Womanly ideals and modern flirtations in society
In Home Notes and Woman's Home Companion style prose, the piece discusses how girls imitate men in speech and dress, the futility of such imitation for marriage, and what constitutes a true wife. It contrasts bravado with genuine femininity and envisions the ideal wife as noble and supportive. It also describes a Chicago hair drying brace device and ends with reflections on emotional energy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gil
Rosebud
Chicago
Miss Christy Succeeds In Swim Across Conneaut Lake
Miss Marlon Christy a 15 year old girl from Greenville Pa swims across Conneaut Lake a mile long. A 1883 soldier died attempting the feat and lies nearby. Residents recall past daring deeds but none draw more talk than her crossing the lake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P Lake
Marlon Christy
Greenville
Conneaut Lake
Christy
Miss Christy
Shirt Waist Fashion and Sympathy Commentary Lost in Text
The article discusses affordable clothing options urging cloth waists with skirts over bargain silk, favoring lace or panne for dressy wear and noting cloth waists as more modish. It cites fashion trends like Russian influence and lightweight fabrics, then shifts to a moral note about controlling sympathy and emotions as a duty.
The Chinese Wife and the Fivefold Decorum Ritual
The piece describes a traditional Chinese wife’s duties to her husband, detailing five ritual aspects. It emphasizes morning head binding, reverent presentation, hand washing, and offerings as to a monarch and father. It prescribes patient forbearance, aiding his errors as a friend, and delays affection to retirement. It notes the husband’s silence about his wife, focusing instead on his sons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chingse
Noone
Chicago's youngest automobilist drives to City Hall
Miss Jeanette Lindstrom, 13, claims the title of youngest automobilist in the United States if not the world. She calmly navigates heavy traffic from home to City Hall with her father as passenger. An Automobile Board examiner learns her skill after a surprise visit to the board rooms. The city electrician says she could lecture on the subject. Lindstrom has operated a car for two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United States
Jeanette Lindstrom
Miss Lindstrom
Automobile Board
City Electrician
China’s Modesn Women and Social Roles
A reflection on Chinese women’s place in society citing Mme. Wu in Harper’s. The text asserts women as natural companions to men within family protection, praising their modesty and dignified conduct, contrasting with women in “civilized countries” and noting girls sold into slavery lack wantonness in this system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Mme. Wu
Harper's
Net Waist Fashion Sparks Public Debate in St Louis
The St Louis Republic notes that the net shirt waist trend divides critics. A stylish net waist girl, weaving guimpe from sheer fabrics, challenges the shirt waist man, who many view as a joke. The piece highlights fashion tension and public sensibility.
Peril in China Prompts Diplomatic Concern
A foreign dispatch reports concern over the Chinese crisis including possible uprising in Yangtze provinces. Viceroys are praised for past restraint but warned the challenge may grow, as winter isolation of Pekin threatens progress toward peace negotiations and questions linger about the imperial government's sincerity and Boxer troubles prosecutions.
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Washington
Uther
China
Yangtee
Pekin
Congér
State Department
Kwang Hsu
China and Britain paved path to new settlement
Diplomatic shifts in China see Germany drop punitive demands and France push drastic terms. United States accepts with reservations while Britain and Germany keep forces at Taku. Boer war nears conclusion as Britain readies withdrawals and massed forces serve possible future needs. England reshapes cabinet with Salisbury-era resignations and possible Chamberlain move. Spain plans naval rebuilding after US war losses.
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China
Germany
United States
Great Britain
France
Delcusse
Rekig
McKinley
Taku
Congressional balance shifts as parties vie for control
The piece outlines Senate figures with Republicans at about thirty three to Democrats twenty six, plus Populists and independents, and lower House margins where Republicans lead Democrats by twenty two. It notes a two year loss of seventy seats and a regional swing with gains in New York and Pennsylvania as parties wage a hard fight for the national ticket.
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Senate
New York
Pennsylvania
Divided House Hinges on Local Division Returns
The control of the lower house depended on the result of that division. In some contests great bitterness grows from the struggle for this place. Until returns are in it will be hard to say which party will dominate the Fifty-seventh Congress.
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House of Representatives
Classifying the Voters by Senator Hoar’s Four Classes
Senator Hoar outlines four voter divisions in the United States with two extra by Croker. He groups fixed partisans and one idea party followers, plus Democrats discontent with Bryan, and anti imperialist Republicans. Croker adds a 61st voter bloc estimated at about 1.2 million that could decide the election.
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Hoar
Massachusetts
United States
Bryan
Richard Croker
Croker
How Banners Are Made Portrait Campaign Art
A Chicago paper notes campaign banners are produced by three artist shifts. First, photos are enlarged for stencil creation, then linework is roughly filled in by stencil artists, and finally portrait artists polish features, hair, and clothing. Prices range from 60 to 600 dollars, with transparencies cheapest and silk portraits on heavy velvet the most expensive.
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Chicago
Political campaign tour notes across states and figures
A long list of campaign stops and speeches by T V Powderly Eugene Debs Beveridge Woolley Cochran Littlefield Depew Roosevelt Hanna Tillman Spooner and others across Indiana Illinois Wisconsin Ohio Kansas Montana and Maryland. The reports mention crowds sizes city venues and political alignments with Republicans Democrats and Prohibitionists shaping the 1896 election landscape.
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T. V. Powderly
Kokome
Ind
Eugene V. Debs
Jones
Beveridge
Rochester
John G. Woolley
Indianapolis
Rourke Cochran
Topeka
Kan
Charles P. Littlefield
Maine
Green Bay
Wis
United States
Chauncey M. Depew
Chicago
Bryan
Baltimore
Charles R. Flint
Trusts
Illinois Manufacturers’ Association
Social Democratic Party
Gov. Roosevelt
Peoria
Springfield
Wellington
Maryland
Ottawa
Hanna
Pullman
McKinley
Colorado
Cincinnati
Kentucky
Prohibitionists
Texas
H. G. Damon
Corsicana
Adlai E. Stevenson
Fain
Wooster
Ohio
Tillman
Canton
I. Jehan
GO Woolley
Tee
Paris
Ane
Spooner
Wisconsin
O. Rourke Cochran
Mormon Church
New York and Chicago Market Trends Report
The week’s markets show speculative money pressure in New York easing slightly with call and time money rising to four percent. Sterling and gold flows remain uncertain as European banks protect yellow metal holdings, while US coin prices climb. Chicago wheat activity favors abundant supplies and steady carrying costs, with corn reports unsettling bulls and pork and hogs edging lower.
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New York
Sterling Exchange
Bank of England
Bank of France
Chicago
Agricultural Bureau
Bends Corbett Returns Vows to Hit Back
Corbett has returned from Europe mending fences with his wife and pledges to target those who caused his recent notoriety. Ted Sloane is hired by the Prince of Wales to ride his horses next year, signaling American riders’ superiority and possible follow-on hiring.
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Corbett
Europe
Ted Sloane
Prince of Wales
England
America
Pat Tebeau
Chief Zimmer
Zimmer
Ball Players’ Union
Pat
Cleveland
Tim Hurst
Hurst
Kansas City
Chicago
Crescens
Glenville
Ohio
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Hongkong
Lord Salisbury
Joseph Chamberlain
War Department
Treasury Department
Chamberlain
Madrid
Spain
Congress
David B Hexderson
Roosevelt
Mark Hanna
Meadville
M. L. Quay
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Louisiana Central Committee
People’s Party
Jacob G. Schurman
Cornell University
First Philippine Mmission
Princeton
Meiklejohn
Sultan of Sulu
Louisville
Woolley
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