Vacation Tea Room Forges Winter Funds For Two Girls
Two college women in New England rented a once haunted three-room cottage for June to October. They opened a tea room serving tea and sandwiches with pleasant extras. An artist sold monograms and silhouettes while the other knit blankets. Typewritten directions and lessons drew paying customers, and the venture funded their tuition through winter.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
New Eagland
Severs
Tyes
AL Ora
Crollege
University of Chicago Professor Attacks Woman’s Roles
A University of Chicago professor analyzes women’s femininity, arguing civilization has failed to advance women and that higher education for women threatens male intellectual dominance. He cites savagery, dress, jewelry, and occult interests as evidence of persistent womanly instincts.
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University of Chicago
Starr
United States coinage diplomacy with Central American nations
Rene Bach in the Washington Post describes how U S officials handle foreign coinage orders from nations like Panama. A Washington to Treasury to Mint chain ensures secrecy and accuracy, with dies supplied by outsiders and costs for labor and dies outlined. The process includes verification in Philadelphia and secure transport to isthmus-bound ships.
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Poiz
Jielley
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Panama
Mint
Treasury
Fron
Patiemins
Uncle Sam
Philadelphia
Treasury Department
Secretary of State
Quaker City
Express Company
Isthmus
Santo Domingo
Costa Rica
Itadelphia
Panani
Nashie
Scraps of Information From the Era
A collage of curious facts notes sleet as a mix of snow and rain. It observes that most Japanese enter their father's trade. It claims a knife passes through seventy hands during making. It states Prussia employs nearly 20 000 brickmakers. It reports a ton of oil from a single whale's tongue. It notes the Japanese emperor keeps thirty physicians and sixty priests.
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Prussia
Japan
Peter Pitchlynn Choctaw Chief and Orator of Two Lands
The article praises Peter Pitchlynn, famed Choctaw head chief and diplomat. It notes his leadership in removal councils, fierce resistance to Osage threats, alliance with Henry Clay, and long service as Choctaw representative to Congress. His influence helped secure tribal rights and his daughter settled in Washington after his death.
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America
Peter P. Pitehlynn
Washington
Charles Dickens
United States
Mississippi
University of Nashville
Indian Territory
Pitchlynn
Henry Clay
Ohio
Oklahoma
Red Man’s Country
Lincoln
Congress
Tie
Grant
Kamichie Mountains
Red Man's Land
Washington Post
Ancient Bicycle From 1816 Showcases Early Two-Wheeled Travel
An old bicycle leans in Washington's southeast quarter, touted as the great-great-grandfather of modern wheels. The relic, attributed to Baron von Drais in 1816, lacks pedals and relies on running starts, coasting, and balance to move. It traces early transport from Virginia plantations to France and England, highlighting the evolution to the velocipede in 1866 and the nickname dandy horses.
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Washington
Jefferson
Higham
Baron von Drais
Grand Duke of
Baden
Germany
Europe
Virginia
America
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Aha
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Imart
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Moon
Aed
God
Jansie
Ofa
Larry Orchard
Steunenberg
Idaho
Boise
Steward
Butterfy
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Harry Orchard
The
Great River
Peter Pitchlynn
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