Adah Issaac Menken Mazeppa star in Paris and New Orleans
Adah Issaac Menken, famed Mazeppa performer and equestrian dancer, rose to fame in New Orleans and Paris. The article traces her struggle, marriages, artistic rise, and the controversial allure she held over managers and press, ending with her burial at Parc-la-Chaise and lasting fame among American tourists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ciy
John Revance
Blanca
Coe Teagely
Abe
Everea
Aluy
John Heanen
Yooseo
Heenan
Gould
Mazeppa
T.clom
Adale
Menken
New York
Heo
Stanley
Lanl
Feri
Irby
New
Secialty
Tandon
Jong Spedtings
Ie Sanday
Agua
France
Paris
Ambog
Thara
Boule Sapateon
Loula Napoleon
Altaienalee
Mongin Thenen
Thea
Muval
Aun Petit Souper
Bus Gover
Fraternal Lodge Rich with Nineteenth Century Rituals
The report recounts a series of Masonic and related fraternal lodge activities in Wheeling. Entered Apprentices and fellowcrafts are welcomed, ceremonies and special meetings described, with banquets at Motel Van Keuren and a ceremonial knights’ procession. Future appointments, degrees conferred, and upcoming events across several local lodges are noted.
Knights of Honor and lodge duties at Read
The Mystic Ghat in Read hosts the Knights of Honor Silver Wave Castle Noil on February 21 celebrating two decades of the order with a program and brief history. Officers include George Hopwood and John Carduna. Also notes a K of P lodge meeting with petitions, esquire degrees, and plans for multiple degrees in coming meetings. A feature column discusses company manners and table etiquette for homes, including the distinction between good manners and form, and practical tips for serving and child training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Onier Kolahts
Silver Wave Castle
Noil
Handien Hall
Lunge
George Hopwood
John Carduna
Henry Servoday
Robert Bryns
Read
John G. Matthews
de Breihros
Use Orter
Rollet
Brookran
Okra
Cinireas
Foster Love Fur Country
Remn
Black Prines Lodge
K. of P
Paco
Lodge i5
Maria Parioa
Ladies’ Home Journal
Fragmented civic oath text line from 19th century issue
The readable fragment references teaching obedience to laws and binding members by friendship and brotherly love within a fraternal order, signaling an oath or pledge context from a historical newspaper page.
Force Them Out Wift’s Remedy Claims Cure All Diseases
A dubious claim extols a product named Wift’s Specific as far in advance of medical science. It supposedly expels microbi from the blood and cures the worst diseases for 00 years. The text asserts the medical world now agrees the only way is to force out the vacancy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rae
Ireland
Wift
New York Fashion Notes on Dress and Parisian Style
New York fashion writer compares Parisian dress to American wardrobe taste, praising elegance over expense. He cites Princess gowns at a Mrs Roberts wedding, discusses corduroy and velveteen for street wear, and notes the current black lace veils with floral borders as a street fashion staple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Yor
Ruskin
la Parisenne
Faubourg St. Germaine
Bois de Boulange
Constantine
New York
Redfern
Inflooence of the female sex on liberty and progress
A Cot ton Blossom Club meeting receives a letter from the Sorosis Society of Chicago asking observations on the influence of the female sex on liberty politics art progress and business. Members debate women shaping culture law and commerce from fashion to industry with humorous testimony and a closing toast to women's influence.
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Brother Gardiner
Cotton Blossom Club
Sorosis Society of
Chicago
Bradder Beebe
Rebee
Liberty
Ginger
Saberatus
Bradder
Pullback
Hs Down
Tennessee
Blaine
Jin
Bradder Penstock
Matter of
Arc
Brod
der Gardner
Penstock
Life on other planets and the weight of objects
A fragmentary discussion on planetary sizes and gravity compares Earth with the small planet Ceres. It explores how gravity scales with diameter, imagining a world where a 100 pound person would weigh only a couple of pounds on Ceres, and ponders the fantastical effects on motion, jumping, and daily life. The text hints at further musings on space travel and physical limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cash World-Herald
Qurearth
Ceres
Antipodes
Moon
Earth
Ished
Haley
Byatt
Chile
San Invader
Boundless travel and dwarfs on different worlds
A speculative piece ponders how size scales with world volume, imagining beings as dwarfs on larger suns and giants on smaller asteroids. It notes, with playful logic, that inhabitants grow or shrink with weight when moving to planets, suns, or tiny asteroids like Ceres. Also referenced is a New York bank statement listing increases in reserves loans deposits and a drop in circulation.
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Aroum
Ceres
Earth
Tom Thumb
Pla Warth
New York Weekly
New York
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UN Rice
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Diliciet
Sborst Societies
Malonry
Lodge No
War House
Caton
Adan
Malta
Commandery
Hurel van Keuren
Nelson Sodar
Witfas
Litberty Lodge
West
Wheeling Lodge No
Cyrone Wonmardery No.7
K.T
Reeuler
Franklin Lodge
L. F
Evlondship
Reliehie
P . K. Senith
Knights OF Honor
Alphas
Potlo Bayner
Drach
Klights
Tammistic Crain
Knights OF Pythias
Budttor Weekly Sun
Krxastox
N. Y
Hinck
Wolfeton
Renfrew County
Aimee
Veil
Maure Jonreau
Schoorgie
Jjardnee
Hedstead
Samuel Shi
Toots
Bradder Jedge Chewso
Kyanu Johnson
Maine
California
Erie Canal
Buffalo
Muttontatlon
Catever
Hoslary
New Jersey
Jersey City
Deacon Spooner
Brother Gardnury
Samuel Shia
Wiley
Givendam Jones
Avingan
Dis
Janse
Maxenaxorn
McKows
Josara Love
Mansbarger
Lotz & McKown
Twalm Year Street
Sates
Charles Seibert
Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association
A. F. Gasmire
Josep Jacoss
Syrae Cipiler
Wheeling Bridge and Terminal Railway
Wheelice Ho
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