Showing posts with label hotels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hotels. Show all posts
Sunday, June 1, 2008

At a Hotel in Japan

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1895 EXTRACT FROM AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION BY A TRAVELER. In No Respect Does the Japanese Inn Resemble the American Brand — Tea That Is Te...
Saturday, May 17, 2008

Broadway Glacier

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1895 A FAMOUS OLD HOTEL AND THEATER SUCCUMB TO IT. Memories of the Glorious Career of the Old Metropolitan and Niblo's Garden. Reminisce...
Sunday, May 4, 2008

The Ketchaboneck House Burned

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New York, 1895 The Ketchaboneck house at Westhampton, one of the largest summer hotels at the beach was destroyed by fire at three o'clo...
Friday, April 18, 2008

Gets $500 for Finding Gems

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1916 Woman Rewards Hotel Maid Who Returns Jewels. PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — The recovery of $50,000 worth of gems lost by Mrs. Lee Meriweth...
Monday, April 14, 2008

"Lost" Gems Are Recovered

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1916 Package of Valuables Turns Up in St. Paul Postoffice. ST. PAUL, Minnesota — A few days ago a St. Paul woman gave a Chicago hotel clerk ...
Saturday, April 5, 2008

Boats Are Hotels

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1920 Floating Hostelries Relieve New York Housing Conditions ALBANY, N. Y. — Floating hotels were put in operation here to relieve the housi...
Friday, July 13, 2007

Hotel Clerks' "Kittie"

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1910 Box Into Which Excess Change Is Dropped to Make Up Possible Shortages "The 'kittie' is the latest thing for the protection...
Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Telephone in the Woods

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1905 "I've been reading," remarked a citizen who spends five months of every year in the woods, "that the telephone is a ...
Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Building Old As U. P. Road

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1915 Its Proprietor Still Lives, a Victim of Generosity and Poverty LARAMIE, Wyo., Dec. 16. — In the ordinary city which began no further ba...
Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Deputy Sheriff Is Peeved At Pink Pajamas

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1915 Does Not Appreciate Thoughtfulness of Hotel Proprietor for Late Transients Oakland, Cal. — Trouble reigned in the Hotel Crellin — and a...
Friday, June 1, 2007

To Open 5-Cent Hotel

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1914 Bed and Bath For That Sum is Philanthropy of Rufus F. Dawes Chicago, Jan. 2. — Hope for the man with a few nickels will take a tangible...
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Horse Aged 41 Years Dies

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1920 Was Thoroughbred Animal Known as John Paul Jones MIDDLEBURY, Vermont — John Paul Jones, full-blooded Morgan horse, driven for years by ...
Saturday, May 5, 2007

Concerning Beds, Mattresses in Days of Old

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1874 During all ages, from the earliest times, men have displayed their invention in designing beds which should gratify their natural love ...
Friday, May 4, 2007

Rich Girl Sued for $150,000 — Stole Woman's Astrologer Husband

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1909 RICH GIRL SUED FOR $150,000 Wife of Astrologer Says His Love Was Stolen. FORGAVE HUSBAND ONCE. Mrs. Marshall Clark Tells Graphic Story ...
Monday, April 30, 2007

Half Pound Baby Gets Along Nicely

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1920 NEW YORK, N.Y. — Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ouisett are proud of being the parents of the littlest baby in New York. She is Jeanne Ouisett, and...
Friday, April 27, 2007

Use of Typewriter Still In Its Infancy, Will Definitely Grow

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1901 WRITING BY MACHINE EMPLOYMENT OF TYPEWRITER YET IN ITS INFANCY. Use Will Increase Until Every Hotel Will Provide Them for Guests, and A...
Saturday, April 21, 2007

Men Gloomy at Breakfast, Waiter Says

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1903 "Our business wouldn't be so disagreeable if we didn't have to serve breakfast to men," said a waiter in one of the b...
Friday, April 20, 2007

Congressman Seeks Apartment at Swellest Hotel

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1903 The salary of a member of congress is $416.66 2-3 a month. "Uncle Joe" Cannon, of Illinois, when it became apparent that he w...
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Wife Serving in Hotel After Husband Left Without Paying

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1901 Wife Shoulders the Burden Waterloo, Dec. 28.—A man registering at one of the hotels as Dr. L. D. Caswell of La Crosse. Wis., has depart...
Sunday, April 15, 2007

Hotel Clerk Charged as Bigamist

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1903 HOTEL CLERK IS A BIGAMIST Boy Cook Arrested for Having One Wife Too Many. Marshalltown, March 2.—A young man named Roy Cook, formerly n...