Noblem en in Gotham. They let their native lands vor vortour reasons
New York City hosts Austrian and Hungarian nobles who settled in America. The piece mentions Count Imre Sapary and other nobles seen at Second Avenue cafés, their debts, travels, and varied fates, from diplomacy to work, highlighting a bustling immigrant scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amprica
Comspicapes
New York City
Europe
Germany
Austria
New York
Second Avenue
Café
Bauer
Berlin
Vienna
Third Street
Knickerbocker
Imre Sapary
Hungary
Sapary
Sepery
Count Tolekke
Ninth Street
Long Island
Johanne Orth
Royal House of
Bada-Pesth
Count Monteconcualli
Kaiser Garde
Manhattan
France
The
George
Belvidere
Eighteenth Street
Orient
Carpenters’ Union
Freiherr von Bruehl
Count Bruehl
N. Y
She Married Young In A Paris Court
A Paris court hears a humorous exchange as a witness aged twenty five last August states her age and a later witness aged twenty seven confirms his age. The magistrate notes the remark that the first witness had married very young in a playful moment from the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Justce
Tearful Wife Threatens Suicide During Rainy Night
Dialogue depicts a wife threatening to drown herself in a river, while a husband urges her to begin the act. The scene notes her concern about ruining a new dress as rain falls and she proceeds with her grim decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lemuel
Empress of Germany and a Dentists Remarkable Teeth
A Youth's Companion note praises the Kaiserin for knitting and sewing duties while praising her arms and swimming with the emperor claiming he loves her. A Texas town concert yields a joke about a dentist who fixed a debutante's teeth for fourteen dollars prompting an amusing misidentification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Felixstowe
Texas
Texas Siftings
Tramp Seeks Lodging Causes Sergeant to Fall
A tramp at a police station requests a night’s lodging. The sergeant refuses. The tramp punches him, then asks for a cell to sleep, mocking the rule that only offenders sleep there. The sergeant recovers, while the tramp rests for the night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
All of Them Small Men in Dark Continent Fame
The World profiles Paul de Chailly as a small, smooth faced African explorer with bald head and flashing eyes. It notes many famed explorers in Africa, including Livingstone Paste and Stanley, were also diminutive in stature and questions whether size correlates with achievement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul de Chailly
Livingstone
Emin Paste
Speke
Stanley
A Woman's Account and Other Humorous Snippets
A collage of light satire and social scenes featuring Mrs. Jones and other society figures. The piece blends stage dialogue on charity, propriety, and flirtation with brief quips from humorous vignettes and verse snippets, reflecting turn‑of‑the‑century newspaper humor.
Doolan Seeks Eggs in Curious Shop Exchange
Paddy Doolan enters a shop to buy eggs and quips about the eggs being from chickens, sparking a humorous exchange reflected in the clipped historical text. The fragment preserves local color and character without broader context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat
Paddy Doolan
Braodon
Household Hints For Cleaning And Care
Simple tips include using borax to remove fingerprints from wood doors and applying cider vinegar to wash bands for softness. Linseed oil coats brighten pine with repeated applications. A mustard application on the elbow is claimed to cure facial blemishes and neck neuralgia. Cork packing helps drain plant pots by retaining moisture. heat iron on butcher’s paper to lift grease from colored fabrics.
Sunday Reflections on Self Awareness and Virtue
A column cites moral lessons from scripture and commentary on prayer, humility, and temptation. It critiques flashy rhetoric in evangelism, notes the perils of blasphemy and easy piety, and references thoughts from the New York Herald about youth and guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wn. Y. Herald
Peculiar Snippets From Across The Country
A petrified rabbit found in a Crawfordsville Georgia hole is believed chased by a pursuer and unable to escape. An Illinois woman recovered a ten inch antique gold chain from coal. Stone forests occur worldwide with foliage preserved for millennia. Near the Pennsylvania Delaware line an old Quaker graveyard hosts a ticking tombstone legend explained by subterranean water and limestone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawfordsville
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Odds and Ends From A World Of Weird News
A collection of disparate notes reports oddities from around the world. It mentions eagles attacking animals in Russia a Florida man fleeing alligators in Tallahassee and European library totals. It also recounts a Maine anecdote of a cat named Christopher Columbus and a buried bird mystery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bjelgard
Russia
Florida
Pastis
Androscoggin County
Dot
Christopher Columbus
Columbus
Christopher
Jand
Lewiston
Journal
Also Mentioned on This Page
Gotham
Rodin
Robert B. Roosevelt
Hague
Gould
Richard A. McCurdy
EB. Harper
Mutual Reserve Fund Association
Sipeeen
Talmage
Henry Ward
Robert Collyer
Charles A. Dana
Mr. Dana
Peter
Detroit
Clergyman
Kaintuck
Noopop
Yore
Harper’s
Basar
Net
Detroit Free Press
Kitty Winslow
Mr. Boysen
Mr. Buryson
Miss Winslow
Odds and
John H. Sayres
New Goods
East Front Street
Mulford
School Books
Park Avenue
Plainfield, New Jersey
United Tea and Coffee Growers Association
West Front
M. Ulrich
West Front Street
Elkwood Cafe
J. B. Muller
Dent’s
Hallock & Davis
Plainfield Produce CO
Fkr
Ratitan Mills
North Avenue
Rk. J. Shaw
Front Street
Coro
Brown & ‘Sharp
Perene Shurett
Pierson Hardware
A. M. Griffen
East Front ST
Nesiter
O. M. Dunham’s
Tpf
New York Matia
Trenton
Philadelphia
Mall
Pope
Coal & Wood
E. H. Holmes
Lehigh Coal
W. &B. Rurke
Madison
A. D. Cook & Bro
John Johnston
South Avenue
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