Tipping In Europe Aims At Private Service Customs
A Silver Messenger note discusses European tipping norms where guests receive private room services and attendants while in hotels. It contrasts ancient retinues with modern practice of hiring hotel staff, warns against exploiting waitstaff, and cites a chambermaid earning about two dollars a month at a Dest hotel.
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Europe
Youropean Aéryante
Mandford
Aim Mons
Alo Mes
Travel Magazine
America
Custon
American Chivalry and the American Gentleman
Antrim in Lippincott praises the American gentleman for his respect toward women and prudent self restraint, upheld by a household alliance and genuine deference. The piece notes farmers’ rising prosperity reducing mortgages, the western shift of capital, and a push by farmers to form a price-regulating trust, questioning Wall Street influences.
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Dames
Minne Thomas Antrim
Lippincott
Funda Ir
Wall Street
Wanamaker House Fire Destroys Art Treasures and Letters
The New York World notes the loss of John Wanamaker’s art treasures and manuscripts, including Lincoln and Washington letters, calling privacy and posterity a public concern. Fire breached a firewall between galleries and living spaces when a wall collapsed, destroying galleries with other precious items.
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John Wanamaker
Lincoln
Washington
New York World
Major Lambert
Philadelphia
Wanamaker
Enduring chain mail nuisance noted in Belgrade dispatch
Consul Moorhead reports from Belgrade that a nine letter forwarding chain prayer is urged by a minister seeking to boost sericulture. The scheme prompts fear of ill fortune for noncompliers and postal authorities advise discarding such mail. The Belgrade item hints at broader oddities in transit notices and local governance.
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M. K. Moorhead
Belgrade
Sericulture
Ekupehtina
National Assembly
Paratchin
Helgrade
Constantinople
A Woman's Qualifications as a Bank Official
A long discussion extols women as bank officers citing honesty and sterling integrity as essential. It argues women are raised to be above reproach and faithful in duties, with affability and courtesy in customer contact. It praises a woman’s intuition as a key asset for business life and discernment to avoid insincerity.
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Fife
Uses of Curiosity Across Professions and Society
The passage argues curiosity is a noble driver in science and literature and vital for sustained inquiry, citing Darwin and Renan. It emphasizes curiosity fuels understanding of others, aids professionals like clergy, doctors, and lawyers, and notes that noble curiosity earns respect, while ignoble curiosity can render a person detestable.
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Darwin
Renan
Hove
American Workmen Natural Hustlers
An immigrant narrator argues American workers are faster and more productive. He recounts moving to the United States ten years ago, adapting to faster orders in Lynn Massachusetts, and credits energy and a drive to improve for superior work. He contends foreign workers emulate this hustle to keep pace and notes American schools help skilled workers outperform foreign counterparts.
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Lynn
Mass
Joan Leads Plassenburg Envoys in Bold Battle Charge
In a dramatic outbreak at the field near the Alla, Princess Joan andCaptains Boris and Jorian reinforce Conrad’s besieged forces. Joan’s resolve to reach Conrad drives a risky rescue as Werner von Orseln bears the shaken prince from the field. The Plassenburg guard fights fiercely, but the Muscovites win the day and Joan vows vengeance.
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Boris
Anna Pappenheim
Jorinn
Franconia
Plaseenburg
Inwino
Anna
Joan
Plassenburg
Martha
Jorian
Conrad
Werner von Orseln
Maurice
Kernebergers
Boria
Hugo
Thorn
Bornhelm
Enyoys
Torian
Highneys
Jorlan
Borla
von Orseln
Isle Rugen
Alla
Joun
Margraf George
Kernsberg
Courtland
Margraf
Consack
Abi
Werner von Orselh
Joan Smote
Borie
Jon
Werner von Orsel
Werner
Jortan
Theresa von Lynar
Louis
Ivan
Muscovy
Theresa
Mother Helps Deaf Passenger Read Lips on Train
A Kansas City Times anecdote recalls a mother seated beside a moving reader on a train who asks a bystander to lower his paper so her deaf mother can watch the speaker’s lips and glean the news, since printed text fatigues her eyes during travel.
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Acroga
Kansas City Times
Galen Clark Journeyed Through California Sequoias at 91
The famed discoverer of California’s Maripass grove, Galen Clark, who survived consumption and lived to 91, traveled 294 miles by stage, 40 by carriage, and walked twelve miles in a day while visiting General Grant and Sequoia groves in Frew no and Tulare counties, returning to the Yoremum valley last week.
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Galen Clark
Maripass
California
San Francisco
The
Sierra
General Grant Grove
Sequoia Grove
Frewno
Tulare
Yoremum Valley
Aim
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Warner
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