What's in a name as Jerusha Jones finds love
A Miss Jerusha Jones resents her triple J name until a new schoolmaster arrives. She battles with vanity, then falls in love. autumn wedding follows in the town of M. Jerusha becomes Mrs Jeremiah Jenkins, keeping the J initial.
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Jerusha Jones
Jerusha
Shakspere
Jones
Miss Jones
Rawell
Ives
Goodby
Father Time
Jerusha J. Jones
Jeremiah Jenkins
Projectile Speeds Rise After Leaving Cannon Mouth
Experiments with improved velocity measuring instruments show a projectile accelerates after leaving the muzzle. It starts at 1474 feet per second and rises to 1689 fps within six feet, then slows to the initial muzzle speed after 25 yards due to the expanding gas impulse felt beyond the mouth.
Sewing Circle Discusses Work, Morality, and Modesty
The Boston Post Sewing Circle offers letters from readers about wages, romance, and careers in urban life. Topics include low pay driving moral risk, fashion in the workplace, and domestic service versus shop work.
Mistress and Maid in the Sewing Circle
A housework worker recalls why intelligent maids are scarce at good wages while shops attract many willing to work for little pay. She describes social climbers, attention to status, and rival maids luring others away, sharing mortifying experiences from her early employment.
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Sewing Circle
Letters Advocate Pedigree Checks Before Marriage
A reader in Wellesley argues for a marriage permit system requiring proof of no hereditary or communicable diseases. The letter cites Dr Woods Hutchinson's proposal for a national bureau of pedigrees to assess families before marriage to reduce hereditary harm and divorces.
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Sewing Circle
Sewing
Woods Hutchinson
Wellesley
On Her Own Honor Dear Sewing Circle
A Sewing Circle correspondent cites Ida Tarbell on chaperones in a reflection on modern girls. The piece argues that self restraint and personal honor trump traditional monitoring, noting past deception of paid chaperons and praising unchaperoned behavior as safer when the girl is trustworthy. ON HONOR NOW.
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New England
Ida Tarbell
Boston
Morgan a Benefactor to Harvard
Pierpont Morgan funded Harvard Medical School’s seven-building complex on Longwood Avenue with a million dollar gift to honor Junius Spencer Morgan after his 1905 London death. The donation financed two laboratory buildings and the administration block forming the memorial group.
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Pierpont Morgan
Harvard
Longwood Avenue
Harvard Medical School
J. P. Morgan
Mr. Morgan
Junius Spencer Morgan
London
Morgan gifts and Harvard ties shape a legend in athletics and learning
The article recounts J P Morgan and family connections to Harvard through gifts of buildings and the Lefferts Pope collection, notes his Harvard sojourns and honorary LL D, and retold tale of his failed bid for Harvard Yale game tickets before eventually receiving them after red tape.
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Medical School
John D. Rockefeller
David Sears
Collis P. Huntington
J. P. Morgan
Lefferts
Alexander Pope
Harvard
British Museum
Mr. Morgan
Pope
Goettingen University
Germany
Cambridge University
John Pierpont Morgan, Jr
Thomas W. Lamont
Junius Spencer Morgan
J. P. Morgan, Jr
New York
America
Cambridge
Morgan
Harvard Athletic Association
Harvard A. A
Classmate of Morgan in Boston Is Eben Shute of Newton Centre
Eben Shute of Newton Centre, assistant treasurer of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, was the only man in Greater Boston who shared a class with J Pierpont Morgan at Boston English High School. He graduated with Morgan in 1854 and recalls Morgan's early talents, including a fluent French declamation. Shute cites a penny saving incident in school that he says foreshadowed Morgan's later wealth, and notes Morgan's integrity and global renown after his death.
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J. P. Moragan
Harvard
University
Morgan
Eben Shute
Newton Centre
Massachusetts Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Greater Boston
J. Pierpont Morgan
Boston English High School
Shute
Pip
Mr. Shute
Thomas Sherwin
Money King
Mr. Sherwin
Mr. Morgan
United States
Freshman Dinner at Harvard Tonight
The annual Harvard freshman dinner is held at the Harvard Union this evening with nearly all 700 lowerclassmen attending. T. H. Potter will be toastmaster and the Freshman Glee Club Quartet will perform a musical program.
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Harvard
Harvard Union
T. H. Potter
Glee Club
April Fools Pranks and the Hidden Cost of Jokes
Poem warns against cruel tricks that ruin others days and cause harm. It contrasts the clever deceiver with the foolish prankster, claiming true folly lies in causing pain and eroding trust. Walt Mason notes the pain of pranks and the lure of laughter without regard for others.
A Boy's Idealism and Advice on Love
A stenographer asks how to handle a younger office boy who sends flowers. A correspondent encourages letting him idealize love, gives guidance on age differences, and suggests being a supportive friend while time reveals growth.
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Miss Champagne
Heaven
Earth
Proper marriage age debate in letter to Miss Champagne
A reader asks Miss Champagne about the suitable marriage age for a young woman. At 21 she seeks guidance after a disagreement with a man who argues about being married before 30 or after.
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Miss Champagne
New Head of Morgan Family Marries Boston Girl
The wife of the new head of the Morgan house is a Boston girl. In 1890 J Pierpont Morgan Jr married Miss Jane Norton Grow of Marlboro Street, a Boston society maiden. Mrs Morgan has since lived in London and New York but often visits Boston.
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House of Morgan
Boston
J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr
Jane Norton Grew
Marlboro Street
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