Thanksgiving Festival Turns on Miss Lucy Revelation
Miss Lucy Ketchum ends her public support for Doctor Lord after learning of his past, exposing his deceit at a village Thanksgiving festival. Doctor Terryll gains Miss Lucy’s favor again as Lord flees town. Lucy announces plans to marry Terryll and restore harmony in Granville.
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Mrs. Smith
Miss Lucy
Maude Smith
Estelle
Terryll
Miss Lucy Ketchum
Doctor Terryll
Maude
Lucy
Doctor Lord
David Terryll
Lorenzo Lord
Doctor
Lord
Granville
David
Chicago
Lord Spose
Pugley
Pusley
Miss Smith
Lucy Ketchum
Vermont
Ladies’ Aid Society
Bishop
Terry
Sid
Dr. Lord
Lancaster
House of Correction
Purifying Water by Freezing and Moral Advice
The column explains freezing purges water of impurities and that ice from impure water carries contaminants. It cites New York American reporting how complete freezing removes most bacteria, with nine in ten killed by the process. It also includes The Alphabet of Success from Ladies' Home Journal and notes on London’s scarcity of English female servants leading to foreign recruitment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York American
London
The Woman at Home and Her Craft as Life’s Foundation
A column extols the woman’s home role as the main art and education engine shaping a peaceful orderly house. It argues a wife and mother must value her work, foresee long hours, and credit female influence for family harmony and intellectual life within the home. It contrasts with praise for fashionable dress notes and a domestic authority thread through. A second item shows an Indianapolis mother sharing duties with a daughter to run the household, yielding benefits and mutual satisfaction. A brief society note celebrates a rare artistic woman, Duse, resisting publicity amid interviews and tours.
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Indianapolis
Motherly counsel for girls and obedience lessons
The text offers maternal guidance encouraging girls to be friends with their mothers, avoid snubbing parents, maintain cleanliness and decorum, treat brothers as equals, and teach obedience through conscience. It stresses contentment, avoiding constant requests, and appreciating what one has as a child grows.
American Sculptress Miss Beveridge Adapts Abroad
The American sculptress Miss Beveridge, once known as the girl sculptor, lives with her mother abroad after a divorce from actor Charles Coghlan in 1894. Born in Illinois twenty five years ago, she gained fame for busts of President Cleveland and others. Her latest work Ireland Mourning Her Sons Who Fell in South Africa is highly admired.
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Kuehne Beveridge
Illinois
Cleveland
Act _ tor
Charles Cogzh
Bevihi
Ireland
South Africa
Care of Clothes for Fresh Air and Sanitation
Air clothes after wearing before storage and hang bodices for at least half an hour. Teach children to turn stockings inside out and hang them over a chair. Do not fold garments into neat heaps as in the past. air circulation prevents musty odors and keeps clothes sanitary.
Two Tailor Suits For The Wardrobe And Parlor Elimination
A well dressed woman needs two tailor suits one runabout and one long skirt to fit various occasions. Parlor rooms are being eliminated in favor of great halls as interior design trends shift away from small uncomfortable apartments.
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Keith
Where Greeley Was A Pupil At Bennington NH School
An aged Bennington New Hampshire schoolhouse once hosted Horace Greeley as a pupil. The lone, weathered room features narrow light, a clay floor, and a slate desk shelf along the wall. In 1821-22 Greeley lived with his uncle Benjamin Robinson near the Contoocook river, while a nearby sawmill and grist mill stood until floods and time left only a cellar hole and scattered trees marking the site.
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Bennington
N. H
Horace Greeley
Horace
Benjamin Robinson
Contoocook
Design for a grand hotel at the St Louis World’s Fair
In anticipation of the Louis iana Purchase Exposition in St Louis many hotel projects have begun. One prominent plan shows a 14 story building occupying a corner site and described as unusually ornate for its class. The projected cost is about 1 million dollars.
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St. Louis
Four-Word Speech Duel Between Vermont Senators
A Western weekly reports Senator Proctor saying his finest speech had four words. Senator Hoar retorts with a jab about Vermont voters needing five thousand dollars trading with Massachusetts. Proctor replies We all vote. The piece notes some envy workers face from those who cannot find jobs.
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Senator Proctor
Vermont
Senator Hoar
Green Mountain
Massachusetts
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