Governor Fages and La Perouse Visit California
In early California days Governor Pedro Fages hosts Comte de La Perouse and Le Pante Dagelet aboard a Monterey presidio palace. Eulalia, the La Gobernadora, plays the gracious hostess while Pedro adapts to French guests, amid tensions and silent power chess. The scene sets the arrival of French exploration and ties to Santa Barbara missions, ending as the tale continues.
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Eulalia Celis de Fages
Pedro Fages
Santa Barbara
la Purisima
Pueblo
el Pueblo de Nuestra Senora de Porciuncula
la Reina de Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Eulalia
California
New York City
George Washington
Mount Vernon
France
Marie Jean Paul Roch Yves Guilbert- Motier
Marquis de la Fayette
Bay of Monterey
America
Louis XVI of
Comte Jean Francois Galaup de la Perouse
Don Esteban Martinez
Bay of
Monterey
Don Pedro
Don Esteban
la Perouse
Conde de la Perouse
la Belle France
Spain
Presidio
Pedro Fage
Peruke
Comte de la Perouse
le Pante Dagelet
Adobe Palacio
la Gobernadora
Lady Governor’s Submissive Return to Monterey
In Chapter XVIII Dona Eulalia returns with her husband to Monterey in a rare state of subjugation. He pursues her renewed beauty and her nurse’s care of their child while she drifts through social pleasures at the presidio. She memories a grievance of Mexico City and Junipero Serra’s fate as Nicolas Soler’s governorship dreams fade.
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Eulalia
Pedro Fages
la Gobernadora
Monterey
Dona Eulalia
San Francisco
Monterey Peninsula
Presidio
California
Mexico City
Junipero Serra
Nicolas
From Halls of Montezuma Origin Traced to 1847
Marines conclude an investigation tracing the song to the September 1847 capture of Mexico City. A San Francisco report notes an Aztec club officer wrote the first verse after victory, with later verses added by others. Music reportedly borrowed from the French opera Genevieve de Brabant. The current three stanza version ends with Marines guarding heaven.
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United States
Montezuma
San Francisco
Calif
United Press
Mexico City
Esprit de Corps
Leatherneck
Genevieve de Brabant
Heaven
Yellowstone Named Largest U.S. Park in History
Describes Yellowstone as the nation’s largest park exceeding Delaware in size, mainly in Wyoming with parts in Montana and Idaho. Notes its 1870 creation at the suggestion of Montana businessman Cornelius Hedges and its role in launching the national parks system. Mentions famed geothermal features once described by early explorers as boiling springs and geysers.
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Yellowstone
United States
Delaware
Wyoming
Montana
Idaho
Cornelius Hedges
Boilie Springs
Historic Hoaxes From Presidential Visit To Fabricated Legends
A Charleston 1901 visit by Theodore Roosevelt sparked a social climber hoax inviting a cup of tea for an old slave. The piece recounts the Sun 1835 hoax about lunar life by Richard Adams Locke, exposing media sensationalism and the Bennett rivalry, plus persistent myths about Captain Kidd and Olmstead versus Astor.
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United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Charleston
S. C
T. R
Roosevelt
South Battery
New York Sun
Richard Adams Locke
John Herschel
Sun
Edinburgh Journal of Science
Locke
Journal of Commerce
James Gordon Bennett
The
New York Herald
Captain Kidd
John Jacob Astor
Maine
Frederick Law Olmstead
Astor
Joseph H. Choate
Olmstead
Elihu Root
Franklin Harvey Head
Chicago
Old-Time Charm In Pansy Afghan Pattern
Crochet afghan with a pansy design offered by The Sewing Circle. Includes directions for afghan and pillow, material list, and color ideas, plus an easy chart. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept. in New York for pattern 6021 with name and address.
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Germantown
Household Arts Dept
Fourteenth St
New York
N. Y
Pepys Painted True Picture of Life in His Era
The passage describes Samuel Pepys as a famed English diarist known for blunt gossip yet precise chronicles. It notes his accuracy in detailing events while minimizing personal feelings, revealing both outdoor and indoor life of his time.
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Pepys
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Old Virginia
Stivers
Bartlett
Virginia Stivers
Francisco Palou
Presidio of
San Francicso
Padre Presidente
Augustias
Servanus
Gracias
Pedro
Mission of
Men In the
Augusta Evans
Des Moines
Iowa
Frank Bullington
Garfield Ave
Dr. Pierce
Giles
Benjamin Franklin
Sentinels of Health
Doans
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