Dreadful Drowning at Cove House Aboard the Old Stage
At Cove House a seaside crowd watches Miss Payson from New York arrive by coach and a later rescue attempt ends with Miss Alice Payson drowning after being swept near rocks while Fane King heroically swims to save her and is pulled to safety by a boat crew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cove House
Paul Hanover
Pace King
Newport
Hanover
King
Miss Payson
Alles Payson
Mies Maud
Adies
All Cove House
Alice
Alice Payton
Fane King
Peepee Lee
Gail
Maud
Disfigurement and Hidden Love in a Seaside Tale
A dramatic melodrama unfolds with Maud clinging to hope for Alice Payson after a near fatal mishap. Fane King doubts and then accepts his love as Alice recovers from a severe facial wound. Society weighs beauty and worth, while a seaside setting frames romance and social pressure.
Sunol Sets New Record In Regulation Track Race
A breeder recounts Sunol's record pace on the regulation track with Maud B. comparisons. Sunol's speed surpasses earlier marks, with bids and breeding plans noted, including Sunol’s value at $41,000 and Maud B.’s potential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maud
Sunol
Allerton
Bunol
Maud 5
Maud B
Ngefecy Hanks
Len Stanford
California
Terrera
Cleveland
Chicago
Detroit
Stockton
Califord
Evolution of the Yacht Advances Amid Speed Push
The article discusses how yacht design evolves as speed becomes the primary factor. Designers pursue new ideas to sail faster, balancing comfort with performance while tracing the progression from pleasure craft to racing machines.
Racing Craft and Yachting Innovations of the Era
The article surveys late 19th century developments in racing and yacht design, noting Minerva as a noted 1889 example and the trend toward faster steam and sailing craft. It discusses Thomas Clapham's centerboard vessel with false bilges for stability, contrasts with Dilemma, and touches on bilge design and bow shapes. It also covers broader debates among British and American yacht designers, classification by length, and regulatory efforts by clubs and courts, winding up with a note on a Hebrew edition of the U.S. Constitution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Burgess
Minerva
Fifelee
Burgess
Hts
Thomas Clapham
Neer and
Chippewa
Clapham
Me. Herreshoff
Great Britain
America
Tragic outline of railroad time table fragment
Fragmentary timetable text from a New Jersey railroad listing destinations like Plainfield Newark and Somerville. The garbled OCR shows scattered departure times and notes of station changes, with references to Liberty Be and Elis ate, lacking coherent narrative or dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kew Jersey
New Top
Liberty
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Jon
Eugene Field
Clacignatt
Rev
Fane
Alice Payson
Artist
Cous
Payson
Paul
Ris
Abe
Jane
Europe
Jane Gray
Jane Seymour
Philip the Handsome
Austria
Jane L
Sunopa
Bonner
New York
Constitution of the United
Plainfield
W. H. Rogers
Central Avenue
Plainfield, New Jersey
Turning
Ecrell Fawine
Lehigh Coal
M. J. Coyne
Wpa
John N. Schenck
Manning Ave
Water Supply
Lam
Tahafield
Tian
East Front Street
B. D. Newell’s
Front Street
Jhithilyry
Laing
Trotel
West Front Street
Madison Avenue
Wallace V. Miller
Plainfield, N. J
John W. Murray
William White
Nathan Harper
Elias Ro Poe
Culbert
Ae Kson & Coddington
Coun
Noutarien Pubic
Comumireto Vorms
Corner Park Ave
Ndat
The
North Avenue Pharmacy
A. D. Mallenson
North Ave
E Dru
Pabaw & LF. Articl
West Sixth Street
Nh Dune
Tipping
Nelson Krunyon
Councelor-at-Law
Maxter
Evodince
Irke
Comet
Omi Park
N. K
Cmt
Wiliam K. McClure
Contin
Counsellans AT Law
Firt’ National Bank Duikiing, Geti-tor
Clara J. Karner
Mastachu
Wets General Hospital
Boston
Mass
Twlen
Avona
John E. Beerbower
City Hotel
Corner
Second ST
Stelle
Newark
Ie Nowabk
Elisate
Santara
Piainiell
Frans Somerville
Plainfield and
Easton
Pte
Eal Ie! AG
SARR
Plarxrusty Avy
Beaton
Allenson
Arrisby
Easton High
Dge Brandt and Lawn
Fleming L& W
Bangor
Auek Chunk
Flemington
Ranch
D. L
W. BR. Ing
Harrisburg
Willamsport
Nanticoke
Crifton
Scranton
Williams
Reading
Allen
Easton Bethichen
Aleatowe
Mages Chunk
Wilkes- 8
Bex
Lore Braxtn
Bound Brook
Bup
H. P. Baldwin
Pas Azent
C. E. Clarke
Octi Tn
William J. Stephenson
Tce
North Avenue
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