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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1894
Page
1
A growing business announces a Great Improvement Sale as workers relocate from Kennegan Bates corner to Oehm's Acme Hall. The move makes the store the largest house south of New York and twice the size of any in Baltimore, with prices lowered during the transition.
Extensive sale offers include thousands of suits in popular materials with savings of 3 to 10 dollars per suit. Prices range from 6.50 to 12 for main items. Boys department features affordable suits at 2.50 to 5.00. Straw hats in all shapes up to 0.98, plus furnishing department items like linen bosom shirts at 0.50.
A sprawling essay argues that Dante and Job express inner troubles through landscape, praising oceans over ponds and a mind broadened by culture. It calls for universalism, rejects rigid church names, and envisions a Christian citizen shaped by humanity, education, and equality.
The Toledo Blade reports Mrs Addie Larned Mass Mary Hamilton and Mass Sarah ME Curtis of Toledo have been named appraisers of a deceased woman’s estate. The piece hails the appointment as likely the first of its kind for women, while praising the selection as perfectly right and noting the motherly value of the estate.
Miss Penelope Budleigh Blake boasts about eight centuries of lineage tracing Coverly’s 800 year old witchcraft hanging. Miss Michigan Avenue Lakeshore recalls her grandfather lynched for horse stealing thirty years ago. The exchange highlights past persecutions.
Lizzie Campbell, 25, manages two canal boats left by her father James Campbell. She lives aboard, hires crew, buys stock, and handles cargo while earning high freight rates. Neighbors praise her exacting yet fair leadership and she continues to run the boats and fund the family bank account.
A clever young woman creates a wrap from crepon talle in white and delicate tints. The piece features accordion pleats across the width and a neckband. worn with a bow or ribbons, it forms a chic sortie de soir. Two or three color choices offer versatile coordination with various outfits.
The piece notes a shift in buttoning styles from traditional motherly cards to new bachelor gas shirt waist hardware. Six to eight buttons and studs appear for collars fronts cuffs in silver and gold, priced 60 cents to $20, with designs ranging from neat to flashy. It predicts needles and thread may lose usefulness as buttoning grows toward stud fastenings for ladies furnishings.
In a tense courtroom exchange the defense attorney warns a witness about the oath while the witness insists there was no danger in telling the truth. He asserts he would not have lied to benefit the defense, claiming honesty over any payoff.
The Hartford Times and old family records dispute Stowe's birth year, placing her birth in 1811 and Henry Ward Beecher in 1818. The famed author of Uncle Tom's Cabin remains active outdoors in Forest Street, Hartford, aided by a loyal attendant. Her copyright on Uncle Tom's Cabin expired, leaving her with a publisher bonus but no royalties.
The article recounts Amy H. Koezly winning the Frederic Coudut prize for French at Normal College, aided by Martha Adler who also wins the Joseph Thoron prize. It notes applause and reflects on female friendship, and contrasts Cambridge tripos outcomes for Girton and Newnham colleges with the lack of equal university recognition for women. It closes with a New York suffrage debate framing women’s rights and duties under a male-linked constitution.
A committee of Louisiana women traveled to Baton Rouge to advocate for legislative reforms. The governor warned that women are too virtuous for politics, provoking strong reaction. The scene reflects broader calls for political voice beyond symbolic gestures. In New York, a bouquet company organized by F. C. Clark and Mr. Hamilton arranged buttonholes and bouquets for sale.
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