Forgotten You Is It Lie in Lady Brereton’s Boudoir
In Green Street, Lady Brereton and Mrs. Crosbie discuss Capt. Valence's return from India and a past romance. He returns older, with a renewed claim on her, and after a shaky courtship, publicly declares his love and asks for her hand as the curtain falls on a dramatic social exchange.
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Lady T Brereton
Green Street
Berom
Ferns
Lady Brereton
Mrs. Crosbie
Brereton
Crosbie
England
Victoria
Lady
London
India
Valence
Blanche Forrester
Angel
Capt
Net
Assuranche
Out of the Ordinary Items From an Old Newspaper Snippet
A miscellany item set notes the costliest horse barn at Syracuse owned by D E Crouse costing 700000 dollars. It mentions Lonough Derg island purgatory myth, Egyptian ivory combs over 1000 years old, J L Allen of Loretto Ky inventing a railroad clock, a burglar alarm scene with a girl and scissors, and a Chiricahua prospector facing a bear and cubs while tunneling, causing fear and a frozen tunnel fuse.
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Syracuse
N. Y
D. E. Crouse
Purgatory
Lonough Derg
Ireland
C. J. L. Allen
Loretto
Marion County
Arizona
Big Gem Robbery At Mrs Burden’s Home In New York
A bold diamond heist at Townsend Burden’s home in New York extracts jewels valued around 160000. The burglar entered via the Burdens extension and hotel vicinity, slipping past guards and two safes. Police pursue leads with little success while society figures react, citing envious headlines and a possible inside turn amid a complex web of suspects.
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New York
Townsend Burden
Hess
Townsend Bard
26Th Street
Madison Square Th
Brunswick Hotel
David Stevenson
Brunswick
Stevenson
Adrian Iselin
Mr. Barden
Burden Mousse and Jewel Safe It reflects social jewel collection and theft risk
The article describes Mrs. Burden’s renowned gem collection valued near $100,000 including a $20,000 five strand diamond necklace and large bracelets and rings. It notes admiration by society, with diamonds praised for color and size, and mentions T. J. Hennessy returning to locomotive engineering after a failed business venture. A segment also reports tramps threatening Cumberland Wisconsin.
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Burden
Mia
Seed of Insanity and the Cigarette Question
A long critical piece argues cigarettes harm youth, citing Dr. Bexjamine Blackford on brain, nerves, and blood affected by inhalation. It contrasts cigarette versus cigar use, warns of mental strain during adolescence, and cites examples of decline in otherwise healthy men. A separate note recounts a psychical research episode in Boston and a Harlem marriage linking wartime romance to present nuptials.
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Bexjamine Blackford
Blackford
John J. Sullivan
Mr. Sullivan
Boston
Society of Psychical Research
The Sorrow of China and the Yellow River’s changing course
The Yellow River is called the Sorrow of China. Over the last century it shifted its course twenty two times and now discharges into the sea 300 miles from its position a century ago. Flooding this century is estimated to have cost China eleven million lives.
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China
Yellow River
Shot-Throwers on New Rochelle Train Make Grief on Street Car
Two young men who threw hot shot at passengers on a New Haven train upset riders on a 43rd Street crosstown car. The shots hit hats and a man in a dress case, prompting a chase to Sixth Avenue where the youths were struck by a cane in a revenge clash.
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Pasengers
New Haven
New York Herald
New Rochelle
New York
6Th Avenue
Death of She Uses Hereford Ball For Hauling
A historical notice describes a woman who uses a Hereford ball to plow and haul, harnessed to a cart like a horse. She markets goods with the ball hitched to the wagon, riding away and guiding the animal by nose rings connected to ropes.
Napoleon's Art Project and the Louvre Collection
Napoleon aimed to unite all scattered masterpieces of painting and sculpture into one grand collection. He succeeded, and for a decade or so the Napoleon museum in the Louvre Paris drew worldwide awe and admiration.
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Boseton Post
Napoleon
Napoleon Museum
Louvre
Parle
Also Mentioned on This Page
Faithful Hearts
Banker Burden
27Th Street
Mr. Iselin
Stevensons
Burdens
Hotel Brunswick
Burr
Mr. Burden
Mrs. Burden
Townsend, Jr
William
State Omer
T. J. Hennessy
St. Louis
Poplar Bluff
Iron Mountain
Little Rock
Cumberland
Wisconsin
Harlem
Jesse Baker
John Calleen
John
Nannie
Paker
Harlem County
Nanale
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