Local Church Ad Announces Schedule and Subscriptions
Subscription price set at $1.50 annually with a county discount for advance payers. Church services every Sunday at 10 and 8, Wednesday prayer at 7, Sunday School after morning services, and Christian Endeavor one hour before the evening service. Pastor W. L. Moore.
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Methodist Episcopal
R. W. Surra
Baptist
ericEs
J. Douglass
United Brethren
JH Snake
T.J. Dow
Fertile Red River Valley Offers Farm Land and Crop Prospects
The Red River Valley of Minnesota and North Dakota is praised for crop reliability with 30,000,000 bushels of wheat in 1890 and rich soil. It offers farm opportunities on crop plans or long term payments, with schools churches markets and rail links. Prospects note the valley’s fertility and room for a million more people. inquiries to F. J. Whitney, St. Paul, Minn.
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America
Far West
F. J. Whitney
St. Paul, Minn
Etly
iHlof
Harper’s
Smuggling in Passengers Goods and Oddity Tales
A New York World summary discusses women’s temptation to smuggle dutiable items home as gifts and notes officials’ secrecy while detailing curiosities found in poste restante parcels. It recounts cases of books hollowed to hide valuables and other contraband sent through the mails including jewelry and fabrics.
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Custom House
Customs Service
Special Treasury
Uncle Sam
New York
Padua
le Tregedie
Giovanni Delfino
Dodie
William Allen
Southampton
Mass
Allen
Odd Fellows’ Quarterly
Tontine
Bishop Brookfield
London
New York Post Office
United States
Miss Liberty
New York World
New Uses for an Old Material Peat Expands Industry
A Times notice details peat once used as fuel and fertilizer now produced into powder for dressings and absorbent medical use. French surgeons promote peat dressed with antiseptic solutions in bags for wounds. Peat also yields woven textiles, mattresses, carpets due to its absorbent properties.
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Redon
Which Was Correct
Two bright high school scholars study a birthday book arranged alphabetically. Maud counts the pages and finds thirty pages matching the letters, while Alice corrects that the alphabet has only twenty four letters, highlighting a minor error in the scene.
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Maud
Alice
Train Problem Meets More Trains Than Expected
A classic puzzle from the New York Tribune explains that a traveler moving from New York to San Francisco will meet ten trains, not five. Each day a new train starts from the opposite end while five are already en route.
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Cisco
New York
San Francisco
New York Tribune
Parrot Purchase in Havana Turns on a Five Dollar Coin
A Springfield man bargains for a parrot in a Havana shop. The dealer shaves the price down from seventeen dollars, then the buyer offers a five dollar gold piece, insisting on no higher amount. The dealer accepts the coin and frees the parrot, as the bird remains unaware of the exchange.
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Springfield
Havana
United States
Mass
Botanical curiosity in Royal Society notice
The secretary reported to the Royal Botanical Society members a large poplar blown down in the gardens. A root network rings the trunk between bark and wood above the soil, suggesting nourishment from decaying portions of the tree itself.
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Royal Botanical Society
Pall Mall
Peculiarity of Chinese Law
The Philadelphia Times notes a stark contrast in Chinese law where a boy who kills a parent could be burned alive, yet a father retains absolute control within his family allowing him to kill a child without penalty.
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Philadelphia Times
Notable Tales From Old New York and London
August Belmont's grave is watched at night. Keely the motor man is fifty three. Georges Hugo, grandson of Victor Hugo, joins the French navy. Forget is a leading lower Manhattan business figure and French line agent. Sir Charles Dilke cherishes fencing with a roomful of swords. Jay Gould's name traces to Chief Justice Jay of New York. his father was a country magistrate who admired the chief justice.
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Keely
Forget
New York
Charles Dilke
London
Jay Gould
Jay
Mr. Gould
H. K. Thurber
Francis B
Ellis H. Roberts
United States
Alpha Delta Phi Club
New York City
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Alfred
Isaac Pittman
M. M. Pomeroy
Brick
Denver
Cannon
George W. Childs
Fair Hands of Mrs 8B A Tale of Bread and Beauty
A New York Sun feature traces Mrs B from England to New York, praising her beauty and famed white hands while recounting how her breadmaker husband sought perfection in bread. The tale shifts to social notes on shopping in Harlem and a Boston girl's daring tight fitting gown.
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Old B
Thames
New York Sun
Boston
London Society
Europe
Nice
Women as Physicians Defying Prejudice and Succeeding
Dr Phoebe J B Wait argues in the Ladies Home Journal that women physicians have prospered despite prejudice. She notes 3000 plus practicing women today, more liberal Western attitudes, and claims women surgeons show nerve and steadiness, challenging old beliefs about female capability.
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Phoebe J. B. Wait
Ladies’ Home Journal
Apron Fashions Highlight Elegant Winter Charity Items
The piece surveys apron styles from white Ida canvas with Italian color stripes to Turkish embroidered squares and black lace trimmed satin aprons. It notes how laces, edgings, and velvet bodices enhance a wearer's look for charity fairs and informal afternoon tea, reflecting social dress norms.
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Emily Rigl
Four-garment infant dress aids growth and safety
Ada Cone argues in Jenness-Miller Magazine that a four-garment system keeps an infant comfortable and upright: a pinning band that ties, a diaper with outside protection, a woolen pinning blanket, and a front-opening gown. The design allows dressing on the lap without turning the baby, supports free movement, and emphasizes upright feeding to avoid risks from recumbent positions.
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Ada Cone
Jenness-Miller Magazine
Women stenographers form a union to curb wage decline
The Women Stenographers and Typewriters union formed with thirty charter members at the Working Women's society rooms in New York. Ida M. Van Etten presided as members vowed to stop wage drops from twenty five dollars to five dollars a week, urging actions to defend the profession against degradation.
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Typewriters
Working Women’s Society
East Fourth Street
Ida M. van Etten
E. F. Underhill
Surrogate’s Court
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