Love in Literature and Life as Famed Truth
The essay asserts that second love often surpasses first in depth and patience. It cites Dickens, Thackeray, George Elliott, and Adam Bede to illustrate how second attachments gain maturity, rational affection, and lasting devotion, while first loves commonly fade or mislead.
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Dickens
David Copperfield
Dora Spenlow
Thackeray
Lady Castlewood
Amelia Osbourne
Dobbin
George Osborne
Shakespeare
George Elliot
Adam Bedes
Hettie
Dinah
Need of Home Missionaries in Sorrowful Times
The article laments Siberian exile tales and reports Bay City Michigan truant officer finding a sick husband and child, no fuel, and children kept in bed for warmth. Temporary relief left at the home. It urges domestic aid amid Cold War era misery and mentions Greenland and Greenland’s icy mountains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay City
Mich
Greenland
Freeland
Fashions for Dogs Reach Paris Runway News
A foreign dispatch notes Parisian dog fashion expanding with novelties. Designers display colored cambric night shirts rubber shoes and bath gowns. Accessories include straw hats wicker sofas cushions garlands nail files ear picks powder boxes and vaporizers. A white hairy cloth over coat with mohair trim red velvet collar and handkerchief pocket is showcased at Palais Royal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palais Royal
Is love a disease question debated by Lancet and artists
The piece notes London's papers debating love as a disease with Lancet citing antiquity from Galen to Lartsius and painters in the Dutch Flemish tradition showing love sickness as a theme. It then recounts Sadie Hilbert of Bellaire suing for return of items after a quarrel with Joe Burns leading to a writ of replevin and retrieving her teeth hat and shoes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothea Brooke
London
Lancet
Medical Weekly
Galen
Larstius
Ladis
Sadie Hilbert
Bellaire
Ohio
Joe Burns
Sadie
Timber Land
United States Land Office
Waterville
Wash
Congress
California
Oregon
Nevada
Washington ‘Territory
Elizabeth M. Sherman
Wenatchee
Chelan
W. M
Willl
Henry Cross
U. S
Wenatehee
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Kyle
Wenatchee, Wash
E. F. Sprague
E. C. Graham
Undertakers
Flora E, Chase
E. PF. Sprague
E. Graham
A. Graham
E. F. Sprague Co
Washington
Iburke & CO
Leavenworth
S. C. Waldenberg
Adams
Merchants Fire Association
Seattle
John B. Adams
Frank
Overland Restaurant
Front Street
J. E. Shore
Leavenworth, Wash
Great Northern
Minneapolis
Duluth
Chicago
St. Louis
Ball Poin
St Paul
P. M. Long
S.G. Yerkes
First Avenue
Wilbur Walker Wm Bullock
The
ECHO
United States Land Ofice
J. K Shore
John Curstens
Harry E Curr
Jacobsen
Roslin Rideout
M. B. Malloy
Register
Seth L. Morris
John Davis
James I
Tyson
Louis J. Hauck
Frank Bush
Chiwaukum
B. Malloy
J. K. Shore
United States
George W. Hoxsey
Frank Shell
M. J. Delton
John Campbell
Lawas
M. Ts Malloy
Cimberland United States Land Office
Edward T. Sherman
Caelan
Eens
Wen
J. W. Southard
Frank Shibley
Wenatohne
Charley
Petrel Davis
John Bergman
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Spain
J. &. Shore
ALLOY
National
Dearborn St
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