How Miss Hill Built a Popular City Library With Little Capital
Miss Kate M. Hill, Boston's enterprising businesswoman, started a circulating library in a shared office, then expanded to a seven floor building space. She bought books weekly, created a want list for patrons, sold worn titles to fund new copies, and offered four books for a quarter during vacations. Her venture serves clerks, stenographers, and men and women in the building, transforming a bare office into a lively, feminine library hub.
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Burne-Jones
Kate M. Hill
Boston
Miss Hill
Paul
Virginia
Casey
Washington Street
Navy Stationer Miss M. E. Sullivan Builds Global Navy Clientele
Connecticut born Miss Sullivan studied at Pratt Institute and runs a world spanning business supplying the U S Navy with note paper cards and invitations. Her cabinets hold 1100 navy card plates including crests from ships like the battleship Alabama and designs for state seals. She also acts as navy shopper visiting stores from New York harbor to Madagascar and handles birthday presents and candy orders for officers totaling over 12 tons in one year.
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M. E. Sullivan
United States Navy
Uncle Sam
Sullivan
Connecticut
Pratt Institute
Navy
Alabama
State of
Prince Louis of Battenberg
New York Harbor
Madagascar
Girl scales 260 foot church spire in gale at Hereford
Miss Elsie Heins, 17, accompanied a steeplejack up All Saints spire the highest in the west of England. The ascent used a cradle as a basket while a crowd watched on market day. Traffic halted as wind swayed the cradle and she reached the summit safely.
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All Saints
Hereford
England
Elsie Heins
The Gift of a Dog and the Colorful Thread of Dye
A distant tale recalls a dog that dyed the hair around its mouth after eating a shellfish, inspiring the ancient origin of cloth dyeing. A noted man and his sweetheart wander a seashore while the dog discovers color, shaping fashion through history.
Teacher Honored with Palmes Academiques by France
Mile. Arcadie Villere longtime French teacher at Wickland School Chicago earns France’s Palmes Academiques decoration via the French consul Henri Merou. The honor recognizes her service promoting French language and literature in the United States. Villere, related to historic Villere and Beauregard families, resides in Lake Forest while continuing work in Chicago.
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Mile. Arcadie Villere
Wickland School of
Chicago
America
Henri Merou
Palmes Academiques
Legion of Honor
Bureau of Public Instruction
France
Mile
Villere
New Orleans
Jackson
Mlle. Villere
General Beauregard
Louisiana
Mile. Vilere
Lake Forest
Problems That Perplex Are Answered Here
Woman readers seek work from Boston Post advice column with ideas on apron making and home crafts. Jane Eyre notes Boston places for towels and hemming and suggests local classes for chiropody, manicuring, or evening studies to enable day factory work.
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Post
Jane Eyre
The
Boston Post
Women seek store guide role in evolving retail jobs
The writer requests guidance for a store guide position newly opened to women, noting strong business ability and many references. She mentions study of common law and asks where to apply, but cannot specify where to find such a job. The letter highlights that few employers have adopted this role yet.
Request for Boston publishers and markets for poetry
A writer asks Miss Eyre for names of Boston firms that print and publish poetry and publishable venues where poems are paid. They seek copyright costs about one dollar per book, and guidance on selling patriotic pieces to newspapers or magazines, noting most papers pay only for celebrated or commissioned work.
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Miss Eyre
Boston
Grand Army
M. J
Boston Magazines Open To Amateur Short Stories
A reader asks Miss Eyre-Will about Boston magazines likely to publish amateur fiction and notes caution about fake song-publishers. The letter suggests sending manuscripts to Boston houses that handle short stories or songs, avoiding fees without guarantees of payment, and requests names and addresses for legitimate publishers.
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Miss Eyre
Sunday Post
Boston
Chicago
To Keep the Wolf Away Dear Miss Eyre
A widow with two children seeks help from readers to find daytime office cleaning work to make ends meet and “keep the wolf away.” She asks Mrs. A. P. and notes a department of mutual help may assist.
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Miss Eyre
Not Too Expensive for Millinery Lessons
A reader asks Miss Eyre for affordable private millinery instruction options. She mentions Boylston Street fees are too high and offers to send names of private teachers, noting private tutors cost more than existing department classes which are not open to summer pupils.
Request for at home tinting and pyrography work
Inquiries seek orders for tinting photographs of places and scenes and for pyrography and embossed leather work to be done at home. The writer notes most tinting is done abroad, Germany, and that there is little knowledge of firms offering such work. pyrography currently floods the market, but quality pieces may be accepted by the Arts and Crafts Society if approved by the committee.
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Miss Eyre
Boston
Arts and Crafts Society
Millinery Classes in Boston Offer Evening Options
The letter asks for a day school in millinery in Boston with tuition and course length. It notes no summer day school and mentions private tutors. It cites the Boston Young Women's Christian Association on Berkeley Street offering an evening class with nine lessons per course and a small fee, and the Sherwin School in Roxbury offering a free evening class from 7 to 9 on Mon Wed Thu.
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Boston
Boston Young Women's Christian Association
Berkeley Street
Sherwin School
Roxbury
Dear Miss Eyre I Seek Housework Work in New York
A caller asks Miss Eyre for help finding a general housework position in New York City. She hopes to join a nice family and asks whether to use an agency or apply directly. The letter notes she will provide agency names.
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Miss Eyre
New York
Mi Bu
Address for a buyer of hair combings in Washington Street
The letter asks for the address of a man who purchases hair combings in Washington Street. The writer offers gray hair combings for sale and seeks a reasonable price. Mrs N says she does not know any buyer and notes hair dressers are said to avoid buying combings as they may carry disease.
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Miss Fyre
Washington Street
Egyptian jewelry and costumes for stage use
A reader asks where to buy Egyptian style jewelry for headpieces neckpieces and armlets and whether dancers wore armlets. Suggestions include local antiquities shops with copies, visiting an art museum exhibition and public library for books, and sending a 2 cent stamp for addresses and a reliable book recommendation.
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Art Museum
A Mother's Plea for Work and Help With Home Sewing
A mother with five children and a $10.50 weekly income seeks work from home sewing to cover rent food and a $20 doctor bill. She asks how to sell sewing, print a seven person bill of fare on $4 weekly, and whether a Woman's Exchange exists. Faith suggests advertising plain sewing and distributing cards to attract work.
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Miss Eyre
Birds Boarding House Advice For Home Based Venture
Dear Miss Eyre explains how to start a small birds boarding business from home. The writer seeks guidance on attracting customers and setting charges while caring for two children. The response suggests leveraging friends networks, word of mouth, and light advertising based on a prior article by Miss Leonard, without adding new pricing details.
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Miss Eyre
The
Sunday Post
M. J. KF
Mystery Buyer for Hair Combing Purchases Revealed
Miss Leonard claimed a man would buy heir combings but she now says her statement was mistaken. The department confirms the man she had in mind does not buy hair combings.
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Miss Eyre
Candy factory work for a girl details pay and progress
In the letters the writer asks about candy factory work for a girl. The response notes starting pay of about 3 to 4 dollars a week as a learning chocolate dipper, with increases as experience grows to around 8 dollars and sometimes 10 dollars weekly for skilled dippers.
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Miss Eyre
Alice
Women Printers and Linotype Operators
Dear Miss Eyre A reader asks if women work linotype machines. Fannie says yes in other cities women have performed as well as men, earning good wages and being chosen to operate linotype when introduced.
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Miss Eyre
Fannie
Boston
Title Pages of Songs Pricing for Sheet Music Design
Dear Miss Eyvre asks about earnings for designing title pages for sheet music. Prices vary by design, ranging from three to twenty five dollars, Rosa Rr notes.
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Miss Eyvre
Rosa Rr
Seeking Chiropody and Manicure Training for a New Trade
A worker with three children asks where to learn chiropody and manicure. She currently works in a factory, dislikes it, and hopes to switch to a trade to better support her family.
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Miss Eyre
Arts and Crafts Society Accepts Designs for Copper and More
A letter asks for firms buying handmade designs or copper work. It notes Boston Normal Art School graduates may submit bead work silver leather glass brass pieces to Par Street crafts rooms. If accepted by a directors committee a membership and sale opportunity arises, the maker sets prices and the society takes 20 percent commission.
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Miss Eyre
Boston Normal Art School
Par Street
Is Printing and Developing Photos a Good Living
The writer asks about profitable home photography work for amateurs but notes department stores and big firms offer cut rate development and printing. A veteran, once supporting a family in this trade, left the field due to price cuts, suggesting photography be a side line rather than a main business.
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Miss Eyre
Free nurse training schools named by Nellie Bly
Nellie Bly cites Massachusetts General Hospital Boston City Hospital and Newton Hospital as having good free nurse training programs. The note lists these institutions as sources for free training in nursing.
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Miss Eyre
Nellie Bly
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston City Hospital
Newton Hospital
Noted Women Pioneers in Medicine Railways and Theater
The article profiles Mrs. Eens M Embree of Marblehead as a leading private hospital operator with a stellar surgical record. It also highlights Miss Jessie Dell of Georgia as a railroad auditor and Mrs Helene E Root of Laramie as a theatre manager and billposter who modernized an opera house.
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New England
Eens M. Embree
Marblehead
Jessie Dell
Georgia
John C. Dell
Sylvania Railroad
Dell
J. Dell
Helene E. Root
Laramie
Wyo
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Ae SC Ee
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Evie
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