Women Preachers Across the United States and Europe
A survey notes women in preaching in San Francisco New York Boston and the Midwest. It cites Mrs. Augusta Stetson Laura Lathrop Phebe Hanford and Elisabeth Comstock among others, contrasting eastern support with western resistance and quoting the German Empress on women’s roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta E Stetson
Wright
Unitarian Church
Oakland
New York
Augusta ‘Stetson
Christian Science Church
Laura Lathrop
Phebe
Hanaford
Boston
Mary Whitney
Somerville
Mary Eddy
Mabel McCoy
Greenpoint
N. Y
L. Jackson
Union Springs
Elizabeth Comstock
Middle West
Florence Hallock
Chicago
Mary. Morehead
Wyanet
Ills
Margaret Elliott
Arrowsmith
Ella Niswonger
Elliott
Philosopher Edward von Hartmann Attacks Women’s Education
Edward von Hartmann argues that higher education for women causes modern evils. He urges ending advanced schooling and returning to grandmothers’ level, insisting women must be mothers with a fixed birth schedule and perform all housework themselves, with rare help from a hired maid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward von Hartmann
Watertown Honors Harriet Hosmer At Local Reception
At a luncheon in Watertown Massachusetts the Woman's club organized a reception for the noted sculptor Harriet Hosmer. Hosmer thanked the townspeople for their courtesy and recalled memories prompted by the occasion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Booth
Harriet ‘Hosmer
Watertown
Mass
Woman’s Club
Harriet Hosmer
Lake Forest Freshmen Face Sophomore Sleeping Prank
Freshman dormitory riot at Lake Forest College Illinois ends with rivals captured and fed condensed milk while sophomores sing lullabies. Freshmen resist and drive back attackers in a chaotic pillow battle reported by the Buffalo Courier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Forest College
Illinois
Buffalo Courier
Bride Receives And Adorns Dinner Napkin Set From Aunt
A bride received a complete set of dinner napkins on her wedding day, begun years earlier by an aunt who loved table linen. The gift, made of heavy satin damask with the initial of the bride’s surname, grew with each birthday until a dozen were finished two years ago. The aunt promised that on marriage she would have the cloth, and the bride now owns a set fit for a princess.
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Germany
Gracchi
George Sand
Rosa Bonheur
New York Times
Picture Costumes Inspire Fashion At Paris Salon
A Paris salon reception featured guests in gowns or costumes reflecting their idea of fashion. Most grandes dames wore picture outfits like Marie Antoinette La Pompadour Duchess of Devonshire or Gainsborough, signaling a 1896 trend toward picture costumes at American country houses and festivals.
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Paris
Grandes Dames
Marie Antoinette
la Pompadour
Duchess of Devonshire
Gainsborough
America
Allegan Women Establish Private Kindergarten Clinic
A group of Allegan women formed a private kindergarten after public schools refused to start one. They raised funds, hired a teacher, and rented a room, which they improved themselves without any men involved in the work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christendom
Atlantic
Womel
Brooklyn
Allegan
Mich
Not a Sick Day Gite For Over Thirty Years
Advert says Ayers Pills have kept user in good health for over thirty years with no sick days. Claims prior illness from constipation dyspepsia headaches neuralgia boils and eruptions then improved after using the product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ayers
Household Cake and Pie Recipes From an Old Page
A compact collection of bakeable recipes including Sponge Cake with eggs sugar flour water soda tartar and lemon. Mock Mince Pie using crackers sugar molasses vinegar hot water suet or butter spices raisins and eggs yields 4 pies. Suet Pudding with molasses sour milk raisins flour soda salt cloves cinnamon nutmeg. Feather Cake with sugar egg milk flour butter soda cream of tartar vanilla and a chocolate filling. Chocolate Filling from Baker's chocolate milk sugar butter and vanilla for a glossy finish.
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Washington Pie
Dancing To the Cathedrals of Seville Customs
A Seville cathedral ritual features ten choristers in Philip II era page costumes performing a half hour minuet inside the screens before the high altar on Immaculate Conception Corpus Christi and carnival end. Castanets click as a three voice hymn with orchestral accompaniment honors the blessed sacrament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seville
Philip II
William Andrews
Abstr otdea Preacher Mixes Local Utterance at Winchester
A physician preacher in Winchester mispronounces a sermon while en route to a cathedral service. He ends the address with a misread line as if from a fishwoman cry, startling the congregation. The doctor remains unaware of the comic error.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Wilson Weste
Athedral
Katie Warned for Noise at Breakfast Table
In a short exchange at the breakfast table Katie is told she is too noisy and that punishment may follow. The father asserts no one is holding her back while Katie responds with a flashing eye and quivering lip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katie
Train Schedules Mentioned For Boston and Nearby Stations
The notice lists train times by region including Boston and West Hudson area stops with varied morning and afternoon departures. It notes stops to pick up or drop off passengers only on signal and mentions signals for conductor guidance and station-specific rules for western stations.
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Hudson
Oakdale
Boston
Northampton
Marlboro
Eevee P.M
Acton
South
Whitman's Crossing
Rockbottom
Arrive
A.M
A.M. P.M. Marlboro
Maynard
South Acton
Inboro
Whitman Crossing
Marlbor
Weday
J. R. Warson
G.P.A
Governor Bennington Named for Benning Wentworth
The Detroit Tribune notes that the town of Bennington, Vermont, derives its name from Benning Wentworth, governor of New Hampshire, who in 1784 granted the town charter and land. This attribution links the town’s origin to Wentworth’s colonial grant.
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Bennington
Benning Wentworth
New Hampshire
Detroit Tribune
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