Jenny Carr and the Boston Store's Hidden Risks
A narrator recalls meeting Jenny Carr in a Boston department store where she works as a teen on the tinware counter. He details his own life, her quiet charm, and the looming dangers of exploitation in urban retail life, including an unseen predator among the store’s wealthy elite.
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Joseph B. Bowles
Boston
Jenny Carr
Dick Allen
Boylston Street
West End
Allen
Jenny
Tenny
Maine
Benbow
South
Yale
Janny
Roxbury
Amita
Portrait of Jenny and the Fat Youth Clash in a City Flat
A floorwalker narrator arranges a commissioned portrait of Jenny Carr by a rising artist, while the fat youth Dixon schemes with bribes. When romance and jealousy collide, the narrator confronts Dixon, delivering a beating and walking away with Jenny’s fate unsettled.
Nobel prize money shrinking amid rising management costs
The Nobel awards have fallen from 150,782 kronen to 138,089 kronen per distribution. Endowment income reached 1,378,000 kronen, about 372,060 dollars, but management expenses consume more than half, leaving less than half for prizes.
Ohio Clubs Form Civic Improvement Committees
The Ohio Federation of Womens Clubs establishes civic improvement committees in each club and integrates topics into every program. Of 310 federated clubs in Ohio, more than 150 already have committees and topics.
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Ohio
Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs
Era of Doing Inspires Louisville Flower Seed Drive
Louisville children received a holiday and 300000 packages of flower seeds to plant as a civic beautification idea. The note from the Chicago Daily News frames this as a practical plan richer than talk for city improvement.
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Louisville
Chicago Daily News
Far Northland Town to Welcome Foreign Tourists for Coronation Week
Trondhjem prepares for a surge of visitors ahead of the coronation of King Haakon and Queen Maud with hotels crowded for inquiries and many travelers arriving by chartered ships and excursion boats. English, German, French, Italian and Swedish groups plan stays, while Norwegians in San Francisco seek word on loved ones after a disaster.
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Haakon
Queen Maud
Trondhjem
England
Denmark
Germany
France
Italy
Sweden
Wilson Line
San Francisco
Christiania
America
Sweden Tightens Laws to Curb Anti Military Agitation
New amendments aim to suppress anti military talk by fines and up to four years in prison for incitement. Officers at troop garrisons may bar soldiers from gatherings with pro rioting or anti conscription rhetoric. Prosecution targets Hinke Bergegren and Axel Holmstrom for seditious remarks at a Stockholm mass meeting on April 3.
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Sweden
Hinke Bergegren
Stockholm
Axel Holmstrom
Swedish American day set for June 30 at Norrkoping fair
A large summer exposition in Norrkoping Sweden will feature a Swedish American day on June 30. The Swedish American societies of Stockholm and Gothenburg will organize the parade with members, visiting Americans, allegorical floats, and decorated wagons. The event includes a street parade, speeches, choral and instrumental music, games, athletics, and a banquet in the evening.
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Norkoping
Sweder
Norrkoping
Sweden
Lights for Fishes Experiment Planned by Copenhagen Society
The Biological Society of Copenhagen outlines a novel plan to place electric lamps on the sea bottom in the Little Belt to deter conger eels from exiting into the open sea. Eels fear light and may stay within the straits, aiding Danish fishermen in keeping the stock from moving into the Great Belt.
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Conger Eels
Little Belt
Biological Society of
Copenhagen
Hmit
Great Belt
Labor Day Parade In Wet Greay Weather
Gray cold rain marked Labor Day as a parade proceeded with about 5,000 attendees. Dr Erikson delivered the day’s oration while the event remained peaceful. Recruits for the year were ordered to military drilling grounds.
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Tno
Dr. Erikson
Crisis Over Universal Suffrage Bill in Sweden
The riksdag action endangers universal suffrage as the joint vote will oppose the bill after the first chamber had rejected it. The bill passed 134 to 94 in the second chamber but 126 to 18 in the first. Premier Staaf now faces resignation or dissolving the second chamber to trigger a new election for reform.
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Sweden
Riksdag
Staaf
Minister Vogt Finda Favor
Norway appoints B. Vogt as minister to Sweden, seen as a satisfactory choice for a delicate, high responsibility post. Svenska Dagbladet praises his understanding of Swedes, noting his Swedish schooling and Upsala studies, with approval of his role in the Karlstad commission.
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Norway
B. Vogt
Sweden
Vogt
Svenska Dagbladet
Upsala
Karlstad
Norwegian turners top gymnastics and shooting at Olympics
The Norwegian turners excelled in free gymnastics, finishing first among eight nations. The sharpshooters placed second, trailing by two points. Individual star Mr Skattebo scored 980 points, 38 more than the next contestant, marking a highly satisfactory team result.
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Skattebo
Nathorst Reassesses Andree Expedition Loss Location
Prof A G Nathorst, the Swedish Arctic explorer, argues in a new book that the ill fated balloon party perished in open sea a few miles from the Kola peninsula coast. He bases this on relic locations and analyses of air and ocean currents.
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A. G. Nathorst
Andree
Kola Peninsula
Swedish millers vote to cut flour output in 20 percent plan
Swedish millers at a Stockholm meeting vote to reduce production by 20 percent or close mills for ten weeks. They blame overproduction and weak business conditions for the curtailment, noting the move will directly affect employees.
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Stockholm
Speculators Move on Sweden Water Powers Amid Rail Electrification
Speculators seize on Sweden’s move to secure water powers, buying assets in Krangede and Hemsjo Falls with hopes of large profits. The government proposes a 0,000 kroner appropriation to convert railways to electric power on select lines.
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Krangede
Hemsjo Falls
Boston Doctors Urge Ban on Baking Powder Containing Rochelle Salts
At a Massachusetts Public Health Committee hearing, eminent Boston physicians testified against Rochelle Salts in baking powders and urged a law to prohibit their sale in food. Dr. Hartung, Dr. Foster, Dr. Kepler, and Dr. Palmer spoke in favor of the ban.
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Committee On Public Health
Massachusetts
Boston
Fistem Quits Boxing for Stage Comedy Act
Fistem has given up pugilism and turned to the stage. Reportedly he performs with the same effect as in the ring, sending audiences to sleep with his act.
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Fistem
Schools Compared at Aak er's Business College Fargo
A Starbuck Minnesota resident praises Aaker's Business College in Fargo North Dakota after comparing it with other schools. The letter endorses the college as the best in the Northwest and requests a free catalogue.
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Aaker’s Business College
Fargo
N. D
Aaaker’s Business College
Northwest
Guy A. Sermon
Starbuck, Minn
Wedderly and Singleton Talk About a Better Cook
A town dialogue features Wedderly insisting he wants to meet a woman who is a better cook than his wife. Singleton retorts that his wife is an expert, prompting Wedderly to clarify his eagerness to meet a superior cook.
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Singleton
Cheney firm offers $100 reward for incurable catarrh
Frank J Cheney of F J Cheney & Co sworn in Toledo Ohio that the firm will pay $100 for each catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notarized December 6 1886. Claims the remedy acts on blood and mucous surfaces and urges readers to send for testimonials and purchase from druggists.
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Frank J. Cheney
A. W. Gleabon
Notary Pasuie
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Teleco
All Drugatete
Tic
Hiall
Clever pupil wins prize on commencement day
The Washington high school principal recalls a student named Hattie who won a principal prize amid the commencement exercises. Friends congratulated her and asked if she feared losing to many contestants. She replied she was confident in English composition, saying she had 'em skinned alive.
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Washington
Hattie
June weddings praised by Bishop Olmsted in Denver dinner
In Wedding Month Bishop Olmsted of Colorado urged that June be the prime month for weddings during a Denver dinner. He quoted a jeweler noting the season brings many nervy, well dressed young men seeking engagement rings, prompting the clerk to fetch the tray.
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Bishop Olmsted
Colorado
Denver
Jackson
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