Newport Indecorous Set Defines Its Foreign Ties
A blistering portrait of Newport society lauds its indifference to rank and scandal, detailing lavish spending by the titled foreign element and the rigid social gatekeeping that favors wealth and title over merit. It contrasts Monte Carlo and European resorts, warns of overindulgence, and questions the value of Newport’s costly six‑week season.
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New York
Newport
France
Canaille
Duc de
Newpor
Berger's
Ennui
Cnre
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Eccentriques
Monte Carlo
Trouville
Aix Les Bains
Ostend
England
Eres
Atlantic Coast
Massachusetts
Canadian Line
City
Why He Sneaked Of
A Philadelphia business man who travels abroad explains his secrecy about trips to avoid being used as a purchasing agent and smuggler. Friends pressed him for commissions, sometimes paying nothing or demanding items smuggled duty-free, creating repeated nuisance.
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Philadelphia
Paris
London
Berlin
Slang and Patter from a Portland Oregonian Cartoon
A playful, oblique snippet from the Portland Oregonian appears to riff on slang and flirtation lines about paying in strange currencies and various actions with the body. The piece misprints and tangled phrases read like a humor column or street talk from an earlier era.
Coal Field Children and Unionism in Mines and Mills
An extensive critique in a New York Evening Post letter argues poverty drives child labor in Pennsylvania coal regions. It links large families and low mine wages to schooling neglect, describes underage work in coal breakers and textile mills, and notes weak birth registration and mining laws. The piece calls for birth registration and stricter child labor enforcement to curb exploitation.
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New York Evening Vt
Mitchell
Plymouth
Union of
The
Textile Workers of America
Pennsylvania
New York
Nanticoke
United States
Dooley for Alcalde Brings Hope to San Juan Campaign
The Brooklyn and San Juan businessman Henry W. Dooley lines up as the first American candidate for alcalde of San Juan Puerto Rico. He faces Senor Manuel Egoscue in a bitter contest, with both American Federal and Republican factions vying for influence as 750 voters decide the fate of local government. The campaign features plazas meetings, formal nomination by the American Federals, and celebrations with Sousa’s band amid a citywide clash over future autonomy and U.S. ties.
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Dooley
Alcalde
San Juan
Porto Rico
Henry W. Dooley
Brooklyn
American Federal Party
Republican Party of
Lke
Los Turbas
Republican Ring
Republican Party
Liberal
United States
Sisterhood of States
Tabor
Mr. Dooley
Senor Acuna
Sousa
Eee
England's Flag Debate Sparks Navy Ensign Clash
The New York Commercial Advertiser notes a controversy over England's national flag as Portsmouth harbor showpiece the Foudroyant, a private museum ship, displayed the union jack during coronation review but was ordered to lower it. The Times suggests England lacks a single universal national flag, though the jack appears on many ensigns.
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New York
England
Times
Portsmouth
Foudroyant
Portsmouth Harbor
The Dentist as Artist and Healer in Moral Reform
A Chicago Advance piece reflects on dentistry as art and science, comparing professional care to moral repair. The narrator admires dental progress, notes strict training, and muses that ministers and reformers should match such precision to heal both body and spirit, since sin is a deeper disease.
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Chicago
Havana
Ike Mark Twain
General McClellan
Poe Recital in Richmond Draws Tiny Audience
Dr. John F. Carter reports in Lippincott's Magazine on Edgar Allan Poe's November Richmond recital at Mrs. Mackenzie's. Nine attendees plus two companions heard Poe read The Raven and Annabel Lee with a plain delivery lacking his usual eerie flair, following a suggestion from Mrs. Mackenzie about a public recital.
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Mr. Poe
Richmond
Imi
Duncan Latne
Jane Mackenzie
Poe
Rosalie
John F. Carter
Lippincott's Magazine
Exchange
Julia Mayo Cabell
Annabel Lee
Mrazie
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Mark
Cove
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York
Portland Oregonian
Geo. J. Marott
Dorothy Dodd
Geo. J
New York Evening
Edith
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