Western Gold Coast Club Women Hear Bret Harte Talk
The New Century club met with Mars as Miss Jennie Burt spoke on Where Bret Harte's Feet Have Trod, tracing his California youth, mining life and later writing, then Miss Dorothea Adams covered the Pacific coast from California to British Columbia, praising regional beauty and cooperative spirit. The meeting endorsed aiding Mrs Baliwin's hypnotism bill effort and welcomed Nell Nixon of Butler, Pa as guest. The next meeting is December 4 with Mrs John Ricketts.
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New Century Club
Mars
Carl Herbig
Pacific Coast
Jennie Burt
Dorothy Adams
Harte
Ming
Ling
California
Burt
Bret Harte
Dorothea Adams
British Columbia
Puget Sound
West
Baliwin
Springfield
Nell Nixon
Butler, Pa
John Ricketts
American Woman Initiates Deaf School Effort in China
Mrs Annetta T Mills visit to Boston highlights her role as founder and head of China s first deaf school founded for boys at Chefo and now seeking to add a department for girls. She adopted American teaching methods to Chinese, trains native teachers, and aims to extend the work beyond one site with denominational support and international committees.
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Annetta T. Mills
Boston
China
Rochester
Chefo
Mills
Mitchell
Wuhu
Ameroam
Ladies urged to write Mrs Pinkham for private female health advice
A persuasive appeal promotes Miss Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for women with female ailments. It stresses privacy and that letters are read by women and answered, urging readers to consult without cost and to send inquiries to Lynn Massachusetts.
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Pinkdauan
Bhey
Miss Pinkham
Lydis E. Pinkham
Club Women Hurl Criticisms at The Girls' State School
A Monday morning meeting at the First Universalist church brings Astruran club women and Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs members into an animated discussion on the Girls' Industrial School at Delaware. Mrs Buchwalter urges reform, and most speakers condemn the institution while Mrs Laylin defends state schools as model facilities.
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Columbus Dispatch
Astruran Club
Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs
First Universalist Church
Girls’ Industrial School
Delaware
L. Buchwalter
L. C. Laylin
Laxakola Tonic Tablets Claim Strong Skin Benefits
Customers in Coshocton are urged to try 25 cent Laxakola Tonic Tablets. Advertised as a dandelion based laxative improving complexion, liver function, and bowel action, with a money back promise from C. BE. Anderson if unsatisfied.
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Coshocton
C. BE. Anderson
How She Happened To Be An Old Maid
Excerpt from The Autobiography of an Old Maid in Hiverybody's Magazine December. A narrator recalls strict upbringing shaping views on marriage and courtship, contrasting mothers' prudery with novels that glamorize distant, unattainable heroines and the social dynamics of romance.
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Hiverybody's
Desco
Kosher Kitchens Endorse New Hamburg Line Ships
Hamburg dispatch reports Kiel line ships with steerage passengers will offer kosher kitchens. A supervising panel of Hamburg rabbis selects cooks to serve aboard all vessels, aligning with Herr Ballin’s Jewish faith and the influx of Russian and Polish emigrants to the United States.
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Hiuubwara-Americanm Cotppany
United States
Hamburg
Chicago News
Smart Livery and Navy Yard Target Highlight Early 20th Luxury
In London a fashionable woman adopts smart livery for her maids with tailored skirts and tight bodices. Meanwhile New York’s navy yard unveils an elaborate moving target modeled on a battleship hull, costing about $50,000 to create.
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New York Navy Yard
New Wear For Poachers
English poachers adopt khaki for daytime wear to aid evasion of gamekeepers. They say the color helps camouflage their movements during hunting. The note ends with an unrelated medical advertisement and a partial sentence about a 28 seat item and a person named C. B. Anderson.
Women allowed to ride own horses in hunt and jumping class
The article notes a change allowing women to jump their own horses in hunting and jumping events at the national horse show in New York. It cites improvements in horse quality and strong female participation, with a cup prize for winners and ongoing praise for the U.S. role as a global horse nursery.
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National Horse
New York
New York Post
South
United States
Dam Built in the Air at Niagara Falls Dam Site
Concrete column erected in Victoria Park on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls toppled by jacks and wedges. Weighing about 200 tons, it rose water by ten and a half inches, demonstrating a continental first in engineering before a large crowd. Other notes cover a Youngstown school bank and an international marine exhibit in Marseilles.
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Niagoare Falls
Victoria Park
Niagara Falls
Isham Randolph
Chicago
Niagara
New York Times
Curious Exchange On Ear Trumpet Between Man And Boy
An incident on West Ninth street in Kansas City shows a boy asking a man with an ear trumpet about the device. The old man explains it is a speaking tube and answers questions about its construction cost and whether it restores hearing.
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West Ninth Street
Kansas City
Slow Town Lent Grace Ends In Station Comment
A new drummer asks if the town is slow. The station agent, tired of his job, insists the place is exceptionally slow, noting they cannot even fast during Lent.
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Western Gold Coast Interests
Coshocton Club
Mrs. Austin
Hollister
C. B. Anderson
Board of Education of
Youngstown, O
Youngstown
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Marseilles
Mother
E. R. Reed
Main Street
Luis
What Is
Castoria
Brendel Bros
Anné Basinet
Fall Rives
East
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