Dorothy and Dick Weds Quietly After Inheritance
Dorothy marries Dick Aylmer in a restrained church ceremony following settlement of her late aunt Miss Dimsdale's estate. Barbara, the loyal confidante, receives a final farewell gift as Dorothy and Dick plan two months abroad after a champagne reception and hotel departure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harris
Dorothy
David
Miss Strode
Miss Dimsdale
David Stevenson
Colchester
Barbara
Dick Aylmer
Mr. Marks
Bournemouth
Lorne Doone
Mr. Stevenson
London
Morley’s
Graveleigh
Sam
Simpson’s
Adulteration of saffron and naval action details emerge
The piece discusses saffron adulteration with cheap fillers, its high price, and lingering use as a dye though medicine waned. It then shifts to naval action near Matanzas with the Puritan and New York, detailing shell exchanges, battery destruction, and officers praising a Puritan shot before retreat.
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Chambers’ Journal
Saffron-Walden
Battle of Matanzas ships silence Spanish batteries in eighteen minutes
The New York, Puritan, and Cincinnati engaged Spanish defenses at Matanzas Harbor. In about eighteen minutes they silenced the forts at Rubalcava and Maya, with heavy American fire from the flagship New York and supporting vessels. The fleet disabled the outer batteries as Havana nears US fleet reach.
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Point Rubalcava
Puritan
Sampson
New York
Matanzas
Cardenas
Foote
Cincinnati
Rubalcava
Maya
Bay of Matanzas
Point Maya
United States
Havana
New American Mortar Battery at Sandy Hook Impresses
Leslie's Weekly notes the new model mortar battery at Sandy Hook with sixty 12 inch six ton shells, fired from armored turrets along channels forming imaginary squares. The system uses range finding and telecommunication to target ships, costing about $50,000 per shell and up to $10,000,000 per day of firing, illustrating immense American firepower.
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Sandy Hook
Leslie’s Weekly
Vesuvius
New York Harbor
Atlantic Highlands
Hook
Uncle Sam
A Picture of the Brook Farmers in Cheerful Yesterdays
In Col Higginson s Cheerful Yesterdays a vivid portrait shows Brook farmers including George and Burrill Curtis and Larned with Chas Dana, late editor of the New York Sun. The young men wore blouses a hunter s frock of brown woolen fabric belted at the waist, a common college fad of the era.
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Col. Higginson
George and
Burrill Curtis
Larned
Chas
Dana
The
New York Sun
Anecdote of Charles Lamb in a Rainy London Day
On a wet foggy autumn day in London, a beggar woman pleads for charity from Charles Lamb. He answers with a shilling and a small remark about the miserable weather, then bids her farewell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy
Barbara
Dearie
David
Elsie Carrington
David Stevenson
Mr. Harris
Miss Carrington
Mr. David
Charles Lamb
London
Lamb
Reformed by a New Pavement
Bill Smith, longtime drunkard living beyond King's highway, quits drinking after granitoid sidewalks install. Neighbors note his months of sobriety and diligent work ethic, joking his reform traces to the hard pavement that forced him to go home sober each night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Smith
King’s Highway
Smith
Globe-Democrat
Women Colonels of the German Army Named
The eight women colonels of the German army are the queen empress dowager empress wife of Frederick III Princess Frederick Charles of Prussia Queen Regent Sophia Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands the Duchess of Connaught and the Duchess of Saxe Cobourg Gotha sister of the Emperor of Russia.
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Germany
Frederick III
Frederick Charles
Prussia
Sophia
Wilhelmina
Netherlands
Connaught
Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha
Edinburg
Russia
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International Press Association
Mii
Victoria Station
R. J. MacHugh
Bay
Chester
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