Women’s congress shoe described with foxed tops and button styling
The Shoe and Leather Reporter describes a foxed women’s congress shoe in bright Dongola with a tapered foxing back to the top and patent leather front. It features an imitation button seam line, minimal seams, medium heel, and a plain light cloth top with matching goring, plus variants in French kid and a low cut sample with scalloped openwork and visible hosiery through button holes.
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Congress
Proper calf slaughter and shipment guidelines
Calves aged three to six weeks and about 100 to 120 pounds are ideal for shipment. Remove internal organs except kidneys, liver, lights and heart, and cut the carcass open from neck to tail to prevent spoilage in heat. Do not wash with water, wipe dry, and ensure body heat is gone before shipping. Do not bag the carcass to allow air circulation. Attach a shipping tag.
Novel Parisian Bodice Dress Draws Fashion Flak
A New York World criticism notes a French novelty worn by a Paris actress. The gray broadcloth bodice is braided with gold, tight fitting with wide revers and a sailor collar. The skirt features a hugger design with braided cloth curving from front to back, ending in a deep plain cloth ruffle.
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New York World
Sailing Vessels Still Make Money in Dover Company
The Dover Navigation Company of New Hampshire reported dividend payments averaging 11 percent on four of its largest three-mast schooners at its annual meeting. One schooner earned dividends after six months’ sailing while stuck in Louisiana mud, and a Bath built four-masted vessel seven years old has netted $200,000 for its owners.
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Dover Navigation Company
New Hampshire
Louisiana
New York Tribune
The Missing Baldrick Mystery Deepens at Ravensmarsh
Sir Basil Dovetree and Warrington pursue clues to Roger Baldrick’s vanishing after a moonlit walk from Ravensmarsh. Mrs Baldrick’s desperate search expands with posters and pleas, while Gertrude Gilruth’s affection for Basil grows amidst suspicion and danger.
The Rise of Lady Lectures for Women’s Education
A new trend in society features lady lectures given to exclusively female audiences in private drawing rooms. A dozen or more ladies pool resources to hire a well informed speaker who covers current topics, providing an engaging method to gain knowledge for those with limited time or inclination to study independently.
Those Sensational Newspapers in Labor Loans
In a reading of the New York Weekly, the dialogue notes that labor unions lent funds to employers to keep works running during dull periods. Mrs Reader questions the claim, recounting a dispute with Bridget over wages and money.
Themistocles Cited As Grammatical Instance
A Chicago Tribune excerpt quotes a dialogue where a speaker asserts that the phrase them is can be correct in certain contexts. The example given is Themistocles, illustrating a nuanced view on regional or historical speech within proper usage.
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Johnny Millsap
Chicago
Farm talk ends in town stay. farmer returns to fields
A farmer relates his twenty five years in farming. He recounts trying a six month stint in town running a grocery store. He concludes farming is not work but restin.
Women’s womb disorders blamed for diverse ailments
Reader letters extol Dr. Pierce’s medicines as cures for a range of female complaints including dyspepsia headaches and nervous exhaustion. Testimonials from Ida Coventry Harriet Hards and M A McAllister claim recovery and improved health after using Favorite Prescription Golden Medical Discovery and Extract of Smartweed.
Dinner Hour Looting Secrets From House Burglaries
A London Spectator piece outlines the burglar trade focusing on safe and warehouse methods, tools, and timing. It notes dinner hour as prime for large residence lootings, describes jimmies braces and drilling devices, and explains how servants aid access while disguising motives.
Carlisle’s Poised Brilliance in Public Life
Secretary Carlisle displays remarkable self-possession and perceptive power in Washington. The Cincinnati Enquirer credits his calm temper and gracious manner, noting his quick grasp of public questions and decisive, nonpartisan judging. His past as speaker highlighted his clear, swift handling of parliamentary law and influential intellect.
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Carlisle
Heroic Cure of a Tobacco Borrow er
A Lewiston Journal tale recounts a tobacco merchant showing perique from the south and a prank with a heavy five pounds sent from New Orleans. A man who tried the pipe fell unconscious for hours and never smoked from that pipe again, illustrating a fatal outcome linked to strong tobacco use.
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South
New Orleans
Lewiston Journal
Warsaw busts of Kosciuszko and Powniatowski destroyed
Indignation rises among Warsaw sculptors and art dealers as police under orders from Saint Petersburg seize stores and studios and destroy busts of Polish heroes Kosciuszko and Powniatowski. City officials require written pledges not to create statues of these figures, emblematic of Russia suppressing Polish national spirit, yet resistance to the measure seems likely.
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Warsaw
St. Petersburg
Thaddaeus Kosciuszko
Josef Powniatowski
Russia
New York Tribune
Too Early Featherstone Picks Races Winner Then Walks Home
Featherstone recalls picking a winner at the races yesterday. Ringway notes Featherstone had to walk home after five remaining races. The conversation reveals the day’s events and light banter about racing outcomes.
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Featherstone
Ringway
Prendergast Brawls in Jail and Is Placed in Dungeon
In Chicago on March 28 Charles Johnson, called his death watch, was assaulted by Prendergast who jabbed Johnson’s left eye area with a broom handle twice after forcing the guard to sit. Jailers forced Prendergast to the dungeon where he stayed four hours amid defiant outbursts.
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Chicago
Johnson
Prendergast
Mosher Colpetzer Bests Irving Gardner in Omaha Fight
In Omaha two twenty year olds Mosher Colpetzer son of Frank Colpetzer and Irving Gardner son of the Trinity Episcopal cathedral dean fought twenty rounds in a sixteen foot ring at the Colpetzer mansion. Colpetzer won by knockout in the twentieth round after Gardner refused a truce.
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Omaha
Mosher Colpetzer
Frank Colpetzer
Millonaire
Irving Gardner
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
Colpetter
Gardner
Colpetter Mansion
Colpetzer
Desperate Horse Thieves Captured Near Helena
Sheriff Curtis and deputies arrested four horse thieves Jim Luke Charley Reed Anton Seymour and Tad Kelly in the valley north of Helena. They operated all winter stealing horses to transport across the Missouri and sell to confederates or buyers. They have run off over a hundred head and nearly forty in the last raid. Officials expect penitentiary time.
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Helena
Mont
Curtis
Jim Luke
Charley Reed
Anton Seymour
Tad Kelly
Missouri
France Learns Secrets Seizes Plans at Gibraltar War Works
Birmingham dispatch reports that the French government allegedly obtained key War Office details from Whitehall concerning new and strategically important works at Gibraltar. A stringent inquiry was ordered after officials feared breach of security and possible success by the French agents.
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France
Birmingham
London
Birmingham Post
War Office
Whitehall
Gibraltar
Murderers Sentenced in Chicago for 1893 Prunty Murder
Thomas McNally and Charles Ruth receive life terms while Edward Warren gets twenty years for the murder of James Prunty on November 16, 1893, during a botched house robbery. Prunty died, his son Peter died later, and Sadie Prunty was wounded but recovered.
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Chicago
Thomas McNally
Charles Ruth
Edward Warren
James Prunty
Mr. Prunty
Prunty
Peter
Sadie Prunty
Reedsburg Vote To Decide Water Works Question
Baraboo Wis March 28 The city of Reedsburg has laid aside party ties and in the spring election the fight will be on the water works question. Voters are about equally divided. The mayor nominees are BE TP Ellenwood opposing water works and A L Harris for water works.
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Reedsburg
Baraboo
Wis
Hase
BE. TP. Ellenwood
A. L. Harris
Water Works
Where Is J A Wheadon Elkton S D
Attachments have been levied against the property of J. A. Wheadon of Aetna township Pipe Stone county, who disappeared about three weeks ago.
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J. A. Wheadon
Elkton
S. D
Aetna Township
Pipestone County
Chicago wife tracks husband with spirit help in Kansas City
Mrs George McComber of Chicago says she learned her husband’s location through the spirit of her dead mother. McComber eloped with Mrs R B Brown of Minneapolis to Independence, Missouri, living as Mr and Mrs Nest. She arrested them for adultery, but reconciled with her husband before trial. The pair had remained in Independence for about a year, with McComber working as a barber under the assumed name Nest.
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Kansas City, Special
George McComber
Chicago
McComber
Independence
R. B. Brown
Minneapolis
Nest
Walking Across the Continent to San Francisco on Wager
Charles Randall, a New York athletic club member, arrived in Lamar Colorado while walking from New York to San Francisco. He aims to complete the 2,.100 mile trek in 97 days, walking ten hours daily for six days a week. Sixty days into the journey he has 41 days and 1,409 miles remaining.
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Lamar
Colo
Charles Randell
New York
San Francisco
Suit Over Extra Train Fare Penalty in West Salem
Two La Crosse suits allege 10 cent overcharge on a return train fare. Plaintiffs, merchants, paid 4 cents instead of a ticket and were charged the extra 10 cent penalty for not buying a ticket before boarding. Case set for next Wednesday before a justice, with intention to appeal to higher courts if needed to challenge the company’s right to demand sums beyond printed schedules.
Miraculous Cure Claim Boosts Pink Pills in Minneapolis
An interview with J B White describes a near fatal two year struggle after a fall and long illness. He credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring his health and easing pain along with similar relief reported by his daughter Mrs N White. A local druggist notes heavy sales among lumber workers and endorses the remedy’s wide use.
Farmers face slow horse market amid low confidence and prices
The piece argues few farmers will sell prized horses during dull times, noting declining interest in stock, restrained prices, and that only confidence in improved stock will lift values. It suggests skilled handling and quality brood mares may gain value, while common stock must be sold.
The Happiest Time in Life
Mothers would better realize before the time is past that their happiest period with their children is until they are 15 years old or so. Up to that date these dear ones are theirs alone. They are not obliged to share them with others in any way, and they can feel that all their affections are lavished at home. To some mothers the thought of these fond hearts turning to others in love and longing, is a most maddening prospect, but it is one that must be met. It is hard to feel that a stranger and at times, perhaps, an unworthy one can come into her loved one's life, and dominate it as if by magic. But it's the same old course of the same old nature, which seems to be about the only thing that can't be modernized.
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Pearl Brook
Basil
Warrington
Parson Gilruth
Pearlbrook
Wilow Baldrick
Roger
Ravenmarsh
Sir Basil
Mrs. Baldrick
Madam
Pelham
Roger Baldrick
Hington
Basil Dovetree
Gertrude
Sir Basil Dovetree
London
Pierce
Ida Coventry
Huntsville
Logan County
Ohio
Dr. Pierce
Pasteur
J. B. White
Third Steel
Shediac
New Brunswick
Minneapolis
Williams
Father
August Grotefend
Main Street
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Schenectady
N. Y
Brockville
Ontario
Minneapolis Journal
Atlanta Woman Fills Bank VP Role After Husband’s Death
In Atlanta Georgia a family bank notes that vice president Mrs Joan Keeley serves without compensation a role she accepted after her husband’s death six years ago. Keeley believes many bank positions could be filled by women as well as men and wonders why this has not happened sooner.
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Atlanta
Joan Keeley
Sins of the Fathers and Social Class Talk
In a dialog from the Good News column Fair Girl remarks on paternal and maternal disapproval of tastes with a jab about butter used by Rich Gracer’s son, highlighting family reputations and social expectations. The exchange centers on parental objections and perceptions of depravity.
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Papa
Rich Gracer
Dairy congress aims and resolutions on dairy education and protection
The resolution enlarges the dairy congress aims. It emphasizes home dairies as foundation for new communities, promotes dairy schools, aids isolated farmers, supports the National Dairy Union, and backs Hill's Senate bill 1376 to regulate oleomargarine and imitation butter and cheese under state laws, urging early congressional enactment.
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Dairy Congress
National Dairy Union
United States
Senate
Hill
Congress
Hat pin innovation guards against breeze pricks
The inventor has devised a fastening sheath for hat pins that locks the pin in place with a silver or steel plate. The plate secures the pin after it passes through the hat, preventing removal unless the plate is moved. This prevents hat ruin from pin pricks and works with gold, silver, and ordinary pins.
Where to be Happy Though Mark-1
A dialogue from the New York Weekly notes a social scene with ninety de butantes and nineteen men in a set, pondering gender balance. Professor Graybeard jokes that other young men may have emigrated to Mexico, while the women’s fashions remain unchanged and bonnets disappear.
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Mark-1
Go Impe rial Exit Sparks Sudden Classroom Moment
A Texas school teacher faced a sudden disruption as a student bolted from the room after a brief parsing exercise. The odd exchange proved unsettling as the class discussed the imperative form of the verb to go.
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Texas
An Interesting Conver sation and Local Notices
A fragmentary ad page notes varied items from social chatter to local developments. It mentions Bellefontaine railway shops in Ohio, Lake Colville Washington, Hegeman’s and Rutherford remedies, New Orleans rice elevating, Uncle Sam’s Monogram Whisky, Syrup of Figs as a laxative, and a Chicago Colored Baptists church project valued at fifty thousand dollars.
Giant early corn and seeds offer from Salter
Salter displays an early Giant corn with 300 dollars in gold for the largest ear in 1804 and notes 1893 yield of 110 bushels per acre. He promotes over twenty other prolific field corns, top fodder corn, and the largest seed grower in America with oats barley wheat millet potatoes and fifty grasses and clovers. Send 15 cents to John A Salzer Seed Co La Crosse Wis for a large package and his mammoth catalogue.
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Salter
America
John A. Salzer Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
A Singular Form of Monomania
A fragment discusses a class of people who dose themselves with trashy nostrums and endure stomach and liver problems. It recommends Hostetter's Stomach Litters as superior relief, noting their habits as irrational. The text references the Assiniboines using a stop nose bleeding remedy.
Deafness Cure Promised By Catarrh Remedy Ad
An advertisement claims deafness, caused by inflammation of the mucous surfaces and eustachian tube, can be cured by constitutional remedies. It offers $100 for any catarrh deafness not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and invites readers to request free circulars from F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Robbing Innocence Dialogue in a Kitchen Fire Scene
A dialogic scene unfolds with Robbie and Mamma discussing warmth from hand spanking and a proposal to warm hands by holding them over a kitchen range, revealing a troubling exchange between a child and a caregiver.
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Robbie
Mamma
Sojourning Friend and Belladonna Plot Surprise Party
Sojourning Friend asks Bella about a large caterer order. Bella hushes and says not to tell anyone, as they are secretly planning a surprise party.
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Bella
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