Washington Gossip Sparks Society and Politics
In Washington April reports note Roosevelt’s warmth toward writers and fighters, including Hamlin Garland, with socialites hosting a grand charity ball for the Home for Incurables. Dr Talmage’s daughter Maud's wedding shifts to a home ceremony as illness looms, while Miss Alice Hay's engagement to James W Wadsworth Jr is announced alongside a high society scene of wealth and diplomacy.
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Corrected Self Claims Long Interest in Woman Suffrage
A tongue in cheek exchange quotes Miss Passay stating early interest in the women's suffrage movement, and Miss Sharp correcting her, noting the movement began about fifty years ago and prompting a playful self-correcting remark about infancy.
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Miss Sharp
Ode Fragment Featuring Hall and Puck
A fragment from an Shakespearean or rustic ode describes joyous spring. The dialogue mentions hall and geddle sprig with appeals to Avaunt winter and celebrate the season. The speaker invokes Puck in a playful, mythic exchange.
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Puck
Spring athletic fashions captivate New York women
The Journal's Weekly Fashion Letters notes spring outfits for athletic women featuring Oxford and Norfolk jackets, brown striped fabrics, trimmed dresses, and Gibson shirt waists. It highlights hat shapes, belts, and low shoes, plus silk and black gowns with draped effects and new jewelry trends.
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Hat fashion quips in a spring bonnet tale
In a witty Baltimore American item a man laments a hat that won’t fit while a milliner jokes that hats fit the head but men feel the sting when the bill arrives. The exchange riffs on gendered headwear and spring purchases with playful humor.
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Baltimore American
Not Synonymous. City Editor Clash Over Phrase Usage
A debate between editors centers on whether puffing and blowing are synonymous. The City Editor argues both suggest breath and exertion, while the Reporter claims a vast difference, noting puffing up versus blowing up alters meaning entirely.
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Catholic Standard and Times
New York Fares, Faith, and Frontiers In City Rumor
The article reports New Yorkers dispersing to country seats and Europe for summer, pilgrims planning to Rome for Pope Leo’s Jubilee aboard North America and Hohenzollern ships, while political chatter centers on Platt’s GOP outlook, Odell’s renomination, and Dem hopes for a statewide shift. It notes large city spending, new Penn Station plans, criticism of a Passion Play, Wall Street nationalization trends, and Roosevelt’s racecourse visit hint.
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