Washington escapade reveals a lord in disguise and a fire
In Washington a noble heir, Viscount Berkeley, is exposed through a daring disguise plot linked to Mulberry Sellers. A hotel fire destroys the showy ruse as the American enterprise and the English titled figure pursue a misplaced fortune and a high stakes deception.
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Cate
Swan
Pete
Elert
Thea Hawkins
Deanite
Toner
Arkansas
Eocland
Lord Rossmore
Kirkcudbright Lianover
Marjoribanks Sellers
Herkeley
Liverpool
America
Mulberry Bellers
Rossmore Towers
District of Columbia
mid-Atlantic
Jane
Mulbe
Viscount Berkeley
Spasms of Reform Hit New York Nightlife
Murray's correspondent reports how moral crusades shut dives and pool rooms, yet keep crowds in the city. Hotels host thousands nightly, slumming and sightseeing alike, generating an estimated two hundred thousand dollars daily in spending as residents and visitors react with mixture of humor and concern.
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Difpatch
New York
Philadelphia
Brother Talmage
The Rise and Fall of a New York Saloon Cycle
A social pattern in New York shows a resembled all night saloon network building, police indifference, and repeated waves of sensational coverage. Reports follow purchases, robberies, and a murder as authorities waver then raid imitators, only for calm to return and the cycle to repeat.
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Turke
St. Albans
Buccleuch
Grafton
William
Gwendolen
er—Rossm
Ross
Goulds
McGlorys
Bangor
Brownsville
Tex
New York
Scandal Fails to Dim Bernhardt's Genius, General Says
General Furlong at the Fifth Avenue theater declares that scandals fade when greatness appears. He recalls Bernhardt's Paris debut at the Comedie Francaise, noting scandals fail to help or hinder true genius and that morale crimes do not aid rise to eminence.
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General Furlong
Fifth Avenue
Bernhardt
Paris
Comedie Francaise
Geninus
Man With Muff Noted On Crowded Streetcar Ride
A well dressed man carrying a black muff rode a 3 Boulevard car uptown. The frosty day made surface transit uncomfortable and he became the center of attention among observers as the car filled.
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Amother
Seventy-second Street
Driver crushes horse drawings in street clash
A heavy truck slowly moves along Thirty third street and rolls over a lone horseless delivery wagon’s shafts in front of a grocery and butcher shop. Grocer and wife witness the incident as a trackman receives a profane scolding and a churchgoing note is hinted at.
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Thirty-third Street
Western flavor lingers as Montana man in New York gallery
A Montanan in the Hoffman House art gallery, a New Yorker by birth and education, reflects on how years in the West have altered him. His Western dress and manner set him apart, puzzling both him and the observers as to the difference four years can make in daily surroundings.
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Andore
Hawkins
Rossmore
Sellers
Graham Bell
Washington Hawkins
Colonel Sellers
Marie Sellers
Marse Sellers
Marse Washington
Washington
Jinny
Bessmore
Gwendolen
Madeline-Bastile
Paris
Compagnie Generale
Montana
Hoffman House
Far West
The Butterfly's First Season on the Road
A travel note on Broadway window displays where aspiring stage stars study their own likenesses. The piece describes footlight fairies pausing before portraits, drawing attention, and savoring the glow of their counterfeit presents, with observers noting the phenomenon in crowded blocks.
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Broadway
Sway
Soubrette
Pipes and Cigarettes Barred in New York Chophouses
A New York note discusses the rising pipe habit among well dressed men on Broadway and its clash with chophouse rules. Some venues ban pipes while others tolerate cigars, with social clubs reportedly forbidding pipes in certain rooms. The piece notes the desire to keep crowded rooms tolerable for mixed crowds of men and women and suggests practical separation of pipe and cigarette use could ease tensions.
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Ksow
Washington
Compagnie Nerale Desomnivus
New York
Upper Broadway
Strand
London
Johnies
Broadway
Arles Theodore Muebay
Charles II warns future king with accident-insurance quip
In a historical aside from Harper's Bazar, a line quoted from Charles II to Charles I before his execution notes a sly remark about never being without an accident-insurance policy. The remark frames monarchic fate with dark humor.
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Harper's Bazar
Charles the Second
Charles the
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