A Role of Normandy Chapter VIII Continues
In the Paris salon of Madame de Montespan, nobles discuss beauty wit and marriage as Louis XIV moves through a crowd. Sieur de la Salle and Tonti seek favor, clashes with Colbert escalate, and Tonti earns a commission after dramatic defiance.
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Fosse
Madame de Montespan
Gros de Tours
Marechale de l'Hopital
d’Espagne
la Rochefoucauld
Fontanelle
Nephle
Racine
Hell
Paradise
Abbe
Guyart
Mortemars
Har Fontanelle
Francis First
Explorer
la Sallé
Tonti
New France
Madame
New
France
Italy
Tuscany
Esca
Right Suitor Molly in a Dueling Temperaments Tale
A 1905 Margaret Sangster piece follows Molly as she weighs two suitors, Jack the steady planner and Will the brilliant risk taker. Parents lean Jack. Molly debates love, prudence, and the right match amid contrasts in temperament and the need for practical finances.
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Margaret E. Sangster
Joseph B._Bawen
Jack
Will
Father
Mother
Molly
Wills
Pretty candle screen and skin care guidance from a 19th century note
The article describes a white gauze iris screen mounted in a gilt frame and painted with watercolors, plus options for colors and silk on croissant colors. It then gives windburn prevention tips recommending a chiffon veil and Venus cream with a detailed formula including Spermaceti, white wax, almond oil, cocoa butter, lanoline, balsam of Peru, orange flower water.
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Peru
Battle of Bear River Rift with Utah Montana outlaws
The Battle of Bear River pitted volunteers led by Col. Connor against renegade tribes from Utah and Montana. In midwinter deep snow, infantry waded icy banks while cavalry crossed on horses. The fight ended with many Indians killed, and numerous soldiers frozen or left at Mormon houses on the return. Another clash near Spring Valley Nevada saw Companies L and H of the Second Cavalry rout more Indians than there were men in those two companies.
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Europe
Madame de Montespan
Lools
Louis
Madame de’ Montespan
la Salle
Tonth
Pardieu
Tonti
Colbert
Sieur de la Salle
Messina
France
Tont
Leutenant
Capitaine
Italy
New World
Rome
Comte de Miron
Grand Salle
Mademoiselle
Renee
Tointi
Tenji
Bear River
Utah
Montana
P. Edward Connor
Third California
Camp Douglas
Salt Lake City
W. H. Parker
California
National Tribune
Bearrive
Second Cavalry
Spring Valley
Nev
Goldfield Mining Camp
Beautifying Paris Chooses Six Buildings for Medals
Paris municipal council adopts a plan to ornament street fronts. A committee inspected last year’s buildings and selected six with the finest facades. The architect of each will receive a medal and the owner enjoys tax relief.
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Paris
London Alphabet Streets Narrow Short Names
London’s Alphabet streets included D Mews in Regent's Park as the sole surviving alpha bet street i e a name of a single letter. Once many letters named thoroughfares, D Mews remains the only one not shortened in name length.
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London
Regent's Park
Wedding Anniversary Rules Highlight Key Celebrations
The article lists the falcon sequence of wedding anniversaries from first year to diamond. It notes only the fifth tenth fifteenth twenty fifth and fiftieth are commonly celebrated with specific materials like wood tin crystal china silver ivory woolen silk and gold.
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China
Tolstoi Portraits Suppressed on Post Cards in Russia
Picture postcards showing Tolstoy faces face government censorship in Russia where portraits of the author are forbidden. The measure targets imagery judged politically sensitive and restricts distribution within the country.
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Russia
Tolstoi
Recollections of Grant in Century verse
An old man recalls the Civil War memory of Ulysses S. Grant. He describes serving alongside the general at critical moments in battle. The speaker declines to write a formal tribute, preferring to be known simply as one of Grant’s friends.
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Colbert
Bastille
Tonti
Louis
Italy
Molly
Grant
Charles Henry Webb
Century
College riot sparks chaos as students clash at hotel
An American attache watches a student riot outside the Hotel Michaelovitch. Freshmen and sophomores hurl red flags, surge into gouging crowds, while the terrified manager warns of arrest. The attache humorously misreads the scene as a cane rush or hazing. The paper notes the riot was against the government.
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American Legation
Michaelovitch
WN. Y. Sun
Prize of four thousand pounds offered by Paris Academy
The Paris Academy of Sciences offers a £4,000 prize to inventors who discover a method of communicating with the Mab, a prize founded by Pierré Guzmann. Another prize awaits anyone who discovers an infallible remedy against Asiatic cholera.
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Paris Academy of Sciences
Pierré Guzmann
Othie
Soldier Pride Restores Dignity After Debauchery in Nashville
In a wartime reminiscence, a captain recalls his company’s drunken night before Buell’s march through Nashville. The men steadied as they moved past the general, who ordered arrests, and the crowd’s insult turned to disciplined bearing under martial music. The moment underscored the soldier spirit overcoming weakness.
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Sata
Buell
Nashville
Pugle
Ruel
Inter-Ocean
Shackling of Davis in Peason's Magazine account
Brevet Lieut. Col. John J. Craven describes a prison scene where Blacksmith and assistant bind prisoner Davis after a struggle. Davis resists, seizes a sergeant’s musket, but is overpowered as shackles are riveted and padlocked. He sobs “Oh, the shame” amid the victory of authorities.
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Rane
Mr.Davis
Titlow
Davis
Staned
America
John J. Craven
Peason’s Magazine
Port au Prince Requisition for Cape Hayden Volunteers
During a Hayti uprising the Port au Prince government forces demanded 100 volunteers from Cape Hayden. After days of effort Cape Hayden authorities loaded the men onto the ship Saginaw and sent a reply asking for the ropes used to tie them.
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Hayti
Port Au Prince
Cape Hayden
Port—au—Prince
Saginaw
Port Hayden
Fire British Army refusals block Irish Guards US visit
The War Office declined to permit the Irish Guards band to tour United States cities during their summer trip to Canada. In other news, the historic brick house at Cincipnaty where Sheridan’s Ride was written by Thomas Buchanan Reage is to be demolished to make way for a factory.
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United States
British—war-office
Irish Guards
Canada
Cincipnaty
Thomas Buchanan
Reage
Sheridan
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Cardle
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