Women of Bavaria and the King’s Famous Portrait Gallery
A feature on King Louis I of Bavaria and his famed gallery of forty portraits in Munich showing Lola Montez Katharina Bozzaris Amelie von Krudener Charlotte von Hagen and other ladies. The piece recounts Louis I’s love of beauty his patronage and the fates of his mistresses amid court intrigue and exile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lola Montez
Bavaria
Munich
Louis II
Louis I
Morocco
New York
Countess of
Montes
Bavarian Chamber of Peers
Dimitri Bozzaris
Otto
Katharina
Ludwig
Montez
Amelie von
Paris
Count Fregenille
St. Petersburg
Alexander I
Switzerland
Mountain Republic
Crimea
Baltic
Russia
Amelie von Krudener
Rome
Charlotte von Hagen
Atcreas
Berlin
Hurave
Kathrina Bozzaris
Frederick William 111
von Hagen
Vienna
R. C. Wilson
Washington Letter Dreads Speaker Reed Return and Name Confusions
A Washington letter recalls Democrats fearing Speaker Reed’s return and notes misidentifications of lawmakers and illustrators. It recounts episodes of name confusion among Jones and Mitchells, misattributed portraits of Foster and Bayard, and a tale of a library office appropriation that backfired on the applicant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House of Representatives
Reed
House
Polk
John Quincy Adams
Democratic Party
Mr. Reed
Congress
China
Japan
Jones
Senate
Arkansas
Comere
Nevada
Mitchell
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin
Gibson
Louisiana
Maryland
White
California
Senator White
Treasury
Library of Congress
Moonlight at the Beach and a Teacherly Oddity
A poetic reflection on a moonlit beach romance ends with a pained farewell and a line about parting. A humorous classroom exchange follows, featuring a joke about a king full and four deuces.
Well Deserved Lord D Dines In Paris With American Slights
In Paris the critic Lord D belittles Americans over dinner with the British Minister. A Newport socialite, Miss X, rebukes him with wit about his dubious introductions, sparking no further discussion of Americans. An unrelated fragment about Maggie Hill Sloppy Slocum and spiritualism follows with rustic dialect and hearsay dialogue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord D
America
Paris
Newport
Miss X
Maggie Hill
Sloppy Slocum
Gold reserves dominance across western banks in 19th century
Utah banks hold twenty one times as much gold as silver while Arizona banks hold nine times as much and Nevada banks eight times as much. Colorado banks possess over four million dollars in gold and hold only one tenth that amount in silver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utah
Arizona
Nevada
Colorado
Fish-Hook Refounds After Trout Catch
Dr Kennedy, fishing in Dutch Hollow headwaters, lost a trout when a line parted at the hook ring. Weeks later he caught thirteen trout in the same stream and found a bone in a fish’s mouth that turned out to be the lost hook. He identified his hook by its unique feature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennedy
Dutch Hollow Brook
Auburn Advertiser
Also Mentioned on This Page
Women OF
Little Kingdom
Louis I of
Wittelsbach
National Intelligencer
Adams
Foster
John W
Thomas B. Reed
Indiana
Charles W. Foster
Ohio
Mr. Foster
Charles Foster
John W. Foster
Thomas F. Bayard
England
Salmon P. Chase
Dudley Chase
Dudley
Young Chase
Cincinnati
United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Charles E. Nettleton
Daheim
Constant L. E. de Sipate
Jack P. van Tenspot
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