The House Problem and a Model Chelsea Dwellings Plan
A Chelsea on Clark avenue project describes an “improved” dwelling funded by combined charity and capital to remedy overcrowding in London and America. Architect W. E. Chamberlain’s design earned top prizes for originality, with a planned eight thousand dollar, two story plus attic house in Alliston style, detailing rough stone and brick walls, hemlock framing, shingles, and extensive cost breakdowns for a bachelor’s family living in modest social standing. The plan includes attic expansion and a large unfinished attic chamber for future growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E. Chamberlain
Boston
American Architect
de Aclerk
Desi
Alliston
Alexandra cottages and the British housing reform movement
The piece compares a suburban American home to the Alexandra cottages at Penge near London built by the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrial Classes. It notes brick construction, open fireplaces, and fuel costs, with rents from two shillings sixpence to nine shillings weekly for variously sized units, and highlights the association’s aim to improve sanitary conditions and living standards for workers across London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert E. Streeter
Penge
Surrey
London
Metropolitan Association
Alexandra
Overcrowding And Dwellings Reform In London And Boston
A Royal Commission report highlights overcrowded London dwellings with eight to nineteen residents per room and shows how charity housing can reduce death rates. It notes Sir Richard Cross acts from 1875 to 1882 and compares American efforts in Boston, New York, and Brooklyn with a Boston Improved Dwellings Association capitalized at 250 000 dollars aiming to erect lease and improve working class homes and sanitary standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westminster
Acre
Metropolitan Association
Association
Thesere
Royal Commission
Half Moon Court
Robin Hood Yard
Holborn
St. Pancras
Prospect Terrace
Cromer Street
Derry Street
Wood Street
Neckinger Place
Druid Street
Spitalfields
Hanbury Street
Richard Cross
London
Boston
New York
Brooklyn
Nathaniel J. Bradlee
Richard H. Dana
Charles W. Dexter
Arthur Bb. Ellis
George
Hale
Alice N. Lincoln
Ida M. Mason
George O. Shattuck
Improved Dwellings Association
Pioneer Association
Christmas Dangleboards and Novel Gift Ideas Rise in Use
A Christmas feature showcases dangleboards as practical, decorative organizers. From plain wooden plaques to rolling pin shapes and slate memoranda boards, they hold keys, small items, and notes. Makers include children with simple tools, and designs range from plush coverings to painted scenes.
Crafting a Decorative Match Box from a Toy Washboard
A detailed old fashioned craft describes making a pretty match box from a child’s toy washboard. Apply glue or lustre medium over the ribs, dust with emery powder to create a textured scratcher, then paint antique legend on the plain panel. Attach a silk covered pasteboard box to the back and hang by satin ribbon.
Decorative Party Bags From Cashmere and Silesia
This description details elaborate handbag and sachet making using cashmere and satin ribbons in coordinated colors Olive pink blue and gold. Methods cover lining strips with velvets silesia and dreary sewing steps, finishing with rings bows and fringe plus a scent sachet and a newspaper holder case.
So Did I A Leonard Bacon Angling Anecdote
Hartford Times recalls a humorous episode about Leonard Bacon and a New Haven physician on a country fishing trip. Both lines jerked but yielded no fish, prompting Bacon to quip with a weary humor that he had also failed to land a fish, a moment of mutual amusement between friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford Times
Leonard Bacon
Sagan
Bacon
Sensible Child and the Jam Plea from a San Francisco Scene
A San Franciscan describes a baby’s response to jam on a plate. A mother asks the child to say thank you but the infant simply asks for more jam, prompting a humorous reflection on polite talk and appetite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Franciscan
Baby
Missy
Might Bite Somebodys Else in Parlor Drill Craze
In Cleveland Plaindealer style notes out West this winter young women join martial drill with parlor rifles in large halls. They fail to look fierce and bite their mustaches to appear menacing, undermining the old Mars image.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Century-Old Lynn Resident Philip Pervear Passes Milestone
Lynn report from December 8 notes Philip Pervear of Sedgwick Maine aged 18106 years today and cousin to George K. and Henry A. Pervear of Lynn. W H Pervear says his grandfather enjoys good health and sharp eyesight while reading papers with pleasure, still a keen smoker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn
Philip Pervear
Sedgwick
George K
Henry A. Pervear
W. H. Pervear
Boston Cooking School Demonstrations on Creamed Cabbage and Halibut
A Boston Cooking School lecture by Mrs. Daniels covers Creamed Cabbage with butter flour milk and seasoning and Fillets of Halibut a la Poulette with lemon onion and whip sauce. It also previews a Twelfth Night cake with baking notes and decoration details.
Saratoga potatoes in a Kerr memory tale
In a Kentucky State Journal excerpt a neighbor compares Saratoga potatoes to ordinary Irish potatoes. Mrs O Raherty and Mrs O Flaherty exchange quips about taste and identity, with a touch of regional humor and a nod to cultural memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky State Journal
Saratoga
Mr. Flaherty
Mae
Sleepy Nebraskan girl warns late young men
A Somerville Journal note comments on a young Nebraska girl who has slept for three weeks and advises that no girl should stay up late with a suitor, so she can wake in time to help with supper fishes. The item reads as a quirky social blurb from the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerville Journal
Nebraska
Stumbling-Blocks Puzzle Column Invite and Rules
A departmental notice invites Pastime Association members to submit puzzles with answers on one side of the page and an enclosed return stamp. Address all matters to L H Patterson in Danvers Massachusetts for inclusion in this newspaper column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pastime Association
L. H. Patterson
Danvers
Mass
Word Squares and Puzzles From Danvers Mass No 111
A scanned page lists multiple word square and puzzle challenges including Decapitation cloth beheading and beheadings, Pyramid cross word, Charade, Word Square, Rebus and Anagrams from Danvers Mass with multiple sponsors and prize notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. M. East Conway
N. H
Second contest for silver medal opens for TYPOGRAPHICAL words
The second contest for a silver medal, open to all, closes January 25. Entrants pay ten cents in stamps, submitting lists of words formed from TYPOGRAPHICAL. Words must be from Worcester or Webster only, with no foreign or obsolete terms unless approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worcester
Webster
New England Puzzlers League to Convene in Boston
A note from M. M. announces next week’s first annual convention of the New England Puzzlers League at New Era parlors Codman building Boston. Edwin F. Edgett chairs. L. H. Patterson is secretary. J. W. Smith aids as credential committee and treasurer. Tom Sawyer joins the ranks. members urged to send names and addresses for membership papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England Puzzlers’ League
New Era
Codman Building
Tremont Street
Boston
Edwin F. Edgett
Cambridgeport
L. H. Patterson
Danvers
J. W. Smith
East Boston
Mass
Old Gentleman Tea Scene Ends With A Cup Handle
A story recalls an elderly guest at Mrs. Wealthy’s tea table. Her young son watches intently as the guest uses the cup with his hand around it. In a blush of embarrassment the child finally speaks, noting in a cheeky reveal that the cup has a handle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Otter
Barker's American Checker Player sold by Barker in Cambridgeport
Charles F Barker of Cambridgeport Massachusetts announces Barker's American Checker Player a 179 page cloth bound volume with 22 openings and 634 variations plus 35 critical positions. Price 1 dollar post paid orders to 8 Houghton street Cambridgeport. Also prints continued Leaver Goodall match games and solution notes by Isaiah Barker and J H Harrison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles F. Barker
Houghton Street
Cambridgeport
Mass
Leaver
Leeds Mercury
Isaiah Barker
Sixteenth Entered in Wis Beach Working Men's Institute Tourney
The sixth annual Wis beach Working Men's Institute Drough Club tournament ran Oct 5 to Nov 17 with sixteen entrants, three withdrew, and thirteen proceeding to four games each. Prizes total 108 08 78 58 38 and 28. Mr J also donated four extra prizes. First prize holder earns an artistically inscribed certificate. top eight will play five more games for the cap and bronze medal.
Baby's Rays of Sunshine on a Rail Trip
A four year old aboard a railroad train causes a cheerful scene as she plays with a father’s moustache and silks, drawing smiles from businessmen, clerks, and an old maid. Passengers forget daily cares, share laughs, and even the old gentleman and newsboy bid farewell, leaving the car warmer with sunshine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emily
Baby
Bys
Colums
Chest Development via Hip Pockets for Stooped Boys
In Medical and Surgical Reporter an advice note urges using high breast pockets and hip pockets to guide boys into keeping hands out of ordinary pockets. The method aims to improve posture, expand the chest, and discourage stooped carriage, avoiding braces or costly devices.
He Weakened at a Macon Saloon
In Macon a man sat with friends in a saloon while drinking wartime whiskey. The owner kept a wet monkey roaming the premises and the animal perched atop a barrel. The story recounts the man noticing the monkey’s behavior and his companions feigning ignorance as the situation grew grave.
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Macon
Digestive Effects of Liquors Tea and Coffee
Dr W Roberts discusses how liquors tea coffee and cocoa hinder digestion by slowing chemical processes while stimulating glands and muscles. Distilled spirits and wines retard salivary and peptic digestion, with wines most harmful. Effervescent wines offer greatest good with least harm. Tea paralyzes saliva even in small amounts. strong tea is injurious. Strong coffee and cocoa harm digestion if overused.
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W. Roberts
England
T. T. Sealsak
Bellaire
Ohio
Warner
Tippecanoe
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Clark Avenue
Chelsea
Ameren
Ving “Room
Betry
Columbus Dispatch
Lismarck
Dakota
Mala
Aga
Sle
Washington
Indianapolis
Maine
Kansas
Boston Cooking School
Conducted BY
Lady Vera
Creek Square
Engand
India
Tom Sawyer
Baltimore
Brewer
Italy
Lawrence
A. F. He
Charade
Taunton
Cons Ny
Cupid
Graniteville
Neyty Girl
Alexander
Me. T
Cohannet
Rev. L. A. Day
Sara Pol
Bess A. Bolton
Read
Aga Memnon
Danvers, Mass
Under, Huen Conway
Cat—Owl
Blaine
Nicholas Copernicus
Hill Nye
Longfellow
Evangeline
Nightingale
Pontiac
Overdo
Nemas
Trials
Adalie
Cosset
Concord
Mabal Fly
Sweetzer
Kismet
Donkas
Peoria
Ili
M. M
France
Teli. Eee A Ri
Gktes
di Hs Mond
RK. E. P
Dickens
L’eclair
Chips
Dainvan
O. Aioster
Mabel Fly
Sammy Klup
Gossir
Harver’s Bazaar
Borror
Thess and Checker Players
Pemberton Square
J. H. Harrison
Somerville, Mass
BLACK
Messrs
H. Z. Wright
J. Dempster
Dempster
Laird and Lady
Bristol
Somerville
Checker News
J. Reed
Pittsburg
Penn
Adam
Reed
Paterson
N.J
Professor Dempster
George Montgomery
Rantoui
Midlothian
Tur
Wylne
Durham
Northumberland
Wright
Clasgow
1I Ae
H. Musson
Rnett
J. A. Southwell
C. Briggs
J. Longbottom
R. Falkner
F. HH. Wilmot
R. Bennett
C. Brice
Reams
Mr. J. T. Teed
G. Williams
Wimot
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