St Louis Exposition and Bridges Timed Tour of Wealth
Special Correspondence from Louis August 22 reveals St. Louis as an old French settlement grown into a wealth center with grand clubs, theaters, museums, parks, and a famed exposition hall. It notes the $10 million St Louis Bridge, a $5 million post office, and a booming mining scene led by the Gravite Mountain Silver mine with fortunes for Clark McLure and the Rumseys despite tax disputes.
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Music Hall
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Shaw
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Thomas Benton
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Shakespeare
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Columbus
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Adelaide Neilson
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Chicago
Custom House
Maine
Missouri
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Washington
James B. Hads
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Charles D. McLure
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Rumseys and McLure
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In a French madhouse the Baron kept beyond law for sixty-two days
Newport August 28 The story of Baron de Seilliere Illegally imprisoned in a Paris private asylum reveals lax lunacy laws and the power of doctors and relatives to confine. He was drugged, restrained, and kept under strict control while relatives organized a kidnapping plot that failed.
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France
Baron de Seilliere
Lervis
Paris
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Fabret
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Coun B&ron DE
M. Graef
M. Grevy
Collineau
Tulane
de Seilliere
America
Fear of Snakes and the Psychic Side of Ophidians
Nym Crinkle recounts Steele Mackaye's snake studies and shows the deep dread he personally feels toward snakes. The piece explores whether fear is inherited or learned, recounts Mackaye’s rhythmic training with snakes, a rattlesnake test, and a fatal bowing to danger from careless exhibitors and a pet boa.
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Steele Mackaye
Mackaye
Great South Park
Moses
Tam
Animal Kingdom
Southwest
Bunnell’s Museum
Stamford
Anna Dickin
Aquarium
Troadway
Tode Hamilton
Mos
London
Bowbay
Bombay
Tabby
Boston
Rectore
New York
Generous Wall Street Operator Helps Stranded Broker
A top Wall Street operator received a broker who pleaded for 4600 dollars after missing a 50000 payment at noon. The operator relented, noting the broker’s insults but offering help to show mutual manliness, and issued a check for 4600.
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Wall Street
The
Stock Exchange
New York Sun
Monte Carlo Casino Blood Night at Doors
A vivid Memphis Avalanche account recounts a hot day when a cab horse collapsed near the Monte Carlo Casino. Blood stained the gravel as a journalist misread the scene. Later a young man blew out his brains at the casino doors, while directors trod in the victim’s blood, their consciences hardened by crime.
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Monte Carlo
Monte Cristo
Europe
Memphis
On the Streets of London in Local Papers
London newspapers publish letters from ladies claiming even modest dress and quiet manners invite misfortunes in daytime streets. The Boston Transcript notes this, while Dr. Wo Hammond remarks on bearing sorrow with a visible ulcerous mark on the face.
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Boston Transcript
Hammond
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