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Newspaper
Norfolk Virginian
Location
Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1897
Page
2
The piece critiques marriages based on moral fitness and social ideals, arguing many divorces stem from incompatible matches. It lists traits of women and men deemed unsuitable as spouses, laments lack of true knowledge before vows, and predicts future marriages will improve if society allows earlier acquaintance and honest assessment before commitment.
An aged Alabama immigrant known as Thomas Hussey died after ten days in a narrow Brooklyn tenement. He left an apparent fortune, including bonds and stocks valued well beyond $12,000 in assessed taxes, with much wealth discovered only on his deathbed. His grandnieces Harriet Mitchell Maria Donohue and Dy Raub stood by him as he voiced regrets that wealth would not stay with him. He was buried in Greenwood after a late life spent hoarding money and moving from a shoemaker's life in England to farming and fruit growing in America.
A poem extols polar adventures with Nansen and Greely figures as dancers under icy winds. The second piece, from the New York Times, recounts Isaac Remson in Brooklyn who is handed a stranger's baby on a boat excursion. his misadventures, public scorn, and eventual quiet acceptance mirror urban chaos and comic misfortune.
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