Proper World's Mail Caper and Ward McAllister Ties
Ward McAllister comments on society and the Worlds Fair social rituals in New York. He predicts June to July visits by English peers and princes and notes Newport in July and August as a social focus. Also reports on a Long Island Chinese farmer colony and their impact on local labor, crops, and Chinese workers in New York.
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America
Ward McAllixton
New York City
Ward McAllister
E. M
New York Herald
W. Omca
New York
Heaven
McAllister
Newport
Maye W. McA
B. M
Eulalie
Spain
New York Society
Ward McAllistern
Fifth Avenue
Long Island
Brooklyn
Uhl
Meteorological clerk’s odd habit and late arrival
AHlarleme clerk at a store drew his salary for next July yesterday and arrived a half hour late. The store owner noted the cold conditions and questioned the tardiness as the clerk explained the chilly morning.
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Tom
Walvey
Adeaner
USA
Will you kindly tell me what those white posts are for
A Boston Courier excerpt recounts a woman awaiting a streetcar at a corner. Three cars pass by in mud and slush as she protests delays, asking the conductor about the white posts. He explains they are used to hold up the wires, in a comic local note from Galway.
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Kandy
Boston Courier
Galway
Tim Brennan
Mpperary
West of Ireland
Tim
Ireland
Dublin Journal
Emergency Case in a Dinner Tale and a Balloon Question
A collection of journalistic quips from dinner chatter and telegrams about sensational facts. A Boston Badger tale features Dr. Sharp as the sought after surgeon, teased by mammas with marriageable daughters about a balloon accident.
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Gridiron Club
Washington
New York Herald
James Gordon Bennett
Ohio
Fesouse
Society
Aman
Boston Badger
Definition of average prompts child response in classroom
A New Hampshire committee asks children to define average. Mally offers a mistaken egg-laying clue, then corrects to a reading book example. The exchange highlights misunderstandings and a stray note about a farewell address read to the Senate on February 24.
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New Hampshire
Mally Alittle Girl
United States Senate
Rae
Muye Au
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Proprietors
T. P. Bradshaw & CO
Reno, Nevada
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