Omen in English Politics Women Workers and Reform
The piece surveys English women like Miss Jane Cobden and Mrs Annie Besant as they advance in municipal and school boards. It highlights Cobden as first elected lady councillor, Lady Sandhurst on County Council, and the push for secular education, free schools and women’s public roles.
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Lagy Sandhurst
Jane Cobden
Annie Besant
England
Theodore Stanton
Lady Sandhurst
London
Miss Cobden
Richard Cobden
Hampstead
Marylebone Women’s Liberal Association
Women’s Liberal Federation
London School Board
Kingdom
The
Thames
Garrett Anderson
Miss Davenport Hill
Ashton Dilke
Maitland
Miss Hill
St. Pancreas Board
South Hampstead
London Democracy
Mrs Besant a Noted Activist in London Society
The article profiles Mrs. Besant as a tireless reformer who funds free meals for destitute children, edits the National Reformer, and champions working-girls’ unions. Known as London’s most abused woman and a powerful speaker, she lives in St. John’s Wood and works from a Fleet Street office above Free Thought.
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Besant
St. John’s Wood
Free Thought
Fleet Street
Bradlaugh
London
Walter Besant
England
Heaves in horses and nerve disturbance in respiration
Heaves arise from pneu mogastric nerve disturbance linked to indigestion and overfeeding. Poor quality feeds and fermented or musty oats worsen the condition, while a grass diet and small, digestible meals aid palliation. Post mortem shows enlarged stomach and damaged lung air sacs. H. Breeders' Gazette.
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Breeders’ Gazette
Cotswold Sheep Pros and Wool Production Insights
Wm J Tweedie of Walton New Jersey favors Cotswolds for small flocks under fifty, noting weight depends on feeding. Store ewes should average 200 pounds, wool yields about twelve to fifteen pounds clean per fleece, and wool price has ranged from 35 to 40 cents per pound recently after wartime highs. Lambs reach 100 pounds live weight by four to five months.
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Wm. J. Tweedie
Walton
N. J
Scotland
Cotswolds
Contradictory Woman After Quarrel Sends Man Home
A quarrel leads a woman to declare she will return to her mother and wish him ill. He responds that she has already changed her mind and will not go home. Tide Tide.
Summer hotel clerk Closes Deal With Cash in Advance
The summer hotel clerk states terms to the correspondent of the New York Daily Blowhard require cash in advance. The exchange appears in a satirical or whimsical New York Weekly item.
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New York Daily
New York Weekly
Beggar seeks hardship plea for fine instead of prison
In a Fliegende Blaetter item a convicted beggar asks the court to convert his prison sentence to a fine. He proposes daily begging until he earns the money, but the judge declines noting no authority to substitute payment.
Mortality among Masons Upsurges Says Lady
A lady notes high Mason mortality this year as each request for recreation is followed by her husband attending a brother's funeral.
A Multitude of Ailments of Tidneys and Bladder
The piece promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and Cepurent as remedies for kidney ailments and related issues. It claims the bitters stimulate sluggish kidneys and prevent organic damage, while Cepurent both activates kidneys and purges blood impurities. Also notes relief for constipation biliousness fever, rheumatism and dyspepsia.
Calf Thief Freed by Jury Over Slouching Owner
An Texas old man was charged with stealing a calf and testified that desire overrode honesty. The jury found Steve stole the calf but cleared him, adding the owner was a slouch who must pay costs.
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Texas
Steve
A Piece of Her Mind on Advertising and Health Claims
A lady correspondent defends advertising for medical products after years of illness and relief from Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. She urges readers to trust guaranteed cures advertised openly and notes Dr. Pierce's other remedies for liver stomach and bowels.
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Dr. Pierce
Quite Another Thing in College
A humorous exchange from the Philadelphia Press recounts a wife teasing her husband about his college days. She asks if he was the stroke car and gymnastic leader, and he affirms with pride, recalling his prowess in walking, running, lifting, and even carrying heavy loads. The wife then asks him to help with the baby to rest her tired arms.
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Love
Philadelphia Press
Hood's Sarsaparilla Proclaimed Best Spring Tonic
The ad literarily urges spring health with Hood's Sarsaparilla as a remedy for post winter fatigue. It claims the tonic strengthens daily work, overcomes seasonal prostration, and purifies the blood while renewing vigor.
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Hood
Bound to Kill Them Somehow
A sick man tells his wife to throw medicines onto the roof to reach yowling cats on the adjoining house. The wife replies that the cats are on the flat roof, prompting the man to insist in a hard, pitiless tone.
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Mary
Chicago Tribune
National Educational Association Meeting Excursion by Evansville Route
The National Educational Association meeting will be held in Nashville from July 16 to 1% with a side trip to Mammoth Cave. Evansville Route offers through cars Chicago to Nashville with luxurious Pullman sleepers. Excursion tickets go on sale July 1 to 15 with return by date. special rates include Louisville diversion options and the Chicago Dearborn fast train schedule. Reservations for sleeping cars can be made ten days ahead.
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National Educational Association Meeting
Nashville
Fvansville
Chicago
Mammoth Cave
Louisville
Dearborn
Evansville
Clark Street
William Hill
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
Dobbins Electric Soap Claims Pure Clothes and Preservation
An advertisement extolling Dobbins Electric Soap for removing dirt and stains while preserving fabrics. It notes patent medicines can't stop volcanic eruptions and urges readers to have grocers order the product.
Nature's serial story The spinal column continued in our necks
The Time magazine note reveals a continued feature on spinal structure and its wide reach into human biology and health narratives. It hints at anatomical discussion framed as a broader science story.
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Nature
Oregon Immigration Board Ad Promises Bountiful Paradise
A statewide prospectus extols Oregon as a mild fertile paradise with abundant crops including fruit grain and livestock. It invites readers to obtain full information by addressing the Oregon Immigration Board in Portland Oregon.
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Oregon
Oregon Immigration Board
Portland
Faith in Hibbards Syrup Brings Pain Relief for Liver Cancer
Charles A Spier of Orion Michigan recounts doctors declaring cancer of the liver with no cure. After using Hibbards Rheumatic Syrup bought February 1837 from Peter Schmitz the swelling diminished by March and he reports near complete recovery. Supporters certify his statement as accurate.
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Pontiac
Mich
Orion
Galbreith
McGraw
Detroit
Dee
Charles A. Spier
John Spier
Berridge
J. A. Neal
Weekly Review and
Justice of the Peace
J. A. Krircuer
How tones do mosquitoes live says Burlington paper
A correspondent asks how mosquitoes live their lives. The Burlington Free Press notes that lifestyle varies greatly with the species and the host they bite.
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Burlington Free Press
Lane's Family Medicine Free Trial Offer Promoted
Advertisement claims a free daily druggist trial package of Lane's Family Medicine discovered by Dr. Silas Lane in the Rocky Mountains. It is touted as a positive cure for blood liver and kidney diseases and for constipation and complexion. Children like it. fifty cent large size at all druggists.
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Lane
Silas Lane
Rocky Mountains
Repvration and Character: A Moral Reflection
A short moral note contrasts public reputation with inner character and cites Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye Water as a remedy for sore eyes available from druggists.
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Isaac Thompson
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