Dorothy Canfield Fights for Fame Across Continents
Dorothy Canfield is celebrated for a long list of achievements including dual degrees by age. later rising to fame as an author with works like The Bent Twig and The Squirrel Cage. She wrote on Montessori and wartime relief in France with her husband, while contributing stories to leading magazines.
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Dorothy Canfield
Emily
Charlie
The Rise of Aunt Emily and the Charles Family
A boy recalls Aunt Emily’s ascent from strict housekeeper to ambitious businesswoman at Emery's Emporium while Uncle Charles guides the children with music and care. The story reveals a secret about Uncle Charles and hints at a looming personal crisis.
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Emily
Charles
Sahara
Father
Mother
Emery
Father O'Flynn
Uncle Charles
Aunt Emily
Emporium
Uncle Charlies
Charlies
New York
Paris
Phoebe
America
Europe
Charlie
Bobby
New York Natural History Museum
Essentials for a mother's balance of home beauty
A Delineator piece urges mothers with many children and no help to trim house clutter and focus on simple beauty. It advocates a few organized spaces, living areas that suit busy families, and maintaining a calm mind to preserve charm and personality amid duties.
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Charles
Phoebe
Emily
Loch Lomond
Save the Wild Flowers Day Says Wild Flower Lovers
A long discussion urges protection over picking wild blooms. The Wild Flower Preservation Society of America cautions against damaging techniques and promotes May 20 as a nationwide Wild Flower Day with school programs led by Albert E. Stillman.
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Wild Flower Preservation Society of America
California
Vermont
Albert E. Stillman
John Burroughs
Divided Skirt Fashion Through the Ages
The article traces divided skirts as an old garment, noting women rode astride in the thirteenth century and again during France’s civil war in 1568. It highlights the 1850 bloomer revival by Mrs. Elizabeth Smith and mentions the early toque hat worn at Henry II's court.
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France
Elizabeth Smith
Henry II
To Make It Permanent
A humorous exchange in dialect quotes a church scene where Brother Buckover and Brother Lump discuss Jim Dinger, the gambler, seeking church membership and praying not to backslide, with a controversial suggestion by Brother Lump to assassinate him before relapse.
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Brother Buckover
Jim Dinger
Fuhsouk
Kangas
GOP Women Seek 50 50 Voice in Republican Council
Senator Pepper proposes equal representation for women on the national committee and its executive body, with a plan for 48 women and 48 men on a special session drawn council. Union of McCormick and other leaders press for early consideration before the summer.
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Ashington
Pepper
Rep
Medill
McCormick
Illinois
Republican Party
John T. Adams
Republican National Committee
National Committee
Democratic Party
San Francisco
Adams
Airs
Arthur Livermore
Itarriet Taylor Upton
Charles D. Uilles
Republican Organization
Smithsonian Field Work reports 1922 expeditions worldwide
The pamphlet Six Explorations and Field Work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1922 details twenty two expeditions led or co operated by the Institution and its branches. It covers geology zoology botany anthropology archaeology and ethnology with sites from the United States Canada Chile the North Pacific Australia China the Caribbean and Europe. It records Walcott geology in the Canadian Rockies glacier recession measured by Mrs Walcott and a solar radiation fluctuation observed at Mount Montezuma Chile.
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Smithsonian Institution
United States
Canadian Rockies
Chile
North Pacific
Australia
China
Tortugas
Jamaica
Dominican Republic
Amazon Basin
Salvador
Guatemala
Colombia
Brazil
Alaska
Walcott
Bow Valley
Alberta
Banff-Windermere Motor Road
Aft Glacier
B. C
Nevada
Mount Robson
British Columbia
So Institution
Smithsonian
Mount Montezuma
Ariizona
United States Naval Observatory
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Bering Island
J. Walter Fewkes
Mesa Verde National Park
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