The Chase for Titles In France by American Women
An essay notes many titles in republican France are unregulated and often fake while authentic aristocratic titles fetch cheap prices. It cites a Paris marriage broker listing dukes and counts, including the Corsican Colonna line Prince de Lecca, as a humorous example of aspirational title trading and social pretensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Almanach de Gotha
Vance Thompson
New Broadway Magazine
Paris
Duc de Montmorency
Count de Chateaubriand
Prince de Lecca
Colonnas
Think and Act: The Value of Mind Work for Men
A writer urges men to exercise the brain daily, arguing thinking drives success more than muscle. Citing The New York Weekly and a Washington Post editorial, the piece defends women against catcalling and notes catishness reflects envy and malice, not superiority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
New York Weekly
Washington Post
Bank of England notes and oddities in a busy issue day
The note recall process involves tearing off chief cashier signatures and pricking off the dates before vault storage for five years, then burning in a furnace. Paris reports Germany may buy the Philippines, described as a poor rumor factory needing a foreman. A Brooklyn man dies laughing at a joke, a fate repeated in records. Mrs Hetty Green is noted for lending to capitalists during New York’s stringency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank of England
Paris
Germany
Philippines
Paria
Brooklyn
Hetty Green
New York City
Charles H. Fowler
Methodist Episcopal Church
New York
Alonzo F. Shriner
St. Louis
Cudney Washington
Leavenworth
Kaw
William J. Bryan
Chicago
Gov
Guild of
Massachusetts
Hughes
Jerome
United States
Penrose
Philadelphia
Wealth and public life and the cost of ambassadorship
The author argues for restricting corporate campaign contributions and notes that public office, especially ambassadorial roles, remains inaccessible to the moderately wealthy due to low salaries. He cites President Ames era and James Bryce as contrasts, then critiques the belief that wine enhances wit, noting that true brilliance fades when inebriated and that sober effort yields better work.
The Manless Ball Room Analysis of a social shortage
Bernard Shaw is cited in a discussion about the dwindling number of men at social events. A series of quotes from men and women reveal concerns about money status and romance. The piece frames the shortage as a broader societal issue contributing to the question of why there are many old maids.
News of the Week Condensed for Readers
A roundup of congressional and political notes from Senate and House debates, bills on tariffs labor and pensions, naval matters, and notices of deaths and arrests. Highlights include La Follette on the Aldrich bill, a pension appropriation, the gold standard motto restoration, and Haiti port concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congressional
la Follette
Wisconsin
American Federation of Labor
Senate
House
Bureau of Corporations
Cannon
Fairbanks
Washington
Navy
Metcalf
Congress
National University
McKinley
Illinois
Senator Whyte
Maryland
United States
William Pinckney White
Baltimore
Senator la Follette
Wall Street
Senate Committee On Finance
Lilley
Lawrence Spear
Electric Boat Company of New Jersey
Hobson
Naval Affairs Committee
Army
House Subcommittee of Fortifications
War Department
Colorado News Briefs From Across the State
A thriving Golden commercial club forms while a Fort Morgan hospital project seeks $15 000. Pueblo votes to bar fraternities and sororities at South Side schools as Weld county teachers' exam yields five men. Greeley plans a golf club, Denver hosts an auto show April 6 to 8 at Mammoth rink, and Colorado Springs builds a public building for 180 944. New post offices at Hartman Plains and more rural routes approved. Sterling sewer contract set at 46 000. Rio Grande doubles track near Canon City to ease trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Golden
Fort Morgan
South Side School Board of
Pueblo
Weld County Teachers
Greeley
Denver
Mammoth
Clarkson Street
Colorado Springs
J. H. Wiesse
Omaha
Colorado
Hartman
Prowers
James F. Moore
Plains
Jesse N. Sheets
Austin
Delta County
Salle
Weld
Sterling
C. G. Sheeley
Rio Grande
Adobe
Canon
Pyle
Railroad Street
Charles Rosenthal
Republian
Giacomini Brothers
New Central High School
Flah Hatcheries
Craig Park
Jefferson County
Brookside
Grousemont
Routt County
Craig
Hayden
Steamboat Springs
Joseph Murphy
Sylvester Howell
Fort Collins
Howell
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Rocky Ford Enterprise
Monkman
Rocky Ford
Hon
Curtis Guild
Vernee of
Douglas
Crane
Gov. Wolcott
Ames
James Bryce
Court of St. James
Franklin
Andrew Lang
Bernard Shaw
News OF the
Atlantic
Nuer Kronpring
Los Angeles
Haiti
Port Au Prince
China
Japan
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Abe Hummel
Sing Sing
A. C. Tisdell
Steunenberg
Harry Orchard
Wood
Caldwell
Idaho
Surveyor of Customs
American Tobacco Company
Maysville
Atchison
Kansas
United States Steel
Seneca
Newport News
Leck Allen
St. Joseph, Mo
Fritz Gutzenberger
Cristobal
Missouri Valley
Kansas City
National Convention of
United Mine Workers of America
Indianapolis
Continental Portland Cement Company
Shippy
Busse
Suffern
N. Y
Root
Rio Janeiro
England
Ann Arbor
Mich
Wilhelmina Crawford
Lowell
Mass
Davis Bank
Hoffman
Tyro
Kan
Pittsburg
United States Supreme Court
Federal Court
Western District of Missouri
Armour Packing Company, Swift & Co. Morris & Co
Cudahy Packing Company of
Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railway Company
Republican State Convention
Iowa
Taft
William B. Allison
St. Petersburg
Smirnoff
Fock
Stoessel
Port Arthur
Russia
Supreme Court
Lincoln
Neb
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company
Railroad Commission
Black Republic
Colorado News
Model Land and Irrigation Company
Trinidad
Hocine
Las Animas
George W. Dilts
Loveland Chamber of Commerce
Loveland
Colorado & Southern
Philip H. Foley
Ira Wiedman
Delgany
Adolph Fehringer
Otto Fehringer
Otto
Adolph
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