Women in Wartime and Public Life Lead in Various Roles
A wide array of women are highlighted as active in banks, government, and social life. Notable entries describe Miss Davis a suffragist leader and Mrs. Harmon wife of the Attorney General, with general reflections on women voting and influencing public affairs. The piece also discusses trees for homes and a Bible lesson for children, emphasizing moral guidance and family roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salisbury
Pris. A. Palmer
Cleveland
James A. Garfield
Lielewyn Davis
Great Britain
Treasury Partment
Washington
Wil X
Jackson
William R. Mort
Mary F. Hansel
Ellenville
E .Y
Harmon
St. John’s Church
Moline
Ala
Marnie Mackenzie
Alexander Mackenzie
Royal Academy of Music
London
Douglass
England
Orec
Calf with Tail Misplaced Draws Attention in Scarboro
A Scarboro man reports a calf born with its tail between the eyes, resembling an elephant more than a cow. The calf cannot suck and must be fed by hand, prompting caution against unsafe mercury-based remedies and promoting Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills as advertised products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scarboro
Fragmented German school note and medical remark
A garbled passage discusses public German schools and gender separation, then shifts to a remark on medical men sorting individuals. The text hints at valuing optimistic attitudes despite confusion and mentions pupils and doctors in a jumbled context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Syrup of Figs Promotes Cleanse and Comfort
An 1800s style ad touts Syrup of Figs as a pleasant laxative that cleanses the system, relieves colds headaches and fevers, and aids the kidneys liver and bowels without objectionable substances. It claims wide satisfaction among users and medical approval. The product is sold by druggists in bottles priced one dollar and distributed by the California Fig Syrup Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Reading the Heavens to Find Home in Bible Times
A devotional piece urges readers to look up at the night sky to read nature as God’s album. It highlights Orion, Pleiades, the Dipper, Arcturus, and Bootes, urges learning star names, and promises continued lessons next week. It frames sky gazing as a way to feel God’s presence and keep a sense of home wherever one travels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nell
Orion
Job
Earth
Arcturus
Bootes
Arecturus
5Yra
Dolphin
Noah
David
Waiting for the mail on the piazza
On a hotel piazza a group of young people waits for letters. Frank Allison watches his sister Nell's letters arrive with steady optimism, while others joke about infrequent misses as he retrieves a closely written missive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allison
Nell
Harry
Frank Allison
Dinner Over Splitting Wood Tale
A hungry tramp asks for food from a lady of the house. She refuses, saying he must earn his bread by work. He argues with a Bible quote, claiming God made the wood and joined its splinters, but she insists he must work. He persists and eventually receives a meal.
Influence of Speech on Child Education
The article argues that proper speech emerges from imitation of educated adults. It says children learn grammar and grace from parents and teachers, so avoiding vulgar language is essential around the young. It emphasizes careful language use in front of impressionable children.
Jacob and the Sea Lion Near Tillamook
An old German farmer named Jacob spots a sleeping sea lion on Tillamook coast beach. He lassoes the animal from his wagon and begins to pull it toward home. The sea lion pulls back but Jacob releases his rope and escapes with his wagon and team.
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Jacob
Tillamook
Ore
Mr. Sealion
Mr. Jacob
Not Coming to Lecture in America Health Pot Denies Du Maurier
Du Maurier will not lecture in America due to health constraints though proposals were made. Francis George of Liverpool, a sixty year crier, has tolls for 130600 lost children. Max Nordau says he has traveled Europe and began writing at 13. Tolstoi plans a new novel criticizing Russian courts and once refused jury swearing. Count Tolstoi has recovered from fever and will rest in the Caucasus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
du Maurier
America
Francis George
Liverpool
Crier
Max Nordau
Paris
Europe
Tara Wolseley
London
William Brown
John Brown
Queen Victoria
John Morley
Leo Tolstoi
London Daily News
Tolstoi
Count Tolstoi
Industrial progress and labor movements across the United States
The article notes locomotives weighing 9¢ tons are in production and factories nationwide are flooded with orders. It reports 25,000 coal miners forming a union in Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and one third of Ohio coal mined by machinery. It also mentions engineers removing ocean water depth would barely narrow the Atlantic, rising wage-worker resolve, and a wide granite belt in North Carolina opening new quarries for street and curb orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Alabama
Kentucky
Tennessee
Ohio
Atlantic Ocean
North Carolina
Unsuitable request prompts violent harm against a woman
The quoted lines request violent wrongdoing by John and a speaker toward a woman. They depict intimidation and a plan to inflict physical harm, highlighting coercive and abusive intent without graphic detail.
Fragments of 1894 Notices and Advertisements in Riverside
A compilation of stray quotes and notices includes medical cures, land prospects in Hemet Cal, a seismologist John Milne with a Japanese aid, product ads for remedies and salves, clock sizes in Buffalo, and French housing statistics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverside
C O
Cal
Hemet Land Co
Hemet, Cal
This to Mamma. Don't send my boy where your girl can't go
A voice protests double standards by a mother figure urging equal moral fear for boys and girls. The text contrasts innocence with expectations, and contains operatic social satire about courting, money, and propriety in a neighborhood scene. The piece ends with a vignette of Miss Lily and a suitor, touching on class and currency motives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mamma
Sin
Lily
A Law Abiding Girt
Mrs McBride enters the kitchen and privately asks Bridget if she saw a policeman kiss her. Bridget replies that though he kissed her she would not risk being arrested for resisting an officer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. McBride
Bridget
Arrist
Ram's Horns and Righteousness Reflections
A series of aphoristic maxims on hypocrisy, prayer, and self improvement. The author links faith to action and warns that divine aid hinges on human effort, urging adherence to Christ before judging others and learning from mistakes.
Sunday War Between Nurse and Bertie Soldiers
Dialogue scene shows nurse scolding Bertie for playing with soldiers on Sunday. Bertie replies that it is a religious war. Tone suggests a domestic vignette with playful wartime humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertie
Frank Answer Inspires Wrath at Board School
A classroom exchange centers on a teacher asking a riddle about sides of the nose. The boy responds with a rhyme about freckles, and the moment prompts a sharp, expressive reaction from the observer.
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Gires
RIS
ING Generation
Mercury
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Pp. J. Cheney & Co
Bible Season
U.S
Industrial
John
G. W. Patterson
Inkster, Mich
Holmes
Kline
Kine
Arch Ot
Phils
Kos
John Milne
Buffalo, N.Y
Jlegeman
Orton
E. C., Clark Co
New Haven
Parker
France
Western Fur Go
Des Moines
Iowa
Western Fur CO
Sioux City
Pech Mfg
Sioux City, Lena
Rowrat & Chase Machinery Co
West Eleventh Street
Kansas City
Forcat
A. Ronaece
Chouteau Ave
St.Louis
Patrick O’farrell
B. & Patent
Ence
Cic
Louisiana
Canvassers Co
Janeries
Rockport
God
Christ
Princess Louise
Marquis of Lorne
Baniamin Ward Richardson
U. S. Navy
Secretary of the Interior
Secretary of Agriculture
Oliver Wendell Holmes
W. H. Russell
Frank R. Stockton
W. Clark Russell
Nelson A. Miles
Thomas B. Reed
Cleveland Coxe
Bishop Doane
Sir Edwin Arnold
Camille Flammarion
Justin McCarthy
Admiral Stevens
Admiral Markham
Admiral Elliot
Charles Dickens
Archibald Forbes
F. D. Miller
Andrew Carnegie
Columbus Ave
Boston
Mass
St, Jacobs Oil
Hobbs Y
Bright
Hobb
Dr. Hobb
Hobs’s Medicine Co
San Francisco
Chicago
Omaha
Los Angeles
J. Francs
G. Pla
Seb
W.N.U
D.M
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