Lincoln's Friend Philip Clark Recalls Abe in Own Words
Mattoon born Philip Clark, lifelong friend of Abraham Lincoln, describes the future president as ungainly yet friendly. He recalls hiring Lincoln as a survey helper, weighing hogs, and cutting bristles for scales, plus Lincoln's temperance stance, debating skill, and acts of gratitude.
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Philip Clark
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Abe
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Philip
Chicago Times- Herald
Peter Cartwright
Springfield
Abe Lincoln
Women Adopt a Boy by Chicago Thursday Club
Eight year old Victor Thompson became the ward of the South Side Thursday club in Chicago. The club adopted him at a meeting after learning his family background and placed him in the Illinois Training School at Glenwood. He plans to become a lawyer and wrote a letter thanking the club for its care, with a postscript noting the words were his own.
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Victor
Illinois
Glenwood
United States
Victor Thursday
Thursday Club
Mabel Dore
Prairie Avenue
Chicago Record
Revival of Moss Rose Muslins Brighten Spring Fashion
Lady's Pictorial predicts early Victorian styles will return this spring and summer with old fashioned glassware and colors. Yet the piece notes charm in sprigged muslins with moss rosebuds and forget me nots, promising a simple daintiness and a scented nostalgia for lavender and southern woods.
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Lady’s Pictorial
Mrs Sara D Jenkins Crowned As School Journalism Expert
The New York Tribune lauds Mrs Sara D Jenkins of The Popular Educator for combining ripe scholarship and professional training with a clear eye for subject relations. Her extensive teaching background spans Oswego the Girls High and Normal in Boston Cincinnati Training School Cincinnati until editing The Popular Educator.
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New York Tribune
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Cincinnati Training School
New York College For
Cornell
Women Delegates Appear at Kansas City Building Trades Council
For the first time in organized labor in Kansas City two women attended the Building Trades council as delegates representing the ladies' auxiliary. They enjoyed exercising their full delegated power while male members welcomed the new delegates. The women did not speak in discussions but showed strong interest in proceedings.
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Organized Labor
Kansas City
Building Trades Council
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Dragon fly eyes astonish naturalists with 36000 facets
The New Orleans Times-Democrat reports that science notes the dragon fly may carry 36000 eyes, each composed of 18000 lenses, allowing independent nerve signals. It compares eye structure across species, discusses motion versus stationary vision, and cites entomologists like James Francis Stevens and Francis Pascoe.
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Argus
James Francis Stevens
Francis Pascoe
Johanna Muller
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Mystery of ancient soap referenced in Bible notes
A Chicago Tribune quote mentions health banter about robust wellbeing. An aside notes the origin of soap is a mystery with ancient evidences and a biblical reference to booths long before Christ.
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Booth
Guaranteed first-class heaters with written warranty
All goods and work are guaranteed first-class and come with a written guarantee with every heater.
Spring Merchandise Arrives Across Departments at Low Prices
New stock in all departments including furniture iron bedsteads bedding lace curtains window shades and refrigerators with a wide range of dry goods. Prices start from 3 to 69 and include caps wrappers shirt waists under wear mantles laces and lace trimmings plus a fine line of Martindale fabrics and bow goods.
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Chantilly
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Normandy
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