Women in Boston Drive New Trade Niche and Flour Sales
A Boston woman, Miss Cora B. Pike, sails steam supplies to mills and engineers, proving a female commercial traveler can excel on the road. Separate note on flour sales shows women traveling to introduce brands, earning 9 to 15 dollars weekly, with no male employees in the field.
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Boston
New England
Gripsack Guild
Cora B. Pike
Pearl Street
Bos
West Sixth Street
Miss Pike
Pike
Charlestown
Boston High School
India Street
Boston Globe
Fashionable gown trimmings and repurposed skirts offered
Partly finished gowns sell with laces plastrons collets frilled fichus girdles and jeweled buckles. Partly worn silk skirts are refashioned into petticoats with hems faced to prevent fray and new ruffles added. Remnants in two to three yard lengths provide ready frill options.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah
Faille
Liberty
Women evolve with business gains and household balance
A Philadelphia Press excerpt argues that expanding roles for working women benefit both genders by fostering sympathy and restraint in business dealings. It highlights a Virginia teacher who profits from sheep farming, earning about 450 dollars yearly on 60 ewes, while managing school duties and limited time. It also notes fashion guidance on silk petticoats, washable white skirts, and moreen garments from Mary Katharine Howard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Press
Virginia
Boston Herald
Mary Katharine Howard
Woman’s Home Companion
Victoria Lawn
Five women hold elective offices in Iowa legislature
Five women hold elective offices in the Iowa legislature. Mrs Eva Livingston is enrolling clerk in the senate. She was bill clerk during the Twenty fifth and Twenty sixth sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Eva Livingston
Senate
Bill
Women Fill Key Clerk Roles in State Legislature
The article notes several women advancing to enroling and engrossing clerk posts in the Iowa legislature. Mrs. Livingston, Mrs. Sherman, Miss Nethergall, Miss Gillespie, and Mrs. Heist are named, with homes listed in Washington and Vinton Iowa. All are praised for skill and unanimous re‑election or appointment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Livingston
Washington, Ia
Carrie G. Sherman
Senate
Minnie Nebergall
Sherman
Vinton
Miss Nethergall
Washington
Clara Gillespie
Bill
Miss Gillespie
Albia
Mollie Heist
Wapello
Jewelry belts enthrall Paris and London styles reach New York
Exquisitely jeweled belts popular in Paris and London spread to New York fashion. Importers showcase belts with small mock gems and delicate buckles, while broad gilt belts with large ruby and sapphire clusters fail to win refined taste. The note laments the rise of cheap conspicuous artificial jewelry among fashionable circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
London
Enchanted Valley
Sindbad
New York
London fashion notes and political canvassing in March
The piece describes close coat sleeve styles with wing decorations and various trims. It notes London county council elections in March with a prominent canvassing corps led by the Marchioness of Tweedale and lists many aristocratic participants. It also mentions French women as witnesses gaining rights and the Dearest bracelets fashion with gold chain and heart initials. The snippet ends with a Salem post office appointment and a quip about corks.
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London County Council
Marchioness of Tweedale
Earl
France
France & CO
Garfield Place
Cincinnati
Ohio
Europe
America
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W. W. Lambert
Attorney AT Law
Irwin
Bante Bisek
J. F. Cox
Attorney-At-Law
Crump
G. W. Cooper
C. B. Cooper
Cooper & Sooper
First National Bank Building
W. F. Norton
First National Bank
W. C. Roland, M. D
Ofice—Griffith Block
Western Unico Telegraph Office
Citizens Phone
Eighth and
Chestnut Streets
Pittsburg
Beach
Columbus Fuel & Lee Co
Noblitt's Drug Store
Washington Street
U.S. Patent Office
U.S
Ic.a.snow & CO
Ore
Patart Ofrick
Wasvinscton
D. C
Dolls Cigar Store
Funkhouser
6Th and
Winans Grocery
Columbus
Ron Meg
Corner Fifth and
Jackson Stretch
Ulrich’s
Ae An
C. Ulrich
Coonham
Crystal
Fifth Street
Bell Harrison
OZ Young
ATH and Mechanic Sts
Marlin
Marlin Firearms Co
New Havens Ct
saAmeteress
Men & Womn
Romaanzaa Agency
Gyesmore St
Admistra
Willard Bonnell
Bartholomew County
Indiana
Berthena Bonnell
Attommey
Gays
New York Post
Evita
Li Fronde
Mime
Durand
Merrill
Salem
Mass
Jennie Ashby
Murphy
Cleveland
Kinney
Chicago
Wabash Ave
Crump’s Theatre
Louisville
Indianapolis
Southport
el Greenwood
Whiteland
Franklin
Edinburg
Columbus Ar
Elizab’town
Scipio
Mensville
Vernon
N. Madison
Madison
Columbna
Jonesville
Seymour
Crothernvaie
Scottsbur
Henryville
Memphis
Sellersburg
Jeffersouvtis
New Albany Ar
Louisvillear
Huilsville Ly
New Albany
Jeffersonville
Shelbyville
Homer
Cambridge
Louisvile
L.F. Loree
E. A. Ford
Pittsburgh
PENNA
Pannsylvania Liipee
BIG Four
R. R
Cinti Reensbui i. & G
Ewington Burney
Miller’s Lambert Columbu
Exce
New Orleans
Mobile
Warren J. Lynch
E. O. McCormick
Pass
Trattic Mgr
Charles Mathews
Bartholomew Circuit Court
Horace .G. Solomon
Circuit Court
Sald
Saich
George Werner
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O. P.O
Clackonatl
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