Curious notes from Maitland and New York society
A Maitland cow lingers by outdoor fires at night while a drink-loving Freman of the Lehigh Valley line dies after a short illness. Joun Mackay appears as a quiet, studious financier type. Goldsmith’s song is linked to Boswell and Ballamagairy. A petrified human-table from Florence is exhibited in New York. Vanderbilt funds a maternity hospital named Sloane’s Maternity in New York City. Typing improves spelling by the dictate note, and Kentucky to Goelet and Astor marriages highlight society links. A Paris paper-made piano of compressed paper competes with wood, offering a soft, organ-like tone.
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A Freman
Lehigh Valley R Railroad Company
New York
Pitti Palace
Florence
W. H. Vanderbilt
College of Physicians and Surgeons of
New York City
William D. Sloane
Paris
Hawaiian Advertisements Reveal Wide Range of Professions
The daily paper from Hawaii displays a broad spectrum of advertised trades and services. Advertisements list numerous professions with names obscured or garbled, illustrating a lively local economy and diverse occupational presence.
Chinese lessons and local curiosities in old Honolulu
The column discusses Honolulu society with its baseball clubs, circus, roller coaster and a police court, then moves to a medical case of Antonio Baranta, an Italian miner with severe nosebleeds. It also notes a diamond necklace valued at $40,000 and a President audience with West Virginia senators, plus Chinese reform ideas urging coal and iron mining, a stronger military, civil service, and open treaties.
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Honolulu
New England
San Francisco
America
Antonio Baranta
Jackson Gate
California
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Cincinnati
Times
Shen Poa
China
Ts’ai
Queen Victoria's Estates Valued at 51 Million Dollars
The personal estate of Queen Victoria is estimated at 36 million dollars, with lands and estates adding another 15 million, totaling about 51 million in assets. The figures reflect a historic assessment of royal holdings and property.
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Victoria
The Forsaken Farmhouse Haunts a Wooded Hill
A faded verse depicts a forsaken farmhouse amid wasteland. Ghostly remnants linger where harvests once grew, with a scent of lilac and red rose, now bare and overgrown. An empty porch, a crawling spider, and a leaning barn mark the desolate scene beyond husking eyes. Atlantic.
Forbidden Kiss in Moonlit Nook
A youth spying a sleeping maid in a cool secluded spot leans close and kisses her despite her pleas. He admits wrongdoing but claims temptation overcame him. She questions, responsive yet coy, asserting it would have been wrong to take more than a kiss while she slept.
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Kias
The Young Minister and the Simple Wife
Frank Brown, a learned Bath Unitarian pastor, marries Fannie Gray, a simple, loving woman from Dr. Gray’s household. Their quiet home contrasts with social scrutiny as Fannie’s kindness shines during a smallpox scare and a harsh winter, culminating in personal sacrifice and illness.
Angel Fannie Inspires a Heroic Sermon Legacy
In a quiet lakeside parsonage in early June the doctor's darling Angel Fannie dies leaving Frank Brown deeply moved. He remains by her side as she fades, and her death fuels his sermons to new depth, with many saying his face is a benediction as he goes about doing good and carrying hope to the despairing.
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Frank
Mrs. Brown
Rank
Rank Brown
Fanny Gray
Maud
Ethel
Fannie Gray
Fannie
Frank Brown
Harry
Hanna
Sophia Smart
Hamilton
Miss Sophia
J'amie Gray
L Frank
Maude
Dr. Gray
Bath
Dr. Hay
Dr. Hey
Ike
Hannah
Papas
Uncle Ike
Dar
Aunt Hennah
Fanny
Aunt Hannah
Hay
Pers
Angel Fannie
The Colored Sexton and the Heavenly White Robes
A Western Baptist church tale recalls a wealthy member Bascom’s pretentious humility as a colored sexton imagines heaven. He envisions white robes, palm branches, and joyous praise while all sides debate true humility and equality beyond earthly divisions.
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Bascom
Bradders
Angel Gabri
Gabri
Ebermore
Bradder Bascom
Lynn Burdette
Harper's Magazine
The Champion Snorer Tale Across Continents
A Laendon Standard piece recalls a French wife seeking separation over her husband’s snoring, describing similar woes of a Zurich bachelor snorer named Lester. The tale contrasts domestic sleep disturbance with a widely noted, centuries-spanning nuisance and notes the impossibility of marriage for the Swiss man.
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Lester
Switzerland
Snorer
Zurich
Laendon
An Unexpected Explosion at the Lecture
The scene shows Professor Bernstein expounding on life’s hollowness and walking on volcanoes with dramatic rhetoric. Six men and six women react as the crowd grows agitated and a remark about deceitful husbands sparks confusion at a St. Louis Globe-Democrat report.
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Bernstein
Professor B
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
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the Register
NEW Harmony
Ind
Maitland
Florida
Joun W. Mackay
Goldsmith
Miss Hardcastle
R. T. Wilson
Kentucky
Ogden Goelet
Wilsons
Orme Wilson
Astors
Hawaiian Islands
Santa Constitution
Camden
Kenna
West Virginia
Atlantic
Sina
Young Minister
C. E. Raymond
Jefferson Avenue
Unitarian Church
Brown
Mary
Helen
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