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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1897
Page
7
Brooklyn Catholic Ladies Help Run Women’s Association
In Brooklyn the Women’s Catholic Association operates as a three year old, prosperous club modeled on the Young Women’s Christian associations. It offers free classes in sewing dressmaking penmanship and English with paid sessions in typewriting stenography bookkeeping and physical culture. Nurses meet twice weekly to learn invalid cookery and a chafing dish course runs on a weekend. A domestic science program aims for thorough home training and a series of lectures concerts and entertainments will follow on Wednesday evenings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Women's Catholic Association
Aken
Young Women’s Christian Associations
Donation Push Opens Trinity College to Women
Five or six years ago Washington Duke of Durham gave 850000 to secure Trinity college's Durham location, the largest NC educational donation. At the recent NC Methodist conference Duke through President Kilgo pledged hundred thousand for Trinity endowment with the condition that trustees admit women. Duke argues higher education must include women as Ezra Cornell did and notes successful female access at nearby NC colleges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Duke
Durham
Trinity College
North Carolina Methodist Conference
Kinston
Duke
Kilgo
Ezra Cornell
North Carolina
Eton
Catawba
Guilford
Rutherford
Raleigh
N. OQ
News and Observer
The Mothers Congress Plans on Education Reform in Washington
A national congress of mothers to be held in Washington in February will discuss topics such as moral, physical and mental training of the young, kindergarten extension to advanced studies, love of humanity and country, school evils, home and school influences, and developing traits to reduce crime and jail needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Congress of Mothers
Washington
A Giant Organization Born From a Women’s Crusade
The piece recalls the Dec 15 anniversary of the women’s crusade in Fredonia New York that sparked the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. It notes the rapid spread across states, the rise of leaders like Frances E Willard and Louise S Rounds, and how the WCTU grew into a giant international movement spawning many national organizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fredonia
Chautauqua County
N. Y
Frances E. Willard
Louise S. Rounds
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
New York Mail and Express
McPhee the sea engineer with a poet’s wit and grit
Kipling profiles Captain McPhee a master of machinery a man scarred by a pressure incident and famed for naval courage and blunt views on life at sea He values skill over sentiment prizes slow justice and steels his crew with tough humor whileReading and Burns anchor his oddities and loyalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McPhee
Liverpool
Royal Humane Society
Robert Burns
Gerald Massey
Wilkie Collins
Charles Reade
Rudyard Kipling
McClure’s
Justice of the peace dismissal clash over parliamentary rule
In a township near Chicago the elected justice of the peace, famed for strict rules, presided over a minor assault case. Attorneys Epler and Delew pressed to dismiss, while Smith protested. The court ruled the motion carried 3 to 2 and no case was dismissed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Epler
Delew
Smith
Smaith
San Francisco Argonaut
What a wed Means in Western Matrimony History
The Philadelphia Times surveys betrothal to wedding customs across eras and regions. It notes ring placement shifts from right hand to left and even the thumb in earlier times and Queen Elizabeth era. It also mentions Spanish traditions and wedding cake tokens linked to dreams of lovers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth
George II
Spain
Philadelphia Times
The Advantages of Rest and Home Remedies
A brief note on rest as preventive for nervous exhaustion urging unhurried exercise and occasional bed rest when holidays are unavailable. Examples include a Barcelona merchant and a hard working woman using bed time to protect nerves, plus simple stain removal tips using wheat flour and French chalk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barcelona
Home Journal
Colorado dairy official Anna Clemmer profile
Mrs. Anna D. Clemmer is introduced as Colorado dairy commissioner, born in Danbury Connecticut, relocated to Colorado with her ailing husband. She lives in Boulder with a Jersey herd producing 200 pounds of butter monthly and manages a 160 acre hay ranch with 1000 chickens while handling her Denver office duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna D. Clemmer
Colorado
West
Danbury
Conn
Clemmer
Boulder
Denver
Boston Woman's Journal
London society shifts as American beauty loses glare
A New York Sun London Letter notes a curving change in society with the Duke of Marlborough marrying Consuelo Vanderbilt and British aristocrats showing less reverence for American wealth and wit. It argues English gentility now outshines the American charmer, even as the Prince of Wales governs social taste.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Duke of Marlborough
Consuelo Vanderbilt
United States
Paris
Prince of Wales
New York Sun
Miss Frances Willard Plans World Tour For Temperance Petition
Miss Frances E Willard returns to Chicago from a five month southern lecture circuit and will sail for England to attend the British Women s Temperance Association meeting. She then visits Norway before returning. She and Lady Henry Somerset plan a world tour next winter with a large company of women to deliver the opium and rum petition to rulers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances ‘E. Willard
Chicago
South
England
British Woman’s Temperance Association
Norway
Miss Willard
Henry Somerset
Follett to Publish Elaborate Monograph on U S Government
Miss Mary Parker Follett of Radcliffe College prepares a lengthy study on the United States government. The work, about 400 pages, is said to be the most elaborate paper by a woman on a national political topic, after years of effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Representatives
Mary Parker Follett
Radcliffe College
Cambridge
Mass
Miss Follett
United States
The Duchess Ring With Opal and Diamonds Debuts
A gold band ring features a blue light opal centerpiece set with diamonds. Two gold scrolls flank a diamond studded shield extending beyond the knuckle. Designed for evening wear and priced no less than $500.
Return From Elmore Affair Cited in Buffalo Times
The Buffalo Times reports Jennie Lee returned Wallie Elmore's love and declared she had no further use for it, noting the domestic matter with terse confirmation and public censure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennie Lee
Wallie Elmore
Buffalo Times
Sparrows Play Pitch and Toss on Roof
A group of six English sparrows on a roof treat a rubber ball as a game ball. Five birds act as bases while another bird atop a chimney acts as umpire, pecking heads to keep order during the lively improvised baseball like contest.
Basque Dialect Described As A Mixed Heritage In Songs
The Basque dialects spoken in the Spanish Basque provinces blend Spanish patois with French and Moorish influences. The writer cites Basque terms resembling English words and notes the plaintive minor key music of popular Basque songs, both supporting a theory about Basque origins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gorry
Gono
Gentleman’s Magazine
Crown Designs of the Russian Czars Similar to Byzantine Miter
The description details a crown with a dome shaped like a patriarchal miter, a cross of five diamonds atop a polished spinel ruby, and a foliated arch of 11 large diamonds rising from the crown base. Side hoops hold 38 pearls, with jeweled silver work and purple velvet, and a gold base band set with 28 diamonds.
Domestic Troubles and American Sin in New York Slums
A Richmond Dispatch item recalls a Southern dialect exchange about a wife who has run away, then pivots to a 19th century column citing Dwight Moody on 70.6 million Americans with 750 thousand in crime, rescue missions in New York, and a critique of sin as a national ailment amid urban slums and university graduates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Dwight L. Moody
Mr. Moody
Ladies’ Home Journal
New York City
Parks Open to All With Wide Range of Free Activities
The piece notes that parks are designed for public use with cricket and football grounds, picnic areas, croquet, tennis, bowling greens, and concerts funded by local subscriptions. It observes lower park needs in well-to-do areas and cites George Ef Parker from Century. A separate fragment mentions a household dispute and theater plans. Rat and mouse activity is described as increasing before storms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Ef. Parker
Century
Carpenter From Vermont Credits Puritana Cure in Kidney Trouble
R George H Denny a 35 year old carpenter from near South Northfield Vermont describes prolonged kidney trouble and diabetes causing extreme weight loss and misery. After using Puritana starting last April he reports stomach improvement blunted symptoms and restoration of normal bladder function and endorses the remedy. Puritana attributed to Prof Dixie Crosby of Dartmouth College is praised as a cure all affecting stomach and other organs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R.george H. Denny
South Northfield
Dog River
Connecticut
Winooski
George H. Denny
Dixi Crosby
Dartmouth College
Holiday Store Ad Promises Wide Stock in Riverside Block
Santa Claus has come and gone and a Riverside Block shop advertises a broad selection of gifts. The catalog includes a clock chain umbrella pen ladle caster butter dish silver plate fish watch diamonds opal rings and many other pretty things kept in stock at No 2 in Riverside Block.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverside Block
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Charley
Cross
Tston Transcript
Renest Hosmer, D. D. S
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Onice
H. S. Hapgood
Stow
Interprise
Horace Tuttle
W. A.cunningharm
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Richardson
ER. H. Maker
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Middlesex Ss
Luman F. Parmenter
Albert P. Willis
Florence C. Willis
Adaline M. Willis
Sudbury
Nicholas B. Hunt
Rufus
Middlesex
Lyman F. Parmenter
Sudbury Enterprise
Charles J. McIntire
Fsquire
H. Folsom
Register
Moses H. Garfield
Chas.a. Smith
Acton, Mass
Crockery
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Jones & Wetherbee
South Acton, Mass
Burbank
A.H. Haynes
Maynard
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