Skeleton Market Exposes Value of Human Bones in Trade
The New York World reports on the National Museum display of skeletons from fish to humans, noting high value for great auk bones and human skeletons. It describes bone-based fertilizer trade, imports of thousands of skeletons annually, and a Paris-centered industry supplying medical and ceremonial bones.
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National Museum
Fonk Island
Washington
Newfoundland
Funk Island
Mexico
United States
Europe
Waterloo
Cairo
Suez
Vila
Cape Hatteras
Egypt
Paris
New York World
Inquiring Judge Prods Patent Case in New York
An inquiring judge in a New York patent case pressed a lawyer to state the clear difference between two scientific appliances after two days of argument. The lawyer reportedly never recovered, and the judge urged a direct answer.
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New York
Hx. Ohange
Woman and Education in the Bicycle Reform Movement
In Chicago a young woman indicted a scoffer who laughed at her bicycle dress and was fined 200 dollars. The piece argues for safer bicycle costumes that eliminate the skirt, praising reform and noting growing acceptance in western cities and among educated women. It also profiles Maud Sutton as a leading yachtswoman with a history of racing and strong independent seamanship.
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Chicago
West
Philadelphia
England
Maud Sutton
Sir Richard Sutton, Bart
Ashbury
Livonia
Aline
Sir Richard Sutton
Atlantic
Genesta
Ses
Miss Button
Eileen
Miss Maud Sutton
Pique
America
Wee Winn
Morwens
Bristol
R. I
Morwena
Miss Sutton
New York World
Regents Study Finds Women Leading in Education Growth
The New York state Regents report shows 23 556 girls to 18 248 boys in secondary schools and dominates honor certificates with over two thirds awarded to girls. College and professional enrollments include 2 928 and 4 048 women respectively, with hundreds more in law medicine art and music. The census notes rising female teachers from 1890 to 1892. It argues liberal education broadens life beyond mere livelihood and cites Yale opening graduate courses to women as a test of demand and gender barriers.
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New York State Board of Regenta
United States
Regents
Yale
Hartford Post Salutes Tillie Ashley as Top New England Athlete
Tillie Ashley, 28, born in Christiania and raised near Boston, is hailed by the Hartford Post as the best all round female athlete and oarsman in New England. She details rowing technique and training, notes wins in swimming championships, and claims readiness to race any woman in Connecticut.
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Hartford Post
Tillie Ashley
New England
United States
Stara
Christiania
Boston
Bay
Clara Beckwith
Connecticut
First Women Earn MB ChB Degrees at Glasgow
For the first time in Scottish universities two young women earned the MB ChB and MCh degrees. Marion Gilchrist of Bothwell and Alice Lillian Louisa Cumming of Glasgow received the degrees at the University of Glasgow graduation on July 26 after study at Queen Margaret College.
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Marion Gilchrist
Bothwell
Alice Lillian Louisa Cumming
Glasgow
University of Glasgow
Queen Margaret College
Woman's Department
Royal Infirmary
Glasgow Association For the Higher Education of Women
T S College
First Women Earn University Degree In New York Sun Report
A large assembly congratulates the first two young women who receive a university degree, marking a milestone in higher education. The occasion is described in the New York Sun with emphasis on achievement and ceremony.
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New York Sun
Women Dress and the Rise of Bifurcated Garments
The Chicago Record predicts a shift toward bifurcated outfits for women in 1896. It notes skirts give way to trousers or knickerbocker styles for travel and sports, arguing freedom of dress reflects modern ideas and may face earlier resistance fading.
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Saratoga
Chicago
The New Order of Women Contends With Earned Wages
Junius Henri Browne argues in a recent article that over 2,500,000 women in the republic earn wages, with 70,000 to 80,000 employed in the metropolis exclusive of servants. He notes women bluntly support others and challenge masculine pride, asserting capable workers do not rely on others to provide for themselves.
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Junius Henri Browne
New Order of ‘Women
America
Republic
Radical Step Forward in Women Suffrage Debate
A Womankind writer notes many movements promise millennium changes. While most reforms won’t instantly revolutionize the world, every improvement helps. Ballot access for women won’t alone alter politics, but suffrage marks a radical forward leap.
Women and labor reform call for organized unions
Alice L. Woodbridge argues in American Federationist that women possess stronger justice and must organize to reform society and improve workers’ conditions. She contends workingwomen must unite first, as men have undervalued women’s role, and the trades union should begin with the household.
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Trades
Alice L. Woodbridge
American Federationist
Retirement of Mme. Rene Richard and new Paris school
Mme Rene Richard the French mezzo soprano retires from opera after winning a major Covent Garden post four years ago. She has established in Paris a singers training school modeled on Pauline Lucca and will run a small theater for now unpublished works. Mrs Wetherbee cites Kansas prison population and women voters in a separate note.
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Mme
Rene Richard
Covent Garden
Paris
Pauline Lucca
London
Suffrage group plans support for Kansas campaign
At the Salt Lake Equal Suffrage association annual convention a resolution was passed to send Mrs. Buell to assist in the Kansas campaign if funds can be raised. Miss Helen M. Winslow becomes associate editor of The New Cycle, organ of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs. Julian Ferry, formerly of Schenectady, N Y, takes a post in Michigan’s adjutant general office at Lansing. Ringlets touted as a feature of future hairstyles.
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Salt Lake
Helen M. Winslow
New Cycle
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Julian Ferry
Schenevus
N. Y
Adjutant General of
Michigan
Lansing
Women and a Natural Healthy Womb Remedy
Special to our lady readers. The article extols female wellbeing and beauty, claiming Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound restores the womb and cures irregularities and various female complaints including leucorrhea and tumors in the womb, promising a lovely old age.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
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Skeleton Market
Uncle Sams
Champion Bone
New York State Board of Regents
Brooklyn Eagle
Woman and Education
the New Order of Women
Organization of Women
Epps
Fiye
Rootbeer
Charles E. Hires Co
Arch St
Gladding’s Market
Thames Street
Onnusty Kyurs Co
Fremont
Ohio
Ealy
Dway
Parker
Novoer
Uee Parker
Hindee CO
Paln
Wats Urge
J. B. Williams Co
Glastonbury, Conn
Merchants’ National Bank
Westminster St., Providence
Royal C Taft
J. W. Vernon
Royal C Taft Frank Mauran
Frank E. Richmond, Samuel R. Dorrance
John W. Danielson
Edward D. Pearce
Horatio N. Campbell
Frederic C. Bayles
E M. Smith
Shepard‘ Company
Providence, R. I
Rhode Island
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