Simple Egg Tricks For Little Folks At Parties
The piece describes easy science based egg tricks using blown eggs balanced on ends and stacked on goblets. It recounts Harold and Alice learning the tricks from Cousin Edith with Columbus egg stories and offers practical steps using wax and shot or sand to make weighted eggs stand in various positions.
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Harold
Alice
Eva
Edith
Columbus
America
Atlanta Constitution
Adelphinas Club Formed by Denver Boys Guided by Women
A Denver boy’s plan to imitate his mother’s club led to the Adelphinas a fully organized group of 14 boys aged 10 to 18 with a women’s club committee guiding them. Meetings feature talks on historical figures parliamentary drill and each member answers with a quotation or current news item Joe Morris serves as president.
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Denver
Papa
Joe
The
Adelphinas
Woman's Club
Joe Morris
Woman's Journal
Johnson's Quick Wit in Pinch Stump Speech
In Memphis Pinch precinct Andrew Johnson and Gus Henry debated Ireland relief. Johnson defended voting against a public fund but said he donated 260 of his own money to the relief effort while Henry gave nothing. The crowd shifted to Johnson. he won the debate though his term soon ended with his death.
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Memphis
Pinch
Andrew Johnson
United States Senate
Gus Henry
Henry
Johnson
Congress
Ireland
Tenry
Tennessee
Chicago Times-Herald
New York Justice and a Civil War Recruit Poster
A New York judge engages with a satirical case about self harm and punishment. The piece notes a prosecutor’s quip about the firm forcing relocation to Philadelphia. Separately, George M. Millington finds a cloth poster seeking recruits for the Seventeenth Michigan Infantry with a $100 bounty and advance pay, dated during the Civil War era.
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George M. Millington
Seventeenth Regiment
Richard Millington
Coonrod
Michigan Infantry
Detroit
Alfred Abeel
Seventeenth Michigan Infantry
Rathbun House
Michigan
Millington
Rome Sentinel
Autograph Request and a Mock Payment
A man asks Mr Chumley Jones for his autograph and jokingly offers a $50 check. West Turkestan remains thinly populated with few schools using itinerant railway carriage classrooms with a teacher and brief lessons at each stop.
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West Turkestan
The Sunday School Lesson on Repentance and Rest
A devotional reflection on Jesus teaching in Galilee and judgment, stressing repentance, divine judgment, and the call to take Christ’s yoke. It emphasizes that true rest comes from submission to God’s will, spiritual humility, and trust in Jesus as the revealed Father.
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D. M. Stearns
Tyre
Sidon
Sodom
Gomorrah
Ninevah
Sheba
Jonah
Solomon
God
Calvary
Jesus
Heaven
Israel
John the Baptist
Satan
Abraham
Christ
Father
Shirt Waist Styles Capture Hearts With Comfort and Flair
Fashion notes describe spring and summer shirt waists favored for comfort and durability, with stripes and bias plaids in white cheviot duck and pique. Linen and organdie fade after washing, making solid fabrics preferred. Also mentions designers across Philadelphia and Washington observing rising use of low neck gowns at day events.
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New York
Enterprising St Louis businesswoman Miss Orff founder of railroad timebook
Mrs Annie L Y Orff of St Louis built a career by correcting railroad timetables and turning the work into the official railroad timebook of St Louis a city guide revised monthly She later published a popular chaperon shopping guide which grew into a large home magazine She also served as woman manager for Missouri at the Columbian exposition.
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Annie L. Y. Orff
St. Louis
Orff
Missouri
Kalamazoo Matron Appointment Shows Municipal Dispute
The Kalamazoo city charter requires a police matron but politicians avoid the post. They delay and then set the salary at $10 a year, making it impractical for any woman to serve. The piece argues this as an object lesson for municipal woman suffrage and questions if voters included half the constituents.
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Washington
Republic
White House
Washington Post
Kalamazoo
Mich
Board of Supervisors
Woman's Journal
Mrs Coogan Named Acting Postmaster in Pittsfield
Harriet T. Coogan widow of late Pittsfield postmaster William G. Coogan has been appointed acting postmaster by the bondsmen. She is the first woman of western Massachusetts to hold such a large office. The post office has become first class and a petition seeks to extend her term to March 1899.
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Coogan
Pittsfield
Harriet T. Coogan
Mass
William G. Coogan
Massachusetts
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Philadelphia
Washington Star
Chumley Jones
Mr. Jones
Harper’s Bazar
Marcus Aurelius
Philadelphia School of Design
England
Scotland
Theodora M. Anderson
Anna
Kraus
Mary
Graid
Marie
A. Morton
Eva Chambers
Maud Mueller
Edna V. Free
Archibald Leighton
New York Tribune
Af Haynes
Clothier
Maynard
Women's Clubs of
Utah
Westerly
Quincy
H.S. Richardson
Ee. H. Maker
Concord Mass
T.F. Sheehan
Barrett’ S Mill Road
Concord Junction
Mas
D. Cilmore
Maynard's Block
Victor
J. W. Henderson
South Acton, Mass
Mayxard St
WM. ©. Hale
So, Acton, Mass
Benest Hosmer
D. D
Acton
Teremiah Sheehan
H. S. Hapgood
Stow
Horace Tuttle
Walden Street
Concord
J. C. Friend
S. K. Humphrey
Exchange Building
Boston
Chaplin
H. King
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