The Woman's Hour Looks at Class and Character
A critique of social class in the United States argues that merit is not automatically recognized across status lines. It highlights examples of courage and virtue among the poor, emphasizes moral qualities over wealth, and calls for a society organized by character rather than arbitrary distinctions. Also describes contemporary dress trends favoring comfort over confinement and fashion details from designers like Worth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bakery
Milady Dainty
Newhall House
Beling
Pimples and the complexion health from diet and habits
The article urges daily bathing to keep skin pores open and blood clean. It links pimples to a diseased system, recommends wholesome diet with less fried foods, plenty of outdoor exercise, and citrus before meals. It warns against artificial cosmetics and notes liver symptoms signaling treatment.
Fashion Notes on Basques and Dress Trimmings From Harper's Bazaar
The article outlines evolving round, coat-tail, and tail basques with square backs and puffed shapes, favoring velvet and wool for coats and pelisses. It details waist attachments, trimmed edges, and lengthwise ornament like plastrons and Directoire collars, plus trimming methods for waists, necklines, and cuffs, with emphasis on slender, long-waisted silhouettes and Byron collars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper’s Bazar
Directoire
ONE TOO MANY. The Story of a Baby's Resting Place Quest
Three Boston women pursue a home for a Swed ish mother and her infant after hospital care and state funding disputes. They visit the State House and multiple charities, facing refusals and crowded shelters before securing a boarding place in South Boston for four weeks, while calling for a foundling hospital and exposing alleged misuses in city baby farming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
McLean Street
Revere Street
Lydia M. Warner
H. W. Wheelwright
Cummings
Pettee
Tewksbury
Tey
Dorchester
State House
Dr. Cummings
Renee
Little One
St. Luke's Hospital
Foundling
Butler Hag
An Old Time Country Hanging in Hillsboro County
Sixty one years ago Daniel D. Farmer was hanged at Amherst for murdering widow Anna Ayer of Goffstown. It was Hillsboro county’s only execution. The gallows were stored then burned. Colonel H. F. Courser and his brother witnessed the event as boys. They traveled from Boscawen with others by sleigh. The condemned man made no disturbance, Rev D. Lord placed a cloak on him. The scene drew crowds from fifty miles away and large quantities of New England rum flowed freely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashua
N. H
Daniel D. Farmer
Amherst
Anna Ayer
Goffstown
Hillsboro County
H. F. Courser
T. Courser
Portland
Boscawen
Algernon Gracie
Augustus
Paget
America
Henry Brown
P. P
Mrs. Smith
Mrs. Brown
New York
England
Lord Houghton
Harper’s Bazar
Woman learns sign maker misreads Mrs as Miss in millinery tale
In Lowell Times style the sign painter jokes about Mrs versus Miss as a milliner’s shop sign reads Mrs. J Blank. The painter quips about marriages and titles before the woman finally accepts the error and leaves the sign nailed up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowell
A Sharp Bargain Swindle Involving Vassalboro Farmer
A Vassalboro farmer was swindled by a traveling agent posing as a Boston real estate runner. He signed an agreement granting the agency commissions of 10 percent on sale, 5 percent if he sold it himself, and 3 percent if he withdrew. He seeks legal counsel to determine his options in this trap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Vassalboro
Boston
A Toothsome Morsel
A Madison Wisconsin report recalls a toothache relief when a young man used St Jacobs Oil. He rushed to a drug store and within ten minutes the pain subsided, illustrating the cure-quick remedy in a breezy anecdote from the Democrat.
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Madison
Wis
Democrat
A Feathered Wonder
Mrs C A Braman of 415 Washington street keeps a two year old canary that whistles Yankee Doodle as well as a person. The bird began whistling a year ago in response to clerks in a wholesale jewelry office nearby and was later taught the national tune.
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C. A. Braman
Washington Street
Window Garden Expert Shares Family of Window Plants
Miss Needham of Garden Street tends a bright window garden with Eucharis almazonica and related bulbs. She uses cow manure topdressing and tepid water, avoids tobacco insecticides, trains plants in pots and frames, and offers practical tips for starting a winter window garden in June for blooms by October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Needham
Garden Street
Needhafi
Miss N
Exeter Station
N. H
Alonzoa Warsee Wiczli
Unclear fragment on drug coverage or policy
Fragmentary OCR text appears to reference drugs or treatment but lacks clear names places dates or actions. No verifiable event or person identified.
Dividend Totals of Notable Mines and Virginia Stock Price
A list of dividend payments from major mines shows Bodie Consolidated at 1,275,000. Chrysolite Silver 1,600,000. Central Copper 1,610,000. Eventin Star 1,826,000. Homestake 1,672,000. Horn Sliver 1,700,000. Pilmnas Eureka 000. Sierra Attes 1,399,058. Silver King 1,050,000. Tombstone 1,230,000. Northern Belle 2,287,200. Idaho Gold 3,592,500. Quincy Copper 3,280,000. Rich Consolidated 6,811,50. Eureka Consolidated Silver 4,817,50. Ontario Pies 4,700,000. Standard Consolidated 4,025,000. Calumet and Hecla 21,860,000. Consolidated Virginia 42,930,000. The Consolidated Virginia remains a dividend payer but its stock, par value 100, trades at 50 cents, with capitalization at 54,000,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bodie Consolidated
Chrysolite
Entral Copper
Eventin Star
Homestake
Pilmnas Eureka
Silver’ King
Tombstone
Northern Belle
Idaho
Quincey
Rich. Consolidated
Eureka Consolidated
Ontario Pues
Standard Consolidated
Calumet and
Heela
Consolidated Virginia
Why Women Do Insane Causes of Wives Madness Revealed
A Hartford Insane Retreat report cites Mrs M a 44 year old mother of eight in acute mania. Her husband says she is domestic and always at home never socializing and doing chores for the family. The superintendent agrees the husband's account highlights social and domestic strain as factors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
First Spinning Frame in U S Not Slaters Invention
Providence Press reports the first spinning frame in the United States was built by Samuel Slater from an Arkwright model rather than his own invention. Professor J W P Jenks of Brown University plans to move the machine to the Smithsonian American Museum to preserve it from rust. The Rhode Island Society for Domestic Industry may grant transfer, and the museum also houses Slater’s 1790 carding machine and a cotton wheel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence Press
J. W. P. Jenks
Museum
Brown University
Samuel Slater
England
Jenks
Rhode Island Society
Paconrsmeneas
American Museum
Smithsonian Institute
Washington
Rhode Island Hall
Slater
Lost in a Cave for Forty Hours
The 1888 Mammoth Cave incident shows C. F. Harvey lost after missing an item. His light failed in darkness, and he wandered for about forty hours before being found exhausted and sleep troubled. The ordeal is linked to long term health issues he faced afterward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville Courier-Journal
C. F. Harvey
Mammoth Cave
Frank Gorin
Talking Over 800 Miles of Line Invention by Lakin
James A. Lakin of Westfield, formerly of Brockton, has created a new electric telephone and received 33 million in capital stock from the People's Telephone Company of New York. During a test using Mutual Union telegraph lines, conversations extended easily over 800 miles of wire with clear audio, and additional loops extended the distance. Wells Health Renewer promises improved vigor and health, claimed to cure dyspepsia and impotency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Lakin
Westfield
Brockton
People’s Telephone Company of New York
Mutual Union
New York
Boston's Working Women and the Wage Question
A feature explores the varied lives of Boston’s female workers, arguing wages and conditions reflect broader social and economic inequities. It profiles a low paid worker who survives on eight dollars weekly, then loses her job, faces hunger, and descends into illness and death, illustrating the precarious fate of many women in industrial labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
South End
Habits of Good Society on Dinner and Wedding Invitations
The piece outlines etiquette for sending invitations, responses, and regrets, stressing formal wording, who signs, and when to answer. It covers dinner, ball, wedding, and luncheon invitations, differences between English and American practice, and guidance on punctuality, mourning, and avoiding misdirected or missing cards.
Fragmentary reflection on a woman's fate and social pressures
A fragmentary passage notes a woman with constant attendants and a harsh social reality. It contrasts her decisive act to end it all with others who continue to toil, save, and fear dismissal and its consequences. The terse lines evoke collective struggle and personal peril within rigid expectations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aed
Brown's Iron Bitters touted as strength tonic in Mansfield ad
An 188s Mansfield notice promotes Brown's Iron Bitters as a cure all tonic for fatigue weakness and assorted ailments. It claims the product improves appetite, strength, and overall health after testimonials of symptom relief from liver kidney and spleen related issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mansfield
Ohio
Joan K. Accenpar
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Worth
Cal Ely
Mies Needham
Boule de Niege
William Falconer
Cambridge Botanic Garden
Middle States
Atheneum
Earth
Fim
Rome
Sir Augustus
John Jones
Ayer
W. H. Moone
Durham
J.C. Ayer & Co
Mass
Wylt
Epps
Pps
Civil
Rvice Gazette
James Epfs & CO
Oamarita
Nene Ervine
Neopathic Chemists
London
Englang
Zaveran
Sts
Hostetter
Iff
P Street
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