Caring for Infants in Hot Weather and Etiquette Lesson
Practical guidance from medical societies on infant care in heat. Emphasizes cleanliness, light clothing, outdoor time, and breast milk or goat and cow milk when needed. Details milk preparation, feeding frequency, and safe artificial foods while advising against overfeeding and late-night nursing. Includes fashion trimming notes and a short civics moment about saying thank you with warmth and consideration.
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Medical Society
Philadelphia
New York Board of Health
Independent
Horlick
Ridge
New Fabrics and Styles in Modern Dressmaking
The feature highlights fresh fabrics and trims such as etamine and canvas cloths at sixty cents a yard, cashmeres at one dollar per yard, and mohair serge praised for its durability. It notes new fans, both silk painted and woven straw leaf designs, plus the Amazone hat with high crown and side brims. It surveys gowns with gobsoldery, embroidery, and tailored jackets, and outlines bodice and waist styles including the nun’s waist and long sash revival.
Calla Lily Mat Pattern and Cheap Afghan for Baby
Pattern details for a calla lily lamp mat with a seven stitch circle start and seven rounds of increasing work, plus a yellow center knit on a spool. Also describes an inexpensive baby Afghan using scrim and worsted, plus a wall pocket crafts project from pastedboard with decorative fabric and cord edging. Includes aesthetic, low-cost craft guidance and materials.
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Ecru
Birch Bark Ornaments and Craft Ideas
This piece outlines numerous birch bark craft ideas from painting on bark with oils or watercolors to making napkin rings, blotters, bannerets, wall pockets, a thermometer panel, an autograph album cover, and a small calendar. It suggests supplies, methods, and a note on using alcohol to prepare bark for watercolor work.
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Legion
Ark
Make a Waste Basket From an Old Pail
A simple home hack uses a worn tin pail as a waste basket. Remove the bail, paint the interior, and line with a fabric of a harmonious color. Choose a ten quart sap bucket shape, and cover with a garnet or orange cloth to blend with room decor.
Crafting a Decorative Pail With Cotton Fringe
Readable excerpt outlines tying deep fringe from cotton macrame cord to a pail or basket. Instructions describe using unbleached cotton, securing lace around the rim, and adding ribbon bows on each end to create a gentled yet ornamental basket.
Crafting Satin Card Cases for Bazaar Sale
Cut four 444 by 348 inch pasteboard panels and cover two with black satin and two with old gold. Add satin trim along the lower edge, stitch carefully, join parts like a needle-book, decorate outsides with a simple design, and place cards inside. A friend sold these cases at 1.50 each, carried by hand and customizable to suit.
Handy knitted project bag from bandanna and lace
A small practical carrier for stairs and rooms is made from a bright bandanna and white lace. Cut a 30 inch square handkerchief, form corners, sew edges with turkey red string case, add ribbons and corner lace, and finish with a lace trim. A silk handkerchief option turns back corners for elegance.
Creative Home Crafts From Small Tools and Materials
Instructions describe making pillow shams from four muslin squares with varied designs, and joining with knitted or crocheted inserts, plus lace trims. Also how to line a cigar box with velvet, cushion the top, cover with quilted satin and lace, and craft a decorative hatchet ornament from pasteboard. A chair cushion from bright worsted, black outlines, and zephyr seams is noted, with round buttons for knobs and eyelets.
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Kensington
Five Pointed Star Crochet Pin Case
A handsome crocheted pin case makes a fine gift for a gentleman. Crochet a solid beadwork round, then divide into five parts and decrease evenly to form a five pointed star. Sew two sides over stiff boards, fill with pins, and present a unique handcrafted item.
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John
Crochet instructions for spiral chain join pattern
Create a chain, single crochet in the first stitch, insert hook in next stitch and make three chains, finish the third chain with the stitch on the hook, repeat around. Second row: place a single crochet over the three bars, and three chains over the single crochet. All subsequent rows follow the second row pattern.
Knitting Rug From Odds and Ends of Worsted
A method to make a rug from leftover worsted by casting thirteen stitches, knitting a plain strip about fifteen yards, splitting the strip lengthwise, attaching worsted pieces to a bed ticking stripe, and sewing around until the surface is fully covered. When it is cut the worsted will unravel and crinkle.
Crafting a Wall Display With Red Oil Prints and Ribbon
A smooth inch thick board six inches long is covered with red oil print cards arranged in tasteful clusters. Corners secured with two brags screws vines. fringe cards tacked with needle and thread. Ribbon runs through top rings and fastens to the wall corner by a double knot.
Letters and society notes from the Globe column
The page outlines submission details for letters to Editor Woman's Hour and notes a forthcoming reception by the Women's Educational and Industrial Union on Monday the 15th at 74 Boylston Street with high tea at 6, honoring Mrs Townsend and delegates from Buffalo. It mentions a domestic service bureau and references quilting patterns and knitting patterns in period magazines.
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Woman's Hour
the Globe
Boston
Mass
Dorcas
New York
Wom’n’s Educational and Industrial Union
Boylston Street
Townsend
Buffalo E
J. Union
Buffalo
P. Thompson
Ednah D. Cheney
Union
Correcting Her Bad English
A New York Sun snippet sketches a witty exchange between a woman and a tramp. The woman offers dinner and asks him to saw wood while he politely corrects her English noting that saw is wrong here and that seeing wood would be proper.
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New York Sun
The Letter Was Printed in Spring Poem Confession
A Louisville Courier Journal note accompanies a spring love poem and presents a self described wretched author confessing to poetry after vows and failed restraint. The piece lampoons the poet as a regular pent a tank of tender emotions liable to burst. The poem title and full lines appear in the context of a Sunday supplement.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Courier-Journal
Five Years of Debates and Reform under Gladstone
A condensed appraisal of Gladstone’s second administration from 1880 to 1884 highlights strong home reform, weak foreign policy, and reform efforts for Ireland. It covers cabinet formation, key policies like coercion and land acts, Afghanistan and Boer wars, and the political toll as the government faces rising opposition ahead of an autumn electoral appeal. It notes casualties and resignations within government, the Soudan episode, and ultimate doubts about a change in leadership.
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Gladstone
Great Britain
Lord Beaconsfield
Mr. Gladstone
Irelan
Ireland
Earl Granville
Marquis of Hartington
Scotland
Mid-Lothians
Marquis of Dalkeith
Duke of Buccleuch
the Treasury
Chan Sario
Exchequer
W. EB
Lord Selborne
Admiralty
Lord Northbrook
W. I. Forster
Board of Trade
W. E. Chamberlain
Duchy of Lancaster
John Bright
Janes Stansfeld
Henry James
Henry Fawcett
A. J. Mundella
Thomas Brassey
Otto Trevelyan
Charles W. Dilke
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Farrer Herschell
Frederick Cavendish
Earl of Rosebery
Aconsfield
British India
India
Afghanistan
Lord Lytton
Marquis of
Ripon
Candahar
Ameer
South Africa
Garnet Wolseley
Transvaal
Heidelberg
Sir George Colley
Majuba Hill
George Colley
Frederick Roberts
Land League
Irish Party
Healy
House of Lords
Commons
Lords
Parnell
Egypt
Michael Davitt
Westmeath
Rison
Iso
Tt. Forster
Keister
Lord Frederick Cavendish
Lord Cavendish
Urke
Ireand
W. W. Harcourt
Penand
Earl Cowper
Earl Spencer
Trevelyan
Campbell-Bannerman
Loudon
Gordon
Soudan
Central Asia
Merv
Giladstone
Khartoum
Suuakim
Berber
Lord Wolseley
Russia
Poad
England
Lincoln
Bradlaugh
Lord Randolph Churchill
Germany
France
United States
Fortune Bay
Westminster Abbey
Hunter battles giant eagle at Bald Mount
Jasper Wiltsey recounts a dramatic encounter on Bald Mount as he and a flock of crows harass a large eagle. After a long struggle and repeated near misses, Wiltsey ultimately shoots the bird in self defense when the powerful creature turns on him, describing the enormous wingspan and fierce behavior.
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New York Sun
Scranton
Jasper Wiltsey
Bald Mount
Wiltsey
Not That Kind of a Man
A Georgia merchant recounts meeting a stranger who claimed to know Colonel Bluffer and offered a 320 on a check. The merchant, wary of the stranger, blocks the deal after learning Bluffer had claimed a Savannah meeting and paid for drinks, exposing the improbable tale.
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Colonel Bluffer
Georgia
Savannah
Like Master Like Beast in Rain-Starved Notes
A collage of clipped headlines and quotes notes rainfall scarcity and desert imagery. References include Detroit Free Press on camels and endurance without water, and Peoria Transcript pondering parched ground and a Peoria father observing drought conditions. The items imply a period of dry weather and public concern.
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Detroit Free Press
Peoria Transcript
Peoria
Rain Question Sparks Child’s Simple Struggle
In a rural scene a parent questions knowledge of rain while a boy goes about chores. The boy digs for worms with a dull hoe, then returns to counting marbles, revealing a quiet moment of rural life and practical hopes.
Young Louisville plunger Jack wins big at turf amid mystery
A 19 or 20 year old known only as Jack, a famed pursuer at Louisville turfrooms, has reportedly won as much as 15,000 to 20,000 on Nashville and Louisville races this season. An active, small figure with a pink shirt and red tie, he moves through Turf Exchange confidently, a veteran bettors’ legend whose real name remains largely unknown.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Turf Exchange
Jack
Louisville
Iunny
Nashville
New Orleans
St. Louis
Jockey Club
A Cowboy's Trip on a Sleeping Car Ride
A Kansas City Times vignette recalls a cowboy sharing a sleeping car berth with a porter. He refuses to surrender his revolver, mocks the conductor, and insists on sleeping with “Old Dad” revolver beside him. The scene includes brash humor as the cowboy rejects a pillow and bickers while settling in for the journey.
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Kansas City Times
Barker's American Checker-Player offers 22 openings
Boston June 16 1835 advertisement for Barker's American Checker-Player by Charles B Barker 170 pages 684 variations 35 critical positions 22 by Wardwell and Lyman bound cloth price 1.postage stamps accepted orders prepaid. Three orders earn one free copy.
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Barker
Messrs. Wardwell
Lyman
Charles B. Barker
Peppy
Charles F. Barker
Houghton Street
Cambridgeport Maas
Chess Notes and Solutions by Barker and Larkin
By Isaiah Barker Cambridgeport Mass and William F Larkin Haverhill Mass provide notes on chess positions and endgame solutions. The article references positions numbered 1194 1192 with moves and game scores from a Boston area chess column.
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Isaiah Barker
William F. Larkin
Haverhill
Mass. G
Maskeeka
Wright and Barker Agree to Fifty-Game Friendly Draughts Match
In Manchester the draughts world opens a fifty game go as you please match between H Z Wright and C F Barker after a prior friendly. Thirty eight games played show Barker 14 Wright 4 and 20 drawn, with full results promised in the next National Tournament report.
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H. Z. Wright
C. F. Barker
Barker
Wright
Liverpool Players Clash In A Draughts Heat
The report covers a Monday to Thursday draughts tournament featuring J Jackson D Dunne and others. It chronicles draws wins and heat standings with Beattie Horsfall Jewitt Stowe Kear Mathews Smith and Smith as participants and mentions consolation and extra prizes.
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County Forum
Manchester
Messrs
Goodall
Birkinshaw
Strickland
Leeds
Nichol
Dean
Dobson
Fretwell
Halifax
Rielly
Lyons
Gibson
Walker
Liverpool
Halston
Bradley
Oldham
Bowstead
Bootle
Woolhouse
Tonar
Coldwell
Jackson
Dunne
Jewitt
Stowe
Horsfall
Sud
Horsigaus
Delates
Danne
Rei Ny
Mr. Jackson
J. Jackson
Ev Faney
Messrs. Jackson
Smith
Kear
Beattie
Asher
Dunno
Mathews
Unns
Prn
Dane
Mr. Stowe
Dunnen
The Incredible Crab Ned Delights Oakland Boat Crowd
Passengers on the 2 o'clock Oakland boat witnessed a sailor with a large barnacle encrusted crab named Ned. The crab rose from a water-filled pail, climbed a rope, and slid along it before collapsing from exhaustion, drawing cheers from onlookers including many women.
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San Francisco
Oakland
Ned
Golden Trades for Young Shopkeepers Maxims
Richard Ferguson cites old London guidance for shopkeepers. Maxims advise early opening, clean windows, wearing an apron, paying debts promptly, staying at home, checking stock, offering a cheap staple, maintaining quality, buying with ready money, avoiding waste, and courteous service. Practical rules cover temper, conduct, and prudent living.
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London
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Bird of Freedom
Eorror
Cambridgeport
Chess and Checker Players
Pemberton Square
William Keller
Columbus
C. Black
G. Morrison
Providence
R. L
A J. Heffner
C. H. Freeman
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Lo Dt
Hotter
Ar' Ae
Dundee
Heffner
Ie Freeman
Fife
Spennymoor
J. Smith
J. Taylor
Checker News
Gers
the Rules OF Trade
Richard Ferguson
Ingleside
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