Winning the Prize at the Country House
A rich widow Lou Harding pursues the wealthy Hugh Mansfield at a chic watering place. Leslie Weir, Harding’s companion, secretly loves Mansfield but endures slights. Mansfield meets Leslie, declares love, and they marry, leaving Harding to retreat in bitterness as Mansfield wins the prize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lou Harding
Hugh Mansfield
Fannie
Fannie Remington
Miss Weir
Mrs. Harding
Leslie
Miss Remington
Dorne
Mr. Mansfield
Mansfield
Leslie Weir
Hugh
Secrets and social manners from an era’s Washington and London
Ex Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Coon recalls a Washington Joint High Commission leak episode involving Scott Smith and Hamilton Fish. The tale contrasts press freedom with decorum, then shifts to observations on social life, youth manners, and Lord Chesterfield’s counsel about confidence, dress, and civil conduct in society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton Fish
New York
Washington
Department
Smith
Commission
Mr. Fish
Mr. Smith
Lord Chesterfield
The
Hague
Ireland
Harriet Trowbridge
Good Housekeeping
Back-Seat for Mustangs on a Georgia Mule
A Muscogee County farmer claims he rode a young mule as spectators watched. The mule bucked and danced, creating a dust cloud, and the rider’s knit suspender became tangled around his left hind leg. No other injury reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Muscogee County
Columbus
Enquirer-Sun
A Blazing Monarch Dethroned by Gas in Pittsburgh
A Philadelphia News verse laments coal's decline in Pittsburgh as natural gas rises. It frames coal as an aged king over global resources, with a shift to gas powered by modern energy spells and reason.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Cole
Philadelphia News
Why They Had to Kill Another Chinaman
A mining engineer recounts a Virginia City tunnel tragedy where two Chinese workers died after rock falls. The foreman boasted of easier funeral transport, prompting the engineer to fear for workers. The tale ends noting the transcontinental railroad’s completion seventeen years earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Pacific Coast
Smith
Virginia City
New York Graphic
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!