Massive Boston Exhibition Tests Hurdy Gurdies and Organs
Our Boston letter highlights a grand exhibition of hurdy gurdies and hand organs tested by a music commission in a North End scene. It notes laws, subway revenue, temperance costs, and civic issues from the Blizzard storm, wrecks, and City of Portland disaster, to theater plans and local humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hmardy
Music Commission
Loston
City of
Portland
Maine City
Portland Alnost
Blanchard
Origes
Dail Care
North End
North End, Or ‘Little Italy
New England
Boston
Vicinity
Cavalleria Rusticana
Georgia
Ihember
Elevated
Poston
Suffolk County
Chelsea
Revere
Winthrop
Marshall
Deerisland
South Boston House of Correction
Wakalona Princess of the Platte and the Lost Loves
An unnamed narrator recalls Wakalona, a Pawnee princess known as Walk-alone, and her romance with Slide McAlaster aboard a railroad line near North Platte. After Sioux abductors seize her, Red Fox declares her dead to his people yet she wanders the prairie alive, torn between love and fate, amid Civil War era frontier life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yellow River
Leadville
Pueblo
Terre Caliante
North Platte
Slide McAlaster
Wakalona
Cody
Pawnees
Ogallala
Buffalo Bill
Sions
Red Fox
Slide
the Platte
McAlaster
Jim
Platte
Slide Ana
Wakulona
Put
Winter Rent Deals In First Class Tenements
Local notices advertise vacant tenements for winter rent at remarkably low prices. Offers include a four and a half dollar per month unit and a five room unit at six fifty, urging value by reduced rent and inviting inspections. The message is from T. H. Elliott at 64 Central Street. Also pitched are medical ads for Dr Wood's Norway Pine Syrup and Hood's Pills as household remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Jefferson
Boston
Rip van Winkle
Knickerbocker Theater
New York City
Jaygee
New England Comic Opera Company
Grand Opera House
Isle of Champagne
Boccaccio
Fra Diavolo
Said Pasha
Perichole
Milton Aborn
Ida Mulle
J. Aldrich Libby
Frank Deshon
Rogers Brothers
Museum
Joseph Murphy
Columbia Theater
Kerry Gow
Shaun Khue
John Drew
Hollis Street
Edwin Mordant
Bowdoin
East Lynne
Pau Gilmore
Bondsie Eer
T. H. Elliott
Central Street
Dr. Wood
H. E.ott
Lowell
New Hampshire
Wentford -Treet
Whitewood
Ind
Pa «Tuck Etvie
Belvidere
Stralville
Pine Street
Wilder Street
Hichlands
Orice
Mourning Attire Styles in Early 20th Century Fashions
A study of somber fashion highlights mourning outfits emphasizing subtle elegance over flash. It notes the princess gown as ideal for mourning, plus a young girl's cape in dull black with a valois collar, crape trim, and simple buttons.
Fashionable mourning gowns and wedding reception attire
The article discusses evolving mourning fashion with crape trimming and flat facings, noting yearly shifts in form. It showcases a typical ensemble for a reception or fashionable wedding featuring ivy green faille, ivory silk tunic with black lace, green velvet accents, and a green velvet hat with ivory plumes.
A Hint Maud and Mabel Recall Noisy Night
Maud asks about a terrible noise heard around 12 o clock last night while Mabel recalls Papa giving Charlie a hint to go. The snippet from London Fun captures a playful exchange with neighbors worried about a disturbance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maud
Mabel
Papa
Charlie
London
Also Mentioned on This Page
OUR
Public Garden
Union Station
Park Street Loop
Esc
Jim Wheatleigh
Puck
Hood
Appares
Varnum Avenue
Stevens Street
Bridge Street
Queen Street
Steck Street
Cushing
H. Podge
Amos B. French
Grand Army Hall
Greenwood
Leighton Bros
Sor Satz
Ejyls Ly
Warwick Street
Highlands
Charles Griffin
Southwalker Street
Meall Ts
Thomas F. Burgess
So. Hastings, Shaw, Burgess, Grace, Spaulding and
E Streets
M. L. Hamblet
Nis
M. H
Citizen Office
Jersey
Lowell Weekly Journal
U. S. N. Marine
Billings, King & Co
Pearl Street
New York
Entir
Ripans Chemical Co
N. Y
ejylSiy
History of
Morocco
Courier- Citizen Office
Conte
J. T. Rhodes & Sons
Good Grey
Arthur Rhodes
Merrimack Street
vrier-Citizen Building
Worthley’s
Y & Pearson
Solicitors of Patents
Miss A
Ww. Brown
Welloe
Middlesex Street
F. B. Russell
Billerica
Billerica Centre
H. A. King
BNO
Moody Street
Race Street
Chelmsford
Grand Streets
Ee. Dodge
Heal Estate and Fire Insurance
Central St
Sewall G. Mack
Jacob Rogers
Lawel E. Raymond
Levi Sprague
Alexander G.cumnock
George S. Motley
Edward M. Tucke
James Francis
Offich
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