Business Women and their Summer Wardrobes at the Seaside
In a New York salon tone the dialogue discusses dress choices for business women, noting sateen as cool practical fabric and considerings on muslin and debeige fabrics. Practical tips on rain gear emerge as pockets and waterproof bags are suggested amid coastal seaside anecdotes.
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Re- Thia
Prima
Copsright
New York
Bechagad Ncaees
Tredennis
George Eliot
Toome
Tertia
Wells
Sateen
Secunda
Mariz Smith
Atlantic Ocean
Pitcher's Cartoria
Women and Men Sharing Homes in New York and Beyond
A survey of New York unattached men and women forming shared households with common rents and staged social expectations. The piece notes gender roles, legislative attitudes toward women, and celebrates women leaders like Anna W. Kelly and Harriet T. Leavenworth while highlighting Yale's gifts for women’s education and a prize for Helen Campbell's work on women wage workers.
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Wiscon‘sin
Judiciary Committee
Anna W. Kelly
Denver
Colorado Senate
Owas
Gertrude EB. Fonds
Vermont
Yale Collégé
Harriet T. Leavenworth
Yale
Helen ‘Campbell
America
American Economic Association
Infant milk bottle inspires wartime theater remark
A couple with a six month old infant reach the Austin opera house where the doorkeeper refuses entry to the child. The mother responds that she will leave the baby with the attendant and brings the milk bottle if the infant cries.
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Austin Opera House
Texas Siftings
Odd Meeting in a Waiting Room and Quoit Bets
A New York World snippet recounts a mourner with a hat weed and a social miscue in a Pennsylvania depot waiting room. A trade-worn fellow taunts him with a lemon gag and a remark about mourning, then wagers a straw hat bet on future tragedy.
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Pennsylvania
M. Quad
New York World
The Shame of It Customer
A Munsey's Weekly quip contrasts a grocer and a school over standard weights. The exchange questions punishment for mismeasurement and mocks the idea that schools would teach metric or inconsistent measures.
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Grocer
Munsey's Weekly
Calumny and Quip Snippets From The Press
Brief humor notes from retro columns include a Washington lady asking if Russians eat candle and a nunbansador’s reply that it is a tallow calumny. A waiter complains of a quarter and Snooper replies he never does anything by halves.
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Washington
Texas
Snooper
Epock
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Evou Resus
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Druggists Belt
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta, Ga
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Marietta St
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Michael Bros
DR. Bowes
Southern
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Dawim
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CH. Ferris
Ferris & Sons Tailors and Outfitters
Broad Street
Augusta, GA
Parr Bros
Rators
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Covington & Macon Railroad
Macon
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Monticello
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Godfrey
Broughton
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