Sailors and superstitions weave through sea legends
Lieutenant J. D. Jerrold Kelley explores folklore aboard ships, noting how superstition colored launches, naming, voyages, and crew fortunes. The piece traces beliefs about keels, lucky coins, wine rites, cats, and figureheads, highlighting distrust of lawyers priests and women on vessels and recounting sea-born omens and rituals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. D. Jerrold Kelley
Fiddler's Green
Davy Jones
Congreve
Scarborough
Franklin
Mediterranean
Gary
Reptile
Remarkable Thackeray Gesture Aided Ill Stranger
In a Paris to England night train an Englishman, William Makepeace Thackeray, aids a gravely ill fellow passenger. He helps him to a hotel, delays his own journey, and shares his card. the grateful sister later thanks him and the wounded man recovers, visiting Thackeray in London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chemin de Fer du Nord
Paris
Switzerland
England
Calais
Geneva
London
William Makepeace Thackeray
Milion
Indian singer Mme Langrana to sing before Queen Victoria
London Letter notes Mme Pherore Langrana, an Indian singer and pupil of Sims Reeves, gaining high patronage and aiming to perform for Queen Victoria. She is described as the first Indian woman to reach public singer distinction. her sister recently passed law exams at Oxford and practices in Bombay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme
Pherore Langrana
Sims Reeves
Queen Victoria
Oxford
Bombay
London
Hints to Women Bathers and the Summer Girl
A long column discusses infant feeding in hot weather, stressing careful diet, cooking, and cleanliness to reduce mortality. It warns against overripe fruits, oranges, and certain vegetables, and favors soups with small meat portions and sterilized milk for delicate children. It also cites social guidance for the American summer girl and restraint in public behavior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Ledger
Bathing Fashion Do's and Don'ts From Coastal Advice
A humorous guide warns against overexposure while bathing at the beach. It counsels sturdy fastenings for clothing, sensible caps, and not lingering too long in the water to avoid a blue lip look and mottled complexion. It notes the attention given to women learning to swim and cautions against overreaching in aquatic display.
Women Gain Rights to Supreme Court Practice Yet Few Used It
The article traces the 1879 law allowing women to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and lists early adopters. Mrs. Lockwood joined the bar in 1879, with subsequent entrants including Mrs. Laura DeForce Gordon, Ada Bittenbender, Carrie B. Kilgore, Clara S. Foltz, Lelia Sawtelle, Emma M. Cullett, and Kate Kane, noting long gaps between first eligibility and practice.
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Supreme Court
President Hayes
John M. Glover
Missouri
Benjamin Butler
House
Supreme Court of
District of Columbia
Supreme Coedre
United States
Pennsylvania
Clara S. Foltz
California
Lelia R. Sawtelle
Massachusetts
Emma M. Cullett
Kate Kane
Chicago
Patriot Soldier Seizes Quebec Citadel Guns
A British soldier leads a party from the United States to the citadel at Quebec. He proclaims the captured brass canons as trophies from Bunter Hill. A nine year old maid of patriotism counters with a sharp reply inviting him to see the country taken by her people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Quebec
Bunter Hill
Remarkable Recovery At Forristiale From Woman's Ills
Terrible weight and long illness plagued Lucretia Osborne Putnam of Forristiale Massachusetts. After years of prostration with spinal heart liver and brain issues she found relief through Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports renewed appetite improved looks and a near resurrection from illness.
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Lucretia Osborne Putnam
Forristiale
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
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Pid
Ticonderoga
Thetis
Thackeray
Mme. Langrana
Mary Hallock Foote
Creation
New York World
Philadelphia Press
Women and
the Supreme Court
C. J. Woolprinces
Wortham
Texas
Ayer
J. G. Ayer
Gelb & Norton
Cafe
St. George
Westminster St., Providence, R. 2
Roger Williams
Pzr
Charles C. Lenz
Edison General Electric Company of
New York
Siemen
S & Halske Apparatus
Industrial Trust Building
Providence, R. I
Geo. H. Peck
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Hamburg-Bremer Fire Insurance Company
Amid Delaware Fire Insurance Company
Rootbeer
Charles E. Hires Co
Arch St
Philadelphia
Walter Lowneys
Epps
Gladdincg
Thames Street
Bristol
Fremont
Oho
Seth
F. Hiscox
Le'dway
New
Parker
L.ivat Druggiste
Challen
Chalen
Spruce St. N. Y
Teey
Jersey City
Johns Asgeshgs
Mal H. W. Johns Manufacturing Company
Maiden Gane
Boston
Merchants’ National Bank
Westminster St., Providence
Royal C. Taft
J.W. Vernon
Frank Mauran
Frank E. Richmond
Samuel R. Dorrance
Geor
John W. Danielson
Edward D. Pearce
Horatio N. Campbell
Frederic C. Sayles
J. M. Smith
Addison H. White & CO
Market Square
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