When a Wife's Brilliance Triggers Inferiority in Husbands
A 1907 feature notes how clever women often pair with dull men and how husbands feel inferior. It recounts a dinner scene where a wife’s artistry eclipses her husband, provoking embarrassment, tension, and even estrangement, while bystanders ponder gender dynamics and affection.
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Swife
Advice to Girls By Annie Laurie
A reader 22 questions an older man about engagement and money. The adviser urges frank talk to end the engagement soon and stay free for two years, postponing engagement while preserving friendship.
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Annie Laurie
Annie Launie
Fashion advice in Grace Thorncliffe diary dialogue
In a chat between Miss Halbert and Madame, they discuss a new dress idea for a forthcoming radio party. Miss Halbert selects a coral satin gown with a flowered chiffon collar and jacketlike waist, aiming for a subdued yet flattering look to please an artist painter for her portrait.
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Miss Halbert
Madame
Why Women Prefer City Life to Country
A 1927 discussion argues women seek city life for social contact, fashion, and culture, noting men favor the country. It claims women dislike isolation, crave shops, theaters, gossip, and comforts, while city life offers admiration and variety. Copyright 1927 King Features Syndicate.
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King Eatures
Tomorrow's Horoscope by Genevieve Kemble
The column notes a generally propitious astro chart for the day with calls to seize opportunities and seek aid from high places. It warns against extravagant spending and suggests stable steps for career advancement and personal luck, including a notable nativity reference and skincare tips.
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Rod la Roque
Remove Facial Blemishes By Anne Jordan
A historic beauty recipe instructs lathering the face with toilet soap, applying dry Epsom salts until stiff, then rinsing with progressively cooler water to draw pores and improve complexion. It advises finishing with alcohol to close pores. Copyright 1997 Newspaper Feature Service Inc.
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Keeping Things Out of Baby's Mouth
Health advisory by Royal S. Copeland outlines safe feeding and toy use for infants. Emphasizes avoiding small parts and pollutants to prevent choking and harm.
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Baby
Royal S. Copeland
M.D
United States
New York
New York City
Home Making Helps By Wanda Barton
A reader column on infant safety and household cleanliness on a train journey. It urges certified milk awareness, safe baby diets, and hazards from small objects and poisons. It then details furniture cleaning methods and maintenance for polished surfaces and upholstery.
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Wanda Barton
Absorbing Sequel Reveals Mary’s Confession to Veritzen
Mary Harrison recounts to Lillian and Dicky’s niece in a tense scene after Mr. Veritzen escorts her to the veranda. The masked dancer affair is revealed as Mary confesses with Veritzen already aware, leaving her uneasy about the future of her career and their plans.
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Rom Lillian
Mr. Veritzen
Mary Harrison
Mary
Lillian
Philip Veritzen
Granzie
Jillian
Dicky
Newspaper Feature Service, Inc
Doris Learns About Her Flower Friends
Doris argues with her Mama and meets a tiny elfin who explains that flowers sleep at night to rest and grow. The tale shows how leaves bend, dew helps, and the moonlight brings gentle nightly magic before Doris drifts to sleep.
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Blanche Silver
Doris
Mr. Moon-man
Cris
Words of the Wise and Witty Maxims Across Authors
A garland of aphorisms from ancient and modern writers. Selected sayings touch on virtue, judgment, fame, money, duty, ignorance, cure, and originality, attributed to figures such as Philemon Syrus Selden Cicero Livy Beecher Seneca Goethe.
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