Photo of "Peaches" Browning
Posted inBiographical Culture & Society

Peaches Quits Husband ‘On Vacation’

NEW YORK—Romance has gone on a vacation from the love nest of Frances (Peaches) Browning, the “Cinderella girl,” and Edward W. Browning, her wealthy Prince Charming.

Peaches has gone with her mother to a secluded cottage in New Jersey.

Back to Hotel.

Browning bas gone back to his bachelor quarters in an exclusive hotel.

The apartment where the two have lived and within which they told everyone was an ideal domestic life, has been re-leased.

The liner Byron (in an earlier iteration as the Vasilefs Constantinos) in Piraeus in 1917
Posted inDaily News

Liner Threatened By Blaze In Hold

S. S. Byron, With 397 Passengers Aboard, Reaches New York Harbor.

NEW YORK, October 5.-The liner Byron of the National Greek Line, with 397 passengers aboard, reached port today with a menacing fire in her after hold, which spread after it was believed under control.

Two city fire boats were ordered to her side at the quarantine station and pumped tons of water into the burning cargo.

Illustration of Lady Place.
Posted inCulture & Society Local Histories Travelers' Tales

Nooks And Corners Of Old England – Lady Place, Hurley

‘Tis sweet, as the dawn flashes over the lawn,
The old manor-house to see;
To hear the roused rooks, in their leafy nooks,
And the hum of the sportive bee:
‘Tis merry to mark, in the smooth-shaven park,

‘Tis sweet, when the sun, his race being ran,
Kisses the mansion so old :
Warms the mossed wall, lights up the oak ball,
and bathes the trees in cold:
When the deer are at rest, and the rook seeks his nest,
And no sonnd in the calm air swells.
Save the peasant’s low song, as he winds along,
Or the distant village bells.—MICHELL.