New Woman Sparks Clubroom Mockery and Hearts
At a club gathering of Columbian men a debate about the "new woman" unfolds with champagne cigars and witty jibes. Tom Agnew, torn between love and fear of ridicule, confronts Helen Clayburn as she reveals her rising role in social reform, culminating in a reconciled pledge of devotion.
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Habberton
Mortimer
Habberley
Tom Agnew
Hatherton
Lewis Mortimer
Helen’ Clayburn
Helen
Helen Clayburn
Tom
Mie
Association
Tom Ag+new
Morris Habberton
Betsey
Hobbs
Miss Clayburn
Agnew
Woman's Social Purity Club
Mars's Calls
Mary trotted into a neighbor's house and announced she had been making calls visiting Aunt Lucy Mrs C and the W households Then she hesitated when asked if her mother knew her whereabouts and finally said she must go home implying she had to leave.
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Mars
Mery
Sunshine in the Alley and Broadway Trials
Notes report Denman Thompson’s forthcoming play The Sunshine in the Alley. Charles Frohman notes Christmas receipts about 83 percent below last year. matinees poor nationwide. New York has more amusements than London or Paris, needing $20 million capital and employing 20,000. London Times reviews W D Howells’ A Dangerous Ruffian as unlikely to enhance status. Minnie Palmer returns to New York in The School Girl but plays praised. Cuba war drama planned The Last Stroke to open in St Paul February 23 by Isaac N Morris. Morris’s rival candidates had a brief profitable run at Hoyt’s two years ago. Heda, youngest subcoastal playwrights, great grandson of Liberty party senator Morris.
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Denman Thompson
Charles Frohman
New York
London
Paris
London Times
W. D. Howell
Minnie Palmer
George Manchester
Albert Maurice
Migs Palmer
Litt
St. Paul
Isaac N. Morris
Hoyt’s
Heda
Morris
Ohio
Old Liberty Party
New York World
Legislative activity storms Iowa legislature with many bills
February sessions in Des Moines see numerous petitions and introduced measures. House and Senate debated taxes on express firms, alcohol regulation, school funding, and public works while memorials on soldiers’ monument and medallions sparked fights. Age of consent bills split, code revision postponed, and several appropriation bills for state institutions advanced.
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Iowa
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Senate
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Phelpa
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Finkhine
Committee On
M.S. Butler
Davis
Johnson
Boaulding
Des Moines
Alexander
Hipwell
Davenport
Harper
Ranck
Code Commission
Paseer
ENATE
Lothrop
Blanchard
Carpenter
State Agriculture Society
Judiciary
Vente
Steen
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Andrew Pasked
Baker
Byington
State University
Finch
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Grand Army Halls
Early
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Anamosa Penitentiary
Jenkins
Glenwood
Bowen
Boys’ Department of the Industrial School
Eddora School
Sargeant
State Normal School
Cedar Falls
Berry
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Messrs
Chapman
Power and Miller
Billa
Gurley
Hanger
Cedar Rapids
Lauder
Arc- Quinn
College of the Blind
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Neuert
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Hotchkiss
Palmer
Mt. Pleasant
Penrose
Winton
Senate Resolution For Special Joint Committee On
Carney
Healy
Code Committee
Smith
Greene
Laidover
Doubleday
Klemm
Oplem
Loomis
Anamosa
Mullen
Parker
Perrott
Victory for the Grand Army of the Republic on ticket limit
The Chicago Great Western Railroad informed the Western Passenger Association yesterday it would grant Grand Army of the Republic members a thirty day limit on reunion tickets to St. Paul. The move overturns the prior seven day limit and signals other lines may follow.
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Chicago
Chicago Great Western Road
Western Passenger Association
Grand Army of the Republic
Re« Union
St. Paul
Chicago Great. Western
Kite powered aerial machine shows stable ascent innovation
A National Review writer advocates removing gas from flight and using multiple kite sails in a tethered setup. The inventor describes a hexagonal sail arrangement linked to a ground line with a suspended basket car and parachute, achieving steady lifts up to 400 feet and noting occasional mishaps from inexperience but overall reliable performance.
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National Review
Strange Phases in England’s Front-Driving Bicycles
A report from England discusses a new front driving wheel bicycle that discards the chain and uses the front wheel for both driving and steering. The twenty-one inch machine on a fifty-seven inch frame weighs about twenty-three pounds and is promoted as easier to learn, lighter, with less vibration and a compact gear that needs no attention. The development will be watched with interest.
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England
Renan Library Offer For Sale Divides Contents
French papers announce the sale of Renan's library split into two parts. The oriental section contains philology and history of oriental languages, a focus for Renan. The second part covers general philology, classical studies, and the middle ages. Renan urged the library be sold as a block or at least keep the oriental books together.
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Renan
Notes of the Day A Paris wedding fashion shift pink gowns
The column notes that Paris wedding gowns are moving away from white to pale pink or rose. It also records various brief items: Mrs. Talcott of West Hartford turns 105 at Christmas, a measles microbe description, the Gutenberg Bible value in Brinley collection, a New Hampshire buffalo herd count, Russian land tenure classes, French bank deposits in 1894, and a jab at the Court Journal on primness in stud books.
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Talcott
West Hartford
Conn
Brinley
London
United States
Austin Corbin
Croydon Mountain
New Hampshire
Russia
Court Journal
Fashion Notes and Holiday Gift Items Highlight 19th Century Masters
Fashion notes feature richly carved Indian style men’s rings with embedded stones and ton ton dishes in cut glass and fine china. Card stands of silver with pierced work sit atop oblong trays, while hand carved ivory statues and groups enchant holiday shoppers. Mahogany Louis XV cabinets with marquetry appeal, and a silver skirt grip aid tidy wearers. Travelers favor a large alligator satchel fully outfitted with aluminum and cut glass fittings.
Stomach Bitters Promised To Relieve Constipation Ills
An old advertisement claims canal and bowel blockage can cause illness and that Hostetter's Stomach Bitters will relieve constipation without pain. It asserts the medicine treats malaria bilious dyspeptic rheumatic nervous and kidney troubles and strengthens the system.
The Bonds and the Syndicate Amid Private Bond Talks
The syndicate will not be greatly affected by not getting the bonds under a private arrangement as long as it obtains the bonds. The speaker expresses desire to avoid shunning by others and cautions about ambition and genius.
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