Langtry and Langtry Servants Tale Becomes Household Jest
A circulating tale in New York recounts Mrs Langtry firing and rehiring her butler Gebhard and another servant, amid a chain of pique and mischief. The anecdote involves a china set broken in clashes and a vengeful reengagement of staff at Langtry's request.
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Edward Gig Ore
Niblo’s den
Wyre Fells
Fola
Fred Geb
Andrs. Langtry
Gebard
Eliow
Twenty-seventh Street
Broadway
New York
Gilmore
Langtry
Leigh Lynch
Lynch
Secrets of the Claque Dominate Vienna Opera Scene
The Vienna Fremdenblatt exposes the claque system where 15 court opera ladies, 18 male singers, and 10 ballet principals pay a “chief of the claque” a cut of monthly receipts. The chief's income exceeds 800 gulden monthly, with estate purchases hinting at vast profits, while reform calls for artists to refuse payments to extortionist organizers.
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Vienna Fremdenblatt
Opera
Ballet
Court Opera
Fremdenblatt
Hungary
Vienna
Boucicault and Neilson Recollections Remembered in Theaters
Anecdotes recount Boucicault’s Irish priest scene in Shaughraun causing Dublin uproar and the New Orleans contrast. Eben Plympton praises Adelaide Neilson’s magnetism, Juliet nights, and stated career arc from hardship in England to fame in America. Neilson is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.
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Boucicault
Standard Theater
Dublin
America
Eben Plympton
St. Louis
Adelaide Neilson
Irving
Fechter
Juliet
Julia
Rosalind
Isabella
England
Brompton Cemetery
London
Memoirs of Jefferson Read in Philadelphia Audience
A friend reports Jefferson’s memoirs, still in manuscript, were read in Philadelphia. The speaker praises the writing as charming as his talking. The work begins with boyhood at the theater and ends before contemporary events, featuring anecdotes about Forrest McCready the elder Booth and Burton and a new Lincoln story.
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Joe Jefferson
Philadelphia
Jefferson
Forrest
McCready
Booth
Burton
Lincoln
Australia
New London Favorite Violet Vanbrugh At Toole’s London
Violet Vanbrugh, tall and handsome new Toole’s London member, draws wealthy crowds and raises marriages and rivalries. Mothers with marriageable daughters note her beauty and prowess while Toole’s profits soar amid flirtations and scheming women. The article portrays her as a stage syren influencing theater attendance and social intrigue.
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Violet Vanbrugh
Toole
London
Ellen Terry
Toole’s
Syren
Living in the Truth and Cheerful Home
A Zion's Herald piece argues a true preacher inspires with fresh truth and heartfelt spirit rather than hollow platitudes. It contrasts a sunny home life guided by grace with a troubled, quarrelsome household and how early life shapes a person’s impact on others.
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Zion
John Foster
Sunny Side of Life Wins Warmth and Hope in Winter
A reflective piece urges choosing the sunny side of life to find happiness and gratitude. It argues discontent drains joy, counsels living with Christ within, and notes warmth, safety, and moral virtue can thrive regardless of place or status.
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Christ
Fanny Davenport
Brooklyn Magazine
Stage Scents and Local Gags Dominate Pageant News
Staycotes fur thinner the hair on a man's head grows the nearer he sits to the foot lights. A poor show in this world says the dime museum manager who never changes attractions. J. B. Pork leads marching success through the South amid rising demand for wet goods and the local comedian’s Mixed Pickles. Polk enjoys his best season yet, reportedly cashing in quickly.
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Kentucky State Journal
Dime Museum
Boston Courier
J. B. Pork
South
Polk
Uncle Abes Views on a Peculiar Col or
A narrative from the Century about Uncle Abe, a Black man educated in slavery days, debating morality with his son Jacob. It traces notions of property, rights, and theft through dialogue on peaches, meat, and fruit, highlighting humor and coded social critique of emancipation era attitudes.
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Abe
Jacob
Chile
Buddie Jim
Mr. Thompson
Uncle Abe
A Nervous Engineer and a Debt Chronicle
News blurb recounts an 1880s railroading tale of a nervous engineer racing to deliver President Taylor's message to Boston and the dangers of obsession. It also surveys global public debts from France Germany Britain Italy Spain Russia and the United States with stark per capita figures.
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France
Germany
Prussia
Great Britain
British Isles
Italy
Spain
Turkey
Russia
Europe
Asia
United States
Remedies for sleeplessness and patience under night woes
The text reviews various ad hoc measures for insomnia from lighting and bedding to mind techniques and self discipline. It dismisses many quick fixes as futile, cites Wordsworth and Coleridgean images, and concludes that, apart from patience, there is no sure remedy for sleeplessness. It also includes a comic aside about a jail and an elevator boy in a unrelated column fragment.
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Wordsworth
Miecenas
Failutres
Charles Dickens
Asa
Cloughis
Nesta
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Ure
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California
Salem
Mass
Dolly
Lance
New York Star
Taylor
Boston
New Haven
Harlem
Firth
Chicago Mail
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Pleiades
Taunus
Maedler
Alcyone
Taurus
Sir John Herschel
Milky Way
Amertca
Baltimore
al S. Abell
Providence
R. L
A. H. Simmons
W. M. Swain
Public Ledger
George W. Childs
Ledger
Sun
Abell
Swain
Simmons
Washington
Vera Cruz
the Sun
Guilford
Maryland
New York Commercial Advertiser
Door
Criminal Court
Craig Swabbins
Kentucky
Jenks
Harper
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