Shopping In Old England From A Boston Perspective
A Boston Transcript piece recalls the English shopping maze highlighting purchase pressure, price tricks, and the lack of return culture. It recounts experiences in Regent Street and Oxford Street stores, with anecdotes about scams, rude sales staff, and the humbling reality of buying in Britain.
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Boston Transcript
England
Whitechapel
Oxford Street
Great Britain
Regent Street
Madame
New Oxford Street
Indise
London
Ena
Robin Peterson
Pit
TWO NEWSPAPER MILLIONAIRES IN VIRGINIA POLITICS AND SLUMMING GUIDES
The piece profiles John Skelton Williams and Joseph Bryan as Virginia’s leading newspaper magnates and influential Democrats amid talk of new journals, plus Lieutenant Governor Joseph B Willard's potential bid. It also exposes New York slumming guides led by Chuck Connors, detailing exaggerated tricks to feign authentic poverty and crime in Chinatown and other districts.
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New York
Virginia
John Skelton Williams
Seaboard Air Line Company
Joseph Bryan
Richmond Locomotive Works
Southern Railway
Williams
Bryan
John 8. Mosby
Richmond
The
Times
Richmond Dispatch
Cowardin
John Skelton Willams
News
Dispatch
Leader
William J. Bryar
Joseph EB. Willard
Willard
Joseph C. Willard
Washington, D. C
Pteec
Young Joe
Itlard
National Capital
Joe
Fairfax County
New York Letter
Washington Star
Chuck Conners
Chinatown
Pompeii
Haroun-al-Rashid
Nero
Hal
London
Westminster
Messalina
Zenobia
Palmyra
Parkhurst
Conners
Mott Street
Chinatown Guides
eXn
Migi
Bispham Divorce Hearing Reveals London Lease And Dissent
In the resumed Bispham divorce case, the husband testified to taking a fourteen year lease on a London house. He cited marital strife over his wife’s extravagance and her Catholic conversion. He valued being American yet planned no return home, deeming the U.S. unfitting as a musical center.
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London
David Bispham
United States
Best paper praise from Elkhart Review for Indianapolis Journal
The Elkhart Review lauds the Indianapolis Journal as the best paper in the West praising its restraint, honesty, and comprehensive news. It notes the daily and Sunday together cost about wc a month in Indianapolis and suburbs with Sunday at Se a copy and daily at one cent more per day.
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Indianapolis
Elkhart Review
Indianapolis Journal
West
Slumming Guides Dominate New York Trade Ring
Slumming guides form a close corporation colluding with hotel clerks to skim profits from conveyings. Outsiders seeking entry risk violence, including broken heads, as the scheme tightens its control over the trade in New York.
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Ming Guides
New York
Parrot language lessons lure cosmopolitan buyers in New York
A New York dealer offers parrots that talk in English French Italian Spanish and Yiddish. He trains birds to speak multiple words and sentences, often tailoring phrases to customers nationalities and ads. He cites examples from Emerson to Poe and notes sales to actors, cigar shops, and patent food firms. He also shares humorous anecdotes about parrots bilking slow payers and clever repartee.
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New York Mail and Express
Fourth Avenue
Africa
Prince's Island
Emerson
Poe
Joseph Jefferson
Rip van Winkle
Tane
George Grossmith
Jefferson
Trust
Free America
Polly
Snap Shots: Instructions to a Boy with a New Camera
Frederick W. Wendt writes in June St Nicholas guidance for young photographers on aiming with purpose. He urges thinking before snapping, showing how a pocket camera can capture lively scenes on land and water.
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Frederick W. Wendt
St. Nicholas
Uke
Robert
When Rome Sleeps by Maud Howe in Lippincott's Magazine
A vivid excerpt contrasts Rome's two daily halves with a Roman household routine. The narrator details rising at 6, sealed rooms, a siesta from 2 to 4, workers napping in the piazza, and a later dinner. Tea on the terrace, Renzi and Singer treats, and stars at bedtime close the scene.
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Maud Howe
Lippincott
Rome
Renzi & Singer's
Harriman Appendicitis Joke Sparks Club Banter
In New York Times society chatter at a club, a remark on E. H. Harriman’s recovery from appendicitis prompts laughter. A doctor asks what was found, and the crowd notes the appendix was full of undigested securities. they joked about cutting the coupons.
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New York Times
E. H. Harriman
Neo man can choose what coming hours may
A terse note suggests a person or group asserts control over forthcoming hours, implying power to decide schedules or events. The fragmentary text lacks clear names, places, or context, leaving the exact scope and setting ambiguous. Further detail would clarify the subject and stakes.
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Neo Man
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