Practical health guidance for mothers in 19th century
A column urging regular living for children through nourishing food, limited meat, bread, butter and eggs, cautioning against stimulants like cayenne pepper coffee and condiments, and promoting butter milk and modest diets. The piece advocates parental duty, routine, and spring housekeeping, ending with social church notes about meetings and upcoming Sunday School events.
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Eno
Journals of Health &c. E
New York Hour
TH. P. Fowler
New York
Popular Science Monthly
The Childless Home and Lessons of Truth
A reflection on the hollow feel of a home without children and the mother’s role. The author urges truthfulness and parental responsibility as the foundation of a strong family, highlighting the impact of a mother’s example and the power of a child’s affection to soften even the hardest hearts.
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Baptist Meeting
Ieee
Trece
Mrs. Ke, W
Easter Bonnets and Hats Shape the Season in New York
The article details summer millinery trends with high crowned, narrow brim hats in styles such as Concord and Capote. It notes gilt braid, lace, flowers, and scarfs. mentions Worthington Smith and Lord Taylor as sources and Easter display openings March 25.
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Worthington Smith
New York
Lord & Taylor
Fashion notes on fabrics and Easter attire trends
The article highlights fine batiste trimming, black and colored satin fabrics, and poplin fashion. It notes satin grounds remain in use, with ivory white evening gowns and silver gray street dresses described. It ends with a human remark on Easter anticipation for a man with many daughters.
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Ben
Beatrice
Trousseau
Highness of Colonna
First Aid to the Injured by Boston Ladies
The Louisville Courier-Journal notes winter emergency lectures for women. It praises their self reliance in injuries, claiming Boston girls treat sprains, fainting at balls, and even horse accidents with improvised care and liniments without awaiting male help.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Boston
Galen
Hippocrates
Ayer
E. F. Wannis
Oliver St
Buckland
Mass
Down and Up Rail Schedule for Barnesville and Macon
Railway timetable dated January 18 1885 lists multiple trains between Macon Atlanta and Barnesville with up and down passenger and freight services. It includes numbers for the No 32 No 2 No 51 Up and Down routes, with times at Macon Barnesville Atlanta and Thomaston, and notes on freights and accommodation trains.
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Macon P
Atlanta
Barnesville
Macon
Macon A.M
Freier
Downn Way
Tirko
Doxa
Accomodation
Thomaston
the Rock
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New Jersey
Coleman, Palms & CO
Massachusetts
Grorce
Lowell
C. R.R
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Harry Wells
Zebulon
Hallerr Book Co
Portland
Maine
Pearse
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Gsorgia
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Newell
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J.C. Peck
Union Pub. Co
N.J
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