Secret Society Forms Behind Palace Walls In Petersburg
Miller unveils a vast conspiratorial network linking army officers and government hands to a planned uprising. In a closed session the Ace of Clubs meeting outlines a 60,000,000 rouble cache and a staged move to seize power, with Miller and a Colonel leading the charge. The piece hints at looming action and a dramatic test meeting scheduled for next Saturday.
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Imperial Guard
Miller
Ace of Clubs
Ten of Hearts
Power
Foot Guards
Claoks
Guards
Finance Department
Treasury
Despot
Russia
Petersburg
Walla
Deaths Evenly Spread Across 24 Hours Says Doctor
Dr L Berry of St. Louis Globe Democrat challenges the belief that early morning is the grim reaper’s peak. He cites 30 years of practice and a New York study showing about equal deaths in all hours, with noon slightly higher when accidents are counted.
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New York
Gift to Columbus Ivory Jewel Casket at World’s Fair
A New York buyer paid 1125 dollars for a nine by six by eight inch ivory jewel casket destined for display at the World’s Fair. The piece was a gift to Columbus from Elizabeth Queen of Castile and Ferdinand King of Arragon on return from a third expedition. It bears traces of gilding, a female archer on top, and panels depicting the Battle of the Amazons with medallion lid portraits.
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New York
Columbus
Elizabeth Queen of Castile
Ferdinand King of
Arragon
Not All Singers In The Choir A Voice Not Always Requisite
A Ladies' Home Journal discussion asserts that influence outweighs voice in winning city choir positions. It argues social status looks, dress, and address can matter, yet true clout varies by city, sometimes extending beyond vocal merit.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
New York Gossip On Carriage Curiosities And Amazons
A New York dispatch reports on a man’s exploration of a fashionable carriage revealing intimate items and notes. It then profiles a generation of athletic women challenging traditional femininity through sport, dress, and public roles.
Powdered dinners and flirtatious social whirl in a New York vignette
The piece presents a lively look at Fifth Avenue fashion minded crowds, a vivid courtyard scene with a bold heliotrope dress, and a playful tale of a gift watch with a mischievous date. It also details a fad for powdered dinners with white decor and a six-wirl cook dinner stunt by six young women aiming to secure engagements.
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Jana
Vladimir
Crimea
Petersburg
Sophie
Countess Halm
Tite's
Olga
Angel
Ilia
Rita
Legation
Darling
Olea
New York
Meno
Portias
Terra Firma
Gad
Mare
Fifth Avenue
Forty-second Street
Bonesy
Murray Hill
Laura
Jack
Alice
Reading
Sue
Milady
Jules
Clara Belle
Digging in the Dirt and the Springtime Poets
The essay champions spring fever driving urban dwellers to garden plots and window boxes. It contrasts magazine poets and enduring figures with modern spring poetry, extols the health and virtue of country air, and details the gardener’s joys and trials including weeds, pests, and the pleasure of homegrown produce. It also advises practical garden choices and notes women may profit from urban kitchen gardening.
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Chaucer
Spencer
Milton
Shakespeare
Goethe
Pope
Tennyson
Longfellow
Gray
Keats
Shelley
Europe
Voltaire
Charles Dudley Warner
Dean Swift
Epicurus
Bacon
Locke
Carlyle
London
Garden of Eden
Adam
Eve
Paradise
Bessit Bramsle
Queen Victoria Toys Preserved at Kensington Palace
The Illustrated American reports that the toys that amused Queen Victoria remain in the nursery of Kensington Palace, now vacant and dilapidated. A headless horsewoman statue rests on the mantlepiece and a muslin doll with a lace cap is preserved in tissue paper.
Sunday Card Playing Sparks Shocking Views Across Faiths
A humorous observation notes the shift in Christian attitudes toward card games from sin to leisure. It contrasts American Puritan norms with German and English practices, citing clergy, Luther, and historical references to whist and similar games as weekend pastimes and debates on Sabbath observance.
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Germany
Luther
England
Reinhardt
John Evelyn
Hayward
France
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Bureau
Schelm
Popofi
Rascal
Petroff
Lanvin
Nicholas Popoff
Old Wernin
Sheld
Popoff
Vernin
Nicholas
Count Lanin
Vindimir
Aurland
Louis
Lanin
Mr. Miller
Millerstown
Jane
Selheim
Mr. Popoff
Siller
Popof
Milier
Juna
Don Giovanni
Vladmir
Madame de Dugar
Sophie von Linska
Count Halm
Halm
Java
Lenin
Lania
Paris
Michael
Goodby
Courlander
Dusaux
Weill
Michael Theater
Mileta
Meta de Vera
Grim Reaper
Amazons Next
Gotham
Dispatch
Bauty
Tom Hood
Cowper
the Spring Poets
Queen Victoria's Toys
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