The Many Lives of Lina Cavalieri and the Chanlers
The piece traces Lina Cavalieri, Rome born opera star and famed beauty who rose through Paris and Europe aided by patrons, to fashion wealth and marriages. It also recounts Amelie Rives Chanler and John Armstrong Chanler, their novels, togther with his later public scandal and controversial mental struggles set against late 19th century society.
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Milan
Vienna
Paris
Folies Bergere
Piazza Colonna
Rue de la Paix
Cavaleri
Cavalerl
Alexander Bariatinski
Lina
Lisbon
Europe
Cavalieri
Robert Winthrop Chanler
New York
Astors
Dutchess County
Natalina Cavalieri
Rome
Ling
Lasenne
Diva
St. Petersburg
London
Julia Chamberlain
Alice Chamberlain
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanter
Robert
John Armstrong Chanier
Chalkoner
Virginia
France
Chanler
Jack Deering
Miss Rives
Selene
Amelie Rives Chanler
John Armstrong Chanler
Blanche marries duke facing financial woes
A terse exchange notes Blanche in a marriage to a duke, recounting she married well yet lacks funds to cover his debts. The dialogue hints at social satire surrounding marriage and money.
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Greene Esa
Blanche
Maude
Cure for Baby Eczema Promised by Cuticura Remedies
A parent details severe infant eczema in a seven week old son, years of suffering, and multiple doctors without relief. After using Cuticura Remedies the child is cured and has remained clear for a year and a half, prompting hope the products may aid others and save money. John Leason Atchison Kan Oct 19 1909.
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Atchison
Cuticura
John Leason
Atchison St
Atchison, Kan
Oct
First Thrift Lesson From a Boyhood Banker
A Cleveland Leader quote recalls Frank Harris recounting how John H. Farley lent him money as a child to buy firecrackers lemonade and peanuts for the Fourth of July. Harris credits Farley as a steadfast friend and teaches a early lesson in thrift.
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John H. Farley
Frank Harris
Frank
Cleveland
Pleasant Place to Prosper in Kuhn tract Sacramento Valley
To the editor an appeal to buy a fruit dairy or poultry farm in the Kuhn irrigated tract in Sacramento Valley California at half value. Best water right low maintenance costs roads drainage and water right included. Ten months growing season ten tons alfalfa per acre 500 hens $100 monthly or more. Oranges lemons grapefruit figs walnuts and many fruits nuts vegetables and flowers grow here. Gardens year round charming healthful home. Land selling fast work for everybody. Write HL G Hollister Co. Chicago or Pittsburg.
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Kuhn
Sacramento Valley
California
HL G Hollister & Co
la Salle St
Chicago
Fourth Ave
Pittsburg
Let the City Man Try on the Farm Debate
The Pomona Grange of Kent County Rhode Island favors the city man staying in the city not returning to farm work. Observers in Massachusetts question the wisdom of the city man leaving urban life for farming and note the farmer’s limited soil income in New England. The city man should overcome aversion to overalls and consider moving to farm work.
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Pomona Grange
Kent County
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
New England
Woman-Like Brouhaha Over Love Declined
A quarrel over rejected affection ends with a man fretting after a woman called Jeanette. She recalls telling him she could not love him, while he apparently sobs and laments the outcome. The exchange captures local social tensions and romantic disappointment.
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Jeanette
Political Pastry Dilemma Delights Classroom
A playful classroom exchange centers on a math debate between a teacher and Willie. The pupil prefers one third over two sixths, arguing that dividing into sixths would waste more juice, prompting a sarcastic remark from the teacher.
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Willie
Politician’s sharp line echoes at Dalton dinner
Senator Crane warns those who ask unpleasant questions will face unpleasant answers. A quarrel erupts between the aged Gobsa Golde and his young wife as the scene unfolds with heated exchanges over money.
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Senator Crane
Dalton
Gobsa Golde
Gohbsa Golde
Deposits in English Savings Banks Reach Large Total
Savings bank deposits in the United Kingdom amount to over 1 119 295 000 dollars with the post office holding 773 640 000. Depositors exceed ten million in number. The people's total savings in all financial institutions are about 2 433 250 000 dollars.
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United Kingdom
Ancient Order of Spins meeting discussed loneliness and aid
A meeting of the Ancient Order of Spins featured readings on topics from car grease removal to memories tied to old letters. A visiting Spin spoke of the sorrow of loneliness for wives and mothers, while members pledged to visit lonesome women, a task not yet half completed after six weeks of afternoon and evening outreach.
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Atchison Globs
Sleepers Barely Missed by Runaway Horses in Ohio Farm Incident
George H. Beattie jeweler and L. E. Ralston News auditor were asleep at the Beattie farm near Chagrin Falls when a runaway county fair team roared into their lane. They rolled from their cots but escaped serious harm, prompting each man to sleep indoors thereafter.
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George H. Beattie
L. E. Ralston
Cleveland
Beattie Farm
Chagrin Falls
County Fair City
Beattie Estate
Ralston
Beattie
Easy Task Soap Protects and Cleans Chinaware
The article urges using Easy Task Soap for china as the correct, safe cleaner. It claims the white pure laundry soap cleans quickly and safely and has antiseptic qualities that sterilize the china, emphasizing germ protection.
Elijah did not die he was translated in Hebrew
The brightest boy in Sunday school answered that Elijah did not die but was translated. The teacher asked how Elijah died and the student replied with the biblical note of translation.
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Harry
Elijah
Dr Martel's Female Pills A 17 Year Standard Remedy
An advertised patent remedy for women's ailments claims seventeen years as a standard and proven value. It is prescribed and recommended for female health, with quick and permanent results. Sold at all drug stores.
Recipe for Happiness Quote
A reflection on happiness suggesting it resides in not longing for things that would make us happy. The note attributes the idea to Life and frames happiness as contentment with present states rather than desire for external gains.
Water and grazing tract improve at Omaha shipping point
Fragmentary notes describe improved water and grazing potential at a large tract near Omaha. Mentions a shipping point and an address in Nebraska, Henry KF, with Brown block details.
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Henry
Brown Block
Omaha
Onions Shown To Be Highly Nourishing In Diet
A brief note highlights onions as exceptionally nourishing among vegetables. The claim emphasizes their health value and suggests they exceed other vegetables in nutrition.
Ambiguous Old Pharmacy Ad Fragment
Fragmentary advertisement for laundry and remedies. Mentions Red Cross, yellow clothes, 1 cent, 2 ounce package, Mrs. Winston's Soothing Syrup for teething and teething pains, and references to infant ailments and a 2502 number.
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Antony
Helen of
Troy
Julius Caesar
Homer
Lina “Avalieri
Venus
Minerva
la Cavalier
Love
I’m
Hfe
Napoleon
Mexico
Robert Chanler
Bloomington
South Carolina
Albemarle County
Valieri
Ethel
Ernest
DR. Martel
A. Toi
Carter
Alk W. L. Douglas
America
Pre Rey
Baines
W. Bess Douglas
W.L.B
Brockton
Mass
Fred C. Witten
Elm St
Newark, N
Ui Ae
T. Felix Gouraud
Gourautd
Canada
Bu Ford
T. Hopkins
Great Jones St
New Yor
Liebers
New Yo
National Live Stock
Kansas City
St. Joseph
S. Onsahi
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