Pueblo Woman Led Household In Old Mesa Life
In old Mesa life the Pueblo woman headed households and owned the home and goods. Children traced descent through mothers, and men played honored guest roles. Women did domestic work and potting, weaving, and grinding corn defined their duties, with pottery linking past and present as exemplified by two ancestral tinajas cited by Fermand Lungren.
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Southwest
Fewkes
Smithsonian Institution
Fermand Lungren
French Ghost Hunters Split Over Occult Ventures
The Society of Psychical Research notes that a French group named La Societe des Sciences Psychiques has fractured as some members shift to talismans love philters and fortune telling. The remaining ghost hunters form a new society while concerns rise about enduring interest in mystical quackery.
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la Societe Des Sciences Psychiques
London World
Fishermen Sunday Exodus Impacts New York Economy
The Indianapolis Journal notes fishermen depart each Sunday en route to sea with an estimated 75,000 leaving New York and spending about $2 each on the sport, highlighting broader concerns about work and society as workers overextend themselves.
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New York
Reunion at the door on a stormy anniversary
After two days of rain sleet freezes on the streets. George Witherspoon, longing for his lost wife Alice, awaits a visitor on their anniversary. A mysterious female guest arrives, renewing memories of Paris, Baden Baden, and a long-ago passion that once bound them.
Peruna’s Victory a Woman’s Testimonial
A Wilberforce, Ohio reader, Miss Emma L. Bolden, reports dramatic relief from female disease after using Dr. S. B. Hartman’s Peruna. She recounts renewed strength, pain relief during menses, and ability to perform daily tasks, praising the medicine and urging other women to try it. The Pe-ru-na Medicine Co. offers a free book for women by mail from Columbus, Ohio.
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Rui
Emma L. Bolden
Wilberforce
Alice Returns to Love in Cincinnati Home
In a tense domestic scene at a Cincinnati home, Alice reveals her plan to care for her ailing father and move her belongings to ease his last days. Witherspoon pleads for her to stay, confessing a renewed, deep love as they dine at St Nicholas on their second wedding anniversary.
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Withereppon
Alice
Witherspoon
George Witherspoon
St. Nicholas
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Post
Language of Flowers Debate in Eccentric Exchange
In a witty exchange, Effie asks Uncle John if he is an authority on the language of flowers. Uncle John quips about whether the meaning lies with the sender or the recipient who pays the bill, sparking playful banter in the Boston Transcript.
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Effie
Uncle John
Boston Transcript
Speaking the Ships Poem Fragments from Edith M. Thomas
Fragmentary verse recounts encounters with great ships at a harbor, reflecting on their journeys and distant origins. The speaker addresses Scotia and references various seas and ports, invoking Levant wines and fruits as symbols of distant lands.
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Scotia
Apennines
Tagus
Levant
A Friendly Ruse Between Garraway and Bradshaws
Solicitor Garraway entertains a plan to help Ernest and Ellen Bradshaw part via a deed of separation. Ellen proposes to live abroad with an aunt for a year while Ernest remains in the house with a keeper, with Garraway arranging the legal deed and advising on arrangements.
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Mr. Garraway
Mrs. Bradshaw
Bradshaw
Ernest Bradshaw
Bradshaws
Mr. Bradshaw
Garraway
Ellen
Judd
Mr. Gibson
Jion
Neuchatel
Victoria Station
Ernest
Jovel
The Bradshaws and the Housekeeper Complication
In this exchange Mr. Garraway schemes to place a widow as housekeeper for Ernest Bradshaw while his wife Mrs. Bradshaw objects, fearing the arrangement. Garraway defends the candidate as well bred and capable, while Judd discreetly observes a kiss between the Bradshaws.
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Ernest
Garraway
Mrs. Bradshaw
London
Mr. Garraway
Strand
Adam
Bradshaw
Judd
Also Mentioned on This Page
OLD Mesa Life
Everett Wrest
Dawson
Indianapolis Journal
Teller
South Wind
Kingfisher
William J. Long
Pine Street
Board of Trade
Peruna
S. B. Hartman
Columbu A
Edith M. Thomas
Centary
J. W. Bean, M.D
Fairfield, Iowa
B. N. Gantz, M.D
Homeopathic
Fairfield
Iowa
Harrison & Rball
Calvin Snook
D. G. Higley
W. Fordyce, M.D
Risk & Hufstedler’s
Court Street
R. C. Sayers, D.V.M
Gordon’s Livery Barn
E. G. Grove, M.D
Monfort Building
Savings Bank
Frank Fourt
South Side Drug Store
J. B. Monfort
Harris & Cuddy’s
South Side Square
Guarati
T. L. James
Meld & Kerrick’s
E. R. Smith
North Side Park
Fairfield, Lowa
M. A. McCorp
I. H. Tomlinson
Southeast Corner Park
J -Son County
Postoffice
H. C. Raney
ER. F. Simmons
Raney & Simmons
Bell’s
Rocery
Northwest Corner Square
Owa
First National Bank
B. 8. McElhinny
John A. Spielman
Frank Light
Park
Parsons College
Aniel E. Jenkins
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