San Diego Climate Promises Prosperity and Growth
San Diego’s early history is recapped from its discovery to its rise as a coastal port. The bay, sheltered by Point Loma and Evonade Peninsula, offers 22 feet of water at low tide and strong healthful climate. By 1867 rail plans failed yet the area boomed with mining, grain, fruit, and population rising from 7900 to 12000 in a year, aided by streetcars, electric lights, hotels, and G A R influence drawing eastern visitors seeking a mild climate and modern conveniences.
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San Diego
Independent
Bay of
Sebastian Vizenino
Old Town
New Town
Bay
California
Mississippi Valley
Wacifia
California Southern
San Francisco
Point Lama
Evonade
Point Tama
Scott
New England
Upper California
A Call for Practical Housekeeping Education
The piece argues for teaching housekeeping to girls, not just ladylike arts. It critiques limited career paths and suggests founding schools of practical housekeeping, run like boarding houses, with diplomas after hands on training to improve marriage prospects and happiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sellers
The Ideal Sleeping Room For The Coming Woman
The text describes a designed sleeping room emphasizing ventilation windows on two sides an open fireplace and hard finished walls in restful colors. It outlines a furniture free of excess carvings a two part mattress with woven springs and a light warm bed set plus a portable washstand and daily bed making to invite sun and air. It also calls for a big ventilated closet ample hooks and a children room with a hard wood floor to allow play and decoration without damaging furniture.
Prohibition in Providence Faces Strong Opposition
A Providence letter argues the prohibition law is failing with liquor sold openly in hotels and business districts. Police enforcement wavered after two months, spotters lost credibility, and juries doubts hinder convictions. Calls rise to drop spotters and consider repeal, led by Henry G. Steer among wealthy backers.
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Providence
Blackwood
Henry G. Steer
The Flourishing Fortunes Of Harry Miner And Theatres
A Philadelphia Press correspondent profiles Harry Miner, contrasting him with Lester Wallack as a self made impresario. Miner, valued around 3 to 3.5 million, owns five theatres in New York and New Jersey, plus real estate holdings, and is opening two more opera houses in Troy and Brooklyn. His operations on the Bowery yield large returns, with annual income surpassing 300,000 and theatre revenues contributing tens of thousands yearly.
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Watts
New York
Philadelphia Press
Abbey
Napoleon
Wall Street
Jis
Harry Miner
Lester Wallack
Wallack Hag
Miner
Brooklyn
Newark
N. Y
Troy
Madison Avenue
The
Bowery
Eighth Avenue Theatre
Newark Opera House
Enjoy Life With Green's August Flower Crown Jewel
Nature offers mountains, glens, oceans and many pleasures yet many sufferers grow disheartened by disease. Green's August Flower is claimed to restore health, curing dyspepsia and liver complaints that cause many ailments. Three doses prove its effect, sample bottles offered for ten cents.
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Cat
Bath
Health and Home
Providence Letter
M. G. Shaw & Sons
Pareehr
Ward
Chamberlin Cartridge Co
Cleveland
Kigipey
Kourthen
New Orleans
Carver
Boyardus
Cody
Stubbs
Erb
Parker Brothers
Makers
Meridan
Conn
Chambers Streeet
People's Twenty-Five Cent Savings Bank
Bath, Maine
Galen C. Moss
Pres
F. W. Wee
Treas
Sade
N. C. Reed
South Street
APO
A. G. Bradstreet
Bidney W. Curtis
Bradstreet & Curtis, Bankers
Pine St
Joseph Nichols & Co
M. M. Lemons
M. M. Lemont
Centre Street
Sath
NEW England Mutual Life
Insura Ben
J. F. Stevens
NGE G
CASIS
Wm.b
OLYS
W. Richard Foss
Middle St
Portland, ME
Carters
Nobby
Pantaloon Goods
D. M. Melcher
Marble Works
A. M. Cutler
Wa. P. Corner & Ban
Commercial ST
Broad
Wm. LP
Cutler & Son
Oregon
Messrs. A. L
W. G. Brown
Whitefield
N. H
Guy C. Gosa
Arthur Sewall & Co
Miss Loach’s
GEQ
W. Luck
E. Palmer & Co.’s
Chas. Budley
J. M. Trott
Mase Sagadahoc Bank Block
Duncan & Jackson Block and Pump Makers
W.C. Duncan
John
Jackson
H. M. Ragon
Walter S. Russell
State of Maine
Sabattus Mountain Creamery
Freeport
Russell’s Market
Pillsbury’s Best
Rio
Java
Mocha
D. C. Gould
W. S. Shorey
Jeeeesand
Center Street
Mrs. Hennessey
J. M.taylor
E. W. Thomas
Front Street
W. R. Richards
Central Church
Haws Book Store
Wornd
S Dispensary Medical Association
Main Street
Buffalo
N.Y
Pierce
Drugg.sta
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