The Man on the Box in New York Romance
Warburton seeks a dining date at the Holland House while chasing a vision of Miss Annesley. He fails to notice a Russian count and the colonel escorting her, losing her to a Washington-bound encounter as morning dulls his hopes. He wanders through privilege and disappointment, with Parisian dreams fading into whisky and billiards.
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Eotel
Warburton
Robert Warburton
Paris
Washington
Nancy
Jack
Robert
Holland House
Fifth Avenue
New York
The
Waldorf
Monsieur
United States Army
England
Mr. Robert
Annesleys
Warburton Visits His Brother in Washington
Warburton arrives in Washington after years away, riding a late nineteenth century omnibus to Scott Circle near Lafayette Square. He finds a grand house, marvels at the capital’s calm bustle, and bursts into his brother John Warburton’s home, surprising the maid and family.
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Lafayette
Scott Circle
Lafayette Square
Sixteenth Street
Warburton
Jack
Pat Gibney and Judge Fox Share Herring Run Joke
In Taunton Pat Gibney after watching the East Taunton herring run for years accepts a ride from Judge Fox. The exchange turns humorous as Pat remarks he’d be long in Ireland before a judge would offer him a car ride, and the judge replies Pat would lag longer than Fox would rise to such a position.
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Pat Gibney
Taunton
Ireland
Boston Herald
Pat
Judge Fox
Green
Gibney
Queen Marie Louise's Language Blunder
The Empress Marie Louise, newly married to Napoleon, misunderstands a French term and believes it praises her father. She later compliments Cambaceres by calling him the greatest ganache in Paris, thinking it means learned. The tale highlights her ignorance of French.
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Napoleon
Marie Louise
Austria
Cambaceres
Navy Floral Memorials Begin A National Observance
A California woman sparked a rising custom of placing flowers on naval graves at sea on Memorial Day. Since 1900 observers from Detroit to Philadelphia and Havana have joined salutes, with Mrs. Armitage S. Forbes recognized for founding the nationwide tribute.
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California
Deeps
Lake Eiie
Philadelphia
Havana
New Orleans
Golden Gate
San Francisco
Delaware River
Dewey
Sampson
Schley
Long
Score
Navy Veterans’ Association
Armitage S. C. Forbes
Los Angeles
National Association
Ladies of Naval Veterans
Women’s Relief Corps
United States
Grand Army of the Republic
Navy Department
Washington
Pacific Coast
Santa Monica
Catalina
Yantic
Charleston Navy Yard
Race Street Pier
Cumberland
Hampton Roads
Mobile Bay
Havana Harbor
Delaware
Melville
John Paul Jones
Alfred
America
Continental Congress
Forbes
John Kaye
Uncle Sam
Mediterranean Sea
Brighton Beach
San Pedro Harbor
Wyoming
Preble
Paul Jones
Warrior
Cottman
Broad
Pacific
Irish jarvey wit in a hill race tale
A returned traveler recalls a bustle with a lively Irish jarvey during a hill sprint. The spirited mare bolts the carriage while the jarvey keeps calm and mocks the traveler with a River below bridge plan to calm the horse.
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Ireland
Jarvey
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Man On the
Bobbs-Merrill Companys
Larchmount
New York City
Baltimore and Potomac
Pennsylvania Avenue
Capitol
Washington Monument
Treasury Building
Executive Mansion
Queen Louise
Sailor Heroes
Far
Mediterranean
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