Grandson of Napoleon Returns to St Louis During World’s Fair
A Lucas, a descendant of Napoleon, Comte Fernan Leon, son of Comte Charles Leon and Louise Delaplaigne, resides in the old O Fallon mansion at 2818 Pine Street with his wife during the world’s fair. He claims descent as Napoleon’s first son through Eleonore Delaplaigne and notes potential for a Louisiana throne. Comte Leon, born 1806, lived in France, faced adoption rumors, and pursued a boisterous life after Napoleonic era.
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St. Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon
Josephine
Comte Fernan Leon
Comte Charles Leon
Mille
Louise Catharine Leonore Delaplaigne
Caroline Murat
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O'Fallon
Pine Street
United States
Comte Leon
Comte
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Bonaparte
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Murat
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Poltusk
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Rue de la Victoire
Paris
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Hhe
Rue de Provence
Hotel du Gouvernement
Prince Murat
Poland
Miniher
Wleonore
Lontainebleau
Gleonore
Revel
Phillippe Augierre
Charles Auguste
Luxboug
Ice's Hidden Weight in the Meat Packers Economy
National Provisioner argues ice demand dwarfs public perception as packers rely on 3,000,000 tons of ice and 200,000 tons used in Omaha yearly. Meat plants require large icing stations and cold storage, expanding the impact of cold snaps on the industry and consumer sanitation.
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Omaha
Decline and fall of the trust king Morgan
New York assesses the collapse of John Pierpont Morgan and the downfall of Charles M Schwab as a watershed in American finance. The piece weighs Rockefeller’s role, Morgan’s reliance on others money, and the Shipbuilding scandal impact on Morgan’s prestige and future access to capital.
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New York
John Pierpont Morgan
Charles M. Schwab
John PD. Rockefeller
Morgan and Schwab
Hard Times in New York Theatres Signal Slump
The article notes 3000 actors unemployed and 800 companies disbanded for the season in New York. It cites Harper's Weekly by W. W. Harrison detailing poor theater mood as Shakespeare and popular comedies struggle. A night at A Midsummer Night's Dream with Nat Goodwin earned as little as seven dollars.
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New York
W. W. Harrison
Harper's Weekly
Shakespeare
Nat Goodwin
Romance of the Tyrol and a Hungarian Count Weds
Wealthy Young Count Gyulai’s Tyrol romance ends in marriage to Vienna shoemaker’s daughter Elizabeth Kolazia. The couple wed in the city after a three year courtship, amidst family opposition from the count’s sisters.
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Tyrol
Stephen Gyulai
Hungary
Mies Elizabeth Kolazia
Vienna
Burgtheater
Kolazia
Gyulai
Lombardy
Good and Bad Memories in The Power of Memory
A discussion on memory argues that memory is uniformly strong or weak across all subjects, and that people remember what interests them. It cites Horace Walpole and Scott to illustrate selective recall driven by interest, not separate faculties, and recalls a light verse reminiscence about an early memory.
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Mr. Rockefeller
Mr. Morgan
Rockefeller
Cleveland
Morgan
Finance
No. 26
Broadway
Europe
Rothschilds
Czar
Russia
United States
W. T. Stead
England
Pierpont Morgan
Horace Walpole
Macauley
Ethelwala
Anne of
Dugald Stewart
Fred Locker
Ann
Paraguay Tea Promising Stimulus for Workers
London Chronicle reports Paraguay tea as a harmless beverage popular among workers in Paraguay and Argentina. Drunk hot or with milk, it travels in a metal tube and aids long shifts, night work, and study with no known ill effects, offering a possible alternative to patent medicines or cocaine.
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London Chronicle
Paraguay
Journal of Tropical Medicine
Argentine Republic
A New Yorker’s View from McClure’s January
In January issue Myra Kelly quotes a classroom exchange where a teacher asks if anyone knows about the country. Eva Gonorowsky responds she has not visited, yet claims to be healthy and aware of the Fresh Air Fund. Miss Bailey presses for details, but Eva’s pride prevails.
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Myra Kelly
McClure
Eva Gonorowsky
Fresh Air Fund
Miss Bailey
Eva
Ma’‘An
No clear headline in wise burgher dialogue excerpt
The text presents a quip involving a burglar appealing for a trial delay and a judge rebuking him, followed by a punchline about peat bogs in Ireland potentially yielding 100000 electric horsepower for 1250 years. It blends a courtroom joke with a stately claim about peat energy potential.
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Ireland
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