Detective Traces Elopement To Rewed Matrimony
A Worcester detective travels with a reluctant bride who eloped with another man the day of her wedding. He reveals he is taking her back to justice to redo the nuptials while the curious crowd at Grand Central Station in Boston watches. The exchange highlights regional attitudes toward divorce and marriage in this comic anecdote from New York Recorder.
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New York Recorder
A Famous Novelist and Hall Caine Portrait
A New York Advertiser profile describes Hall Caine resembling Shakespeare in intellect and forehead height. It portrays him as nervous yet diligent, with late night creative bursts and travel for material. Manx-born Ale, about 45, lives in Hawthorns near Derwentwater, Reswick, writing verse and considering a life of Christ.
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Ale
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Derwentwater
Reswick
New York Advertiser
Christmas Turkeys and Provosts medieval tale
Meant For the Minister recalls Fifeshire legends of hampers at Christmas a giant turkey is sent to a minister and repeatedly sold by his family and finally accepted as providence. Also recounted are a bank overdraft anecdote and a street incident with a wheelman, plus a note on Roman brooches with martial designs.
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Fifeshire
Wifa
Peachblow Vase Mystery Unfolds in New York City
The New York World reports a tangled tale of the Peachblow vase once sold for $18,000 and now in Brayton Ives’s possession on Thirty-fourth Street. Amateur detective Sherlock Holmes questions who paid the vast sum and why secrecy surrounded the purchase while Mr. Ives and Mr. Walters reveal shifting claims and guarded promises.
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Brayton Ives
William T. Waters
Baltimore
American Art Association
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Sutton
Svea
Rane
Huntingdon Named for Countess of Huntingdon Patron
Huntingdon Pennsylvania earned its name from the Countess of Huntingdon, a benefactor to the University of Pennsylvania. Provost William Smith founded the town in 1777 and honored the university’s patron by naming the new community in her memory.
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Countess of
University of Pennsylvania
William Smith
Little City
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