Boston YWCA Adapts for Working Girls with New Home
The Boston Young Women's Christian Association expands its facilities on Warrenton Street with a new home for 200 boarders, plus a Burns street office and training rooms. The project, costing about 150000 dollars, includes industrial departments, sleeping rooms, a dining hall, and a 400 seat hall, to support self reliant, educated, and safe housing for young women arriving for work in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Men’s Christian Association
Christian Union
Young Women’s Christian Association
Boston
United
Boston Young Women’s Christian Association
Beach Street
Friends
Warrenton Street
Carver Street
Berkeley Street
Appleton
Gray Street
George F. Meacham
Monsiuum
Alpheus Hardy
O. P. Gifford
Phillips Brooks
J.T. Duryea
D. D
The
Ark
Bureau Heips
Ladies’ Union of
New York
The Work Table Tidies and Household Tidies
Practical holiday craft ideas for tidies and decor. A simple dotted Swiss muslin centerpiece with yellow silk daisies is described, offering easy embroidery techniques and decorative touches to brighten home spaces.
Fashion notes from Halifax journal on Woman suffrage and Parisian style
The Halifax Journal highlights a Globe column on Woman's Hour and a new Ewing Nebraska project by Clarence Selah with Harriette Shattuck in charge, plus fashion bits. It surveys mourning dresses, opera bonnets with two brim points, skating costumes, and evening wear in Chantilly lace and yellow petticoats, alongside wedding decor notes and gloves trends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Hour
Ewing
Nebraska
Clarence Selah
Harriette R. Shattuck
Astrakhan
New York
Continent
England
Jennie June
Selected Fancy-W ork and Useful Novelties for Homes
A period guide details corner and straight shelves with curtains, hooks, and brackets to create hidden storage. It describes macrame and knitting bags to manage yarn balls and a pink tissue hand screen with satin accents, mounted on a bamboo handle for portable use.
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Bristol
Bristol Board
Crafting a Satin Screen With Fringe and Pink Roses
Instructions describe making a decorative satin screen by fringe trimming a four inch wide sheet, crimping each fringe, folding and shaking to prevent matting, coating edges with mucilage, and layering pieces around a central floral painting. Artificial pink roses and foliage may be used, with a quilled satin ribbon bow finishing the top edge. The screen serves as a lightweight face shield near lamplight.
Clydesdale Lace and Widelace Knitting Patterns
This OCR style knitting instruction describes two lace patterns, Clydesdale Lace and Widelace, with 15 and 29 stitch casts respectively. It lists row by row actions including knits, yarn overs, and seams, plus a finish note about using Saxony or Andalusian wool or silk. It mentions material specifics and repetition.
A Nursery Rug and Crazy Patchwork Guide
A practical nursery rug project uses a 47 by 31 inch center cloth with a two inch contrasting border. It features stitched seams and a fringed edge, with playful border shapes cut from cretonne or flannel. Crazy patchwork adds velvet and plush pieces with embroidery and feather stitches to create a decorative quilt edge.
Card crafting and knitwear tips from a historic page
A period guide shares thrifty crafts to repurpose Christmas Easter and birthday cards into decorative screens framed with cane and nails. It also outlines knitting instructions for a child’s leggings with detailed stitch steps and shaping to finish with a securing strap.
Handsewn Knitted and Felted Floor Mats from Wool
The text explains making handsome floor mats from knitted garter stitch wool three inches wide, dampened and pressed, cut and raveled to edge, sewn onto bagging and lined to lie flat. It also offers a cheaper method using heavy wool pieces cut tongue shaped, edged with buttonhole stitch, added with a star motif, center carpet, and two finishing rows for a pretty mat.
How to Trace Patterns for Outline Stitching
Instructions describe perforating a design, sewing machine work to stitch straight lines, and stamping with powders. It notes using a slightly lithe cloth, dampening before stamping, and applying starch with lampblack for black, carmine for red, and indigo for blue.
Knitting Pattern Fragment for a Sock Second Row
A fragmented instructions snippet shows a knitting sequence with repeated knit and purl actions. It outlines crow-knot and plain stitches, thread over, and slips with bind offs, forming rounds and rows with specified counts and repeats for shaping a sock-like item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrow
How the States Went. Cleveland Led Blaine by 30,000 in 1884
A compact summary of statewide presidential results and party fusion quirks from 1884. It notes Cleveland leading Blaine by about 30,000 votes nationwide, discusses fusion tickets in Michigan and Missouri, and presents state tables comparing 1880 and 1884 totals, plus absenteeism estimates and regional patterns.
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Goppers
Secretaries of States
Hlaine
Cleveland
Blaine
Michigan
Iowa
Nebraska
Missouri
West Virginia
Butler
Badger
General Butler
Dows
West
Weaver
Kgsouri
Dem
Nat'l Prohib
Belva Lockwood
Garfield
John Quincy Adams
Polk
Taylor
Buchanan
Lincoln
Hayes
John Guiney Adams
House
Jackson
Adams
Tilden
Cleve- St. Land
John
Alabama
Arkansas
Kentucky
Mississippi
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Ofebon
Ceerceeree Peat
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Vermont
Virginia
Wisconsin
St. John
Cove
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Tlinois
Indiana
Kansas
Louisiana
Maryland
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Nebraskee
Saas
Rae
Cave
Ache
Wisconsiny
Georga
Illinois
Caio
Union
Solid South
New England
Hancock
Gareld
Maine
Pacific
Ieland
Bauer
James
Jefferson Letter on Presidential Term and Union Crisis
Thomas Jefferson writes to James Martin in 1813 discussing preferred four year presidential terms with reeligibility restrictions, views on Massachusetts war conduct, unionist loyalty, and the dangers of state secession. He analyzes arguments for and against separation, cites England's influence, and advocates eventual return to the Union despite political strain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
New York Times
Thomas Jefferson
James Martin
Aaron Burr
Monticello
Jamaica
Quincy
Senate
Massachusetts
Europe
England
Zagland
TH. Jefpperson
Manic defense in seal skin theft case in Louisville
In Louisville the James Heath trial for stealing two sealskin sacques featured a striking defense claim. It linked the defendant’s kleptomania to family weakness and a neurologically driven urge, tracing origins to his mother’s Civil War era traumas and a troubled upbringing. The judge ordered trial on nominal bail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
James Heath
James
Sedao
Pilots and Camelliers Lead Nile Voyage to Sarass
Canadian voyageurs on the Nile advance 300 boats toward Sarass through second cataract, with steam launches up to Bab el Kebir. Detachments move from Khor el Mousa to Palms and Hab el Kebir as boats are portaged past Bab. A rescued steamship struck a rock near Sarass. progress slowed, rationed meat and bread shared, and orders shift crews to camp at Khor el Mousa, Palms, and Sarass.
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Montreal
Star
Nile
Khor-el-Mousa
Khor-el Mousa
Palms
Bab-el-Kebir
Royal Navy
Sapass
Sarass
Wady Halfa
New Congola
Indeen
el- Mousa
Voyageurs
Palms Squad
Hab-vl-Kebir
Dongola
Jackson
Foreman McLaughlin
Royal Engineers
Foreman Campbell
South Staffordshire Regiment
Foreman Kennedy
Tam
Gemaa
Black Watch
42D
Sussex Regiment
OGSR
Gemail
Charles Hheresford
Colonel Butler
Elizabeth Thompson
Haseen
Aumond
Neilson
Mackay
Warmaster
Quartermaster Kennedy
Wady Haifa
Terra Firma
Ader
Contempt Trial for Railroad Witness in Chicago News
A prosecuting attorney questions a railroad man about motive for running trains faster than city ordinances allow. The witness is tried for contempt of court as the exchange escalates with pompous questioning about motive and business purpose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago News
Catarrh Cure Found By Clergyman After Years Of Suffering
A clergyman endured catarrh for years and after failed remedies found a prescription that cured him completely. He credits the treatment with saving his life. Send a self addressed stamped envelope to Dr J A Lawrence 199 Dean Street Brooklyn NY to receive the recipe free of charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Lawrence
Dean Eee
Brooklyn
X. Y
Checkers Note on White to Move Position 1134 1135
A chess checkers excerpt reports White to move and win in positions 1134 and 1135. It cites E Russell and D G Lewis, from Middlesbro', Sunderland origins, with game series between Martins and Adamson during a Fifeshire champion visit. Includes solutions for positions 1128 1129 1130 1131 and endgame notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Russell
Middlesbro
D. G. Lewis
Sunderland
New York Weekly Echo
Clipper
BLACK
Vupuycovzay
Martins
Adamson
Fifeshire
Mr. Martins
Leven
Messrs
R. Martins
Il Il
1860
Bristol
Ae Os
Glasgow Herald
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Christian Association For Young Women
Vanitas
Vanitas Vanitatem
Halifax
Fla
GLOBE
Saxony
News Jersey
North Carol
Tee
Ree Arkmans
Counn
Delawar
Bay
Massach'us
Mississipi
Beason
Nevebrask
N. Hamps
N. Carolina
Ohio
Carolina
Uy Vermo
Jefferson
Maniac
Canadian Voyageurs
Future Movements
Jamelliers
Charles F. Barker
Charles I. Barker
Houghton Street
Cambridgeport
Mass
Chess and Checker Players
Pemberton Square
Barker
Messrs. Wardwell and
Lyman
Charlies F. Barker
Isaiah Barker
Isaiah Harker
Bridgeport
Enn
J. H. Harrison
Pinkham
Fred Allen
Leeds
Eng
Checker News
Wylie
Providence
C. H. Freeman
Freeman
Wyllie
Mr. Wyllie
Wyliie
Merry
Stewart
Allothers
Heffner
Checker
Yankee Blade
Walker
Wright
Broughton
Portland
Portland Argus
Hl. Z. Wright
N K. Walker
U Wright
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