The Woman's Hour on Mothers and Health Education
The Boston Young Woman's Christian Association hosts five lectures by Mrs Maria Upham Drake under the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Topics cover heredity, physical culture for children, maternal duties, and simplifying modern life to improve health and morality, urging mothers to guide homes with restraint, education, and practical science for daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Young Woman’s Christian Association
Maria Upham Drake
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Washboards Show How Industry Keeps Clothes Clean
A Cleveland Leader interview with a traveling agent for a major U.S. washboard maker outlines production volumes across the Midwest and East. It notes two Cleveland factories producing 200 dozen daily, a Toledo plant at 300 dozen, and two St. Louis establishments. The discussion covers materials zinc wood and dove tailed heads, prices from eighty cents to two dollars per dozen, and the claim that durable surfaces and finishing sell boards. It contrasts pine with better woods like cottonwood and sycamore, and explains why zinc ridges on both sides add value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
United States
Allegheny Mountains
Missouri River
Toledo
St. Louis
New York
Eight Hours for All Knights of Labor Essay
Mr Cherrington concludes a commentary on the Knights of Labor urging eight hour workdays equal pay for equal work and cooperative industrial reform. He cites co operatives, arbitration, and education as means to end wage slavery and build harmony between capital and labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Cherrington
Knights of Labor
America
England
Senate
Chelsea
Knights and Trades Unions
Knights
Knigits
Magne
Aepos
Public School
Public Library
Daily Press
The Fatal Folding Bed
A Chicago tale recounts a man’s comic misadventure with a folding bed at a west side boarding house. After misusing the mechanism, he endures a chaotic night of entrapment, cold air, and a gas-off, then vows to quit Prohibitionist politics and drink whiskey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Charleston
Tam
Maafu the angel and a bloody street tale in one column
A colonial-era piece mixes a Tonga prince who proclaims himself an angel with a brutal urban anecdote. Maafu denounces taxes as the angel is taken away to Lakemba, while a separate Chicago street scene ends with a violent, comic punchline about a meaty man and a calfskin belt.
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Maafu
Tonga
Viti
Witi
Lakemba
Monroe Avenue
Randolph Street
Carpen Cleveland
Joe Brown
Georgia
Brown
Weakness of Intellect She Replied Texas Sittings
A humorous exchange unfolds with a clerk and a fair customer as a country trip prompts the customer to seek a Lady's Companion. The clerk questions the choice in a witty exchange reflecting light domestic humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Puff Paste and Chicken Pie Lessons at Boston Cooking School
Miss Maynard leads a Boston Cooking School class through puff paste, chicken pie, oyster patties and cheese cakes amid a wintry scene. The lesson covers butter preparation, chilling, folding, rolling, and baking techniques, with notes on ovens, temperature, and shaping for pies, tarts, and patties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Cooking School
Maynard
Odd Items From A Wide Range Of Curious News
A collage of short, quirky clippings spans topics from Herr Most’s pay for editing the Freheit to marbles won by a boy in Dakota. Regions mentioned include Greene County Ohio and Lehigh University’s Mustard and Cheese Dramatic Club, with notes on marriages, trains, gas explosions, frog farming near Canoga New York, and a mix of odd anecdotes and humorous vignettes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herr
Greene County
Ohio
Lehigh University
Bismarck
LD. T
Maryland
Blaine
Hilton
Stewart
Samuel Cross
Cherry Camp
Frank Lawler
Methusekah
St Joseph
Nebraska
Iowa
Kansas
Pitsburg
Michigan
Marquette
Suffolk
Tom Flinty
Ohio & Mississippi
Clay County
Illinois
Canada
Wisconsin
East Jordan
Mich
Inqurer
Annapolis
Richard Chaney
Samuel Anderson
Canney
Peele
Pratt County
Peoria
Ill
Pesth
Pannonia
Danube
Ann Arbor University
Death Hallowe'en
Alderman Hartman
Pittsburg
New York
Wall Street
Connecticut
Cayuga Lake
Canoga
N. Y
Rochester
Waterloo
Chautauqua County
Chenango Valley
Chicago
Kate
Hill
J. R. Booth
Burlington Free Press
London Telegraph
America
Reuter
Thenited
A. T. Stewart
Kansas City Journal
Fortunes of Phillipa Fairfax Continues on Page Three
Wilfred and Mrs Oswald reveal a plan to shield Philippa Fairfax from distress by paying off her burdens. Philip Fairfax doubts the gesture yet remains influenced by Wilfred Carnegie's earnest, romantic clarity as an unusual charity unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilfred
Jim
Fairfax
Phil
Philip Fairfax
Philippa
Miss Fairfax
Mrs. Oswald
Miss ‘Airfax
Perhape
Wilfred Carnegie
Mr. Fairfax
Prince
Carnegie
Pintippa
Phil- Tan
Duval
Winnie Davis' Title Daughter of the Confederacy
In Montgomery and Syracuse crowds cheer Winnie Davis as she accompanies her father Jefferson Davis during a Confederate monument ceremony. General Gordon crowns her as Daughter of the Confederacy on the Atlanta to Montgomery leg, a title Davis later adopts amid public acclaim and a formal reception at a hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
8. C
Montgomery
Ala
Winnie Davis
Syracuse
N. Y
Miss Davis
Winnie
General Gordon
O'Fannie Gordon
Davis
Newnan
Mr. Davis
CHECKERS AND CHESS ADVERTISEMENT WITH PRICES
A compact ad lists checkers and chess match games including Barker vs Freeman and Jackson vs Smith, with prices around 80 cents and 3.00 for international match items. It advertises Gould's books, “Solution of Position No 1277” by J H Harrison, and invites players to Chess and Checker Players Headquarters at 122 Water Street operated by Charles F Barker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles F. Barker
Houghton Street
Cambridgeport
Mass
Arker
Freeman
Jackson
Smith
Gould
Fae Ould
Scotland
Envithout
Photon Bis Sic
Biase Beyth
England
Chess and Checker Players
Water Street
Samuel Kehoe
W. G. Parrow
Boston Chesy and Checker Club
Fife
Kehoe
Parrow
Fisk Eee
Isaiah Barker
Meese
Be Sc
J. H. Harrison
Somerville
B.winks
Maas
Seven Stages of Fashion in a Woman’s Life Curtain
A Burlington Enterprise piece traces a woman’s life through seven stages from baby to grandmother, each stage wearing distinct fashions and social roles. The reflection weaves satire on societal expectations and the perfumed world of dress, wit, and desire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington Enterprise
S & Wardrobe
Circe
Grandmamma
le Follett
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Francis Galton
Rome
Spencer
Lotte, Moab
Hamilton
Gou
Fostor Woman's Hour
Dairy Grose
Star Srrren
N. H
Kurt
Howard
Bill Nye
Woman’s Hour
Prince and the Ances
Detroit Free Press
Miss Maynard
Ada
New England
Phillipa Fairfax
Daughter of the Confederacy
Bptron
Champion of America
Charles F. Farker
A. H. Smith
Isaiah
Wink
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