Woman Suffrage Debate Aboard Admiral Westmacott’s Garden
Mrs Westmacott and Admiral Westmacott discuss opening professions to women and universal suffrage while debating the future of women’s rights. Clara contemplates a possible match for her nephew Charles as a separate family scene unfolds with ideas of marriage and independence.
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Gravesend
Penelope
Straits of
Banca
Island of
Sumatra
Bay of Funchal
Andromeda
Funchal
Banshee
Madeira
Falmouth
Westmacott Tennis Party Sparks Gentle Conflict
At Mrs. Westmacott’s lawn party two neighboring families mingle as tennis excites the crowd. Clara Walker sits apart and meets the widow with mixed reserve, while Mrs. Westmacott urges lively youth and hints at balance between self sacrifice and forwardness.
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Clara
Tom Thumb wedding charms Lynn church crowd
In Lynn at the Second Universalist Church a Tom Thumb wedding occurred with Ruth Williams age five and Thomas Casey age six as the bride and groom. A youthful wedding party of six bridesmaids six ushers and other children attended the ceremony led by a child rector and 4 year old celebrants. The couple received a brief reception and breakfast.
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Lynn
Boston Herald
Ruth Williams
Thomas Casey
Hazel C. Towne
Harlan Crown
Harry Dale
Making Himself Useful
A woman in a flat orders ice from the grocer and, after struggling with a heavy delivery on a basement dumbwaiter, discovers a German youth seated on the ice. He explains he came up to help her off with the cake, thinking it would be too heavy for her to lift.
Early artificial eyes evolve from Egypt to Europe
The record notes that ancient Egyptian artificers crafted artificial eyes from gold and silver with cheaper ivory and copper variants. Centuries later in the sixteenth century European makers created eyes from porcelain.
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Egypt
Europe
For the fair sex and the new woman movement notes
A long column discusses women advancing in various trades and professions. It cites examples in Chicago New York Boston Cleveland and other cities, including embalmers, mining experts engineers silversmiths engravers chemists and factory workers, highlighting female achievement across multiple fields.
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Chicago
Arizona
San Francisco
New Orleans
Sixth Avenue
New York
Miss Donlevy
California
Fresno
Maine
Coggswell Polytechnic
Estmie Reel
Nebraska
Boston
Cleveland
Brooklyn
Pittsburg
Steubenville
Trenton
White House flower tastes of first ladies spotlight
Demorest's Magazine notes how each first lady favored distinct flowers at the White House. Mrs Hayes loved rose and apple geraniums, Garfield preferred orchids, Arthur enjoyed decorative ferns and palms, Cleveland favored pansies and Cape jasmine, and Harrison expanded orchids under her reign.
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White House
Hayes
Garfield
Arthur
Cleveland
Demorest
Remarkable Women Hold Notable Roles Across States
Three women pilots operate on the Mississippi with one owning a steamboat. A skilled woman boiler maker works near Dubuque Iowa. In Mount Pleasant Texas a young woman leads the local National Bank. Seventeen women serve as treasurers or cashiers in large banks nationwide. Buffalo reports a lady mortuarist.
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Dubuque
Iowa
Mount Pleasant
Texas
National Bank
United States
Buffalo
Curling Feathers at Home in Bright Plume Revival
An ostrich feather can regain beauty with warm soapy washboard scrubbing and patching. Steam with a kettle, then curl the near-quill feathers with a silver knife and finish with a coarse comb for a renewed plume ready to wear.
Household Hints on Laundry and Cookery Uses
Practical tips for housewives cover clothing lines and placement of tubs to avoid back strain, using old stocking legs as holders, repurposing worn sheets, and conserving fuel with charcoal for faster cooking. It also describes homemade curd and whey, fabric bandages from torn garments, and using worn underwear for elastic bandages.
Papal Nuncio As Arbitrator In Peru Bolivia Dispute
The Papal Nuncio has accepted to act as arbitrator in the Peru Bolivia dispute. Bolivian demands for a salute by Peru are to be considered via arbitration. Bolivian unrest and attacks on Peruvian legations threaten to complicate the path to peace.
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Bassi
John Remson
Jenness Miller Monthly
Liwa
Peru
Bolivia
Lima
Galveston
la Paz
Catholics Seek National Conference on Church Endowment Proscriptions
A movement in St Louis calls for a national conference of Catholics in endowment and secret orders like Masons and Odd Fellows to press for reconsideration of Rome's edict proscribing these groups. An estimated three million U S Catholics in such orders face impending sanctions. The report also notes border tensions and a Canadian incident involving nets on Nampkin Lake near Crane Lake and Fort Francis.
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St. Louis
Masonic Order
The
Odd Fellows
Knights of Pythias
Rome
United States
Banka
Detwre
Minn
Tower
Nampkin Lake
Fort Francis
Crane Lake
Washington
Arion Fish Company
Dynamite Blast Kills Five In Mart Texas
In Mart near Waco Texas a dynamite explosion destroyed a house killing five Negro residents instantly and seriously injuring another. The blast followed a long running dispute tied to the killings of Abe Phillips and Phil Arnold months earlier. The wounded survivor is reported near death.
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Waco
Tex
Mart
Abe Phillips
Phil Arnold
Cattle Rustlers Captured by Vigilantes Near Fairfax
Four men named Louis Voghland Cate Clark Charlie Johnson and Ben Mu and a herd of thirty cattle were captured by twelve vigilantes led by S Amspoker ten miles west of Fairfax and eight miles west of Ft Randall near the Missouri river. The theft occurred June 26 about thirteen miles northwest of Springview Nebraska and the herd was driven into Gregory County South Dakota on July. The men are now locked up.
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Fairax
S&s D
Louis Voghland
Cate Clark
Charlie Johnson
Ben Mu
S. Amspoker
Fairfax
Ft. Randall
Missouri River
Springview
Neb
Gregory County
South Dakota
Climb to the Top of the Hill and Rest
A mentor urges persistence with rhythmic exhortations about climbing. The dialogue frames effort as necessary before rest, promising a view from the summit and the sight of others descending with the outcome of the climb.
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Flinting
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Mver
Wince
Charles
Harold Denver
International Prec Association
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