Local women wage earners face poor pay in Connecticut
Hartford reports Miss Charlotte Holloway, investigator for Connecticut, told a Holy Name Society meeting that many women in stores and shops earn meager wages, with some at $2.59 weekly. New Haven and Bridgeport cited as worst offenders, payrolls untouched for decades, prompting calls for reform and noting limited prospects for improvement. A Bridgeport awakening by retail clerks improved some conditions. Also noted were aristocrat Count Leopold von Berchtold offering to serve as a chauffeur for Austria’s army and a heavy south Atlantic storm flooding Norfolk streets.
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Hartford
Immaculate Conception Holy Name Society
Charlotte “Holloway
Connecticut
Spector’s Department
Miss Holloway
Waistline Range of Menswear Sold by Inches
The listing shows waists from 22 to 36 inches at six inch steps with prices not provided. It notes multiple measurements 24 26 28 30 32 34 and 36 inches indicating a range of sizes available.
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Biren
Price
Striped suit and torn margins in a near accident
Mrs. Martin Brown of Austin Pa witnesses an auto horn dispute turning violent as Dr. Phillip Horn, testing his horn near her home, is shot and slightly wounded. The incident occurs amid a fashion description noting a striped molloton suit with diagonal cut jacket, openwork cuffs, and galalith buttons.
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Martin Brown
Austin
Phillip ‘Horn
Crown Themed Fashion Sale In Bridgeport
A Bridgeport store promotes a women’s fashion line with Suits Gowns Coats Blouses and lingerie dresses in special sale pricing.Models promise a flattering fit and social satisfaction with new pieces offered at 10 20 25 dollars for suits and 16 50 23 50 29 50 for dresses. Values up to 75 dollars are advertised.
Talks on love and caution for young women by Miss Libbey
Laura Libbey advises against conversations with strangers and outlines flirtation dangers in parks. A reader asks if a minister should release an engaged Netherlands girl to marry another, and Libbey counsels clear, honorable decisions based on the minister’s calling.
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Miss Libbey
Netherlands
Dear Miss Libbey advises against waiting for uncommitted widower
A reader asks if she should marry a temperamental widower who seldom writes or visits and dates other girls. The adviser warns against further time wasted, urging pursuit of a truer partner and noting others prepare for school events while playful humor appears in the column. Funeral designs and inklets John Reck & Son.
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Miss Libbey
C. L
Picked-Up Acquaintance Sparks Cautionary Romance Views
A male narrator disdains casual flirtation and urges restraint in courting women. He portrays the flirt as imprudent yet capable of becoming a good wife if she seeks genuine devotion. He warns strangers to respect boundaries and favors straightforward, proper wooing while noting a woman’s innocence is shown by guarding against intrusions.
Miss Libbey Responds to Your Letters
Miss Libbey urges correct name and address to insure attention not to print. She asks writers to use ink and to write short letters on one side only, addressed to Miss Libbey, 916 President Street, Brooklyn, NY.
If He Proposes What to Tell Him Laura Jean 2
A young woman writes about a fourteen year friendship with an eighteen year old suitor who is twenty two, his plans to teach, parental opposition, and questions whether she should accept his proposal or seek financial help to improve his prospects.
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A. G
Laura Jean
Miss Libbey
Through Europe's War Swept Spaces Poem by Walter Trumbull
Walter Trumbull writes in the New York World of a sorrowful poem set in Europe during war. It depicts tainted shoen, red blossoms, rifles, gas, a mother with a child asleep, and women slain by blood mad clans as nations feed pride on sacred altars.
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Europe
Walter Trumbull
New York World
Chic Summer Frock Described in Silk Textiles
A summer dress features checked blue and white silk with a blouse bodice of tulle, a collar, and narrow trim of taffeta. The gathered fitted skirt is finished with a double material belt and buckles.
Corner for Cooks Salt Cod in Cream and Variations
A home style guide lists Salt Cod in Cream with steps to rinse simmer in fresh water then serve with rich milk and paprika, plus butter and flour paste. Also includes Lamb Hash With Green Peppers using remaining Sunday lamb, hashed potatoes, pepper, onion sauce, and butter fried finish. Rhubarb Sherbet uses rhubarb, water, sugar, claret or grape juice, lemon, crystallized ginger, and freezing method.
Radish and Cucumber Salad Recipe Card
Measure two cupfuls of thinly sliced cucumbers and radishes. Soak in salted water for half an hour, drain and mix with two celery stalks and one tablespoon onion juice. Arrange on lettuce leaves, dust with paprika and serve French dressing.
Hats and hats and more at low prices in town
Hemp straw hats and Leghorn hate styles offered in great variety at Dr H Dilion Co 1105 Main st with prices far lower than expected. Maynard Bray chief engineer of the steam yacht Wacouta placed under quarantine in New London after contracting smallpox. Six hundred steel shellware betas produced daily at Standard Steel Car Co Newcantie plant. Danish Diet reform adopts suffrage for women and ends wealth based electoral privilege. Bouquess John Reck & 5On.
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Panama
DR. H. Dilion & Co
Main Street
Maynard Bray
Wacouta
James J. Hill
New London
Newcantie, Pa
Standard Steel Car Co
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McClure Newspaper Syndicate
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Tolday
Hell
Mentmould
Bouquess
John Reck
Bridgeport Gas Fixture Co
Fairfield Avenue
Geo. B. Clark & Co
Broad Street Gas Appliance Exchange
Hadley Furniture Co
Broad Street
Geo. E. Nothnagle & Son
Elm Streets
Wentworth Furniture Co
Broad and
John Streets
Astor
Detroit
Oriole
Crawford
A. B. Steve
Glenwood
Acorn
Lion, Rex
Hoffman
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Acorn, Lion
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