Short Items of Interest From West New York and Nearby
Local social notes list visits and guests across West New York Rhinebeck Goshen and surrounding towns. Names include Clyde Waldron Viola Waldron George A Hill Harry D Finn Alice ONeill Mattie Witbeck Frederick Moore Augustus Stager Frank M Estelle Elizabeth Jones D BR Stevenson Alvah B Davis Arthur A Hebert Angus Sargeant Mary W Hawley Florence Harkness Eleanor Phillips Durwood Naylor W J Armstrong Royce Lamb etc. Activities include piano recital, church events cake sale, house moves and travels to England Hartford Fitzwilliam and Goshen with several residents hosting and attending weekends and holidays.
Kaffirs Love Letters Show Basutos’ Surface Romance
Amusing excerpts from Wallis’ letters depict Basutos as romantic but lighthearted. Lines refer to ink and paper glad to see a beloved, a beauty compared to a peacock, and a love described as a clock that keeps time.
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Wallis
Timber in Australia fuels river harvests on Bellinger
Australia reports annual timber activity on the Bellinger River yielding about 16 million superficial feet, reflecting a large scale harvest across the region.
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Australia
Bellinger River
South Orange Girls Defeat Local Team in Tennis Posit
The high school girls tennis team beat South Orange on their courts with Hortense Staats 11 9 4 6 6 3 and Roberta Saunders 4 6 6 1 6 4. Saunders and Evelyn Taylor won doubles 6 3 6 3 as South Orange visits for a return match.
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South Orange
Hortense Staats
Roberta Saunders
Roberta Saunbers
Evelyn Taylor
Brewster
van Riper
Ayers
Obstinate Will Power Wasted Over Plates
Martha Malone quits after three years with Mrs. Bixby over a routine dispute. At Mrs. Wilson's back door she explains the break, recounting how each morning the blue china plates were moved and she insisted on the right place, leading to her resignation.
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Martha Malone
Martha
Letter to the Sun on appointing women to the Board of Health
A reader questions the fuss over adding a woman to the Board of Health. The writer suggests commissioners threaten resignation, then proposes replacing five male members with five women and quips about women handling municipal duties.
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the Sun
Board of Health
Board of Commissioners
Dear Qid Shepherd and the Alpine Camera Peddler
In the Alps a growing number of travelers hire locals to pose with dramatic backdrops for photos. A Grindelwald shepherd, a famed Grisons figure, charges visitors a couple of francs to pose before his chalet while tourists marvel at the horn and scenery. He is a shrewd, well known character in local lore.
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Alps
Grindelwald
Hig
Grisons
Wide World Magazine
King Edward VI Portrait Shortens Leg Story
In Standom Recollections Ca ton Woodville recounts a joke about Edward VI admiring a woodcut equestrian portrait. The king compliments the legs, then complains they are too long and demands a shorter rendering, noting some photographs show longer legs yet arguing no change.
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Standom
Caton Woodville
Edward VI
Woodville
Saya Weedvile
Avondale letter cites fire incident and commission government
A reader from Avon DALE criticizes centralized authority and increased efficiency as phrases linked to the Hose Company incident at the Reilly fire and to those who introduced commission government. The letter questions fairness of these views.
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Reilly
Avondale
Storm Center Headline Echoes Quiet Palace Turmoil
A Kansas City Journal quips on governance noting the burden of leadership and the private secretary’s sway in a republic. The cheeky quotation underscores uneasy rule and the politics behind the throne.
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Storm Center
Republi
Kansas City
Journ
Train Bandit Captured Amid Crew Revolvers Confusion
A Baltimore American report quotes a train crew member saying the capture of the bandit involved revolvers aimed by the crew. The account highlights the tense moments as officers cornered the suspect and secured him on board.
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Baltimore
Houseboats on the Thames Reflect Luxury and Decay
Vernon Lee critiques London’s riverside life noting a flotilla of flowered houseboats for hire along the Thames contrasting with Bermondsey and Lambeth’s grime and rubbish lit by sickly fog. The piece mocks civilization’s luxury amid urban ugliness in Scribner's.
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Thames
London
Bermondsey
Lambeth
Waterloo
England
Vernon Lee
Scribner's
Wanted Effort "Now, Tommy" Says Teacher
A Sunday school teacher asks Tommy if he would tell a boy to hate the larger apple. Tommy replies no, explaining in the pile of apples there is no need to single out the largest one. The exchange is quoted from the New York World.
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Tommy
New York Lobe
There Must Be Something In It Do You Believe Jove at fist night
A witty exchange from the Chicago Record-Herald questions belief in Jove at first night. The interlocutors joke that such a god exists if many married men could enchant their wives.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Diplomacy Quote and Punch Cartoon Snippet
A brief quotation from a Baltimore publication contrasts diplomatic theory with practice. The Punch line asserts diplomacy as presenting ultimatums and then extracting concessions, reflecting satirical tone on international negotiation and power.
Mrs Cathériné Gore’s Night Writing Routine Revealed
J BR Planche met Mrs Gore in Paris 1837 at Place Vendome. She hosted evening dinners, then wrote from 7 to 5 in the morning, returning to social duties after a noon breakfast. She continued this cycle, writing prolifically across novels plays and magazine pieces.
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Cathériné Gore
J. BR. Planche
Paris
Profitable Begging Exchange Informs On Postcard Evasion
The scene shows an old millionaire addressing Mr. Scribble about receiving 150 begging letters from Jettera yesterday. He urges evasive replies on postal cards to encourage further correspondence, highlighting a practiced cycle of solicitations and responses.
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Mr. Scribble
Jettera
Wes
Leaked Supreme Court Decisions Slowed by Stronger Security
The passage recalls a broker selling advance court decisions, leading to reforms. After the incident a stenographer’s practice was stopped and decisions began to be written in longhand to prevent leaks, delaying public announcements by fifty days. The account cites the Wall Street Journal.
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Supreme Court
Thig
Wall Street Journal
Brave and Fearless Amid Hidden Terrors
A fragment reflects on bravery and fear in facing unseen dangers. The speaker questions whether doctors claim germs lurk in kisses and notes a lack of hesitation toward those invisible terrors.
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Toledo Blade
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Clyde Waldron
Viola Waldron
West New York
Sadie Buckley
Chestnut Street
George A. Hill
Wincheater, Mass
Vreeland Avenue
Harry D. Finn
Hillside Avenue
Rhinebeck, N. Y
Alice O’neil
Mattie Witbeck
Frederick Moore
Augustus Stager
Greenwood Lake
Frank M. Estelle
Brooklyn, N. Y
Harry W. Estelle
Chestnut Place
Elizabeth Jones
Brooklyn
W. T. Coeyman
Passaic Avenue
D. BR. Stevenson
Pairfield Beach
Conn
Alvah B. Davis
Church Street
New York
Arthur A. Hebert
Maple Place
Hartford
Robert Grossman
Masonic Hall
Angus Sargeant
Melrose Street
Tusacolum College
Tennessee
Mary W. Hawley
Nutley Avenue
Allister G. Harkness
Florence
Edward Bernard
High Street
Harkness
Flower Guild of the Reformed Church
Harry K. Holt
Hawthorne Avenue
Durwood Naylor
David Naylor
Myrtle Avenue
Eleanor Phillips
Park Avenue
Goshen
N.Y
W. J. Armstrong
Charles B. Royce
Satterthwaite Avenue
Fitzwilliam, N. H
Mary Lamb
Grant Avenue
Carroll Diamond
Alfred Minnick
George W. Gladwin
Highfield Lane
Clarence Learned
Guy Edwards
Mr. Elsworth. Poat
Wharton
N. J
James M. Post
Mrs. Post
Chestnut Placa
the High School
Bloomfield
Belleville
Passaic
Ayres
Rutgers
Bolk
Neapolitan Country Club
James Drammond
Rexakh Seare
Pranklin Ave
Cor
Froemel & Riehl
BE. J. Drammond
Optometrist
Ican Franklin
High ST
William Bigelow
Henry T. Lefferts
Fessale and
Nutley Avenues
Nutley Exone
Ameri
Lisette
Columbia Building
Nutley
Plalor
the Berdan Furniture CO
Main Avenue
Washington Place
Passaic, Hi
Philip E. Heery
Central R. R
Broad Street
Newark, NJ
Max Zitzmann
Staten Island
Newark, N. J
Newark
Cedar Street
Col. Halsey
DART
Lyman Brown
Murray St
OUR
Prosperiot Club
oreniTr
Udes Enjofing
P. F. Guthrie
Highfield, Lene
Groot Herrmann
Mgr
Nutley, N. J
Wickham House
Franklin - Ave
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