Balzac Life Showed Debt Struggles and Passionate Pursuit
The life of Honore de Balzac blends financial ruin with creative fire. He chased fame and love, devising wild schemes to fund his work while enduring relentless creditors. His years-long courtship of Mme Hanska culminated in a brief, tragic happiness before death.
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Evert Astinals
Mones
Hanska
Honore de Balvac
Balzac
Andre Chenier
Napoleon
Champs Elysees
Arc de l'Etoile
Odeon
Liroux
Russia
France
Mme
Tle
Neufchatel
Hanaka
Honore de Balzac
Francois
Paria
Mme. de Balzac
Hanske
Vultures
Kansas City Independent
Curious Pleasures and Fatal Luxuries from a Gilded Age
A New York Herald report chronicles English entertainer Curtis Donnythorpe who kept a private troupe at home and died of heart disease after urging new dance steps. It also outlines followers of excess: Theodore Botley starving for nourishment, Cashel’s perfume‑induced near loss of smell and gas asphyxiation, and the Russian Count Tyanovitch feigning fear to avoid labor, reflecting the era’s fatal indulgences.
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Ludwig of
Bavaria
Curtis Donnythorpe
Donnythorpe
Kelley
Theodore Botley
Charles I
Cashel
Tyanovitch
Nicholas
New York Herald
Paris Exposition Plans Reported for 1916
Le Figaro says a Paris parliamentary committee quietly plans a new exposition for 1916 despite claims of a long hiatus after the previous financial failure. The panel was ordered to draft another report on the matter. Under the 1855 scheme expositions were held every eleven years, originally pointing to 1911.
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le Figaro
Paris
Nevada schools forced to close over teacher shortages
Several Nevada schools shut their doors as trustees struggle to hire and keep teachers. New administrators barely settle in before resignations force closures, halting classes and disrupting students.
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Nevada
Barry
Reformist Nickelby Meets Burglar in Satirical Interview
In a humorous tale Mr. Nickelby, a self described reformer, hosts a burglar who has entered his house to discuss reform. The thief argues reform is universal, cites poverty and deception in various trades, and proposes a future street job while warning Nickelby of the difficulty of genuine change.
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Homer Sprague
Nickelby
Mr. Nickelby
Heb
Chicago Crime Shock Hits Cole Home Invasion
Patrick Coyle 28 was fatally shot during a home invasion in Chicago as four men attacked Princes Delow 25 of Milwaukee who was visiting the Cole residence. Coyle stepped in to protect her and was wounded. Police report a violent past twenty four weeks with fifty four murders and many victims women.
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Chicago
Patrick Coyle
Princes Delow
Milwaukee
Cole
Coyle
Frank
Mies Drelew
Miss Delten
R. V. Pierce
Edmon Jacobs
Bargersville, Johnson Co
Ind
Dr. Pierce
Industries in Michigan show factory counts and employment
In Lansing Michigan the state labor department records 7177 inspected factories, up 3 from last year. Wayne leads with 1821 factories and 2017 employed, Kent 405 factories and 21447 workers. Sixteen counties hold 25 percent of factories and about seven percent of workers, including Wayne Went Bay Kalamazoo Saginaw Muskegon Calhoun Houghton Jackson Ingham St Clair Wexford Ottawa Genesee Ionian Manistee.
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Lansing
Mich
State Labor Department
Ty MO
Visst
Tee
Wayne
Kent
Went
Bay
Kalatmazoo
Saginaw
Muskegon
Calhoun
Houghton
Jackson
Ingham
St. Clair
Werrien
Ottawa
Genesee
Ionin
Manistee
County funds questioned in Indiana noted ex treasurer Clark
Terre Haute and Lafayette dispatches report county commissioners may demand a final settlement from ex County Treasurer William Clark who retired Jan 1 and is said to be short 50 000 to 75 000. Auditor figures show part settlement to successor Trank Ray but books unbalanced and earlier treasurer J L Walsh records incomplete. Clark backers claim assets cover the shortage and bondsmen will be relieved.
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Terre Hautte
Ind
William Clark
Trank Ray
Discovermg
Clark
J. L. Walsh
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