Causes the Feuds in Kentucky Mountains Report
Lexington correspondents quote residents and officials on mountain feuds caused by bad roads and illiteracy. They cite convicts building highways, more schooling, envy, and the forty five pistols as factors, with officials urging road and school improvements to curb violence.
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Kentucky
Wilson Howard
Dief
Col Lucas
Here
London
Judge Eversole
Aoman
Amin
Hayden Brook
Laurel County
State College
Lexington
Manchester
Hyden
Letcher Cotunty
Beaides
Dickey
Bal” Howard
Tom Baker
R. Riley
Empress Faces Court Cigarette Fashion Across Europe
The Paris Liberte reports that several European queens and empresses may smoke, though the queen regent of Spain and the empress of Russia are questioned. Cigarettes have become common in French high society, served with coffee after meals. Cycling fashion now includes pockets for cigarette cases.
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Froya
Russia
Paris Liberte
Italy
Spain
Austria
Roumania
Portugal
Paris
The
Daily News
Indies
Snakes Turn to Domestic Help in Brazil
In Brazil snakes, notably the giboya, multiply and enter homes to guard against rodents. The giboya, about the circumference of a soldier, is sold in Rio de Janeiro markets as a house protection. The serpent hunts more for pleasure than hunger, rarely eating the rats it catches, and it is said to return home if moved far away.
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Brazil
Rio Janeiro
Joe Murphy
Joe
First Visit Home After Eighteen Years for Lieut Burkholter
Lieut Daniel Burkholter of Griggsby s Rough Riders returns home for the first time in eighteen years due to the Spanish American War. He passed through Pittsburg from Chickamauga to Manor Pennsylvania where his mother and sister reside. Burkholter enlisted at Bis marck North Carolina in 1880 and will spend seven days on leave after two days in Manor before heading to Washington.
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Daniel Burkholter
Third
United States Volunteer Cavalry
Griggsby
Manor
Washington
Pittsburg
Theatrical Letter and Gotham Curiosities at Play
A lively column reports on a matinee encounter with famous actresses at Herald Square, a mocked press agent sample, and notes on E A Sothern, Virginia Harned, and the Big Olympia sale to New York Life for 950000. It also covers Marie Dressler’s latest vaudeville humor and stray theater gossip from New York’s social scene.
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E. A. Sothern
Virginia Harned
Mr. Sothern
Philadelphia
Broad Street
Morris Buckler
Clarke
The
Criterion
Lyceum Theater
Ursula
Garrick Theater
Olympia
Lyric Theater
New York
New York Life Insurance Company
Hammerstein
Gypsy Monarch Crowned in Kirk Yetholm Coronation
An altered account from the London Mail describes the crowning of Charles Blythe Rutherford as king and earl of Little Egypt in Kirk Yetholm. The ceremony featured a tin throne crown, a Romany speech by the village blacksmith archbishop, a royal carriage drawn by six asses, and a procession with sports, a dinner, and a dance.
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London Mail
Kirk Yetholm Green
Charles Blythe Rutherford
Little Egypt
Prince Charlie
Kirk Yetholm
Fan
Blythe
Rutherford
Esther
Yetholm
Charles
Mr. Gladstone
Prince Charle
Macehearer
Herald
Egypt
James V
Scotland
Johanne Faw
Little
James
James VI
Are You Sure Love or Rumor at Mole Street
A terse exchange quotes He declaring love to She who questions sincerity amid a rumor linked to Mole Street, as reported by the Cleveland Leader.
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Mole St. Nicholas
Cleveland
Powersons Good Work In Naval Action
Ensign Powelson of the St Paul again distinguishes himself after his evidence in the Maine court of inquiry. He commanded the gun that disabled the Spanish torpedo boat destroyer Terror with a remarkable shot and fired the shell from the St Paul that exploded over a Spanish cavalry force on shore. He requested transfer from the Fern to the St Paul at the outset of the war with Captain Sigsbee.
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Powelson
St. Paul
Maine
Terror
Ensign Powelson
Fighting Stock of the Wainwrights in Civil War Lineage
Captain Robert Powel Page Wainwright of the First United States Cavalry is praised by Major General Wheeler for good conduct at La Quasina near Santiago. He comes from a storied naval and military family. his father Commander Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright and grandfather both served and died in war. Marie Wainwright, the actress, is his sister.
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Robert Powel Page Wainewright
First
United States Cavalry
Wheeler
la Quasina
Santiago
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright
New York
Galveston Bay
Harriet Lane
Wainwright
Jonathan Mayhew
Naval Academy
San Blas
Trinity Church
Hudson
Fifty-fifth Street
Marie Wainwright
R. P. P. Wainwright
Servants Call Me Mary No More in Honolulu Tale
An English woman in Honolulu forbids servants from using her Christian name Mary. Her cook, overhearing visitors, asks politely what vegetables for dinner today my love. The anecdote reflects early colonial social friction and class norms in Hawaii.
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Hawaii
Honolulu
Mary
Syracuse Standard
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