Mount Hope Bay fishing and local business notes.
Seuperé reported plentiful in Mount Hope Bay with bluefish and rock cod caught this week. Seven Brothers brought fresh squiteague from the bay. Prudent from St John’s NB arrived with 195000 feet lumber for Shade Roller Co. Machinery from Colchester rubber mill arrives for local use as National India Rubber Co builds new storehouse. School Committee holds meeting. superintendent vote ends in a 5 to 5 tie. other items include rubber mill work and local industry updates.
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Seuparé
Mount Hope Bay
Seven Brothers
Young Men’s Christian Association
Soldier’s Home
Henry F. Paull
Prudent
St. John’s New Brunswick
Shade Roller Co
Song
Ayer
A. Wesley Wright
Alfred Wright
Auburndale
Mass
National India Rubber Co
Alaizo W. Pierce
The Broad Street Conservatory March Gains Popular Favor
A recent Philadelphia composition by Roland H. Smith titled The Broad Street Conservatory March draws praise for its inspiring Sousa like style. The piano part is issued and a free copy is offered to readers who mail their name address and 6 cents to The Broad Street Conservatory of Music 1331 South Broad St Philadelphia. The march retails for 40 cents and aims to be a favorite at seaside and mountain resorts.
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Broad Street Conservatory
Roland H. Smith
Sousa
Quaker City
Broad Street Conservatory of Music
South Broad St
Philadelphia
Lady Mayor of Onehunga Faces Early In Office Duties
Mrs. Yates of Onehunga New Zealand is praised as possibly the best mayor in town history. She studied duties before assuming office and introduced closure to curb delays. She notes no conflict between being a woman and her roles as mayor and justice of the peace, having sat on the bench only twice, including a theft case by a girl.
Grand Horse Fair At Rigby Park Portland Maine
A Grand Horse Fair at Rigby Park in Portland Maine runs August 21 to 25 under Maine Mile Track Association. The event draws New England horsemen with large stakes and purses totaling twenty thousand dollars, with Seth Griffin supervising and special trains from Union Station Portland.
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New England
Maine Mile Track Association
Rigby Park
Portland
Maine
Seth Griffin
Union Station
Boston
Park
Grandstand
Rigby
Postland
The Presidency of the French Republic in Frank Leslie’s
Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly September offers a feature on The Presidency of the French Republic with portraits of Casimir-Perier and Carnot, a history of the Elysee Palace, and scenes from French leadership. It also surveys U S Life Saving Service sports sections and a reminiscence by Hecker, plus notes on printing history and rising newspaper readership.
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Frank Leslie
French Republic
M. Casimir-Perier
Carnot
Mme. Carnot
Elysee Palace
Elysee
Louis XV
Mme. de Pompadouin
Beaujon
Duchesse de Bourbon
Aturat
Napoleon I
Duke of Wellington
Austria
Duc and Dunchesse de Berri
Louis Napoleon
Paris
United States
8. H. Ferris
Edmond Piston
Alexican Vis
Howard Paul
Acadm
Stoughwu Couley
Tse Prairies
Charles Moreau Hurger
Peking
Charles Deavy, Jr
Lauri B. Lintner
Joseph Hecker
Hkichmond
Lee
Appo- Miallox
Open Fireplaces and Ventilation in Summer Rooms
A New York physician argues that removing gaudy screens from open fireplaces improves room ventilation. She notes drafts and air current through the fireplace help cool spaces in July, especially in hotels, where screens block airflow.
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New York
Woman Suffrage and Immigrant Vote Balance
The article cites Dr. Joseph B. Senner’s 1898 Ellis Island immigrant statistics showing 862,885 males to 122,964 females. It argues woman suffrage would double the American vote while adding only one third to the foreign vote, increasing the educated majority without harming naturalized citizens.
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Joseph 8. Senner
Ellis Island
New York
Vetera
Boaton Woman’s Journal
Misa McCulloch Plans World Tour and Writing Career
Misa McCulloch daughter of former Treasury secretary Hugh McCulloch will tour the world for two years. Critics view her as a rising forerunner among women writers. The family travels summers in the country where locals once planned to meet her abroad. She is independent in opinion and an expert horsewoman noted for riding astride in a bifurcated habit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Misa McCulloch
Hugh McCulloch
the Treasury
Mrs. Marcia Daniels Elected Danville School Board Leader
Mrs. Marcia Harbert Daniels, elected April 1 to the Danville school board, becomes the first woman chosen in that city for the post. A daughter of a Massachusetts father and Kentucky mother, she is Indiana born and long-time Danville resident. A former mathematics professor for eight years at a seminary, she is the mother of five, wife of J A Daniels, and a noted suffragist with notable Lincoln lineage through Nancy Hanks Lincoln.
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Marcia Harbert Daniels
Danville
Pat City
Massachusetts
Kentucky
Nancy Hanks Lincoln
President Lincoln
Indiana
J. A. Daniels
Tls
Silken Petticoats Describe Silk Petticoat Fashion
The article details silk petticoats as artistic pieces of dress made from brocades and moire silks, trimmed with lace and ruffles. It notes a black and white silk skirt with yellow satin flounces and a plaster silk muslin ruffle, edged with black guipure, and mentions white satin and white as ideal combinations for a daily petticoat.
Immigrant Women Shine at World’s Fair Activities
Report notes several women from Asia and beyond making a mark in New York. Mme Harris Korany embraces American ways, while Zuleika Sorghji-Cavalier from India recently wed a Denver man and lectures on funding a female college in Bombay for high caste women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme. Harris Korany
New York City
Zuleika Sorghji-Cavalier
India
Denver
Bombay
The Champion Girl of the Muck
The champion girl of the period lived on the Muck from April 1 to June 1 this year. She planted three acres of potatoes and handled all cooking and sewing for the family. She milked four cows fed the calves pigs and chickens shot three chicken hawks and a wildcat set the dog eighteen tramps attended eighteen dances and free picnics read five dime novels and stayed up four nights a week with poem Tacome Valeg.
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Tacome Valeg
Fear in Medicine and Mind Healing in a Brooklyn Letter
A Brooklyn physician debates whether fear can cause or worsen illness as a patient with consumption endures anxious remarks. The writer argues mental state drives physical health, endorses exercises and mental healing books, and critiques fear as a killer while noting fashion trends and skirt styles of the era.
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United Rubber Trust Co
Rubber Company
L. L. Anderstrom
George A. Arnold
Reigns
Lady Mido? Yates
Portland, Maine
Canada
Miss McCulloch
Marcia H. Daniels
OUR
Brooklyn
Exooxtoa
N. Y
Greene Avenue
Scott
Renant
Nene
Edtlee
Smith & We Ovesien
Wendel St
Martford &J. Reston
Mags
Fulen St
Ellery A. Dunbar
Bega
Philip Brady
Aglesman
E. A. Dunbar
W. Fred Fish
Bristol RO
Drs. Starkey & Palew
Arch Street
Sutter Street
Ban
Irancisco
Cal
Wilson, Fleming
Texas
Cuas
Sansena
Fem Ser
Wiliams Steeat
Bristol
R. 1
Bex
Pernies
Whllam A. Anw
Eiver G. Megann
California
Ghi
Lan
O. Nas Bergto, Bee
FR. E
Pact
Dallas
LOX Cripple Greek
Colorado
Lawa of Colorado
Cripple Creek
J. R. Lounsbery
Broadway
Geo. H. Peck
Mutual Life Insurance Co
Hamburg-Bremen Fire Insurance Co
Court Street
Hope Street
Agons &c
Wil
Josiah F. Pechham
William I
Dunwell
Rour of State Street
Warren
Lem Tat
H. Spooneh
Thames Street
Old Colony Yard
Pawtucket Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Main Street
Pawtucket
Mann
Edward A G.tede
A. Mumford
James L. Jenks
Edmund
Mason
Ilo E. Thayer
Benjamin F. Smith
J. Milton Payne
George W.newall
Fredrick W. Easton
Robert Sherman
Shas. P. Moses
Isaac Shuve
BP. Shinner, Jr
Fire Insurance Agency
Aetna
Skinner, JR
Bristol County Savings Bank
Hopestrees
Union Mutual
Casis Assets
Edwin Barrows
Joseph T. A. Eddy
P. Skinner
Bristol Count Savings Bank Corporation
William H. Spooner
Henry Goff
Augustous O. Bourn
John G. Watson
A P. Skinner, Jr
Alfred Luther
Liam Hodgkinson
Charles H
Doringh
He B. Herreshoff
Ezra Dixon
George UO. Arnold
Samuel P. Colt
William Fred Withama
Nathaniel G Herresox
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