Chosen Senator From Maine Charles F Johnson
Charles F Johnson, born in Winslow on the Kennebec, becomes Maine’s Democratic senator to replace Eugene Hale in Washington. He attended Bowdoin, graduated 1879, studied law, taught school to fund studies, and was admitted to the bar in 1886, practicing in Waterville.
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Atrench
Augusta
Hannibal Hamlin
Kennebec
Maine
New England
Charles F. Johnson
Washington
Eugene Hale
Winslow
Johnson
Bowdoin College
Waterville
Georgia governor-elect Hoke Smith exposed cotton plot
Governor-elect Hoke Smith of Georgia exposed a plot by New York cotton speculators to infect cotton fields with boll weevils to manipulate future crops. He received evidence via letter and warned farmers with two plotters holding at least 1,000,000 boll weevils. The exposé sparked Georgia experts to plan insect control efforts. Smith, a North Carolina native who studied law in Georgia, served as secretary of the interior under Cleveland.
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Hoke Smith
Georgia
New York
Cleveland
Smith
South
South Carolina
Atlanta
North Carolina
Interior
Hugh Chisholm Hosts Dinner for Encyclopedia Britannica Contributors
Editor Hugh Chisholm hosts a dinner for American and English contributors to the Encyclopedia Britannica. The project involves 1,500 editors, 40,000 articles, and 50,000,000 words across 28 volumes printed on India paper. The undertaking includes 15,000 animal skins for 1,000 bindings and a seven year production span.
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Hugh Chisolm
England
America
Chisholm
India
London Times
Subways Bid Spotlight as New York Seeks Relief
A New York movement backs building a new subway to ease congestion. Frank J. Sprague, famed pioneer of the electric railway and former Edison associate, faces bidders including William McAdoo and John Bradey while the subway’s management and current transit systems are critiqued for crowding millions of residents.
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New York
Frank J. Sprague
Mr. Sprague
Thomas A. Edison
Navy
William McAdoo
Hudson River Tubes
John Bradey
Metropolia
Lace and Gold Millinery Reflect Rising Fashion Costs
A feature on year round lace and gold hats with coral beads and white hemp styles shows luxury in millinery rising with living costs. Gold tissue hats with lace coronets and gardenia accents contrast with summer white hemp hats trimmed in coral beads and lace bows.
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Milady
Feeding the sick and convalescent diet guidance
The article outlines diet guidance for illness, including foods for kidney disease, dyspepsia and rheumatic patients. It emphasizes nourishment over old fever-feeding practices, describes progression from liquids to solids, and lists safe foods for typhoid fever recovery and general convalescence.
Doan's Kidney Pills End Mr. Miller's Pain
Mrs. N A Miller of 1509 Jackson Street Baltimore says she suffered constant kidney pain with sleepless nights dizziness and heavy swelling. After using two boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills she claims a complete cure and urges others to remember the remedy. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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N. A. Miller
Jackson St
Baltimore
Doan
Doan’s
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
PRACTICAL LITTLE PENWIPER FOR BAZAARS
A compact guide for making a handy pen wiper for home use or sale. The design suggests using a small china ornament as a core, enabling rapid production to stock stalls. The sketch hints at a charming Japanese influence suitable for bazaar crafts.
Simple Pen Wiper Made From Cloth Strip
A brief printer’s tip explains crafting a pen-wiper from a dark cloth strip. Cut the edge into points on one side, roll and tie it tight on the opposite side, fit into a small ornament neck, and it is ready for use or sale.
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Ant
Hints for Womankind Fashion Details
Gold dust highlights hair and heavy cords trim garments. Large flat hats feature ribbon bows and a directoire style collar appears on coats. Satin cape coats with bright green velvet lining emerge as novelties. Peasant coiffure grows in favor with hair parted braided and wrapped over the ears. Children adopt the same style. Evening gowns reveal shoulder crowns with a gourt decolletage and a sheer tulle fichu draped over the shoulders under floral clusters.
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Eugenie
Homemade Lamp Shades From Glass and Paper Craft
The article describes inexpensive ways to fashion attractive lamp shades for small lamps and candles using glass fragments, magazine pictures on rice paper with gold edge, flower cutouts on white paper, or bead strings on silver wire. It suggests using authors or actresses images, floral motifs, and color contrasts to allow light to pass through.
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Bronte Sisters
Jane Austin
Fanny Burney
George Eliot
Mrs.Norton
Diana of the
Ornamenting Hairstyles With Needlework Traditions
The article advises artistic women to create seasonal hair ornaments using velvet silk metal ribbons and jewels in various shapes sizes and colors. Jewels are flattened and pierced for easy sewing with bead needles so that needlework skills can adorn both gowns and coiffures at modest cost.
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Harper’s Bazar
New Persian Scarf Debuts with Striped Paisley Weave
A new scarf fashion features alternating stripes of Paisley chiffon and wide checked white marquisette creating a dramatic two tone effect suitable for dress and accessory wear.
How to Disinfect After Infectious Disease
The text urges strict home disinfection after illness. It advises hot baths and sponging of patients, thorough disinfecting of rooms, and soaking washable items in carbolic solution. It suggests burning mattresses, using formaldehyde or formalin gas, and airing for 12 hours. Books and toys should be burned rather than fumigated to avoid contagion. It notes germicides are essential and sunlight kills germs like those of consumption.
Japan to Make Her Soap
A British firm forms a large scale soap company in Japan to supply soap brands to Japan China India Siam and the South Sea Islands. American and other foreign manufacturers currently draw much stock from China the Philippines and the Far East. Both Japan and China enjoy cheap plentiful fuel and labor.
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Japan
China
India
Siam
South Sea Islands
Philippines
Far East
Not Unusual Toe Playing Comment Sparks Banter
A playful exchange contrasts a pianist who plays with his toes with a boast about a toddler aged 18 months who can do the same trick. The dialogue reflects humorous finger pointing and family bragging without further details.
One Happy Condition of Wireless
A playful exchange touts wireless as a future all purpose device. The dialogue imagines wireless replacing telegraph and telephone and even enabling thought transference and newspaper photo transmission. A jokey note suggests one thing wireless will never do: pull wires.
Garfield Tea and Elixir Ads From a 19th Century Page
A jumble of vintage health claims and product pitches urges readers to keep Hamling Wizard Oil for inflammation and Brom oQuinine as a laxative. It touts Garfield Tea as a blood cleaner and health booster, links to cold cure in one day, and ends with a proverb about dwelling in glass houses and politics.
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Chicago
BE. W. Grove
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Restores Woman's Health
Mrs Ollie Woolpool of Morton's Gap Kentucky reports two years of female disorders and severe backache. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills she states she is healthy again and can do all her work. The notice urges backache sufferers to seek root causes with Mrs Pinkham's confidential advice.
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Morton’s Gap
Kentucky
Lydia E. Pinkham
Ollie Wwoopall
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