Romance and Reality in Millionaire Matches Across Time
The piece recalls lovers pursuing wealth and status, from Tennyson’s aristocrat wooing to the real Miss Benson marrying an heiress without revealing fortune. It contrasts romance and wealth in marriages, plus a tale of a Milwaukee widow testing a suitor, and ends with Minnesota’s Old Settlers Association noting dwindling membership and the inability to form a quorum due to deaths.
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New York Sun
Tennyson
Claude Melnott
New York
Miss Thyrza
Benson
Montague Flagg
Flagg
Miss Benson
Lagg
Rob
Milwaukee
Nevada
Minnesota
Old Settlers’ Association
St. Paul
The Beauty Pursuit and a Shipboard Morning
A profile of Gertrude Vanderbilt and her philosophy on beauty and ambition, balancing study, singing, and dance with self awareness of her type. A travel scene aboard a ship toward Cherbourg shows Helen and Warren amid tipping tensions and social scrutiny as they depart, ending with Helen’s mortified reflection on a tipping mishap and a quiet note about a Riv erside meal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude Vanderbilt
Warren
Helen
Helen ' Ls
Paris
Their Married Life in the Harbor Dawn
Helen and Warren face a midnight landing aboard after a six day voyage. They wait for shore as the ship anchors near Cherbourg, with heat, stillness, and a sense of landfall looming in a desolate dawn. Helen battles discomfort and insomnia while looking toward a bleak, early light over anchored ships in the harbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Helen
Warren
Jove
Cherbourg
Ita
Paris
Dog Stories From Field: A Calm Collie With Notable Tricks
An English Field column recounts a collie noted for reason, fetching a ball from a canal after several tests and later retrieving an old patent leather house shoe when slippers were out of reach. The dog preferred slippers it had never carried before, showing surprising problem solving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Field
Jack
Natu
Judge Fails To Claim Caddy And Clubs At Fox Hills Golf
A New York golf tale on Fox Hills recounts a judge dismissing a small sneaky caddy after losing a ball and clubs. The missing gear vanishes as other caddies deny knowledge, leaving the judge pondering if fate or magic guides the loss.
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New York
Fox Hills
Fox Hiller
Esen
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Mammoth Fire and Manufacturers
San Antonio
Dalkowitz Bros. CO
Main Avenue
North Flores St
Uneeda Biscuit
National Biscuit Company
Beauty
the Riverside
Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt
Mabel Herbert Urner
Chickering
Baldwin
Estey
Gem
Brewster
Kimball
Oak
Emerson
Bradley
Watkins
Willard
Machogany
Armstrong
Texas
Thos. Goggan & Bros
The
Big Music Store of
San Antonio, Texas
Galveston
Houston
Temple
Dallas
Waco
Ed Hat
Alkemeyer’s
Houston Street
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