Wives of Senators in Washington a Parade of Figures
A Washington letter surveys new U S senators wives highlighting Julius Caesar Burrows of Michigan and Mrs Burrows born Miss Frances Peek as social influencers. It details Mrs Marion Butler, Mrs Carter, Mrs Lucy Day Martin, Mrs Knute Nelson, Mrs Carter again, and others with notes on birthplaces, education, beauty, and domestic roles. It also mentions Mrs Thurston and Mrs Baker, plus a brief ad on gold aluminum collar buttons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hier
Julius Caesar
Burrows
Lenz
Martin
Washington
Julius Caesar Burrows
Llichigan
Congrees
L Nw
Gen. Grant
7. C. Burrows
Florence Falson
Sampson County
North Carolina
Staunton
J. E. B. Stuart
Butler
Republican Party
Thomas H. Carter
Montana
Senator Carter
General Land Onee
Mount Pleasant
Carter
Lucy Day Martin
Miss Day
Old Dominion
Thomas Martin
Smithfield
Isle of Wight County
Norfolk
Virginia
Richmond
Knute Nelson
Minnesota
Norway
Dane County
United States
Senator Nelson
Jacobson
Nelson
Last Winter Coat Gags and Sorrow in A Patchwork Tale
A quirky column blends humor and sobering thrift themes with verses and sketches. It lampoons poverty's sting from discarded wardrobes to mock romance and social mores, interleaving comic dialogue and rural print images with sly wordplay and character snippets.
More Brilliancy Than He Knew
A young suitor with college degree and swagger clubs announces love to a daughter’s father. The talk turns to a brilliant future, then a dramatic fall as he is sent sprawling down marble steps. He limps away whistling a farewell tune amid the bright street lights.
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Sultor
Vision of Venus at the ballroom fades at home
A narrator recalls a night of beauty in a crowded ballroom, praising a striking woman as Venus. By the next day her allure wanes, replaced by a harsh scene as she boasts to her husband, revealing a changed image and sharp comment on a lover’s fate.
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Palmwood Palace
Venus
Texan Representative Miles Crowley Cowboys Valor
Texan Representative Miles Crowley is described as a genuine cowboy who has faced “bad men” in cowboy fashion. Other items note London rumors of an early engagement for the Prince of Wales’s daughter to a British noble, Adams’s world trip and San Francisco voyage, Stalker’s claim that gluttony dominates the age, souvenir cows from the Austrian Empress, Emperor of Austria cigars, Tehing-Tehang’s Catholicism and Li Hung Chang’s influence, Yale’s Sanford English professorship offered to G C T Winchester, a Pittsburg patrol wagon runaway ending on a trolley car, Allegan county poorhouse inmate’s death at 73, and Paris Wheel Pushers’ guild at steep slopes.
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Miles Crowley
Texas
London
Prince of Wales
William T. Adams
Oliver Optic
San Francisco
Dr. Stalker
Glasgow
Austria
Trieste
Tehing-Tehang
Paris
Li Hung Chang
Progressive Reform Party
China
Yale
GC. T. Winchester
Wesleyan University
Sanford
Judge Billings
New Orleans
Pittsburg
Nan
Allegan County
Mich
Wheelpushers’ Guild
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Washington Society
Senator Martin
John
Hugh
Mra. Carter
Bail
Washington State
Thurston
Nebraska
Arlington
Omaha
Baker
Kansas
Q Street
James
Taller of Stories
Cimedy
Ulster
Jimmy
Alphonse
Pierce
Mr. Clinchy
Billy
Clinchy
Johnony Bull
Hood
THE
Aermotor CO
Liz Gomls
Itean
Aera
Rockwell and
Fillmore Streets
Stephens
Labenon
W. L. Douglas
Belleiere Crewl
Douglas
Rension Wes Claim
Penalon
Gilde
Pathiuk U'Famnell
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