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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1897
Page
3
The article profiles women expanding into business roles in the late 19th century. It highlights Miss Anna Millar as a prominent example in Chicago orchestral management and notes a second young woman achieving a similar office in Steinway Hall.
Lillian Randall known in musical circles as a successful concert manager and lecturer. From Hyde Park where she taught music she moved into organizing parlor recitals and managing dramatic readers, singers, and lecturers including William Armstrong. She lives with her mother who rejects the label new woman.
A discussed piece extols educated urban women and self supporting plains girls. It contrasts manners, refinement, and individuality with the western spirit, warns against artificial hair lightening, and cautions that natural hair and honest conviction define true character.
The article portrays the Western woman as energetic, career minded, and active beyond domestic roles. It surveys millinery innovations using vegetable silk, wood silk fiber, and lightweight braids, praising new hat shapes, ribbons, and wide brims while noting hats remain popular over bonnets. It also recounts Miss Olive Logan on Miss Muller’s campaign to block a bill restricting pit workers attire, which failed after testimony from Northumberland women.
A correspondent asks if anything can turn hair white, noting white tresses are fashionable at elite gatherings abroad. Reports describe pompadour styles glittering with gems and youthful faces under silver hair, suggesting women may pursue white locks after hair coloring experiments.
Mr Forrest Crissey details Julia M Bracken rising from wood carving in Galena to Chicago Art Institute entry. Taft admired her clay handling, she became Tafts studio assistant for seven years and led the decorating team for the horticultural building. Her latest works include a bust of Sir Moses Montefiore and a relief medallion for the Union soldiers monument at Missionary Ridge Tennessee.
Mary Lowe Dickinson argues in The Arena that women and men must unite in organized work. She likens early women to boat pushers and diggers, but asserts that joint crafts and single channels are needed for progress. She envisions cooperative organizations across genders for the common good.
A preacher recounts a city wedding where the bashful groom asked to repeat vows, then asked about the price of the service. After the ceremony the couple gave $20 to the minister, noting custom dictates compensation.
A Washington Post account recounts Amos J. Cummings facing a heckler at a crowded campaign speech. The question on the silver ratio triggered a police escort after the crowd center seed disrupted the event.
Scientists warn of rising phosphorus poisoning among match factory workers due to poor ventilation. Early effects are slow but spread through the system, making elimination difficult. The Ledger notes brittle bones in affected workers and calls for better sanitary conditions and a ban on white phosphorus.
General Horace Porter notes in Century that Grant wrote cheerful, faith-filled letters to Mrs. Grant before battles. He reflected on sacrifices and wounded soldiers, yet kept correspondence steady despite campaign pressures.
The landlady tells her daughter to add eggs and butter to the cake. She fears a quiet town tomorrow and predicts they may have to eat the dessert themselves if the townsfolk do not come out for the holiday.
Time table lists trains from Boston to western towns including Belmont Waltham Weston Wayland and East Sudbury with multiple daily departures and Sunday times. Eastbound schedules cover Northampton Ware Barre Jefferson's Oakdale West Boylston South Clinton Berlin Bolton Judson Rockbottom Wayside Inn South Sudbury East Sudbury Wayland Weston Waltham Belmont Boston and notes stop rules at various stations.
The corrected October 5 1896 timetable notes updates to schedules for the Marlboro branch lines as issued by N. Gpa.
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