Women Dress and Dress, Men Admire Them in Debate
A long essay argues that women innately dress to please and to gain influence over men. It traces fashion from Eve and classical heroines to modern dress, praising Worth and criticizing past and present frock choices while urging wiser, more comfortable future styles. It notes male appreciation and social pressures, and recalls historical sartorial shifts among nations and classes.
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Sahara
Sght
Eve
Paradise
Seavons
Ham
Shem
Japhet
Worth
Murmer
Esther
Vashti
Paris
Olympus
Juno
Minerva
Venus
Our Girls Define Strength Not Faults In Society
A plucky Dakota sister defends American girls against claims of helplessness. The piece cites women who balance work, study, and home tasks, from a seven mile winter school run to a 5 AM college routine. It argues boys need scrutiny as girls prove self support and moral standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fair Land
Dakota
Agricultural College
Caggiz M. Ashton
All of Illustrious Lineage Claim of Ancestry
A Baltimore Sun piece discusses probabilistic genealogy showing that every person’s ancestors trace back to vast numbers across generations. It argues that by William the Conqueror’s time each living person could have had tens of millions of forebears and likely included nobility and notable figures in their line.
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Baltimore Sun
William the Conqueror
England
Marvellous Memory Feat Cited by Maretus
A Corsican youth in Padua amazes by repeating a 46 000 word list after one reading. Maretus and four Venetian nobles witness the feat and verify accuracy by recalling the list forward, backward, and in alternating selections, proving remarkable memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maretus
Co. W. Martindale
London
Padua
Emphasis in Life and Its Role in Success
A St Louis Republic reflection argues that emphasis shapes success in politics business society and church and even childhood. By prioritizing ideas over words and magnifying essentials, individuals influence others and their own progress, as illustrated by a Chicago school anecdote about a superintendent who conveys meaning without loud emphasis.
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St. Louis Republic
George Howland
Chicago
Sometimes Lats
Utica Observer reports a vignette in which Mrs. Carlton Pell questions Mrs. Smythe about her husband’s late nights. Smythe admits concern, recalling returning from the Vancouver affair at 3 am to find him still in bed, noting the hurried clothes indicate he was not there long.
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Utica
Mrs. Carlton-Pell
Accomack
Virginia Weade
Virginia Gore
Alexander
Berleau
Achoad
Highbinders and Chinese Freemasonry in San Francisco
In San Francisco on May 4 the piece explains Chinese highbinder or freemason societies as mutual protective groups led by Chi Kung Tong with up to 20 000 members in the U S and Canada. It describes officers the president headmen and hatchetmen and details initiation rites and alleged murders and shootings tied to quarrels over women and control of houses of ill fame. A police raid and orders to seize concealed weapons are noted amid a Chinatown uproar and a sequence of arrests and trials involving figures such as Teong Quan Hoe Lum Joe and Sue Yum.
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Mme. Tallien
Josephine de Beauharnais
San Francisco
China
United States
Chi Kung Tone Society
Canada
Central America
West Indies
Universal
Chi Kung Tong Society
Chi Kung Tong
Little Pete
Gut Sing
Los Angeles
Guan Dock
Lum ‘Tom
Quan Dock
Quan Ah Lip
Maryfield
Quan Ah Dip
Suey Lui
Presbyterian Mission
Adam
Lum Tom
Yut Sing
Bartlett Alley
Chinatown
Lum Joe
Ah Namanda
Utsing
Teong 4
Uan Hoe
Washington Street Theatre
Cox
Ah Wing
van Dock
Waan Ah Wong
Teong
Vang
Sue Yum
Teong « Uan Hoe
Um Joe
Washington Street
Daniel Kelleher
Ue Yum
Teonguan Hoe
Yum
Kelleher
Wittman
Chinatown Sand
Chungeng
Concen
Lui
Chung Hong
Teong Quan Hoe
Scar Face
Hoe
Xh Keo
Ng Qtong Fook
Tnelishman
Tom Gibbs
Ahnee
Ross Alley
Tarn Gang
Tao
Chen Hen
Wong
Jelley
Berg
Won
EcBert
Etiquette on patent leather shoes and wedding manners
Reader questions cover dress code for patent leather shoes, greeting proper etiquette for ladies and gentlemen, wedding processions, invitations, and dining manners. Answers emphasize discretion, formal forms on visiting cards, who pays for theatre tickets, and how to handle table service and cheese etiquette.
The Noise of Thunder in Early Explanation
Pittsburg Chronicle summarizes M. Hirn and explains thunder as the air heated and expanded by a rapidly passing electric spark. The clap marks lightning distance and column length, with the first roar not always from the struck point. It compares sound trails to bullets and meteors as air rushes to fill the gap.
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Pittsburg
M. Hirn
No Pockets Necessary Tailoring Question Sparked
A clothier and furnisher scenario shows a customer asking about trousers and pocket design. The high priced tailor quotes twenty dollars and queries pocket arrangement, prompting the disappointed customer to respond that pockets are unnecessary.
Cosmetics swindles exposed by Dr Ebert in Chicago talk
Dr Alpert E Ebert, president of the board of pharmacy, addressed the Women’s Physiological Institute at Ethical Hall on cosmetics. He demonstrated common preparations, noted 10 000 products and one city firm listing 4000, explained hidden ingredients, and stated Americans spend 62 million dollars annually on cosmetics with 26 million advertising and 15 million profit.
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Chicago Inter-Ocean
Ebert
America
Death of Chairman Barnum in New Haven
Hon. William H. Barnum chairman of the national Democratic committee died at Lime Rock New Haven Conn at 9 45 this morning after a brief illness He was born in Connecticut Sept 17 1815 and became a leading iron manufacturer later entering politics serving in the Connecticut Legislature US Congress and the Senate He steered Democratic campaigns including 1884 and helped carry Connecticut for Cleveland His death ends a long career noted for energy and party influence.
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New Haven
Conn
William H. Barnum
National Democratic Committee
Lime Rock
New York
Connecticut
Lime Tock
Salisbury Township
Litchfield County
Barnum
Housatonic Valley
United States Senate
Orville H. Platt
Samuel
J. Tilden
Hanrock
Democratic National Committee
Greeley
Cleveland
Calvin
Brice
Virginia Weade Teaches Dupp The Art Of Wooing
An Old Dominion maiden, Virginia Weade, rebukes Orville Dupp with bold town bravado and sharp wit as she demonstrates the proper surge of courtship. She asserts mastery, guiding him to surrender, declaring him hers amid a charged, smoke-wreathed scene.
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Old Dominion
Chicago Tribune
Mr. Dupp
Orville R. Dupp
Frantic escape follows a tense house scene
A male figure, entranced by a woman's kiss, is overwhelmed by longing and pain. He breaks from her embrace, bursts from the house in a panic, and races through a crowded street hatless and shoeless, grateful to have escaped with his life. Advance sheets hint at Ramalie Eaves' forthcoming novel.
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Ramalie
A Marvelous Machine and Its Bank Accounting Promise
H G O Neil of Louisville claims a perfected nine key Standard Recorder that prints current bank transactions, tallies entries, and balances daily. Backed by New York bankers and tested against Bank of Commerce figures, the device aims for royalty-based manufacture and a rail ticket printing extension.
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New York Star
H. G. O'Neil
Louisville
Fifth Avenue Hotel
Nelson
Edwin Lord
New York
Treasury
Washington
Sherman
Franklin Institute of Philadelphia
Hartley & Graham
Elevated
Real Life Defining Excavation Joke from Harper's Bazaar
A classroom joke where a school mistress asks for the definition of excavate and Edward replies with hollow out Then she asks for a sentence and he contrives I hit Bill and he excavated reflecting a light humor exchange from a 19th century periodical style
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Harper's Bazar
Edward
Bill
Spanish Matadors and the Madrid Bullfight Immersion
Oliver Optic recalls a Madrid Sunday bullfight viewed from Plaza de Toros, noting the crowd, pricing, and roles of chulos picadores banderilleros and matadors. He details the spectacle's sequence from entrance, the torero’s skill with banderillas and the fatal end, and the hospital charity motive, with vivid but restrained descriptions of danger and crowd reaction.
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Spain
Calle de
Madrid
Le 2
Espadas
Anothe Picador
Chulos
Canline
Aspada
Funcion
Gelhyers
Little
Simos
Espada Gan
Leavn
Gum Chewing Tale At Tea Party Causes Embarrassment
A Kingston woman recalls a humorous incident from a tea party to illustrate the dangers of gum chewing. Six guests attended the Kingston gathering including five young ladies and one gentleman. After tea, sticky gum remnants were found stuck to the table at each guest’s seat, prompting laughter and cautionary remarks about chewing.
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Vassar
Kingston Freeman
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Ah Nam
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AH Kee
My Quong Fook
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Lord Coleridge
Falaty
Silvance
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Joer
Tom
Harry
Saratoga
John Hantvax
John Jones
U.S. A
Yesterterday
G. H. Crossman
Youngstown
Maine
N Smith
Leason
Brad
Oliver Optic
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