Boston public schools embrace industrial teaching for girls and boys
The article outlines early Boston efforts in industrial education from sewing and cooking to woodworking. It credits private patrons for funding and notes successful pathways from schoolwork to skilled employment. It also surveys cultural events and public notices, including remarks on the California Midwinter Exposition and Chicago fair aftermath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Helen M. Winslow
Hem‘enway
Alpheus Hardy
Hemenway
Floyd
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco
Local notices and patent medicine ads from a historical page
A collage of promotional blurbs and short items: Park's Cough Syrup, One Minute Cough Cure, and Cubeb Cough Cure pitched by Ames Drug Company. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve promoted for piles and injuries. Park's Sure Cure and various tonics listed with Bosworth and Ames Drug Company names. references to railway milestones in Jerusalem and Japan. early Risers pills for constipation. mention of Harvard meteorology in Peru. Jupiter wheel slated for Brooklyn. Castillo? cast allusions to Castoria and Johnson Brown. Provides fleeting notices, medicines, and local commerce details from a bygone era.
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Park
L. M. Bosworth
Ames Drug Company
Harvard University
el Miste
Peru
L.M. Bosworth
Japan
DeWitt
Russia
Copenhagen
Richard Parker
John Brown
Edward G. Mason
Chicago’s Historical Society
Brooklyn
New York
Chicago
Free Public Library
Jst
Orth Side
Ames Drag Company
Tommy
M. Bosworth
James Russell Lowell
Westminster Abbey
Rand, McNally & Co
Adams St
Unsigned ads and cures in 19th century catalog
A collage of ad copy and notes from a historical issue, listing tonics and remedies such as Park's cough syrup Krause's headache capsules and Hood's Sarsaparilla, with testimonials and prices. Mentions Ames Drug Company, L. M. Bosworth, and Rand McNally, plus a note on Harvard annex enrollment and a proposed orange box paper barrel idea.
Half Rate Home Seekers Excursion Dates Noted
The Minois Central Railroad announces six southern Home-Seekers excursions from Sioux Falls leaving at 2 45 p m and from Sioux City at 5 p m on November 3 December 15 January 15 February 12 March 19 and April 25 1904. Round trip fare applies to Illinois Central points north of the Ohio river to Kentucky Tennessee Mississippi and Louisiana excluding Memphis and New Orleans. Tickets valid 30 days with stopovers south of the Ohio river. A Tourist Sleeper option runs from Sioux City to Hammond Louisiana via Chicago with rates per double berth from Sioux City Waterloo Dubuque Chicago. Berth applications and printed matter are available at Manchester Town. Winter Tourist Tickets to New Orleans Mexican Gulf resorts Texas Georgia Florida or other southern points are valid with this sleeper.
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Minois Central Railroad
Sioux Falls
Sioux City
Illinois Central
Ohio River
Waterloo
du Dogue
Chicago
Manchester Town
New Orleans
Mexican Gulf
Texas
Georgia
Florida
South
North
J.P. Memev
A.G.P. A
Great corporations rely on lawyers to settle disputes
The article notes that large corporations employ their own lawyers who act as advocates judges and juries in settlements outside court. Fees can reach as high as 1 000 000 a year for a firm and one lawyer earned 290 000 for Sugar trust work. It contrasts lake and Atlantic coast lifeboat stations and describes a railroad tunnel through Hagerman Pass Colorado two miles long and 10 500 feet high with solid granite and three years and twenty days to complete.
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Pera
Great Corporation
Lobengula
Sugar Trust
Great Lakes
Atlantic
Lakes
Hagerman Pass
Colo
One Minute Cough Cure touted by officials and ads
A garbled newspaper fragment presents a police quote urging women to safeguard pockets, followed by medical and promotional copy for One Minute Cough Cure. It references Cape Colony, Africa, and various ads, cures, testimonials, and a list of property transactions and names with dates and locations, ending mid-sentence.
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New York
Love, Courtship and Marriage Book Peddler Refused at Station
A railway platform scene ends when a canvasser tries to sell a 1 shilling booklet on love and marriage to a somber passenger. The buyer declines, citing an impending two year prison term for bigamy, ending the attempted sale.
New Literature of France and the Moral Awakening
The article argues that French literature is undergoing a moral awakening sparked by a shift from pure artistry toward moral and scientific observation. It cites Taine, Bourget, Zola, and Tolstoy as markers of this change, noting realism and psychological analysis as outcomes, with a growing religious renascence among the young. It closes with a technical note on using carbolic acid safely with boiling water.
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France
M. Taine
Taine
Paul Bourget
Count Tolstoi
Zols
Forum
Bourget
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Zearing
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Finch
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New York Ave
Washington, D. C
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Skookum Root Hair Grower
Skookum Root Hair Grower CO
South Fifth Ave
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Brazil
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Coney Island
R. R
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