Goelet family fortunes and foreclosures in New York
The Goelet brothers, leading New York real estate owners, lease land at five percent income and financed many developments. During hard times their forward purchases and foreclosures rose, with the Windsor Hotel sale illustrating mortgage pressure and rising bids by a Goelet heir before the property passed to another beneficiary.
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Broadway
Union Square
Fifth Avenue Hotel
Nineteenth Street
Peter Goelet
New York
Astor
Robert
Pope
Peter
Goeleta
Gvelota
Windsor Hotel
John T. Daly
Goelets
A Daughter Devotion Ends in Insane Asylum
From West Waterford comes the tale of Jane Ann Bartle a twenty year old daughter who cared for an infirm father until melancholia and a suicidal tendency led to her being sent to the Utica Asylum by order of poor authorities. The burden of her family duty and heavy labor at Harmony mills in Cohoes preceded the breakdown.
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West Waterford
Jane Ann Bartle
Harmony Mills
Cohoes
Dra
Earls
Dunlap
Ashe
Utica
Publis
Ebatity
Itvon
The Greatest Blessing of Hop Bitters Cure Claim
A promotional notice touts Hop Bitters as a universal remedy keeping blood pure and organs active, claiming cures and prevention of disease and urging readers to try it, with readers invited to see another column for details.
Marvels of Railroad Building In the Desert Frontier
The San Francisco Argonaut describes the Los Angeles to Yapon route as 248 miles and Arizona 160 miles away, with the line within 36 miles of Mari copa Wells. Two and a quarter miles were laid in one day as 2000 men work in a disciplined, army like caravan advancing ten miles weekly. The desert camp hums with engines, rails, ties, and water shortages, while irom rails forge a vast future commerce.
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Los Angeles
Yapon
Peericopa
Arizona
Maricopa Wells
Sisson, Wallace & Co
Naa
Seth Green
Tenta
Strowbridge
San Francisco
Butler the Worke and His Remarkable Diligence
A Boston Herald item praises General Butler’s relentless work ethic and sharpoffice methods. He outworks staff, dictates with his shorthand secretary, and values time. missteps are corrected with strict discipline. The piece contrasts his vigor with social chatter and ends with a light note on barbers and a New York lady’s opulent boudoir scene.
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Cnres
Major
Boston Herald
Society devices to maximize social gatherings
Observers note methods to squeeze many guests into a single event. Cards invite 400 or more from three to nine, with guests arriving in shifts. Afternoon visitors enliven the crowd, and dinner guests extend the affair, allowing hosts to greet many individuals and fit a large party into a modest house.
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Cor
Syracuss Journal
Comic Writers Abroad Highlight English Views on Twain And Ward
London Party News notes two standout traits in American comic writers like Twain and Ward: rusticity and puritanism. It admires their blunt Bible language and free, unselfconscious satire while criticizing social flunkeyism in other American humor.
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Mark Twain
Artemus Ward
London Party News
Fabious
Amusin
Johnsons Great Western Run Works Advertisement Endorsement
Pittsburgh agent endorses Mr Johnson as honest and leading dealer in the United States. Send stamp for large illustrated catalog and goods.
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Pittsburgh
Johnson
United
Pension claims urged for wounded soldiers under new law
The firm announces under the new pension law wounded or injured soldiers can obtain pensions from day of discharge. C. Beringer & Co in Pittsburgh invites direct inquiries and requests stamps for the circular. Oldest claim agency in the United States.
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Washington
Oer Pew Satlor
C. Beringer, & CO
Pittsburgh
United States
Beardless to Brown: New Hair Dye Ad by Wall & Co
An advertisement touts an elegant preparation for changing beard color from gray to brown or black at discretion. It claims easy single-application use, fast, permanent color that does not wash out or rub off. Manufactured by R. P. Wall & Co. Nashua New Hampshire.
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Ous
A. A. Hayes
Massachusetts
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