Three New York Landmarks Defy Broadway Developments
New York Sunn notes Trinity St Pauls and Grace Church on Broadway below Forty second Street amid rising real estate values. The three Protestant Episcopal churches, valued at 64 million 1.75 million and 350 thousand respectively, face perpetual sale pressure yet remain, with Trinity erected in 1536 St Pauls in 1764 and Grace in 1845. Their sites along Broadway offer carriage access, while Grace hosts fashionable weddings and all receive ongoing repairs funded by benefactors.
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Tfinity
St. Paul’s
Grace Church
Broadway
Forty-second Street
Trinity
St Paul’s
Grace
Protestant Episcopal
Trinity Church
Wall Street
St. Paul’s Church
Fulton Street
Eleventh Street
St. Paul's Church
New York
Curch
Tiffany's
Fifteenth Street
George Washington
Tenth Street
New York Sunn
Old Man Surprised as Bank Owed Him 343 25
Richard Roe deposited 705 at Bowery Savings between 1849 and 1885. Withdrawals totaled 753 89 while the account showed overdrawn 1. Dividends of 100 01 not entered left a due balance of 99 01. Dormant by 1875, the bank later found Roe in Rutherford New Jersey. He collected 343 25, repaid the bank, and left grateful.
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Richard
Bank &1
Richard Roe
Bowery Savings Bank
Roe
Rutherford, N. J
Townsend
Ant Rutherford
New York World
Cutting Remarks and Sharp Witted Banter
A fragment from New York Ledger features Mrs Bugsby and John in a sharp exchange about deception and silences. A playful aside explains the term fiasco as a failed bottle blown by Italian glassblowers. A brief note links Baluchistan’s name to the Belooches and mentions early church candle symbolism.
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Mrs. Bugsby
John
Mr. Bugsby
Maria
New York Ledger
Love at first sight breach of promise case shocks London society
Miss Birdie Sutherland Annie Louise Watkins a chorus girl at the Gaiety sues Dudley Churchill Marjoribanks son of Lord Tweedmouth for breach of promise. The affair began at a club, sparked interference from his family, and a year’s separation was proposed. He later traveled to Canada with his mother and did not return, ending the engagement. The case draws high profile legal talent and public interest.
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Marjoribanks
Birdie Sutherland
London Gaiety
Dudley Churchill
Beron Treedmouth
New York World
Annie Louise Watkins
Miss Luther
Birdie Pn Luerlandland
Lord Tyreedmouth
Lord Tweedmouth
Miss Sutherland
Marjoribank
Wilde
Belle Bilton
Lord Dunlo
Lord Rosebery
Gladstone
Hyde Park Gate
London
Marjori Banks
The Genius of the Inventor Versus the Burglar
A New York Sun interview discusses the ongoing duel between safe makers and burglars. Experts note modern safes resist explosives less than ideal and describe vault designs aimed at airtight joints and concealed doors. A London ad jokes that skeletons are cheap as business slows, with large tibial fifth ribs given away.
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Stea
New York Sun
London
The Tichborne Claimant Confesses as Impostor at Last
The famed Tichborne claimant signs a London paper confessing his real name as Arthur Orton and detailing a life of deception around the estate dispute. He promises a serial reveal of arrivals, Paris visits, Lady Tichborne encounters and interviews, with attention to the head scar and other startling episodes. The case has stirred international interest as identity remains a court’s hardest question.
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Arthur Orton
London
Tichborne
The
People
Lady Tichboorne
Paris
Lady Tichborne
Sir Roger
United States
England
Roger Tichborne
Sir Roger Charles Doughty Tichborne
Hampshire
Roger
South America
Beira
Rio Janeiro
York
Alfred
Wagga-Wagga
Australia
Wapping
Orton
Arthur
Lushington
Sir Roger Tichborne
Court of Queen’s Bench
Bar
Land
Alexander Cockburn
Mellor
Lush
Henry Hawkins
E. W. Kenealy
Mngland
Chatham Square
Philadelphia
Bowery
New York
Fourth Avenue
Romasecer
Glass houses and ancient glass, Tyre to Nineveh
The article notes Tyre and Alexandria hosting early glass works and cites Layard on Nineveh Babylon ruins. It cites two intact glass bowls found in a chamber with other fragments, dating to late seventh century B.C. and connects them to a small glass pottle from the northwest palace ruins now in the British Museum.
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Tyre
Alexandria
Layard
Nineveh
Babylon
British Museum
Sargon
Assyria
Boston Herald
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Baluchistan
Love
Fommy Atkins
Euglish
Sarsaparilla
Webster’s International
Dictionary
Times Grand
Gov't Ponting Office
U S. Supreme Court
Wntes Hon
Brewer
US Supreme Court
C. Merriam CO
Springfield
Mass
U. S
Hedd
T. O. Slater & Co
Carroll
Gurney
Water St
Warren, Pa
Langley
Second St
Frazer Axle
W. Jarvis
Water Street
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