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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1897
Page
3
A column discusses keeping children cool with a portable baby tub and other summer setups, plus fashion trends with powdered hair and patches. It covers hair styling shifts, summer etiquette, and practical house cooling tips from Mrs Rorer, including air flow, watering pavements, and night cellar ventilation.
The Philadelphia Times urges efficient committee work among women and compares stagnant meetings to flies drawn by untidy rooms. It recommends punctual meals, pruning agenda items, and thorough cleaning practices to prevent nuisances and boost productivity.
A harsh social vignette on flirtation among college youths. The piece contrasts a summer flirtation with a deeper commitment, noting how such casual encounters erode a young man’s seriousness, leave him wanting a longer marriage, and push him toward bachelorhood after he recovers his self respect. It ends with the idea he returns to a tested, nonmarital emotional cycle.
Miss Gertrude Pearson Jackson, the sole woman in the College of Physicians and Surgeons class of 1897, won three prizes for top rank, obstetrics, and medical chemistry amid about 200 spectators at June 16 commencement in Boston. The degree of Doctor of Medicine could not be conferred due to age requirements. it will be presented later.
The American Queen notes sweet peas as a fragrant screen from view, thriving in long narrow boxes with trelliswork and enriched soil. They tolerate limited sun, require cooling shade, and bloom more abundantly when trained high and faded blooms are removed to prevent seeding.
The Sisters of Notre Dame will found the first American Roman Catholic college for women near the Catholic University on twenty acres. The institution named Trinity College will start with 100 students and ground will be broken within a month. No under 18 admissions. Cardinal Gibbons approves. The college aims to open for the 1898 school year.
Miss Lilian Pike an Arkansas expert in mathematics and a Washington coast and geodetic survey clerk defeats the brightest male applicant in a tough exam. Secretary Gage seeks an expert for the treasury and after a hard test Miss Pike scores 94 percent while the man gets 84. The young woman secures the position.
A rustic warning scene where Nuggete calls out a woman for hiding something under her hat, claiming he can see her feet and knows her secret. The dialogue suggests a tense confrontation and a local setting with blunt rural humor.
The text traces tea in England from a 1615 Firando letter requesting “a pot of the best chaw” to rising 17th century use. It notes Java imports at £6–£10 per pound, a 1658 Mercurius Politicus notice, Pepys’s 1660 diary entry, and King’s gift of tea in 1664 as consumption grew fashionable.
In 1862 at Richmond Kentucky a Confederate and a Union soldier lay wounded apart. The Confederate, near death, shared water with the Yankee whose canteen offered salvation. The Confederate dragged himself to his foe and died after giving water while the Union later died in hospital.
A traveling circus visited Clitheroe and held a three trial contest to win a prize for the ugliest mug. The judge picked a man in the audience as the winner, joking that the prize was earned without his trying. The crowd reacted with disbelief at the humorous misdirection.
Do not take window plants to the garden or syringed with cold water while in bloom. Such moves will check the flowers and may destroy them altogether.
A historical note describes Li Hung Chang as over six feet tall before illness, with his head bowed and shoulders slumped. It records a partially closed left eye due to a paralytic stroke affecting him.
Trains west from Boston Belmont album Weston Wayland East Sudbury South Sudbury and other towns listed with departures and Sundays. Stops noted by signals and passenger notices. Officials Daniel W. Sanborn Dana J. Flanders W G Bean.
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