Chicago Girls' Mutual Benefit Club's 531 West Superior
The Girls' Mutual Benefit club, founded in 1890 by six women led by Alice Cary Burkhardt, meets at 531 West Superior Street. The self supporting group with about 225 members funds a $7,000 clubhouse, offers social lectures and health history sessions, maintains a library, crafts, and cooking classes, with 24 volunteer teachers and a dressmaking program.
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Girls’ Mutual Benefit Club
West Superior Street
Wood
Ashland Circle
King’s Daughters
Alice Cary Burkhardt
Vyiends
Ras Rinens
Sureeatas
Cial
Pegi Industrial Metnhere Ace
Mareen Moerasamy
Jal cooking classes aim to Americanize the district
The Chicago Tribune notes the program blends theory and supper to teach cooking while avoiding the submerged tenth myth. It targets foreign language households where many women lack English, hindering mothers’ club formation due to language barriers.
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Chicago Tribune
Women’s suffrage view quotes deputy from Jamestown
Martha BE Almy of Jamestown argues against a majority petition for suffrage. She cites historical examples from 1647 to present showing rights are secured to those in power and asserts governments exist to protect rights, not grant them on majority demand. She questions using a majority petition as a test and invokes independence, colonial history, and Lincoln.
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Martha BE. Almy
Jamestown
N. Y
Margaret Breit
Maryland
America
Columbia
New York State
New York
Abraham Lincoln
South
Pique fashion notes and tailoring judgments in early piece
The article discusses pique fashion including loose sack coats and gores skirts. It notes a rumour about a fashionable style requiring careful cut and fit, praising when well made and condemning when ill, with emphasis on gores and tailored garments.
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Lili
Braided fashions for spring from Harper's Bazar
The article urges women to start braiding outfits now with Eton jackets boleros and short jackets. It notes reds tan black and white as fashionable colors and denim and blue linens braided for themed costumes, predicting bold tailor styles for warm weather.
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Harper’s Bazar
Rainy Day Club endorses reform for women’s skirts
Mrs Bertha Welby hails the Rainy Day club as a landmark reform that keeps women in skirts of sensible length for health comfort and style. Letter requests for membership surge from across the United States and Canada. Members in Brooklyn wear practical walking dresses on a fair day as the movement grows toward nationwide acceptance.
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Bertha Welby
Wen
United States
Canada
Brooklyn
Ony
New York
Pres
Lamp Shades and Sleeves in 1880s Fashion
The Chicago Chronicle notes a shift from voluminous sleeves to lamp shades styled as globes. Earlier eras featured silk lace and ribbons, while last year saw reels in sleeves. lamp shades followed, offering silk draped frames and watercolor decorations. Now globes replace sleeves in the empire style.
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Chicago Chronicle
Gowns and jackets dominate city galleries fashion notes
Stylish young women in afternoon dress browse city galleries as gowns in cloth, cashmere, or rapa ete appear in black and color. The ensemble features silk lined gowns with white bolero jackets, velvet trims, and decorative sleeves. Observers discuss era indicators and the evolving silhouettes.
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Isi
Empire
Chord Cai
Blackboard usefulness in nursery play
A blackboard serves as a constant source of amusement for children in a nursery. It should be reachable and not too high to allow easy access for little ones.
Birds and cages dominate New England deal in cans
A lively ad touts a large stock of birds and cages with hundreds to choose from. Parrots including African grey Mexican double yellow head Cuban varieties are offered from $4. The seller highlights express orders and claims the largest stock and lowest prices in New England.
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Brees
Pleasant Stranger Alarmed by Child on Detroit Car
A friendly man on a Myrtle Street car spoke to a young girl, provoking her mother’s uneasy warnings. The man abruptly left the vehicle when the child feared he was a bad man, revealing the tension between politeness and safeguarding a child on public transport.
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Hoe
Myrtle Street
Mamima
Nellie
Detroit Free Press
Courtesy decline noted in American social greetings
An observer laments a drop in politeness over the past two decades. He recalls that twenty years ago men of the best class would remove hats when meeting outdoors, a practice now rare. He notes only a mere nod is common and a full bow would be seen as ridiculous.
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England
Sony
Physicians Should Veer Toward Clean Shaved Faces
Dr B J Sean of Chicago argues in the Chicago Times-Herald that physicians should be clean shaved in the future. He says a smooth face could reduce contagion, with beards only acceptable in surgical cases when gauze guards prevent contact with wounds.
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B J. Sean
Chicago
Chicago Times-Herald
First Transvaal Paper and its Early History
The text notes journalism in the Transvaal dates from about 1858 with De Oude Emigrant, edited and published by Cornelius Mol, a Cape Colony Dutchman. It mentions Potchefstroom as a base and references Pretoria as an early center, though the paragraph is garbled with misread words and incomplete details.
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Transvaal
de Oude Emigrant
Cape Colony
Cornelius Mol
Piper
Tr Iick Scaly Lipets
Wits
Fashions In Bicycles Highlight Style Shifts
There is fashion in bicycles as in dress with last year's small tubing wheels now out of fashion. The American Cyclist notes styles shift quickly and what was irresistible a year ago may now be dated.
Time Table Corrected Oct 4 1896 Trains West and East
The page lists a corrected time schedule for trains west and east with multiple stops including Belmont Weston Wayland and East Sudbury. It notes specific departure times for Boston Belmont and Northampton routes and includes stop conditions and staff credits.
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Warlboro Branch
Railroad A theatre train schedule to Marlboro and Boston
The theatre train departs Boston on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 11.20 p.m. and arrives Marlboro Thursdays and Sundays at 12.53 a.m. It runs Marlboro to South Acton Wednesdays and Saturdays at 11.35 p.m., stops at all intermediate stations except Whitman Crossing where it will discharge passengers from Marlboro. Stops occur only when signalled or when passengers are to leave.
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Boston
Marboro
Marlboro
South Acton
Whitman Crossing
JR. Watson
G.P.A
Maynard
Whitman’s Crossing
Rockbottom
Hudson
Arrive
New York New Haven Hartford Railroad Notice
A fragment from the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad appears with partial text mentioning a Sunday reference and routines. The readable portions suggest a timetable or public notice tied to Sunday travel or operations and may relate to a station or service change.
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New York
New Haven
Hartford Railroad
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