The Rise of Women Song-Writers in Early America
A survey of female composers led by Miss Efe Canning Lizzie Paine Milbank and Hope Temple. It notes their youth affluence and notable works including Rock-a-Bye Baby Tapping on the Panes and The Racquet Galop. It highlights Canning Milbank Temple and Kate Simmons as prominent figures in American song history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Efpie Canning
Efe Canning
Bens
Denman Thompson
Lrog
Lizzie Paine Milbank
Ligvie Paine Milbank
Boston
George Milbank
Seth Paine
Chicago
Caroline Richinge- Bernard
Lissie Paine Milbank
Brooklyn
Hope Temple
Croneenny
Shere
Miss Temple
C. R. Flint
New York
Kate Simmons
Samuel J. Tilden
Simmons
Bear's Kin. Church Joleries and Chorister's Earnings
A brief item notes church entertainment and a chorister earning money from chants, with local humor about the hotel Gazette reporting. The tone blends social chatter about communal events and possible misstatements from the church’s fundraising efforts.
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Hotel Gazette
Long-Lived Friends How Intermarriage Shapes Quakers
An analysis from the London Hospital argues intermarriage among Quakers contributes to high longevity and social success. The piece emphasizes quiet, disciplined life over diet or drugs as the source of these outcomes, noting many Friends are frail yet attain notable longevity.
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London Hospital
George Fox
South Africa’s Economy Grows Fast With Mining Boom
South Africa and British capital drive rapid resource development. Mine returns rise from 200,000 to 7,500,000 annually. Silver, coal, petroleum, and related industries expand, while many ventures show progress and return on investment.
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South Africa
Household Curses and Sunday Papers
In a dialogue Mrs Potts questions Mr Withers about swearing when things go wrong at home. Mrs Withers replies she seldom swears unless to find one of Bob Ingersoll’s wicked savesches in the Sunday papers.
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Mrs. Potts
Mr. Withers
Mrs. Withors
Tiwke Blie
Bob Lgersoll
The Boy of the Day and the Apprenticeship Blockade
A Detroit Free Press contributed piece argues that Knights of Labor rules and trade unions curb apprenticeship opportunities for boys, reducing future workers and tax payers. It also claims women entering clerical roles suppress male job prospects, harming the economy and delaying skilled trades growth.
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United States
Sion
Knights of Labor
Detroit
Maine
Texas
Noted Tiger of Nagpur An Aggressive Man-eater
A tigress in Nagpur district has killed seven people up to June last year and wounded others. She resides in a rocky spur with jungle and water springs nearby, with a cave showing signs of use by her and cubs. She has been shot at many times. her cubs slain, yet she remains elusive.
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Nagpur
Bengal-Nagpur
London Times
Mistaken Fortune Teller Sparks Old Love Reignited
Mark Meredith attends a Hudson lawn party and falls for organist Mattie Sloane. A gypsy fortune teller hints at his doubts, prompting a misread proposal and a year lost to wishful thinking. They reunite aboard a Mediterranean voyage and confess love, with bracelets as mementos.
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Hudson
Mark Meredith
Mattie Sloane
Mattie
Orient
Mediterranean
Trieste
Matty Sloane
Palermo
Slowne
Prise
Miss Sloane
Merk Meredith
the Hudson
Mark
Mr. Meredith
Amy
Dressmakers Termity and Fashion Terms
A compact guide to dressmaking terms from apron to box pleats and kilts. It explains how a drop skirt border arimure silk moire surrah and other trims are used, and closes with a moral about speaking truth gently.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Fuille Francaise
Polly Goes By Observation of a Garret Morning
A garret awakens to Polly passing by as the town stirs. The speaker notes the wind, the rose in the face and eyes that watch from two blue depths. Morning brightens, the landlady’s sweep and a sighing farewell mark Polly’s vanishing, leaving longing and a sense of heaven near.
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Polly
Pocket typewriter offered to British public
A new pocket typewriter from the Pacific Slope Patent Office Record promises a compact, inexpensive device under 10 shillings. Sized 5 1 2 by 3 inches and weighing about four ounces, it prints lines from an inch to a yard and can use paper of any thickness. It enables duplicate types for multiple languages and has patents in Europe, America, Canada, and Australia.
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Pacific Slope
Europe
America
Canada
Australia
Marriage as a failure in domestic roles analysis
The Globe citing 1888 New Zealand data notes a shift from 14 to about 100,000 sheep, while a broad critique argues marriage fails when wives and husbands fail to balance duties, temper, and financial expectations.
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New Zealand
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Great Kingdom of
Great Britain
Elizabeth Paine
Mildane
Bear
Boy
Detroit Free Press
Billings
Thompkins
Grand Jury
Terre Haute
Irl
Becau
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