Wives of Fremont and Stewart Shaped Great Houses
The piece argues wives shaped success in politics and business, citing Jessie Benton Fremont and Mrs. Stewart as early forces behind their husbands’ empires. It lauds Mrs. Uhl and Mrs. Ottendorfer at the Staats-Zeitung, detailing their roles in operation, management, and growth. It ties these stories to broader praise for industrious, unseen contributions of women.
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Jessie Benton Fremont
A. T. Stewart
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Prince of American Merchants
New York Staats-Zeitung
Uryon Row
City Hall Square
Kingdom of Heaven
Oswald Ottendorfer
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Braats-Zeitung
Uhl
United States
Oferica
Perit Northen
Manon
Portraits of era figures and wives shaping fortunes and politics
A reflective, professedly sentimental meditation traces fortunes of Cornelius and William Vanderbilt descendants, Barney Williams and family, Grover Cleveland and his wife, and John Logan with his wife. It emphasizes spouses as forces behind public success and political perception, with reminiscences of stage, theater, and political life.
A Fireside Thought on Heaven from Katrina and Hans
Hans recalls Katrina and a devout pastor as they ponder heaven by the fire. Katrina asks how to find heaven while the pastor speaks of faith, restraint, and scripture, guiding the hopeful couple toward moderation and trust in God.
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Hans
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Woman's Hour letters discuss domestic service and crafts
A Providence correspondent argues servants are workers in a business and deserve no extra perks, while arguing costs and housing. The page includes knitting and crochet patterns, instructions, and reader questions about crochet books, plus multiple reader letters praising the column and sharing patterns and tips.
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Woman’s Hour
Boston Daily Givers
Boston
Providence
A. 1
Crochet Advice and Reader Replies in Brief
Readers discuss crochet methods and the Hour reference. The column declines to repeat full wire lace instructions, noting that learning crochet well enables following any design. Messages praise the Hour and request more guidance on star stitch and other stitches when available.
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Carrie Smith
Old physician offers free remedy for lung and nerve ailments
An East India missionary supplied a doctor with a vegetable formula claimed to cure consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and other throat and lung diseases plus nervous debility. He will mail it free in German French or English with full directions to any requester in Rochester New York upon sending a stamped request and naming this paper to W A Noyes 149 Powers block Rochester NY.
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W. A. Noyes
Power
Rochester
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It Cured Him. Detroit Free Press story of a boy
A Detroit mother cared for her ill son by singing at first, then using stories and her own dramatic recitation of the poem Rock of Ages to soothe him, illustrating how a fashionable craze inspired bedside improvisation.
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Detroit Free Press
Detroit
Nighttime Incident with a Fevered Child
A child slept and did not wake the next morning. That night he grew worse and urged his mother to play. She began Our Father but was silenced by a small hot hand on her lips. He demanded Play with Me and cried out in feverish rage, insisting on Woek of Woes.
Remarkable Life of Olive Cleveland Clarke of Springfield
Mrs Olive Cleveland Clarke aged 101 years 4 months 21 days died at her son Rev Edward Clarke’s home in Springfield. Native of Williamsburg she lived mainly on a Chesterfield farm, married Richard Clarke in 1809, they shared 67 years before his 1870 death. Surviving kin include a 76-year-old son a 91-year-old brother and a 97-year-old sister. She taught at Northampton in 1807-1808 and later resided in this city. Funeral planned for Sunday.
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Edward Clarke
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Chesterfield
Richard Clarke
Northampton
Lewis W. Cleveland
Skaneateles
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Howard C. King
Ohio County
Court House
Weather cocks on steeples a historic omen and myth
The article traces weathercocks atop steeples to ancient customs once linked to watchman roles and protection against calamities. It notes earlier placements on sacred trees and smag poles in North Germany, mentions solar myths about the sun and hen imagery, and cites varied cultural beliefs including India and Persia.
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North
Germany
India
Persia
Cicero
Earth
Cure for Catarrh Offered by New York Physician
A clergyman cured after years of catarrh using a secret prescription. Anyone suffering can mail a self addressed stamped envelope to Dr. Lawrence at 212 East Ninth Street, New York, to receive the recipe free of charge.
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East Ninth Street
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