Diverse Hosiery and Garment Offerings Highlight Local Store
The advertisement lists extensive stock of children and ladies hosiery including black ribbed hose in multiple sizes, ladies Jersey vests, Lisle hose, gloves in felt, silk, and kid varieties, corsets, shirt waists, and gowns. It also promotes duck suits, boys washable sailor suits, and a large selection of wash fabrics, shirts, collars, and textiles with varied prices and colors.
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W.f.peters & GO
Butterick
Lewando
Which are you two kinds of people on earth
A short, dated verse by Ella Wheeler Wilcox published in Harper's Weekly. It contrasts two kinds of people the lifters and the leaners and asks readers to judge their own place. It emphasizes shared human experience rather than wealth status.
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Earth
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Harper's Weekly
Rogers Free Library Adds Historical Magazines
A list of newer periodicals at Rogers Free Library includes Chamber's Journal Century English Illustrated Harper's New England Scribner's St Nicholas Popular Science Punch Life and more with volumes spanning 1892 to 1894 and prices noted for each item.
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Chamber's Journal
Atlantic Monthly Magazine
Century Magazine
Cosmopolitan
Harper's Monthly Magazine
Lippincott’s Magazine
Littell’s Living Age
New England Magazine
Review of Reviews
Scribner's Magazine
St. Nicholas
Theft, morality, and labor shifts in late 19th century America
A moral discussion on theft treats robbery as violence and fraud against the poor and weak. The text argues theft harms justice and charity, then shifts to census data noting almost 48 percent of Americans over age 10 were in gainful occupations in 1890, with males leading and dramatic growth in trade, transportation, and female clerical work.
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St Paul
Heaven
United States
Bradatraet’s
Census Enumerators to Visit Every Family in State
The enumerators are authorized to visit all households and ask about each person’s name age birthplace relation to head reading writing occupation and whether married or single and other details. All information is confidential and used for tabular data. publicity only on matters of general interest.
Woman Accepts Suit After Visiting Four Married Sisters
A girl in a distant town delays a proposal by visiting four married sisters. One mother of five, another supporting a promping husband, a third with a restricted life, and a fourth divorced for drunkenness and cruelty share their woes. She writes back, accepting the suitor and promising to be ready in two weeks. The Jane Harper's features Julian Ralph on House-Boating in China.
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Jane Harper’s
Julian Ralph
China
Empire
Ralph
Blowing up a Bloomer Dress Description
A western writer mockingly defines the bloomer dress as baggy trousers with a pistol pocket and a decollette parment ending at the ankles. The piece notes the garment cannot be pulled over the head like a skirt and must be worn sitting on the floor foot by foot, with neck-band buttons indicating front.
W F Peters & Co Onward in Bristol Embraces New Goods
Onward we go surpassing all previous sales and receiving many compliments from customers on first quality goods low prices and guarantees. We constantly add to stock with staple merchandise and items never carried in Bristol creating a larger shopping center. Summer dress goods in Lawna Latines Dimities Organdies Muslins offered and an embroidered Spotted Muslin促 promoting interest.
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Bristol
Providence
Magnificent Credit System Promises Home Furnishings Access
An appeal extols using credit as a substitute for money to finance home improvements. It argues households can exchange earnings for comforts and necessities through a three payment plan, inviting wage earners to test the system and modernize their homes with linoleum, furniture, and a complete dinner set.
Classified Rates Message Summary
A list of subscription terms shows weekly and monthly prices ranging from 50c weekly to 33.00 weekly with various monthly equivalents. The items include multiple rate pairs such as 1.00 per week for 2.00 per month and 2.25 per week for 89.00 per month. Unknown publication context.
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