Townsend's Letter on 1876 Election Turmoil and Reform
George Alfred Townsend writes from New York on November 14 about the disputed 1876 election and its aftereffects. He traces parallels to Jefferson Burr, discusses Hayes administration, party factions, patronage, and the impact on business, noting figures like Blaine and Arthur and reflecting on the moral consequences for the Republican party.
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Woman's Hour features on education reform and Indian women
The report covers the Association for the Advancement of Women gathering with papers by Julia Ward Howe Ednah Cheney and others on moral questions journalism reform and science. It notes emphasis on manual training education of women astronomy and Indian education and notes fashion of children’s winter wear follows a plaid, plain, and tailored style.
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Association For the Advancement of Women
Baltimore
Association
Julia Ward Howe
Congress
Ednah D. Cheney
Emma Mout McRae
Indiana
Howe
Cheney
May
H. L. T. Wolcott
Delia G. Bedell
Chicago
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Elizabeth Boynton Harbert
Mary Rogers
Lilinois
Marbert
Julia Smith
Wolcott
E.C. Staith
Charlotte B. Wilbour
Francis W. Hisper
Abby W. May
Bedell
Fuou
Autoinette Brown Blackwell
Elen M. Mitchell
Colorado
Matia Mitchell
Vassar College
Mitchell
Elia C. Lapham
Vassar
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Aurora
Laplain
Mary F. Eastman
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India
Calcutta
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Japan
Imogene A. Fades
Sociological Society of
Brooklyn
How to Make Children's Clothes Look New and Practical
Practical tips for resizing and refreshing kids garments to fit growing bodies. Reuse fabric by adding plastrons, pleats, cufts, or reshaped sleeves. Suggests color and pattern mixing, jackets from plaid scraps, and rejuvenating solid dresses with trimming and tailored details. Notes include favoured styles like Norfolk jackets and Newmarket gowns plus playful hat options.
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Newmarket
GLOBE FANCY-WORK The Oscar Wilde Pen Wiper
Instructions describe making a sunflower themed pen wiper using yellow silk leaves and buttonhole stitched edges. Center uses brown crewel knots on a brown silk piece. brown cloth back pieces form the wiper with broad brown ribbon tying a bow near the writing desk.
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Oscar Wilde
Crafting a mossy pincushion porcupine sculpture
Instructions describe cutting two oblong cardboard bases for a moss covered base, stitching to form a cushion, and shaping a porcupine figure from brown silk with a yellow eyelet pattern. Black bead eyes and stitched mouth complete the face while red nostrils are added. Quills are pins inserted through eyelet holes and the creature rests on a darker silk feet base secured to the mossy base.
Crafting Paper Flowers From Feathers and Wire
Readers are guided to create artificial flowers using white goose feathers shaped with scissors and a pattern from a Hower. Watercolors, camel hair pencils, green tissue paper, gum, cotton, and fine flower wire form the supplies. Feathers become petals, stamens and centers built from cotton and gum, crusted with silver sand and yellow ochre for a realistic look.
Music Portfolio Embroidered Cardboard Case
Four 75 by 77 inch cardboard panels form a music portfolio. Inside is silesia covered, outside dark satin or velvet with chain and feather stitch embroidery, vine edging in blue pink olive shades. Optional satin flowers, stitched hinges, ribbon bows, cord handles, finished edges, and a silver “musique” inscription.
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Mamma
Saxony
GermantoWn
Ornamental Straw Basket with Green Cord Embroidery
A fancy straw basket features gilt and square form with pale cream lambrequin. Edges are finished by dark green crewel cords, arabesque twists, corner loops with ball tips, and each lambrequin point adorned by a ball. Foliage crewel embroidery in satin stitch decorates the lambrequin.
Handkerchief Box of Pine Cones Craft Idea
A box of the required size is covered outside with brown cambric and lined with silk and wadding. Fine cones are sewn onto the foundation, sides and top. tiny cones shells acorns and red berries ornament the center. After varnish and a second coat the lid is lifted with a brown silk cord. Pin cushion stands follow the same method.
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Wen
Crafting a Basket with Cord and Rings
Instructions describe using forty sma fuss rings and scarle double zephyr to form a basket base. Work eight to ten rows in single crochet over stiff cord to keep the base flat, then join rings and sew the first row around the bottom. Ensure the basket stands slightly proud at the top.
Baking a Fig Frosted Layer Cake from Old Cookbook
A dated kitchen recipe describes mixing butter sugar and flour with beaten eggs and milk to form cake layers. Bake in tins with lemon flavor and baking powder. A split fig filling with seeds up goes between layers and the top is frosted.
A New Way of Cooking Rhubarb
Peel the rhubarb cut into half length pieces pour boiling water over it stand ten minutes then drain in a colander into an earthen jar with sugar between each layer Do not add water but cover tightly place the jar in a hot oven cook until a broom splint will pierce pieces Each piece stays firm and the juice becomes jelly when cold
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India
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Dillside
Huntington
Mr. Hayes
White House
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Jefferson
Franklin
Morse
Song
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Abraham Liocolp
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Egg Custard Pie with Lemon Frosting Method
The recipe instructs boiling half a cup rice until tender then adding milk to a thin batter with four egg yolks and four tablespoons sugar. Bake with a single crust until browned, spread with a frosting of beaten egg whites and twelve tablespoons sugar flavored with lemon, bake five more minutes.
Pippin Pie Recipe from Early Home Cookery Page
Twelve ripe pippins pared and cured, grated, one pound white sugar, half pound butter, six eggs separated, two beaten whites, two yolks, lemon peel and juice, nutmeg and cream. Bake in paste with cross-bars. mix butter and sugar, stir yolks and lemon, add apples, then fold in whites and bake.
Cherry Roly-Poly Pudding Recipe
A detailed old style recipe explains boiling a cherry roly poly in a muslin bag. It covers dough ingredients including cream tartar and soda, rolling the dough with fruit, shaping like a jelly roll, and boiling. A pudding sauce is prepared with sugar butter water and flour and flavored with nutmeg.
Unlucky Name in Political Ballots of 1844 and 1884
A New Haven Union item notes James Gillespie Birney was not elected president in 1844 and another James Gillespie Blaine not elected in 1884. The piece links recurring misfortune to the name and warns about future aspirants.
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New Haven Union
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Irney
Laine
The Real and Ideal Mary by Henry Ward Beecher
Beecher argues the Virgin Mary is a symbolic, tender image rooted in human need and divine tenderness. He contrasts historical Mary with artistic depictions, praising the Mary of imagination while stressing Christ's higher spiritual relation over biological ties.
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Beecher
Plymouth
Ovid Musin
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Mark
Christ
Virgin Mary
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Mary
Christmas Gifts Crafts for Mothers and Friends
A guide to handmade Christmas gifts including a crochet long shawl, a work bag, toilet slippers, a plush banner for photos, and a pen wiper. Instructions cover materials such as Saxony yarn, pompadour wool, satin, and pasteboard shapes, with step by step crochet and assembly tips for gifting items.
Household art and frame ideas for engravings and photos
A guide to displaying engravings photos and paintings with proper mats frames and lighting. Discusses line and wood engravings India paper prints etchings and photos, frame styles, symbolism, placement and avoiding inappropriate pairings with dining room art.
Venerable Voters Look Back at Long-Standing Ballots
A crowd of centenarians and near centenarians recount their voting histories across decades. Names include Walter Pease, 100, in Enfeld Connecticut. Edmund R. Kinder, 100, Kensington. John Chandler, 99, Concord New Hampshire. and Jeremiah Austin, 101, South Coventry.
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Walter Pease
Cleveland
Waller
Enfeld
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Nathaniel H. Cole
Blaine
East Greenwich
R. L. Jesse Shaw
Buckfield
Kensington
Edmund R. Kinder
John Chandler
Concord
N. H
Tomlinson Wells
Litchfield
Jeremiah Austin
South Coventry
Jefferson
Elihu Stevens
What She Might Expect of Him
A playful excerpt from the New York Sun where a woman lists her varied talents and asks George what he can contribute. He replies modestly that he has none, joking he might coo if needed amid a humorous exchange.
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George
Weill
Tini
Agaia
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