Women never (in New York at least) announce guests or open the doors of motors.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

"I was thinking, a minute ago, of something I heard talked about in New York, aunt Lucy; and, afterwards, I was trying to find out by what possible or imaginable road I had got round to it."
— from Queechy, Volume II by Susan Warner

[290] “I noticed you are looking after the State Railroad Commission,” Huntington adds in another letter to the same address, “I think it is time.”
— from Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific by Stuart Daggett

I just hadn't gotten around to asking her, because we were both still talking about what had happened at the bar and it was so closely tied in with what was happening in New York and London and Paris and every big city on Earth—and on Mars as well—that it dwarfed our puny selves—extra-special as the blonde's puny self happened to be from the male point of view.
— from Mars is My Destination by Frank Belknap Long

Although the gross expenditure under the Reclamation Act is not yet as large as that for the Panama Canal, the engineering obstacles to be overcome have been almost as great, and the political impediments many times greater.
— from Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt

If you do not, let me tell you, my dears, that the men in New York are like all the rest—and you would soon be leading a very lonely existence!
— from His Second Wife by Ernest Poole

There were some eight or ten of the best-known novelists and story-writers in the country, two dramatists, several of the younger publishers, most of the young editors, critics, columnists, and illustrators, famous in New York, at least; a few poets, artists; the more serious contributors to the magazines and reviews; an architect, an essayist, a sculptress, a famous girl librarian of a great private library, three correspondents of foreign newspapers, and two visiting British authors.
— from Black Oxen by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

But the niece of Andries had been particularly fortunate in falling into the hands she had; Mrs. Stratton having the means and the inclination to do all for her, in the way of instruction, that was then done for any young woman in New York, as long as she lived.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

The ladies evidently preferred to spend their money in jaunts to Acca, with Paris and Cairo en route, rather than to put up an extravagant temple in Chicago for 200 people who are scattered in that city—a temple in which the believers in New York and Los Angeles may never worship.
— from Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Ullah and Abdul Baha by Samuel Graham Wilson

It will be published in New York and London at the lowest possible price, say, within one dollar; and it is my intention, if possible, to illustrate the work with views of Communities now in progress, or of localities rendered interesting by having once been the battle grounds of the new system against the old.
— from History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes

In New York, as late as 1806, a test-oath excluded Catholics from office; and in North Carolina, down to 1836, only those who were willing to swear to belief in the truth of Protestantism were permitted to hope for political preferment.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various