Women teach sewing machines amid domestic life and sales
A New York Press excerpt recalls a sewing machine teacher in installment districts who must balance instruction with sales aims. It details handling varied customers, from impertinent to budget conscious, and notes how patience, tact, and even humor help secure leases. It also mentions the broader role of women in machine sales and a critique of the installment system.
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New York
Job
Solomon
Webster
O. K
Christendom
New York Press
Viennese climber falls a hundred feet on Rex ascent
A Vienna youth and two companions climbed Rex without a guide to view sunrise. While descending the steep side they used ladders at several spots and one man misstepped, plummeting about one hundred feet to his death on the rocks, according to the London News.
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Vienna
London News
A Marvelous Benefactor on a Hottest Broadway Day
A brisk chronicle of lunchtime news reports describes a tramp in a hooded ulster strolling Broadway on a record heat day, provoking chills among 10,000 pedestrians, and notes other oddities including a Boise bear incident, public school examination blunders in Boston, and a painter injuring a sheriff in Litchfield.
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Broadway
New York Times
Corbett Excelsior Hen Hobble Aims to Protect Gardens
Westchester resident Corbett unveils the Excelsior hen hobble a device that clamps a hen's bill when she approaches a garden preventing scratching and eating. Despite trials few neighbors with hens will adopt it, prompting the inventor to favor legislation to mandate the device for garden safety and business growth.
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Corbett
Westchester County
Elizabeth Islands
South Pacific
Philadelphia
McClintock
Australia
Mr. Corbett
New York Tribune
Children and Poultry: A Townsfolk Lesson in Responsibility
Hall's Journal of Health suggests entrusting a child with the poultry yard when time is short. Buy the fowl at fair price and let the boy pay with eggs, tracking his own accounts. He learns industry, pays for feed, and gains lasting habits.
Elephant Hunt in Seattle Ends With Capture of Queen
The Pittsburg Dispatch reports two circus elephants were loaded onto a Seattle steamer for Ferndale. They balked at the gangplank, bolted into a lumber yard, where Queen the larger elephant charged a crowd of men and boys. The ensuing scramble toppled lumber, burying four men. After an hour, Queen was finally captured.
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Seattle
Wash
Ferndale
Queen
Pittsburg
Judge vs Jury in Boston Contests Jury Decisions
A Boston man asserts sixty four jury rulings overturned by law equity fact and sense would have yielded fairer results if judges decided. He argues judges can be Solomon like yet also cranky.
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Boston
Solomon
Detroit Free Press
Arguing by Analogy and Local Life in Waldoboro
A classroom skit contrasts whale uses with whalebone and sealing wax. In North Waldoboro Maine a 17 year old girl helps operate a stave machine, illustrating scarce young men in the village and the evolving local labor scene.
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Johnny
Tommy
North
Waldoboro
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