Beauty at the Bath and Fashionable Bachelor’s Hall
New York report outlines luxe Turkish baths with famed clients like Mia Le and Mrs Langtry, detailing luxurious treatments, gossip, and tips. It also describes the Cresus Knickerbocker Cumberland complex with lavish bachelor apartments, private rooms, sport motifs, and a dramatic seaside romance ending in a fiancé’s late realization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkish Bath
Jong-tongur
St. Julian
New York
Cresus
Delmonieco's
Cressis
Knickerbocker
The
Cumberland
Clockwork lamplighter replaces city lamplighter in Boston
A Boston Herald report describes a pear shaped clockwork device attached to street lamps on State and Devonshire streets. The gadget automates lighting and extinguishing gas each night and morning based on lunar changes, requiring weekly maintenance to wind the mechanism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Herald
State Street
State
Devonshire Streets
Allen
Lamp Department
Very Little Lady Refuses Kiss From Prince
A seven year old girl in Nice declined a kiss from the Prince of Wales, saying she does not kiss gentlemen. The incident follows a trend of American and foreign girls snubbing the royal suitor as she played outdoors with friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Edward
St. Louis Republic
Prince of Wales
Nice
Grandma's Eyes Inspires Adoration in Mary Norton Bradford
A fragmentary verse piece praises a woman named Gladys and her Grandma's eyes as a source of comfort and fidelity. The speaker extols Gladys' gaze to relieve sorrow and light the world, while noting others doubt her maturity. The text ends with the signature AMary Norton Bradford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys
Ma Anata
Amary Norton Bradford
Bismarck The Silent Man Of Europe And His World
Frederic Sanburn paints Otto von Bismarck as a vigilant yet fading force in German and European affairs. The piece describes his early rising, strategic control over the young Emperor William II, and a life of plain rooms and simple meals. It contrasts Bismarck with Gladstone and notes his enduring influence, memory, and habit of silence as a strategic tool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bismarck
Germany
Americans
Gladstone
Count Herbert Bismarck
Empire
Europe
William Iit
England
Frederick
Berlin
William III
Sneest
Bismark
Beethoven
Sargent
Friedrichsruhe
Niederwald
France
Versailles
Favre
Frederic Sanburn
Relics of Salem Witchcraft in New York Sun
In a New York Sun report, relics from 1692 Salem trials are shown at the Register of Deeds office. A bottle of tiny pins used to mark witches sits beside an official seal and a preserved court warrant. The display also includes a large volume of trial records with affidavits and interrogations. The article notes the documents offer a stark record of the delusion and tragic history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Salem
Register of Deeds
Court of Oyer and Terminer
Pei
Sherif
Character in Typewriting Reveals Personal Traits
Writing experts argue typewriter use displays individual style similar to handwriting. Differences in punctuation margins and capitalization reveal care, haste, or ignorance, while temperament remains more concealed in the machine work.
Overland Poem Honors Unknown Heroes
The speaker honors unseen, patient harvesters of sacrifice, recognizing humble, solitary fighters who endure grief and toil in silence. A tribute leaf placed on their dust elevates their memory beyond grand military acclaim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wren
Lone Woman's Work Shaped as Practical Employment Guide
An essay urges widows and solitary women to gain income through domestic arts beyond sewing and nursing. It advocates dyeing, shade hanging, curtain work, and other home services, with tips on marketing, tools, and ready availability to secure timely work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
South Gardiner
Atock
Romise
Seiies Coring
Sisters of Mercy
Bates
Gatee
Pretty faces in watches in New York Morning Journal
A grain broker orders a portrait of his fiancée photographed onto the inner case of a watch. The jeweler notes rising demand with 300 orders in a month and cites ex mayor Seth Low as a sample likeness. Prices run about $15 and the process uses a French photographer uptown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Morning Journal
John Street
Produce Exchange
Journal
Seth Low
Brooklyn
Sweetmeats on a String at Grand River and Washington
A Detroit peanut and confectionery dealer at Grand River and Washington keeps a steady stream of customers from Western Knitting Company workers. He appears to sell little yet earns enough to own rental houses on the boulevard, attracting many coins from passersby and planning a Florida winter residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand River
Washington Avenues
Western Knitting Company
Florida
Sleep More and Worry Less Says Brain Health Expert
A New York brain and nervous disorders expert warns Americans overworked and overloaded with business strain. He urges longer holidays, better diet including cottonseed and olive oils, more rest, and less stimulants to curb insomnia and general nervous disorders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitten
Allan McLane Hamilton
New York
Ficely
Sintec Paromenaie
Boston Globe notes on a charitable route event
A rough, incomplete report recalls a Boston Globe item about a last Saturday charity route in Dorchester. It mentions a deaf beggar saying thanks and hints at donor generosity and decorum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorchester
Mixed Relation and Double Acrostic Puzzle Fragments
A collage of puzzle scraps includes entries such as 702-A MIXED RELATIONSHIP and 765-DOUBLE ACROSTIOC with hints of enigma paradoxical and teases about six-letter words. The fragmentary text references grace, kings, and various garbled phrases as part of a cryptic page.
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Beauty AT the Bath
MRS
Dispatch
Langtey
Mia le
Madison Square
Cupid
Dave
Mever
Lindheaven
Ciara Belle
Grandma's
Grandma
Eya
Sorrow
Grandasa
Little de Child
Little Machine
Louis Globe-Democrat
Uskowan
Shirley Dare
Lucy Perham
China
New England
Wowan
Chicago
Detroit Sunday News
Boston Globe
E.R. Chapnoven
Lewiston
Maine
Temple OF Fame
E. &. Chadbourn
TWA
Burns
Pope
Ta Hon
Grace
Th—Anageam
Bunnaiaay
B. GriexEn
Enigma
Wa Tae
Memphis
Squire Garvin
Corm
Cae
Sterne
Grat Scott
Whittien
Texas
Ayer
Ian Cone
T. Conners
M. Ayer
Dr. Jor & Co
Lowell
Mass
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