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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1898
Page
2
A description of the contents and construction of comfort bags sent to soldiers is printed for ladies. Materials include denim fabric eight by forty four inches, folded and fastened with tapes. Items listed are safety pins needles thread pins buttons wax pencil soap laces scissors vaseline and fabric squares.
Gossip in the London Daily Chronicle notes a quiet royal wedding with a £60,000 dowry and a full trousseau. The bride receives about £1,500 monthly, a Bosporus palace, a Scutari estate, and salaries for many servants from Yildiz Kiosk. The husband may not take a second wife.
A Cuban woman with soft eyes and a foreign accent visits the Woman's Exchange in New York. She is related to a prominent insurgent general and has a fine fan collection for sale to raise funds. She displays a gold trinket valued by a New York jeweler who offered hundreds of dollars.
Mrs Youmans of South Carolina challenges the National Woman's Suffrage Association's federal committee in the Charleston News and Courier. Virginia D Young answers, and Sarah Clay Bennet, chairwoman of the federal suffrage, adds that white Southern women would rather vote with black women than stay home with black men ruling.
The article notes a rising ecclesiastical fad among women during the Fifth Avenue Sunday parade. Rosaries of various kinds are worn by diverse wearers, even where religion does not demand such accessories, giving outfits a sentimental touch.
Miss Sarianna Browning sister of the poet has recovered from a severe influenza attack in Cannes and is returning to Asolo to live with her nephew Pen Browning the poet son.
Mrs Evelyn Tome of Rammits 2 becomes executor of her late husband’s will managing an estate valued at 4 million dollars. She is noted as the first woman elected president of a Maryland national bank, a position her husband previously held for several years.
Miss Sylvia Green daughter of Hetty Green remains unmarried at eighty one despite a decade of suitors. She is expected to inherit eighty million dollars upon her mother's death.
Commentary on I Kings xviii 30 39 detailing Elijah’s confrontation with Baal at Carmel The narrative covers Elijah repairing the altar gathering stones building a trench pouring water over the sacrifice and praying for God to reveal Himself The account emphasizes faith obedience and the aim of magnifying God through visible divine power and repentance by the people
Miss Helen Jenynge gains fame by taming and training butterflies in a city concert role. She learned through trial that certain species are tamer and prefer sweet substances, feeding from her hand and resting on her dress. She plans to repeat the experiment next summer as butterfly numbers dwindle with autumn.
Clifford Howard recounts in The Ladies' Home Journal how Elizabeth Barrett Browning infused places she touched with sacredness. After years apart Robert Browning knelt at their wedding church doorway and later, each September 12, he returned at dusk to kneel in quiet prayer, his public austerity masking a tender memory.
Mrs Robley D Evans wife of Fighting Bob has deep Navy ties. Her husband commands the battleship Iowa, brother H C Taylor captains the Indiana, son Frank T Evans is a cadet on the Massachusetts, son in law C C Marsh is flag secretary to Admiral Sampson on the New York, and daughters Mrs Marsh and Miss Virginia Evans along with niece Hattie Taylor are training as nurses at Hampton Hospital.
The Indiana Supreme Court in Heal v Niagara Oil Co. sets a precedent that a married woman may lease her land for oil prospecting giving the lessee exclusive drilling rights without the husband joining. The court notes the lease grants only temporary use and doubts the oil company’s claim to hold the land for extracting oil. Woman's Journal
In a enameled saucepan combine three pints cold water one and a half ounces tamarinds three ounces dried currants three ounces raisins stoned and chopped and the thin yellow rind of a small lemon. Boil gently until the liquid is reduced and flavored then strain and use cold.
The first patent ever granted to a woman in the United States, dated 1809, covered a device for weaving straw with silk or thread. Since then many weaving devices have been patented, with 80 different machines issuing rights up to last year.
A playful fragment depicts Meggendorfer Blatter remarking to a painter about choosing a yellow bench to better match the overcoat color. The exchange suggests a light humorous tone and a social setting.
A humorous cartoon caption from the New York Journal features Nellie Fannie and a dog named Fido. Fido barks Bow wow while Fannie asks what he said and the reply recalls Remember the Maine as a punchline.
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