The Evolving View of Husbanding in Becky Sharp Crawley's World
Becky Sharp Crawley defends the social value of a husband as a status asset and convenience. She argues love is optional, praising young, pliant husbands while noting marriage as a science of selection, manipulation, and comfort. Rawdon Crawley enters, a charming but costly fixture, illustrating luxury over necessity in marriage.
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Becky Sharp
Becky
Rawdon Crawley
Rawdon
Becky Sharp Crawley
Rue du Diable
Isley
Littl Rawdon
Beck
Mr. Crawley
Monte Carlo
Dust Germs Warn of Tuberculosis in Dust
The piece notes tuberculosis spreads via dust from sputum of consumptives and public spaces such as theaters hotels and trains uplift dust to be inhaled. It urges municipal action for clean streets and better accommodations for unwell travelers, quoting Dr Prudden on sleeping cars and ships as infection sources.
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Hollis Godfrey
Atlantic
Mitchell Prudden
Ivy Leaf Clarinet Player Demonstrates Leaf Reed Method
Signor Valentino Buratino Valentina, a Milan clarinet and orchestral player, exhibited his art using an ivy leaf as a reed. He places the leaf between his lips to produce a vibratory tone, creating a violin like sound with the singer's vocal timbre.
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Signor Burato Valentino
Signor Valentina
Milan
Ray's Observations from a Delineator Scene
Four year old Ray watches a small animal at a window and exclaims in wonder that it can wiggle its handle and walk on its hands as it runs off with a tail flick. The tone recalls a childlike observer sharing a gleeful moment.
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Ray
Little Ray
Child seeks knife. mother says ask father
A five year old pleads for a knife and the mother replies they will wait for the father. He then notes the part that desires the knife belongs to her, and the scene ends with him getting something.
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Papa
Office over Gamble's Drug Store
Mutual phone listings show office and residence connections with numbers 121 M and 125 J plus a separate office listing 199 for Mutual. The terse directory snippet places an office over Gamble's Drug Store in Iowa with associated phone identifiers.
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Gamble’s Drug Store
Iowa
Mutual
Mutual 343
Lavery
College
Onondaga
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Cear
Providence Journal
Francis Wilson
Wilson
Co. E. Hunt
Ames
G. J. Snyder
DR. T. S. Rice
R. F. Nickerson
General Cement Contractor
The
Iowa Association of Cement Users
A. B. Maxwell, M. D
Kooser
Ames, Iowa
J. F. Tilden
Odd Fellows Temple
C. G. Tilden, M. D
C. O. F. Temple
Cc. L. Waltmire
Beil
Cc. H. Pasley
M. J. Adams
Daniel McCarthy
J. Y. Luke
McCarthy & Luke
Attorneys-At-Law
Story County
Crazy Bros. Hardware
Story Street
Boone, Iowa
Union National Bank
W. M. Greeley
EK. W. Stanton
Henry Wilson
C. L. Liverly
Ass’t
Nelson & Nible
Bower & McCartney
Parley Sheldon
J. Sheldon
A. Keenan
Knauth
Nachod & Kahne
New York
National Bank of Commerce
First National Bank
Chicago
Des Moines Savings Bank
Des Moines
Marshalltown
Judisch Bros
GREEN
Colonial Furnace
Frank E. Morris
E. F. Posegate
Kennedy
Pinelles
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