London Society Seeks Quiet After Summer’s End
Londoners note the season’s end as Americans depart and aristocracy retreat to Europe. The piece charts private dances giving way to public balls, charity impositions face resistance, and Stafford House remains a hub for philanthropy while Lady Utica Duncombe secures a marriage match.
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W. R. Hearst
London
West End
Europe
England
America
New York
Roxburghes
Floors
Blenheim
Marienbad
Nice
Ward
Lady Cheylesmore
Rupert Beckett
Naylor Leland
Countess of Essex
Frank Avery
Spas
Frank Mackay
Ross Winans
Newhouse
Vanderbilts
United States
Jack Leslie
Duchess of Connaught
Parvenu
Chicago
South Africa
Grosvenor
Dorchester
Chelsea
Bridgewater
Duchesses
Norfolk
Roxburgh
Manchester
Malborough
Rothschild
Stafford ‘House
Duchess of Sutherland
Stafford House
Ice Remix Sparks Porch Water Deal Confusion
A Cleve land Leader quip highlights a bizarre exchange where a resident rejects ice while an ice man jokes about contracting to leave a wet spot on the back porch on warm mornings. The odd dialogue underlines local humor and a quirky city moment.
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Cleveland
The Courtly Misread Love In An Orchard Afternoon
A jealous narrator courts Dolly Tracy amid tennis and misread names. Dolly reveals her real name Jemima Dorothea, and confirms affection after a playful rescue scene. The misunderstanding ends with acceptance of Dorothea as Dolly.
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Obadiah
Obadiah Octavius
Jemima
Dorothy
Dorothea
Theodore
God
Pretty Dolly Tracy
Miss Negle
Ted
Dolly
Mechanism vs Brains Substitutes Found and Patented
An employee at the patent office notes growing mechanical substitutes for brain work across industry. He cites screw-making, ticket printing, coin weighing at the mint, and other devices that imitate intelligence, with machines sorting coins by weight and rejecting imperfect blanks.
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Little
Patent Office
United States
Fame and the paper name mix up in Sioux Falls
The Minneapolis Journal quotes a cynical view of fame defined as having your name misspelled after death in battle. It notes Sioux Falls grasps the idea as Scribner's serial novel The Undercurrent highlights US divorce trends and a heroine moving to a Sioux City divorce colony, stirring local controversy.
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Minneapolis Journal
Sioux Falls
Scribner's Magazine
United States
South Dakota
Sioux City
Picture of a King Serves a Practical Joke
Knicker tells how his wife urged a king picture. Becker asks what happened and Knicker reveals he had the janitor's photograph enlarged and presented as the king to his wife.
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Becker
Too Bad. Her Mother Our Daughter Carrie Is a Puzzle
A fragmented line from a column reflects a playful, perhaps sentimental remark about a daughter named Carrie and observations on family roles. The text hints at a riddle or puzzle context within a personal narrative.
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Carrie
The Last Election in Ancient Pompeii
London readers study Pompeii graffiti on walls as a mock election. Voters, clubs, and candidates debated municipal honors for ediles and dunmyviri. Wealth and property rules limited entrants while votaries of various deities influenced support.
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Pompeii
London Spectator
Joseph Offord
Royal Society of Literature
Pompeiians
Vesuvius
Edileship
Ediles
Temperance
Tammany
West Ham
Chertsey
Collegia
Hetairi
Pilicrepi
Universi Dormientes
Proculus
Sabinus
Attalus
Suellus
England
Jones
V. B
Gavius
Salvation Army Mission in Panama and Social Work Plans
La Estrella de Panama reports Salvation Army Staff Captain el Leno Leib from Jamaica has arrived in the isthmus, commissioned by London headquarters to study the feasibility of launching spiritual and social operations for laborers drawn by the canal. The effort aims to provide cheap food and shelter depots while uplifting the workers’ moral tone.
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Duchess of Somerset
Victoria
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Lloyd Garrison
Marchioness of
Dufferit
Rose
Headfort
Countess of Jersey
Countess of Warwick
Duchess of Portland
Leopold de Rothschild
Lady Duncombe
Utica Duncombe
Lord Curzon
Utica
Viceregal Palace
Curzon
Lord Revelstroke
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Lady Yarmouth
Alice Thaw
Pittsbuug
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Switzerland
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Mr. Kruger
Louis Botha
Kruger
Lord Milner
Mary
Wales
Lady Cadogan
Dublin
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Ireland
Lord Spencer
Cadogan
Lady Bateman
Lord
H. C. Knapp
Fountainebleau
Paris
Bateman
Herefordshire
Lord Bateman
Mrs. Knapp
St. George's
Hanover Square
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Craigie
Wight
Saunderson
Neville
Miss Tracy
Sanderson
Arthur Saunderson
George
Salvationists
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Mrs. Spenders
Mr. Spenders
Philadelphia Press
Valparaiso
Bombay
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