Eight year old Sherd Picking ships mascot at Wabash
The Boston Herald profiles Sherd Picking eight year old son of Captain Picking serving as a ship's mascot aboard the recruiting ship Wabash moored off Charlestown Navy Yard. He calls himself captain of the captain's launch and attends school daily then returns aboard with pride.
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Wabash
Charlestown Mavy Yard
Herald
Sherwood Picking
Navy
Picking
Sherd
Boston Herald
Miss Agnes Repplier a Clever Woman and Lively Essayist
Philadelphia born writerMiss Agnes Repplier gained fame as a sprightly essayist for leading magazines and admired lecturer among clubs. Her books include Essays of Idleness In Dozy Hours Books and Men Books That Have Hindered Me and Literary Shibboleths. She lives in a quiet Philadelphia suburb and writes most mornings.
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Agnes Repplier
Philadelphia
Repplier
Puss
Quaker City
Market Street
Sacred Heart Convent
Boy Defies Parents On War With England
A Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph tale recalls a newspaper man who brought an English wife. At dinner the couple debate war with Spain, the wife doubting US versus England while their 7 year old son cites past U S victories and triumphs, ending with the boy’s quiet proof.
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England
Pittsburg
Old England
United States
While You Are Growing A Guide to Posture for Youth
A passage from Woman's Journal urges growing boys and girls to develop good posture now. It warns that poor habits like slumped shoulders uneven hips and drooping heads become much harder to correct with time. It proposes starting practice by touching a wall with toes chest and nose then walking away keeping head high and chest out to train a straight carriage.
Land of Anyhow opens with a stern old adage
In this verse the narrator recalls the tyrant Dont Care who ruled the land of Anyhow. He praised careless effort and rebuked earnest toil, claiming good enough sufficed. The poem warns that life rewards those who choose real effort and true craft.
Balloon Powered Mountain Railway Near Bad Reichenhall
The Hochstauffen area in Germany will soon feature a balloon operated mountain railway. A balloon lifts the rail car up a steep slope while clamps hold the wheels to the track, providing the upward force. The gas bag will be 67 feet in diameter with a lifting capacity around 10,000 pounds. Chicago Record.
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Hochstauffen
Bad Reichenhall
Germany
Chicago
Salted Almonds as Nerve and Brain Food
Health experts praise almonds as a nerve brain and muscle food and an unmatched relish. The guide shows an easy home method to prepare salted almonds with oil or butter and optional cayenne for a deviled finish, yielding crisp golden nuts.
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Washington Star
Beautiful American Women on Broadway and Beyond
Colonel W F Cody known as Buffalo Bill declares in the New York Sun that American women are beautiful and walk gracefully, disputing foreign reports of awkward carriage. He notes stylish women on Broadway and Fifth Avenue and praises the poise seen in American cities.
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Broadway
Fifth Avenue
W.F. Cody
Buffalo Bill
New York Sun
Stars and Stripes Pillows Trend in Home Decor
The Pittsburg Dispatch notes home fashion favors pillows featuring the American flag. Large hammock and piazza cushions use actual flags while lighter designs show white stars on blue with red white striped reverses. Tiny crossed flags may appear in corners as embroidery.
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Pittsburg Dispatch
Mrs Booth Back at 84 Union Square Organizes Prisoner Aid
Mrs Maud Ballington Booth resumes work in her New York office at 84 Union Square arranging employment for discharged prisoners. She emphasizes aid from Christian families providing essential sympathy to men striving for a good life despite past difficulties.
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Maud Ballington Booth
Union Square
New York
Women Doctors Honored in Bombay for Native Hospitals
Two women doctors receive appointments from the India office to oversee hospitals for native women in Bombay amid bubonic plague concerns. Dr. Margaret Marion Traill Christie and Dr. Alice M. Corthven hold prominent positions, with Dr. Corthven serving as demonstrator of physiology at the London School of Medicine For Women.
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India Office
Margaret Marion Traill Christie
Alice M. Corthven
Bombay
Corthven
London School of Medicine For
Wedding Gifts Showers of Silver Cups to Bride
After dinner coffee cups of silver stand out among the wedding presents being showered on the bride to be. Some are fantastically shaped and gold lined, others are plain with narrow beading and stiff angular handles.
Fashions in Tears Across Society and Gender
A Philadelphia Times essay argues that tears are out of fashion for women in modern life. It contrasts male endurance with female crying, noting men suffer physical pain when crying and women cry from the chest or throat. advice urges private consolation and strength in a busy urban age.
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Philadelphia ‘Times
Artistic Dinner Giving and the Art of Hosting
Ella Morris Kretschmar argues in Woman's Home Companion that a smart dinner party should host six to ten guests, favor four courses, varied guests for conviviality, and emphasize perfect dishes, attractive presentation, and seasonality to avoid poor produce.
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Ella Morris Kretschmar
Woman's Home Companion
English Women Smokers Text Reflects Fashion and Society
A New York society woman notes that English women smoke more openly than American women and that cigarette habits are spreading in female circles. She mentions stores selling women’s smoking outfits and imported high priced items from London, per a New York Letter.
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England
London
New York
Poetry as a Gift and the Craft of Disposal
A fragment from the Boston Transcript reflects on poetry as an intrinsic gift not to be bought, noting that writing arises from inside the author while the handling of poetry is likewise instinctive and personal.
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Beaver
Boston Transcript
Breakfast customs of the Percy family in Cornhill Magazine
Quoted sixteenth century Northumbrian manuscript from the house of Northumberland records breakfast schemes for the Percy family during Lent and normal days. It lists loaves, manchets, beer and wine, salt fish, bacon, sprats, herring, and meat portions for lord and nursery, with variations for Master Thomas Percy and Lady Margaret.
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John Hawkins
House of Northumberland
Percy
Lord Percy
Thomas Percy
Nursery
Lady Margaret
Ingeram Percy
Cornhill Magazine
Australians Tackle Ancient Warfare As Friendly Clash
Describing a historical encounter, the account praises simple Australian tactics relying on surprise and minimal weapon use. It notes little material waste, scarce bloodshed, and compares the fray to a harmless football game, offering relief to patriotism and a release of diplomatic tensions.
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Lippincott
Pray where does the road lead in this verse
Poem by John Albert Macy in Chap Book explores companionship and fate on a road trip with imagery of trees and autumn. The speaker imagines walking with a beloved, finding solace in togetherness as nature shifts from summer to autumn and rivers begin.
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John Albert Macy
Pretty Nickel Girl On The Streetcar
A Washington Post description details a young woman aboard a streetcar at Eleventh and F streets who keeps a nickel between her lips to pay the fare. She counts bundles, procures a lace handkerchief from a lizard skin bag, polishes the coin, and drops it to the conductor with a confident, approving smile.
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Eleventh
F Streets
Washington Post
English hotel boot cupboards reveal private passageways
London hotels install boot cupboards with two doors to protect privacy and security. Outer door locked by staff, inner door boltable by guest, a feature praised for keeping footwear safe and helping guests dress without exposing themselves to visitors at their rooms.
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Punch
London
Talking With God Bishop Fowler Confounds Plans
In a street car discussion three or four elders recall Bishop Fowler as they debate the closing work. One warns not to be too certain. another recounts a conference where Fowler prayed alone and returned to mix up their fixed plans into tiny pieces, leaving them unable to locate a permanent location or a confession of faith.
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Fowler
Lawrence Journal
Miss Cayenne Excites Debate on Surgery and Nature
Miss Cayenne argues that surgery and medical art push boundaries yet nature performs daily feats. Willie Wishington proclaims surgery can extend life by altering brain function, while Miss Cayenne defends nature's ordinary capabilities and cites Germany's progress in women's education. Breslau plans a girls gymnasium and school opening in April.
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Willie Wishington
Miss Cayenne
Washington Star
Germany
Breslau
Peach brandy orchid and other Southern California farming
An agricultural editor from Chicago visits southern California to boast of scientific farming methods. He is outmatched by a slow speaking local with a peach brandy orchid tale and a boastful rival whose pumpkin pie pumpkin and other crops have created demand. The visitor faints as locals steer him to his hotel.
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Chicago
California
Detroit Free Press
Soup Principles for Efficient Dinner Preparation
The New York Tribune advises preparing stock for at least a week and sauces for a month to save time. Make consomme in larger batches and add garnishes when served. A single stock enables daily soups in 15 to 25 minutes, while varied sauces create new flavors for meats and vegetables.
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New York Tribune
Bible and rum shop near Washington Street serves diverse patrons
In New York a shop selling Bibles and rums sits at the foot of Washington Street near the Syrian colony. Its customers include Syrians Armenians Turks Russians and Irish longshoremen. Bibles and other religious books are kept in a case at the bar end. Nails harden when first dipped in oil.
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New York
Washington Street
All He Got From the Suit
A narrator recalls his father's long chancery suit battle that swallowed the estate leaving only eight shillings six pence. The father shows sixpences on the breakfast table and jokes that the buttons on the suit are all that remained, earning the narrator a sixpence in a Strand Magazine anecdote.
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Great Britain
Strand
Monet in Giverny Estate and Garden Described
The Boston Transcript notes Claude Monet, a wealthy resident of Giverny, Normandy. His enlarged house resembles local peasants’ homes with a red tiled roof and long white walls, while his garden stands out as its true glory. Monet appears rugged and refined, wearing country wooden sabots with linen garments.
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Claude Monet
Giverny
Normandy
Boston Transcript
Monet
Lions Learned Gymnastics in African Safari
A observer recounts lions teaching each other playful vaults and leaps in southern Africa. A lion repeats a jump after missing a zebra while two others watch, then all three imitate the exercise as roaring follows. Training sharpens skill with age but remains neither universal nor permanent without use.
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Africa
Moffat
Countess Waldegrave and the Irish Joke at Dublin Opera
In London the Countess Waldegrave, four times married, attended the Dublin opera during her fourth husband’s tenure as chief secretary for Ireland. An audacious Irish spectator asked which of the four husbands she preferred. She rose and quipped, Why the Irishman, of course, provoking laughter.
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London
Waldegrave
Dublin
Ireland
Women Take Roles in Postal Service Across Nation
The Christian Advocate notes a surge of women entering federal postal work. In post offices nationwide 7 670 women are active and over 80 000 have taken the oath of office in Washington and across departments to handle and distribute the mails.
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Uncle Sam
Postal Service
Washington
Christian Advocate
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