Woman Teller at Fourth National Bank in Atlanta
The Fourth National Bank plans an August 1 opening of a women’s department with a woman teller, Miss Jennie Armstrong, featuring a separate window for women patrons and a Russian leather check and passbook. The move mirrors East Coast banks and aims to spare women from standing at a general window.
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Chicago
Fourth National Bank
Atlanta
Jennie Armstrong
Fourth National
South
East
Fifth Avenue Bank of New York
Swomen
Atlanta Journal
Use of Perfumes and Walking as Exercise
Women debate perfume use with advocates for restraint and unity of scent. Excess is vulgar. choose a delicate, matching fragrance for sachets powder soap and handkerchiefs. Walking, hailed by physicians as best for beauty, surpasses tennis cycling and croquet for full body exercise.
Walking for Health and Embroidered Silk Gloves Fashion
The article extols walking as a simple health habit, noting its affordability and accessibility for women. It also surveys Embroidered Silk Gloves with pansies and violets, and sketches Children’s Fashions featuring Russian blouses, airy dresses, and innovative yoke pieces for girls and boys.
Charlotte Corday Hats and Fashion Notes of the Season
An original mob cap inspired muslin hat, variations in white crepe with spotted highlights, and rose accents. Describes accompanying picture frocks, neck ribbons, old fashioned gold rose motifs, and coordinated accessories. Notes include pleatings, inlaid tucking, lace designs, sleeve shifts, platform hats, and coordinated ostrich feather boas for a complete wardrobe.
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Charlotte Corday
Mob
Household remedies and mushroom soup for the family
Household tips describe cleaning brass ornaments with sal ammoniac or alum and lye to restore a goldlike brilliancy, plus two pepper frying methods for steak accompaniments. A mushroom based soup recipe is offered, using inexpensive ends, mushrooms, water, milk, and a cream roux for a savory finish.
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Tripoli
Beets and Vegetables Boiling Guide from Early Cookbook
A handwritten kitchen guide advises boiling vegetables with care. It warns against overboiling tasteless results for potatoes, asparagus, peas, and cauliflower, and recommends minimal water, steady slow cooking, and salting late. Beet preparation uses cold water plus salt and vinegar, with long boil times. Carrots are sliced and boiled in salted water, served with cream sauce. String beans should be boiled slowly for two hours.
Fried Green Bananas A Cuban Woman Directs This Dish
A set of old fashioned kitchen notes covers fried green bananas prepared like French fries, a tea punch recipe cooling lemonade tea, an egg fondue with parmesan on toast, cream scones, and a mock bisque soup with bread crumbs milk onion cloves parsley bay leaf tomato and butter.
Foliar Odors Mirror Animal Scents in Flora Across Genera
This survey notes many flowers emit distinct fetid or musky odors to promote cross pollination. Carrion blooms such as stapelia and Aristolochia lure blowflies, while others imitate animal smells or produce brandy like aromas. Odor and color can attract or repel, with fungi showing more frequent odor mimicry.
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Kerner
When the Tenderfoot Was It at an Indian Territory Dance
A dancing man recalls a trip to the Indian Territory years ago where he was singled out for wearing a white shirt in full dress. Eight months later he returns to a town dance to find all men dressed identically in full dress, he the lone outlier, as a tailor was hired to uniform them.
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Manny
St Railroad
Willie
Spain’s Cash and Vigor Highlighted in Loan Demand
The Mexican Herald notes Spain sought a 65 million dollar loan at four percent, with four times subscribed. It praises Spanish resolve in war loans, contrasts peasant oppression and factory strikes, and sees Spain as unconquerable, strategic, and poised for a future role.
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Spain
Europe
Fruit Juices Kill Disease Germs Claim
Eminent bacteriologists praise fruit juices for killing disease germs. Lemon and apple juices, rich in citric and malic acids, kill cholera germs in fifteen minutes and typhoid germs in about thirty. Squeezing lemon into water with cholera germs and letting it stand fifteen to twenty minutes may render it safe to drink. A fruit diet is said to cleanse the stomach and digestive tract by killing or driving off many germs.
Our Bupcer or Humor in a Prose Bizarre Card
A collage of humorous quips and lines on life time and wit. Jests tease age, money, invention, and trust with brisk, light satire. Characters joke about time, farmers, watches, and laurels in a old style comic vignette.
Modern Machiavelli on Oratory and Public Affairs
Fragmented excerpts reference political speech as a tool to aid or hinder reform. A lakeside scene features Ferguson anxious over Johnny’s illness amid a storm while a baseball crowd reacts as a man with a debt warrant is challenged during play.
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Bingull
Dye
Chicago Tribune
Canadian Lynx at Bay Described in Ottawa Free Press
The Ottawa Free Press profile details a Canadian lynx as a formidable, ferocious predator. It describes the animal’s appearance from the brutal head and blazing eyes to the furry ears and ruff, its size relative to the domestic cat, its winter coat, and its instinct to stalk prey. It notes the lynx’s historical range, current distribution in Labrador and other Canadian regions, and its hunting endurance in harsh cold. The piece emphasizes the danger of a personal encounter and contrasts myth with fact.
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Behalief
New England
New York
Pennsylvania
Canadian
Labrador
Dominion
Ottawa Free Press
Words of Wisdom on temperance courage and kindness
A collection of aphorisms urging temperance and steady daily effort. It contrasts the perils of laziness with the rewards of wisdom and benevolence, noting that constant effort sustains health, courage, and the uplift of humanity. It extols love, wisdom, justice, and the divine presence as transformative forces.
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Solomon
Miner's Dream of Home Turned Fireman Boots Gaffe
An amateur entertainment in a large provincial town featured a vocalist slated to sing The Miner's Dream of Home. The performer borrowed a fireman's boots from a nearby station for a comic effect, leading to a dramatic stage moment when a real fireman appeared, shouting a warning about missing boots and a fire call.
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Bill
Greenland Population Census Snapshot
Greenland's population is 10,974 with 174 men and women making up the remainder. The population grows by about 100 annually and the region experiences roughly twenty to seventy fatal accidents each year.
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Sreenland
Greenland
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