Woman becomes first train dispatcher on major line
Edith Jarnagin, 19, from Georgia, is appointed chief train dispatcher for the Chattanooga Southern by General Manager Hoskins. Once a telegrapher since age 14, she rose through the Queen and Crescent and Chattanooga Southern offices. Her role makes her the central figure in maintaining safe, on time operation for all trains, with responsibility for the live schedule and communications across the line.
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Edith Jarnagin
Chattanooga Southern
Hoskins
Miss Jarnagin
Georgia
Chattanooga
New York World
Fitz-Hugh Lee's Mother Remembered in Virginia Civil War Era
This piece recalls Mrs. Fitz-Hugh Lee of Virginia, wife of Daniel Lee and mother of Fitz-Hugh Lee, detailing her long resilience through the Civil War period. Born into the Mason family, she endured loss, social prominence, and eventual blindness after supporting her husband and six sons in Richmond and Stafford County.
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Fitz-Hugh Lee
Daniel
Fredericksburg
George Mason
John
Virginia
Analosian Island
Maryland
Manny
Anna Maria
Washington
Nannie Mason
Arlington
Sydney Smith Lee
U.S. N
Robert E
Joseph E. Johnston
Fitz-Hugh
Ravenworth
Lee
Navy
Chicago Chronicle
Northern girl bears Uncle Sam colors in defiant display
The New Orleans Times-Democrat notes a spirited northern girl dressing in red blue and flag hues under her left shoulder with hat belt and gown imitations. She speaks of war type zeal and with a fierce gaze mentions the Philippines Morro Castle and a cannon she would load.
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Samminess
Spain
Philippines
Morro Castle
Jael
Joan of Are
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Portable thermometer debut for cyclists
The New York Times notes a 25 cent portable thermometer shaped like a quarter with a back pin. It coils a mercury tube and helps the female cyclist judge when her face reddens from heat so she may dismount and cool off.
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New York Times
The Rose Declared Flower of the Year in Vienna Fashion
In Vienna the rose is chosen as flower of the year appearing on hats, tables, in hair and bodices. Kaiserin Elizabeth's passion fuels its popularity. rose displays adorn Achilleion Schloss Corfu grounds and Lainz, with roses along paths and in marble vases.
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Vienna
Kaiserin Elizabeth of
Austria
Achilleion-Schloss
Corfu
Schloss Lainz
Dr Emma Merritt Elected President of Sutro Railroad
At a Sutro Railroad directors meeting in San Francisco Dr Emma Sutro Merritt was chosen to fill the vacancy caused by O F von Rhein resigning the presidency. A physician of 17 years, she holds most of the stock and becomes the chief officer after being a director. The note cites a Boston Women's Journal remark on the paradox of a woman guiding a railroad yet lacking voting rights locally.
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Sutro Railroad Company
San Francisco
Emma Sutro Merritt
O. F. von Rhein
Adolph Sutro
Merritt
California
Los Angeles
Boston Woman’s Journal
To Find Your Seat Novel Device From Paris
A tiny table model with compartments holds guest names and shows exact seating for banquet arrivals. Placed in the hall it eliminates time wasted hunting name cards, proposed as a novelty for women's clubs planning anniversary banquets.
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Paris
Army farewell brings comic luncheon at train
A soldier’s departure is depicted with a plump family eating a luncheon from a newspaper parcel. An artist sketches them and a humorously overweight woman tries to pose, then laughs as she is excluded from the drawing. The scene closes with lighthearted leave taking and a note from the New York Press. Queen Margherita of Italy reportedly takes to golf to slim down as Roman society follows suit.
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Jack
Alice
New York Times
New York Press
Margherita
Italy
Europe
Royal Breakfast Table at Cannes Honors Royal Family
A dejeuner at Cannes hosted by the Duke of Cambridge honored the Duchess of York and the Prince of Wales. Neapolitan violets formed a central bed backdrop for the Prince of Wales’s feathers, with white carnations, scarlet geraniums, and yellow jonquil flowers. A violet mound centered a G facing the Duke and an AE facing the Prince.
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Cannes
Duchess of York
Prince of Wales
Duke of Cambridge
Daughter of Rothschilds Presented with $1000 Butterfly
In Paris a Rothschild daughter received a lavish butterfly parure valued at $1,000. The necklace brooch and surrounding diamonds form a dazzling display of jewels presented in high society.
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House of Rothschilds
Paris
Dewey Restaurant Opens on Third Avenue New York
A witty woman launches the Dewey Restaurant on Third Avenue New York displaying a red white and blue sign announcing Manilla soup on the bill of fare.
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Third Avenue
New York
Postmaster Salaries Updated Across Local Vicinity
The department changed salaries for nearby postmasters with increases at Clinton from 2300 to 2400, Concord Junction 2600 to 2700, Lexington 1600 to 1700, Maynard 31300 to 1400, Northboro 1300 to 1400, South Framingham 2300 to 2400, while Framingham fell 1600 to 1500, Grafton 1100 to 1000, Holliston 1500 to 1400, and West Acton 1100 to 1000.
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Clinton
Concord Junction
Lexington
Maynard
Northboro
South Framingham
Framingham
Grafton
Holliston
West Acton
Trains West Time Table Corrected
Rail schedule update notes a corrected time table effective October 4 1897. Passenger and freight departures and arrivals detailed for routes westward with revised timings and service notes across lines serving western destinations.
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