Senate and House pass bills amid pauses and adjournments
The latest Washington session saw the Senate concur with House amendments on the Paris Exposition bill and a Deficiency bill conference report approved. The House adjourned after debates on Indian, military, naval and postal abuses, and cabinet deliberations on China immigration restrictions continued.
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U.S. Senate
House
Senate
Wood
New York
China
Congress
Mothers and daughters and the marriage standard
The piece argues that mothers influence girls less than societal expectations about marriage. It contends boys are pushed toward achievement while girls are steered toward marriage, with mothers often blamed for gendered outcomes. If girls were urged to pursue study as vigorously as boys, they would reach higher standards.
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United States
Harper's Bakers
The Egotist Dictates Circle Speech and Repairs It
A sharp critique of the perpetual critic who dominates conversations. The egotist fixes others’ words, demands corrections, and supplies missing links. The piece likens him to a pedant who never leads but always follows, offering celebrated missteps as learned insight.
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Ife
Solomon
Goliath
Israel
Danbury Vers reporter’s wild scene with a frightened fiancée
A Danbury reporter visits a young woman Sunday evening. The door scene quickens as she fears a scare about her mother falling down stairs. The improvised dialogue includes panic and mock debate over harming no one, ending with reassurance that no injury occurred.
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Focal
The
Danbury Vers
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Unhappy Crea tures and odd snippets on life
A collage of quips and brief items from a wartime era: reflections on happiness and ill nature, a jab at music and nose singing, and a note on being seen on a grand theatre. It also includes short anecdotes about cats on roofs, fashion misfires, crude excuses, and odd regional reports from Yonkers to Millerstown.
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Corbin
Twenty-fourth Infantry
House Military Committee
Texas
Peter Ammerman
Brewers’ and Malsters’ Fire Insurance Company of
New York
Wm. C. Gilman
Asyhm
Auburn Prison
Tubal Cain
Stewart's
Yonkers Gazette
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Adrian
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