Washington Society Keeps Court Circles Busy This Season
Special correspondent reports Washington social life opens with Mrs Cleveland hosting White House entertainments while dancing is debated. Etiquette rules, precedence among cabinet wives and senators’ spouses, and the prevalence of wine at receptions mark a lively, status-driven season.
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Washington
Washington Society
Senator Blank
Cleveland
White House
Legations
Merry
Arthur
Gayes
Grant
Hayes
Garland
Lamar
Ifshoe
Mississippi
George
Supreme Court
Carlisle
Land
West
Washinton
Jim Belford
Colorado
United States Senate
Senate
Witch
Endor
Ichabod Crane
Jos Cannon
Ilinois
Jones
Cannon
South
Memphis
Nellie Blank
Blank
Frank G. Canrenren
Dakota summer tales from the Goose region and Dalrymple farm
In a letter from New York, the narrator recalls Dakota life near Mayville on the Goose River. Dialogues describe Oliver Dalrymple, his eighty thousand acres, 7,000 under cultivation, high wages, and storms. A July heatwave reaches 132 degrees, prompting evacuations to the cellar as crews endure a sirocco.
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New York
Dakota
Portland
Dalrymple
Oliver Dalrymple
St. Paul
Mayville
Wii
Humarno Emeran
Rich Men Tombs and Granite Mausoleums in New York
The New York Mail and Express surveys grand tombs and mausoleums of notable figures. It details William H. Vanderbilt and Cornelius Vanderbilt family plots, achievements like Butterfield’s $40,000 mausoleum, and plans of Colis P. Huntington for an enormous Woodlawn monument. Jay Gould’s Woodhaven vault costs and design are described, along with other prominent burials and investments in funeral splendor.
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Grant
Tilden
Hendricks
Arthur
William Si. Vanderbilt
New Dorp
New York
Woodlawn
Commodore Vanderbilt
William H. Vanderbilt
George Osgood
D. B. Allen
Horace PF. Clarke
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Frederick Butterfield
Central and
Poplar Avenues
William H. Appleton
A. H. Barney
Christian Hester
Hester Brothers
H. H. Cook
Standard Oil Company
Marshall O. Roberts
Collis P. Tuntington
Central Pacific Railway
Wall Street
Jay Gould
Central Avenue
Woodhaven Cemetery
Acropolis
Athens
Parthenon
New York Mail and Express
Woman's Retort In The Poet's Corner
A humorous remark from a Boston Transcript note recalls a female reader's rebuke to The Peavine editor. He protested a contributor writing on both sides of the page. she retorted that the editor prints on both sides of his. The exchange highlights witty press banter.
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The
Peavine
Boston Transcript
Detroit Free Press
A Decayed Tooth Cited As Cancer Trigger
A decayed tooth though painless with a sharp edge or a stump left after breaking off irritates the tongue and is repeatedly cited as a frequent origin of cancer in Household Words.
Notable Shoppers Tally Goods in West Chapel Car Scene
In a New Haven News excerpt a couple recalls shopping all day in a West Chapel sheet car. They swapped questions about purchases, noting they priced many items without buying. The dialogue captures a brisk, store-hopping mood and shared consumer chatter.
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West Chapel
New Haven News
Flax, Palmistry and Historic Tidbits Across Dakota
A quirky mix notes Dakota farmers growing flax for heat value, a palmistry-obsessed daughter and a mother anxious about where her husband spends evenings. It also recalls a Victorian servant ratio at Queen Victoria’s table and a Martha Washington letter selling for 151 dollars at auction.
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Manma
Snowbound Reflections and Curious Cultural Passages
A collage of prose and anecdotes ranges from a wintry scene in verse to essays on Persian etiquette and language. It moves through literary notes, antiquities news from Paris, a humorous street encounter, tribute to a racehorse, a young writer in New York, and brief profiles of industry figures and legal minds.
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Thea
Allaah
Khosh Amad
Musharaf Wuzain
Lotte
Lillingsgate
Teheran
Wolf von Schierbrand
New York Graphic
Mickey Finn
New York Sun
Ernest Jerrold
The
Evening Post
County Island
Kingston On the Hudson
New York Mail and Express
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Gome
Joe Cannon
Detriple
William H. Vanderblit
Tve
Martha Washington
Warren
Newmarkets
O. H. Hunter & Son
Robert Kelley
Paris
Unoon
Suse
Darius
Artaxerxes
Faris
Archer
Frei Archer
Newmarket
Prince of Wales
Noewmarsut
Chicago Tribune
America
Europe
Philadelphia
New York Commercial Advertiser
Roger A. Pryor
Ben Butler
Browns Lron
Wripper
Darby
Indy
Dees
Day
Lydia E. Pinkham
L.G. Noyes
C. P. Northrop
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