Characteristics of a Popular Canadian Writer Joanna Wood
The article portrays Joanna E Wood a cosmopolitan Canadian born in Scotland educated in Canada and the United States with European travel shaping her work. It notes her social life in Philadelphia New York Boston Paris London and Scotland and her stance on fashion and feminism while stressing her realism and charitable view of writers.
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Joanna E. Wood
Queenston
Niagara River
Miss Wood
St. Catharines Collegiate Institute
Canada
Europe
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
London
Scotland
Honora
Howard
Buffalo Express
Visiting Costume Described in Ladies Home Journal
Isabel A. Mallon records a visitor’s attire featuring a mixed brown and white cheviot outfit with a plain skirt. The bodice includes a short cheviot Eton jacket, white chiffon vest, green velvet belt, green velvet trim, and fitted cheviot sleeves. Accessories include a brown felt hat with green velvet and brown feathers, tan gloves, mink muff, and mink cape.
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Eton
Isabel A. Mallon
Ladies’ Home Journal
Scribblers Club of Buffalo nurtures women writers
The Scribblers club in Buffalo unites professional and amateur women writers led by figures like Anna Katharine Green. It serves as a supportive network, funds an art scholarship for a young girl, and holds biweekly meetings in hotel parlors with varied programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Scribblers’ Club of
Buffalo
Anna Katharine Green
Brooklyn
Emancipated by labor saving devices of the age
A Godeys Magazine passage argues that emancipation of women from domestic drudgery is complete due to mechanical innovations. It credits sewing machines, washing machines, gas and electric ranges, and factory processing for freeing women to pursue education and culture, aligning with a social shift toward equality.
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Ixion
Trimming Bonnets for Elderly Ladies in New Season
A milliner notes the challenge of shaping bonnets for elderly wearers. Styles must follow strict season rules, with large hats covering much of the head and flexible color allowances. Varied crowning options include silk and felt braids, embroidered velvet, or jet crowns.
Velvet Bonnets of the Year Describe Plaited Crowns and Flat Trimmings
The New York Advertiser notes fashionable bonnets feature high plaited crowns with full velvet brims. Velvet ribbons tie beneath the chin and trimming remains flat except for a plume, velvet blossoms, or ostrich feathers on one side. Jet crowns may include a buckle for added flair.
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New York Advertiser
Reading Women Push for Municipal Office Rights
The Reading Chronicle lauds Reading women for campaigning to place female representatives on town boards. It recalls Ellen Bancroft and Gertrude Hussey as prior candidates who narrowly lost, and notes plans to nominate a candidate for overseers of the poor. The paper proposes an advisory women’s board to aid with the town farm and poor report, but cautions against granting power without accountability.
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Reading
Mass
Ellen M. Bancroft
Gertrude K. Hussey
William Carter
Chronicle
Debutante Reception Card Etiquette From Harper's Bazar
Instructions on arranging debutante receptions in winter social season. Details include invitation timing, card design, addresses, and mailing etiquette for Mrs Charles Moulton Johnson and her daughter, with hosting Fridays and Saturday hours.
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Charles Moulton Johnson
Miss Johnson
St. Nicholas Avenue
Harper's Bazar
Widow Rights Bill Urged by Pennsylvania Woman Suffragists
Mrs Rudolph Blankenburg of Philadelphia, elected president of the Pennsylvania Woman Suffragist Association, drafts a bill for the legislature to secure broader rights for widows. The summary notes current rules on property and support and cites Cora Stuart Wheeler on postwar women's club cooperation. Paris hosts a homeless women's club with meals, library, and annual membership. A new handbag clasp with safety pin attachment, gold or silver, is advertised.
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Rudolph Blankenburg
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Woman Suffragist Association
Paris
Electric lamp on bicycle promises practical, durable light
A Western firm begins manufacturing an electric lamp claimed to burn steadily, resist cops nearby, and last long. The lamp, mounted on a bicycle front, uses a rechargeable charge with ten hours per use and a switch to regulate light. The system avoids grease and smoke, with no energy loss when off and a charge said to last a week. New York World.
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New York World
Fires for hire and women at the bar in Jewish Messenger note
Pearson's Weekly reports women shabbos goyim light fires for Sabbath observance, earning threepence or more per fire as London East End workers. The Jewish Messenger notes a woman referee at an auction prompts views on women at the bar and wider professional roles, comparing shifts in labor history and resistance to change.
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London
Pearson’s Weekly
Court of Appeals
Temperance Union Plans National Hospital in Chicago
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union intends to erect a national temperance hospital in Chicago. A promoter asserts the hospital will prove doctors mistaken about needing alcohol to save lives and that within a year they will present cured-patient facts to sway physicians away from such prejudices.
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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Chicago
Women win ballot and jobs across twenty five states
The Milford Mass Gazette quotes that twenty five states have granted women the educational ballot and that twenty states remain to conquer. It notes women have invaded twenty five occupations in the last quarter century as the world and business evolve at different paces.
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Milford
Mass
Time Table Corrected October 4 189
Schedule note stating stops occur only on signal or to leave passengers on notice to conductor. Stops for stations west of Hudson on signal. Stops to leave Boston, Oakdale, or Northampton area passengers. Indicates selective stopping rules and passenger drop off instructions.
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Northampton
Ware
Suny
Barre
Boylston
South Clinton
Berlin
South
Wayside Inn
A. m. South Sudbury
A.m. Weston
A.m. Waltham
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A. m. Belmont
A.m
Boston
Hudson
Oakdale
Marboro
Marlboro
South Acton
Whitman Crossing
J.R. Watson
G.P.A
Maynard
Whitman’s Crossing
Roc Tel
Arrive
la Caerete Marlboro
Boston. Ve A.M A.M A.M Sundays, 6.40 7.50 9.21 M. P.M P.M. P.M. A.M. P.M. Hudson
Rockbottom
Whitman’s Grossing
Guard
Montreal
Fitchburg
Washington Street
Wine
J. R. Watson
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Ladies’ Home Companion
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New England
Ludlam Bros
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W. C. T. U. Hospital
Gildedon
J. Rufus Wales
Shawmut ‘Ave
Mariboro, Maas
Imall
Assabet
Peggles i Condo Company
Maynard, Mass
Boston & Maine Railroad
Southern Division
Central
Massachusetts
Union Passenger Station
Causeway Street
Belmont
Seelaw
Bea
East Sudbury
South Sudbury
Wayside Mae
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P.m. Power
P.m
One Banks
Sundaton Eae Oe
Benthorton
Jefferson's
Daniel W. Sanborn
Dana J. Flanders
W. G. Bean
Supe
Hitchburo
Broadway Central
Haynes
New York, New Haven
Hartford Railroad
OLD Colony System
Northboro
Clinton
Leominster
Bouthboro
Sun
Framingham
Acton
Lowell
Lowel
Sudbury
E.G. Allen
A.C. Kendall
Setham
David Harris
Fitchburg xX Railroad
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Troy
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Lake George
Adirondack
Catskill Mountains
Syracuse
Rochester
Niagara Falls
Hamilton
Toronto
Cleveland
Detroit
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St. Louis
Boston and ST. Louis
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Middeburg
Vergennes
Burlington
St Albans
St. Johns
Ogdensburg
Ottawa
Quebec
Robert W. Carter
Charles, H. Persons
Maes
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