Pearls Rise While Diamonds Fade Across Europe
Diamond fashion shifts as moral taste, counterfeiting, and artful restraint curb display. Pearls gain appeal with simpler, elegant designs. Tiffany’s reports steady repairs and family jewel work while the American demand trends toward English styling and pearl pieces costing tens of thousands.
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I the Pelt Bleu
Tiffany's
England
Rotary snowplows tame winter blockades in the West
A Chicago to Deadwood journey recalls how rotary snowplows at Alliance Nebraska and Sheridan Wyoming transform rail travel. After a decade of near perfection they surge ahead of old plows, piercing through solid snow as a hot augur through wood, keeping trains moving despite blizzards.
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Chicago
Deadwood
Alliance
Neb
Sheridan
Wya
Iowa
Nebraska
Early History of Glasgow the Tobacco Trade and Growth
An overview of Glasgow origins from St Mungo’s founding to its rise as a tobacco trade hub after the union, detailing the tobacco lords, merchant princes, and transformation of the Clyde from a stagnant ditch to a deep navigable waterway enabling shipbuilding and broader global commerce.
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Glasgow
Kentigern
St. Mungo
Scotland
England
Virginia
Maryland
Venice
United States Republic
Glangow
West Indies
Iran
India
China
South America
United States
Australia
New Zealand
Clyde
Woes of the Candidate and a Noted Debate on Reputation
A Philadelphia Edger item recounts a would be congress candidate from an upstate county who faced advice against running. He pursued the race, lost badly, and confronted critics who labeled him dishonest. The adviser quips that the public would darken his name, leading to a tense exchange about reputation and perception.
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Rt’ Ing
Democrats
Weill
Philadelphis Edger
Charles Lever Rollicking Irish Figures From Connaught Rangers
Prof. Oman argues in Der preface that Charles Lever drew many lively characters from Grattan s reminiscences of the Connaught Rangers Peninsular days. He cites Maurice Quill Dr O Relly Micky Free and Dan Carpons as prototypes for Lever s fictional figures.
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Charles Lever
Oman
William Grattan
Connaught Rangers
Charles O'Malley
Grattan
Maurice Quill
Dr. O'Relly
Micky Free
Dan Carpons
Mr. Oman
Lewer
The Power of Music in Ancient Pan Legend
Fragment of a poem recalling Pan and Orpheus with pipes and lyre. Describes faded echoes of ancient melodies and the enduring charm of music through time, referencing goat-footed Pan and mythic river shores, though the vivid musical past has vanished.
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Pan
Pandoth Mevermore
Jong Midsummer
Musle
The Ruling Habit in Chicago Justice Tale
Senator Mason of Illinois shares a Chicago anecdote about a police justice who was once a bartender. Mary Mulcahy faces a drunkenness charge, pleads that the copper claimed she was drunk, and insists she does not drink. The judge halves the mishmash with an offhand cue, offering Mary a cigar.
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Mason
Illinois
Chicago
Mary Mulcahy
Mary
Junilee
Mirrors of Platinum and Other Metals Made by Kathode Rays
Scientists report mirrors of platinum palladium iron nickel cobalt and copper prepared by protecting metallic particles with kathode rays, a discovery noted as a novel method for reflecting surfaces.
Wall Street's Small Traders and Street Vendors
The piece profiles modest Wall Street merchants and female flower sellers who sustain themselves on sidewalk traffic. It highlights their resilience, varied wares from newspapers to gimcracks, and the human toll of office life, noting the elderly paper seller, flower vendor, garter man, and pencil hawker among others as fixtures of the street economy. It also mentions Italian fruit vendors and their daily gambits against market panics.
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Wall Street
Bradstreet’s
Trinity
New World Money Mart
Elie
Millons
Sella
Pancila
New York
Elne
Ganan
Messenger Boys
Bowery
Trinity Ae
Bishop Opposes Prohibition Letter From Galloway
Bishop Charles B. Galloway of the Methodist church writes against statutory prohibition. He condemns the movement as harmful and says local option by counties is preferable. His large following suggests the measure would be defeated.
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Charles B. Galloway
Missionippi