Haydn and the Ladies in Victorian Matrimony Memoirs
An article in Cornhill Magazine recounts Haydn’s romantic entanglements in England. The composer admired several women including Mrs Shaw and Mrs Hodges, kept letters from Mrs Schrouter, and joked about Mrs Billington as Reynolds painted her portrait.
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Haydn
England
Cornhill
Shaw
Havin
Hodges
Schroeter
Anna Maria
Doctorin Piavdna
Billington
Tiasda
Tlayda
Iy Tleydn
Lame Lawyer Retort and Braxfield Slur in Edinburgh
In Edinburgh John Clerk known as Lord Fertin answers a lady calling him the lame lawyer saying he is not lame in law. Lord Justice Braxfield also dismisses a judge’s absence after his wife’s death with a sharp quip about courtesy.
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John Clerk
Lord Feldin
Edinburgh
Thoughtful Husband Delivers Pins Instead of Pin Money
A humorous exchange shows a young husband telling his wife he saved her a trip downtown by bringing a paper of pins, sparking light domestic wit as quoted by Chicago News. In a street car, Mrs. Casey and Mrs. Murphy discuss families, noting differing counts of children including four living and lost in Philadelphia.
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Chicago News
Reed's Drug and Piano House Ad Promises Honest Deals
Local ad touts Reed's Drug and Piano House with a claim that agents' profits do not figure in prices and that the seller backs up every item. The message promotes piano and sewing machine sales under a trusted dealer banner.
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Reed
Manila News Harsh on Filipino Proposals in Peace Talks
An American officer was killed and two wounded when Filipinos attacked a launch with General Lawton's expedition on the Rio Chiquita near San Isidro. General Otis refused a Filipino commission visit, deeming propositions vague and unmilitary, and bars any report of the so called Filipino government.
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Manila
Lawton
Rio Chiquita
San Isidro
Otis
Angeles
MacArthur
Senator Arrives With Iowa Volunteers After Typhoon
The United States transport Senator reached San Francisco with 764 Iowa volunteers and 46 officers led by Colonel J. C. Loper. Only one death, Edward Kissik, and two injuries from a sail accident were reported. Adjutant General Byers welcomed the regiment at the Golden Gate. General Funston accepted appointment as brigadier general in the volunteer service and will proceed to Washington after mustering Kansas volunteers out.
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San Francisco
United States
Senator
Manila
Iowa Volunteers
Fifty-First Regiment of
J. C. Loper
Edward Kissik
Oskaloosa
Nagaski
Edwin Statler
Himer A. Read
Nagasaki
Statler
Read
Byers
Iowa
Shaw
Golden Gate
Funston
War Department
Kansas
Kansas Volunteers
Washington
Philippines
Officers Detailed to Observe South African War
Washington October 24 Colonel Sumner Major Storrey Captain Gibson and Captain Slocum have been detailed to proceed to South Africa to observe and report on military operations in the Transvaal. Sumner is a brigadier general of volunteers and serves as military attache at the London embassy. Storrey is at Governors Island, Gibson at Columbus Ohio, and Slocum, former attache at Lisbon, is en route to Cape Town.
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United States
Washington
Colonel Sumner
Major Storrey
Gibson
Slocum
South Africa
Transvaal
Sumner
London
Storrey
Governors Island
Columbus
Lisbon
Cape Town
Money Order System Reports Yearly Gains and Growth
Washington October report shows total money orders issued reaching 224.96 million dollars with earnings of 1.59 million dollars. An 20.36 million dollar year over year rise accompanies 579 thousand dollars in war taxes. New offices total 4,396. domestic orders 29.01 million and international 0.97 million.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Five Killed in Mexican Border Train Clash
An excursion train from Bisbee to Noco Mexico sparked a fight between cowboys and Mexican guards near El Paso. Four Mexican guards and one American miner died instantly in the confrontation.
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el Paso
Tex
Bisbee
Noco
Mex
Paxton Youth Dies of Lockjaw at Twenty Two
Harvey Wolfe of Paxton died last Thursday from lockjaw believed linked to a self inflicted hand injury while digging potatoes. He was 22, lived with his widowed mother, and his father had been killed six years earlier by a train. The item includes an unrelated Bedford-derived piece about a church pastors’ joint revival era, noting two congregations, a shared ministry and a revival fueled by Methodist and Presbyterian cooperation.
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Harvey Wolfe
Paxton
Avoid
the Wolfe
Stout
Tome
Sullivan
Bedford
Rey. Bi
Meteer
A. Wareiad
Wood
See
Sarap
Bath Telgnenge
Presbyterian Church
Schoolyard accident injures Master Adrian Schmidt
Thursday afternoon at the schoolyard a boy throwing horseshoes struck Master Adrian Schmidt on the head near the ear. The wound bled. the teacher bound it and kept him at school until dismissal. Doctors Crowder later found a slight skull fracture and dressed the wound.
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Adrian Schmidt
Drs. Crowder
Corn harvest brag from Alex Dickerson in the city
Big Corn and Alex Dickerson with wife visited Monday praising his 12 acre field yielding 65 bushels per acre and predicting better results from bottom corn. He prefers the disc cultivator to the old method and urges neighbors to subscribe to the Asion for news.
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Alex Dickerson
Mr. Dickerson
Dickerson
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P.S
Mr. Boltz
Pittsburg
Ohio Oil Company
Ohio
Indiana
Ohio Company
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Rurt
Home Office
Merom. Ind
T. J. Hunt & CO
Lnd W. Wash. St
Chicago
P.I
Rilla
Hereford
South Side
Reed’s Drug Store
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