Viscount De Precourt Arrives in Tidewater Sparked Town Gossip
The French professor Maxime Beauchamp Anne Maurie Montmorency de Precourt arrives in Tidewater and enchants women with charm and poetry while the town debates his nobility. Misunderstandings surround a bouquet gift to Miss Mason and the romance drives him toward despair before family ties restore his status.
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Tidewater Society
Mr. Mason
Hewis
Maxime Beauchamp Anne Maurie Montmorency
Vicomte de Precourt
School of Languages
Portsmouth
Tidewater
Masons
St. Vitus
S & Marquis
de Rol
Precourt
M. de Precourt
Apartmenta
Viscount of Precourt
M de Précourt
de Precourt
Mrs. Mason
France
Mason
Chili
M. Chiquet
Algiers
M. Coutellier
Marquis of Precourt
Harvard Advocate
Kidds Treasures Said Buried Across Atlantic Coast
The article lists locations linked to Captain Kidd including Gardiner's Island Lyme Connecticut Monhegan Island Appledore Shoals Cro Nest Hudson River Money Hill Shark River Sandy Hook and Liberty Island. It notes 783 ounces of gold and 688 ounces of silver were found at Gardiner's Island and mentions a legend of Kidd burying treasure with a sailor's ghost to guard it.
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Captain Kidd
Gardiner's Island
Long Island
Kidd
Lion's Rock
Lyme Conn
Monhegan Island
Appledore
Isles of Shoals
Cro’ Nest
The
Hudson
Money Hill
Shark River
N. J
Sandy Hook
Kidd's Tree
Atlantic Highlands
New Jersey
Damariscotta Island
A Place
Piscataqua River
Oyster Point
Dighton Rock
Mass
Medford
Salem Mass
Liberty Island
New York Harbor
Manhattan Island
One
European cities remodeled for light and air
A traveler notes how European capitals rebuilt to gain light and space, citing Paris under Napoleon and Vienna's ring road. The essay praises centralized planning, ordains costly public works, and argues American cities will follow similar reforms to create parks, broad avenues, and grand public buildings.
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Europe
Paris
Rome
Milan
Hamburg
Vienna
Cologne
Berlin
Ringstrasse
America
New Theory Links Phthisis to Nervous System Strain
A Philadelphia physician argues consumption of the lungs is tied to nervous system weakening. He cites insanity, early life stress, and pneumogastric nerve injury as factors. the remedy lies in preserving nervous health and overall hygiene rather than medicines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas J. Mays
Philadelphia
Dr. Mays
Bright
Maine Man Receives Mystery Letters From Wife Confessed
A Maine man learned that numerous love letters from an unknown woman were written by his wife. The revelation leaves the husband’s vanity deflated, and a judge notes the dramatic turn in a curious domestic tale.
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Maine
Prices and cures cross history’s table top
The text compares horse prices across ancient eras, notes catarrh as a constitutionally treated disease with Hall's Catarrh Cure promising cures and a money back offer, and mentions various ads and product claims from Browyn's Bronotan Trocasts to a Bible printing date and land agents in California.
Rail line promotes Texas coast growth and travel
The Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway touts its direct routes from Chicago to Dallas and Houston, serving Velasco and coastal towns with Wagner Palace Buffet Sleeping cars. It highlights expansion, scenic routes, and asks investors or travelers to inquire about schedules, maps, and rates via A Faulkner in St Louis.
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Velasco
North Galvesta
Ouston Hights
LaPorte
Texas
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway
Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
Dennison
Sherman
Gainesville
Henrietta
Fort Worth
Dallas
Waxahachie
Temple
Belton
Taylor
Hillsboro
Houston
Galveston
A. Faulkner
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway System
Observation of Birds and Insects in Storms and Patented Remedies
A ship captain reports thousands of birds and insects driven by a gale into a vortex, stunned and numb on deck. Readers share endorsements of remedies for rheumatic pains and inflammatory conditions, including a testimonial from J G Wittig of Blue Mound Illinois.
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Perkins
Loosok
Hongkong
Shanghai
Stahl
Excelsior
Addrees
Quincy
Ill
Long Distance Harness Race Planned Between Vienna and Berlin
The Horse World notes an upcoming long distance race between Vienna and Berlin but this time the contestants will be trotters. The event will restrict travel to daytime hours, reducing past cruelty seen with cavalry horse races. The race could boost Austrian interest in harness horses.
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Solomon
Egypt
Xenophon Seuthis
Horse World
Vienna
Berlin
Promise of Ancient Tree Mystery Near Atchison
Fragmentary report notes a live cottonwood with petrified roots near Atchison Kansas. Early mention hints at ancient mang snes catal aned in Saxony around a.
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Atchison, Kan
Saxony
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Tammy
Avanta, Ga
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Shiloh
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Ngted Terperanse
Forcible
David Frost
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Pheer
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New York Ledger
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
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Hippolyte
Browyn
Hanson
England
Issies
Calheroin
California
Peyto
Landa
P. Fry & Son
Monterey County
Himee
Baker
R.d
Chas J. Bellofmihr
Mutual Life Assurance Comany
Worster, Mass
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Pennsylvania
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Ireland
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Arch St
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Seaton
Garfield
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Miller
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Scott
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Bulla
Galen Wilson
Louisville
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London
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Alaska
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Royal Raising
U. S
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Ely
ELY Brothers
Warren Street
New York
Universal
J. C. Putman Cramer
Nebraska and
Kansas
McCague Building
Omaha
Neb
Weanhal
Maree, Beckers
Darel
Reid
Sylvan Emees Co
Peoria
Catarre
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Warren
New York Life
National Bank OF Cell
Arantes
Cere Ali Kisde
Sthoet
Adérese Oller Company
Gaye
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