New York Carnivalesque Dinner at Higbee Estate
An extended party at Silas Higbee’s Riverside drive mansion gathers baronial suitors, oil men, and social climbers for a lavish feast. Amid talk of status, marriage plots, and old New York versus new money, a dramatic undercurrent hints at fortune, scandal, and upheaval in high society.
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Riverside Drive
Hudson
Pittsburg
Dawson
Butte
Denver
Oklahoma
Michigan
Oil
Texas
Attila
Chicago
New Earth
Chateau Blois
Francis I
Bines
Silas’ Higbee
Snohomish
Washington
Mr. Higbee
Florida
Baron Renault de Palliac
Paris
New York
Chapter IX with the Barbaric Hosts
The author argues history repeats with barbarians raiding decadent societies, now via money rather than arms. Surface diplomacy hides the same life and death struggle between citizens and invaders, as a hostile force could breach a city’s gates.
None to Take His Place in Backwoods Diner
A traveler on horseback stops at a dilapidated cabin seeking dinner. The host says milk is unavailable because the dog used to fetch the cows. The dog died a week ago, and the animals apparently cannot come to milk themselves.
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Will
Pink Pills for Pale People Widely Praised in Letters
For nearly a generation Dr Williams Pink Pills are claimed to cure neuralgia heart palpitations and indigestion without opiates. Miss Charlotte Van Salisbury of Castleton NY and her sister Sarah praise improved color strength and recovery after eight boxes. Pills sold by druggists or by mail from Schenectady NY with pamphlets available.
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Williams
Charlotte van Salisbury
Castleton
N.Y
Albany
Dr. Williams
Sarah van Salisbury
Modern Love Anxiety in a Somerville Courtship
Father questions readiness to secure his daughter’s happiness while the son expresses mutual happiness with the match. The Somerville Journal presents a brief glimpse of a cautious, hopeful romance dialogue.
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Somerville Journal
Kline's Creat Nerve Restorer Claims Cure All Nervous Ailments
Advertisement promisses permanent cure for nervous diseases including St. Vitus dance by Dr. Kline's Creat Nerve Restorer. Offers free trial bottle valued at $2.90 and treatment literature from Dr. R. H. Kline Philadelphia addresses 931 and 933 Arch St.
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St. Vitus
Twice Told Tales From An English Court
A court fined a man two pounds for contempt after he offered a note with no change. The clerk quipped to keep the change as contempt. A French wife laments her husband’s study time, joking she wishes to be a book for his company and he quips to be a yearly almanac to change her.
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Jarvis
Avice
Launton Oldaker
Charles II
Riverside Drive
Tir
Landon
Papa
Papa Tus
lecSon
Bright Wits and Mortgage Talk in Brightest Prose
A ironic column mocks self important busybodies and vanity. The piece lampoons social pretensions and views on love, trust, and wealth with playful quips about rings, native places, and mocking the golden calf motif.
Wise Indiana doctor cures stomach trouble with Postum
A Indiana patient credits a prominent physician with diagnosing coffee as the cause of a twenty year stomach ailment and recommends Postum as the coffee alternative. The patient stopped coffee two years ago and reports his stomach is normal now after using Postum as directed with cream.
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Indiana
Postum. Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Postum
Wellville
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Spenders
Harry Leon Wilson
Lothrop Publishing Company
Chateau Lafitte
Papa Rail
Horace
Croesus
Berhapsy
Arcady Lyre
Avice Millerey
Montana
Mutterden
Millicent Higbee
Miss Higbee
Miss Bines
Percival
Iage
Kansas City
Oldaker
London
Fortuny
Louis
Claire
Honolulu
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