How to Swim Lessons From a 53-Life Saver
A veteran rescuer explains how and why drownings occur and shares practical tips for staying afloat. He recounts saving 53 lives and emphasizes water awareness for both women and men to prevent accidents.
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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1891
Page
7
Bathing and Undertow Dangers at New England Beaches
A medical style piece extols ocean swimming on the New England coast while warning of undertow dangers. It notes warmer months, gendered swimming traits, and rescue methods, with practical advice on riding waves and avoiding panic.
Swim Safety and Rescue Tales From Drowning Stories
Advice on bathing and swimming safety emphasizes gradual acclimation in water, proper breathing, and keeping movement to prevent chills. It includes personal drowning experiences, gender notes on swimming, and odd observations about rescued victims and body buoyancy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Humane Societies
Romance and fashion at the seaside gossip column
Seaside bathers drive July crowds with daring gowns in blue scarlet green and magenta. Elegant silks from Dieppe and china silk cloaks turn heads as a married southern resort woman recalls a long lost college love and asks whom she married.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Narragansett Pier
Dieppe
South Shore
Paris
South America
Miss Muriel Dowie Travels From Carpathians To Fame
The famed traveler Miss Muriel Dowie, granddaughter of Robert Chambers, drew crowds as she spoke on travels to obscure villages and slept in cottage courtesies while touring with the British Association. Her work A Girl in the Karneselans is expected as a month’s hit. Dowie, 23, showcased a modest, unassuming style and a distinctive costume.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Dowie
Robert Chambers
James Payn
Crowns of Summer in Fashionable Millinery Display
Four new millinery sketches showcase summer headgear headed by fashionable hats trimmed with velvet ribbons and flowers. Designers propose wide brims, lace, tulle crowns, and floral sprays, with matching collars and caps to match. The piece notes public display drives fashion, urging husbands not to object to seasonable bonnets.
Gimme a Flower Miss Turns Charity into Lesson
Francesca, living near her country home, starts a small flower mission. A crowd of ragged children beg for a blossom, and she learns a surprising lesson about generosity and humanity as she distributes blooms and gains insight from their joy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Issus
Missus
Francesca
Theatrical Stars Earn Big, French Critic Questions
A French contemporary asks what a theatrical star earns. The Pall Mall Gazette notes the query hints at public interest in stage salaries and star salaries versus other arts during the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pall Mall Gazette
The Divine Sarah Bernhardt’s Vast Theatre Fortunes
An article traces Sarah Bernhardt’s earnings from modest 200 francs monthly at the Odeon to later gains from European and American tours. It notes 8.5 million francs plus 2 million more after a Peetens tour, highlighting a profit of 600,000 francs from America and the era’s fortune for a tragic actress.
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Sarah Ernhardt
Peetens
America
Sarah
Comedie Rancaine
Stat
Odeon
France
Jou-Frou
Adrienne Lecouvreur
Hernani
Corneille
The Grange Read at Union Meeting in New Hampshire
A long Union Meeting poem by Mrs. Phineas Whitcomb praising Fitzwilliam and Cheshire pomona Granges in New Hampshire. It extols history progress and unity, urges seeds of kindness, charity, and harmony, and celebrates Grange members' work and faith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phineas Whitcomb
Cheshire Pomona Grange
Fitzwilliam Grange
New Hampshire
Fitzwilliam
Granite State
Conundrum Lunch by Ladies' Aid Society of Abe Lincoln Camp
The Sons of Veterans Abe Lincoln Camp Ladies' Aid Society hosted a Conundrum Lunch at 1808 Curtis St. The 5 o'clock feast offered a playful menu of puzzled dishes and wordplay on foods and life, inviting guests to guess the items served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Ladies’ Aid Society of the Sons of Veterans
Abe Lincoln Camp
Curtis St
Ick Kidd’s
Perpetuotion Ees McKinley
Poe Javario
Jpesekare Bovine F
Marking Table Linen Best Methods
A reader asks for the best way to mark table linen. The note mentions a baby with a gravy dish is highly esteemed by many.
Had Not Changed the Butcher Boarder Prank
A boarding-house cook played a prank on a grumbling boarder by serving him leather instead of bacon. The boarder, surprised, questioned the butcher Mrs. Has cy about the switch as the cook kept up her routine.
Striking suitor challenged by bowery patrol
A stylish man lounges near a corner as a blue eyed blonde woman stands nearby. A suitor named Otticer is arrested for flirting with the engaged woman, and the couple reveals they are to be married. The officer, flustered, warns them in strained terms and returns to his post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Feller
Frantic Flower Sale Delights Children and Parents
A Detroit Press piece recalls Francesca the florist amid a lively street scene where children beg for flowers. Hands reach from to the crowd as a girl shares a bloom with a tearful boy, while adults smile at the makeshift kindergarten of generosity and color.
Flowers For The North End Children A Gift Of Joy
Francesca, a schemer by nature, fills a basket with sweet peas and garden flowers and shares them along a North End street. Children crowd her path, tugging sleeves and crowding the stairs as she delivers bouquets to sick rooms and cramped tenements. The gift brings bright moments to the poor, especially a mute Italian boy who thanks her with a kiss and a wiped tear, making her morning feel like a small, lasting treasure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North End
Francesca
Han
Bngers
Italy
Yeeros
Mies
Alcer
Deligh
Disappointing the Churcheses at Cumberland Church
A Hoosier farmer's will left his estate to Cumberland church if no son married and had issue. The son married. a physician notes the heir’s birth ruins the church’s future, while the father boasts of a strong claim. A two year legal contest looms over the vanished fortune.
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Chicago Times
Cumberland Church
Pway
Texas Sittings Dialog Shows Tense Exchange
A terse exchange between Schamburg and Jacobs escalates as Schamburg calls Jacobs a schoundrel and alias while Jacobs retorts that he hears only someone talking to themselves.
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Schamburg
Jacobs
Schoundrel
Dot
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