Gifted Miss Hay Publishes The Rose of Dawn Verse
Helen Hay daughter of the secretary of state earns praise as a gifted poet with a new blank verse romance The Rose of Dawn tells of a Fiji maiden torn between two island lovers and ends in the triumph of love Critics and editors note her early volumes show distinction and potential for high ranking among American poets. Tattooed women and the Japanese ink fad spread through New York society with delicate colored designs and butterfly motifs while New England cooking schools attract attention as a path to domestic service reform and trained house management.
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Darehter
Secretarys of State
Helen Hay
Miss Hay
South Seas
Fiji
Ciinedinst
Wallington
Helen Tay
Lanally
America
Miss Way
London
New York Sun
New York
Emthusiaam
New England Cooking School
Good Trousekeeping Institute
Springfield
Uncle Sam's New Gun Captain Crozier Invents Wire Wound Rifle
Captain William Crozier, a leading U S artillery expert, demonstrates a wire wound gun with four steel tubes and an envelope of wound wire. The design includes a jacket with slight shrinkage and a locking system to prevent separation under heavy strain.
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Captain Crosier
Sam
William Crozier
United States
Captain Crozier
Crogier
Ward
City Gardens To Teach Children Vegetable Farming
Chicago women back a program to plant vegetable patches in city parks for children to learn how crops grow. Park gardeners would plant and tend the plots with corn wheat rye buckwheat turnips onions pumpkins and beets to illustrate agricultural processes and food production.
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Dtty
Chicago
New York Evening Post
Surviving bridesmaids of Queen Victoria aged still active
Two women who served as bridesmaids to Queen Victoria remain alive. Lady Jane Ellice and the Duchess of Cleveland, mother of Lord Rosbery, split time between Upper Brook Street and travel. Baroness Burdett-Coutts, aged eighty seven, watched both the 1838 coronation procession and the 1897 diamond jubilee procession from Piccadilly.
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Aya
Ranar
Queen Victoria
Jane Ellice
Duchess of Cleveland
Lord Roserbery
Upper Brook Street
Baroness Burdett-Coutts
Piccadilly
Mrs Andrew Simonds Proves Public Speaking Prowess
Mrs Andrew Simonds of Charleston, president of the women s board of the Boutherp Industrial exposition, addressed a mass meeting to show her ability to fulfill the trusted role. She spoke hesitantly at first about public speaking and then delivered a witty practical talk on methods to raise funds for the woman s building s current expenses.
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Andrew Simonds
Charleston
Fashion shift ends ear piercing for French women
A dated fashion note states mothers opt against ear piercing for their daughters as pearl buttons and clip on earrings gain favor. It claims no hanging earrings are worn by well dressed Frenchwomen and notes pearls as a fashionable alternative.
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Berrigas
Bearded barber and free country rights tale from the times
A barber explains why his top barber keeps his beard. He fears a bearded rival would reduce frequent shaves and hurt profits. The anecdote, from the St Louis Star, contrasts constitutional rights with business needs. The second item recalls Thomas Jefferson as a prolific, careful letter writer, noting his extensive personal correspondence and ambidextrous penmanship.
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Horney
Willie
St. Louis Star
Thoman Jefferson
Jefferson
Eare
France
Chicago
Improving His Grammar in a Colored School
A light anecdote from a 19th century paper shows a boy misusing have went. The teacher overrules him with a write sixty times, noting have gone, while the boy writes I have went home.
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Christian Knodeager
Financed Prompting Misfit in Bomeryile Journal
A whimsical dialogue quotes Tommy asking what a financier is and his mother explaining the term as the exact opposite of his father, as printed in the Bomeryile Journal. The exchange frames a playful teaching moment about finance, though the piece is presented as a brief humorous notation.
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Tommy
Bomeryile Journal
A Great Recommendation at the Registry Office
A dialogue from the Glasgow Herald Times humorously contrasts a registry office recommendation with a nurse. A tiny manageress touts her size as a strength, arguing that even a fall would be harmless. The exchange mocks social judgments on suitability and care.
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Glasgow
Debates on Loyalty and Justice in Wartime Commentary
A Washington Star piece quotes a Filipino oath of allegiance stating preferring three men to three cheers, highlighting loyalty and duty. The Chicago Tribune vignette shows Uncle Rastus challenging jury fairness with ironic remarks about “you’re entitled to a trial by a jury of nineteen peents.”
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Washington Star
Woatas Protenta
Tom
Appearances and Faithful Providence Quip in City Gossip
A dialog notes a wife saying her husband is busy trusting Providence while appearances deceive. The exchange revisits deceit and disappearances as Beechwood and others comment on a Pennsylvanian story about a man who made money through his wife, hinting at a counterfeiter in Philadelphia.
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Jimson
Philadelphia Press
Hall's Catarrh Cure and Police Department Costs
Catarrh cannot be cured by external applications. it is a blood or constitutional disease requiring internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and claims to affect the blood and mucous surfaces, marketed as a regular prescription. The note also mentions Hall's Family Pills and compares New York police department expenses from 1899 to the current year, stating figures of $11,152,500 and $11,162,000 respectively.
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Hall
B.S. Onissay & Co
Toledo
New York
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