Contagious Disease Quarantine Authority Discussed
Dr. Benjamin Lee of the State Board of Health outlined county power to enforce quarantines and close schools churches theaters and public gatherings during a smallpox outbreak. Officials warned that ineffective enforcement stems from ignorance or reluctance to spend, urging prompt decisive action nationwide. Also noted is Mrs. Roosevelt’s stance on handshaking at Albany receptions, where she preferred to greet with a bouquet.
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Philadelphia
Benjamine Lee
State Board of Health
Lee
Jee
Pennsylvania
Sheta Childe Dorr
Hume
Veil Crafting Instructions for a Sealed Display
The text details making a decorative veil using a broom handle cut twenty inches, padded with wadding and sachet powder, covered with bright pongee silk. It instructs to form a rolled veil, add frill at each end, tie with narrow ribbon, and secure ends with pins for a neat finish.
A Prejudiced Opinion About Women and Fooling
A Chicago Record-Herald quote compares men and women with a biting remark about fools. In Sugar Notch four hundred miners at the Moffit Coal Company mine return to work after a wage reduction dispute.
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Moffit Coal Companys
Sugar Notch
Sporting and club events listed at Krell’s opera house
On December 14 to 28 a pair of the Tigers Athletic Club events are announced at Krell's opera house. December 25 features turkey shooting at the South Heberton Sporting Club rooms. January 13 to 18 a Loyal Castle fair No 65 of the A. O. K. of M. G. is set for Krell's opera house.
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The
Tigers Athletic Club
Krell’s Opera House
Reese
South Heberton Sporting Club
The Inscrutable Figure Haunts a London Night
A newly qualified barrister recalls a November night when a cloaked riderless figure followed him through London streets. The pursuit ends with the mysterious man vanishing before his door as the house above collapses, linking a feared threat to a later Carlist case won in his favor.
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London
Stapleton
Percival
Penny Pictorial Magazine
Women of the Drama and Pinero's Female Characters
The Philadelphia Ledger letter argues women shape theatergoer demand and criticizes Pinero for frequently portraying the era's women as selfish and sensual. It calls for more virtuous heroines, noting public influence on stage choices and a shift in social trends reflected in theater.
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William
Mr. Pinero
Paula Tanqueray
Agnes Ebbssmith
Tris Bellamy
Tris
Curious Pets At Covent Garden Market From Society Ladies
Lady Constance Mackenzie and Lady Ellen Wickham send curious pets to care for in their absence at Robert Green's Terrace Garden Covent Garden Market London. Mackenzie’s pets include two tame baby burerm nost snake s. Wickham favors Italian and blue tongued toads with entertaining tricks. The New York women trend toward pet snakes and toads with sociable, trainable examples.
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Constance Mackenzie
Ellen Wickham
Robert Green
Terrace Garden
Covent Garden Market
London
Mackenzie
Lady Wickham
Australia
New York
Buller Incident and Yale Man Stokes Highlight Busy Figures
The Buller dismissal story frames a wave of public support and protests in Britain over General Redvers Buller. Separately Anson Phelps Stokes Jr. rises as a multifaceted New Haven figure at Yale, St Paul’s Church secretary, university secretary, golfer, inventor, and active campus leader shaping memorials and Elm tree protection efforts.
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Buller
South Africa
Ladysmith
First Army Corps
Brodrick
Sin Redvers Buller
England
Lucius O'Trigger
Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr
Stokes
New
Resignation of Rev Dr H W Thomas from Chicago church
Dr Thomas Restens resigns as pastor of the People’s church of Chicago after twenty one years since leaving the Methodist Episcopal church. Impaired health given as cause. He will retain a passive connection and draw a life salary as pastor emeritus while directing a movement for a national people’s church with his wife.
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Thomas Restens
Hiram W. Thomas
People's Church of Chicago
Methodist Episcopal Church
Thomas
Chicago
National
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Freeland Tribune
Tribune Printing Company, Limited
Orrick
Maln Stkenr
Freeland
TriBune
Preeland
MATS
Out Oftown
Chicago Record- Herald
Suda
Kelper's
Women OF the Drama
Chestnut Street
Philadelpha
All America
McMenamin’s
South Centre Street
NS Ne
Eta
Tribune Ofice
Shiloh
S. C. Writs & Co
le Roy
Karl
Clover Root
Tigers Fair
Ehigh Valley Railroad
Weatherly
Mauch Chunk
Allentown
Bethlehem
Euston
Sandy Run
White Haven
Wilkes-Barre
Pittston
Scranton
Huxleton
Easton
Delano
Pottsville
Hazleton
Mahanoy City
Shenandoah
Mt. Carmel
Daston
Sheann- Spake Mahanoy City
Hazle On
Aew
Mollin FH
Wilbur
Cortlandt Street
New York City
Drifton
Harwood
Cranberry
Tromhicken
Deringer
Oneida Junction
Harwood Road
Humboldt Road
Oneida
Sheppton
Hazleton Junction
Tomhicken
Unday
Hazluton Junction
Karwood
Roan
Humboldt Font
Hazleno Junction
Beaver Meadow Road
Stockton
Hazle Brook
Eckley
Jeddo
Silam
Beavi Meadow Road
Eckle Jeddo
Cluterr
Smith
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