Woman Farmers Rehabilitate New Hampshire Run-Down Farms
The New Hampshire countryside sees intelligent single women from Boston and beyond transforming abandoned farms. They purchase, restore, and beautify estates with intervale land, employ seasonal labor, host guests, and create inviting homes amid White Mountain views. One investor uses the land for fruit, hay, and dairy. others graft trees, cultivate rare plants, and develop model homes to inspire both farmers and city folk. A separate profile highlights a cheerful, good-natured woman whose influence broadens through humor, improving family and domestic harmony and spreading optimism.
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New Hampshire
Boston
White Mountains
Miss B
New York Tribune
Recognition of Love’s Power Shapes Human Life
A reflective passage posits love as the supreme force among nations and people. It declares that love’s presence is the golden key to open all doors, while life without affection is a desert of dreary emptiness and somber pessimism.
Three Styles of Walking Skirt Debuts in Chicago Journal
The Chicago Journal highlights three new walking skirt styles. One short about an inch above the floor with a hip yoke, a second two inches from the floor with slotted seams and a modest flare, and a nearly floor-length version with a three inch back train. The long style is lightweight, rain-unfriendly, and suited to informal street wear ending in a house affair.
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Saga
Chicago Journal
Ardent aid earns Mme Meyrier Audiffred prize gains
The French Academy awards 15000 francs to Mme Meyrier wife of the French Consul at Diarbekir for sheltering and feeding over 700 Armenian refugees during the 1805 Armenian massacres. She and her staff repelled Turkish assaults for twelve days and, six months later, led a caravan of 600 Christians to the coast with four children in a litter following on horseback.
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French Academy
Mme. Meyrier
Diarbekir
Westminster Gazette
M. Meyrier
Mme. Meyrler
Coats For Babies Fashion Recalls Silk and Cloth Wraps
Harper's Bazar notes long cloaks for infants rise again in silk or cloth with undercoats. Warm options use interlining or wadded lining, though hands stay covered in cold weather. All white outfits advised until age two, then light colors preferred. Cloth, ribbed silk, bengaline and poplin coats praised for style and cleanliness.
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Harper’s Bazar
Women gain guardianship and parental decisions rights in Holland
Dutch Parliament recognizes both mothers and fathers to decide domicile and minor children’s marriage and profession. Holland also enacts law allowing women to be appointed guardians of children not their own.
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Holland
Betty Things to Wear Notes on Autumn Millinery Fashion
Gray shades named storm cloud pearl moonlight and monkey appear with vision blue. Holland delft blue satin bows to figure as hair decoration. new auto wraps in white hair seal coat. prune shades with violet suit autumn millinery. French white Louisine silk stock with linen cord prized for neck wear. English motor coat brown frieze leather lined with fur cuffs. Modern fur coats in gray squirrel and moleskin yes, white cloth collars. newest neck bow rises behind neck as tall black velvet rosette. Garment trimming includes guipure appliques embroidery braiding tassels cord and chenille. cashmere bands woven with decorative designs on pastel cashmere for dark cloth costumes in tones yellow brown lime green pink.
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Holland
Delft
Household care and scent tips from the New York Advertiser
The article offers metal furniture preservation by lime paste on polished surfaces and air freshening with lavender oil in hot water. It advises keeping ironwork bright even when unused and suggests fragrant setups for dining rooms and parlor areas during house festivities.
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New York Commercial Advertiser
Rice Border Served With Savory Ragout
A rice border complements a ragout with meat leftovers. Roil rice in a buttered dish, line with meat pieces seasoned with salt pepper bay leaf, cover with gravy or stock, cook until tender, bake with a rice top, then invert and serve with tomato sauce over the dish.
Handy Tool Pliers Prove Invaluable For Household Fixes
A practical observer extols a stout gas pliers as the handiest tool imaginable for common home repairs. It serves to pull nails, tighten window shades, repair eyeglasses, reshape tinware, aid sewing thick fabrics, press items, and even hold bread when toasting. The article notes its usefulness in cooking, wiring, and handling hot tins, all emphasized in everyday chores.
Home Pickles and Dishes From a Historic Kitchen
Beet Salad Boil beets until tender peel slice and soak in vinegar overnight mix with cabbage celery onion and salt pour over French dressing Stewed Mushrooms Wash sauté butter mushrooms cook two minutes season dredge with flour add stock Yellow Pickle Chop cabbage salt drain add seeds mustard sugar and vinegar Roll until tender store in stone jars Turkish Soup Veal stock pearl barley sage beaten egg yolks cream to finish Banana Cup Mash bananas sieve add lemon rind and juice water sugar soda water serve over crushed ice
Soup Served by Suction Rod in German Inn
An American traveler recalls a German hotel where soup was delivered by a suction-rod device, shooting liquid into the guest’s plate from behind. He found the method novel yet offputting and left nearly starved after the meal.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Words of Wisdom Reflections on Virtue and Wealth
Ram's Horn presents aphorisms on happiness wealth and character. It argues goods cannot be the chief good and money fuels desire while true value lies in righteousness. The piece contrasts stinginess with generosity and urges truth conformity over mere information.
Beardless Doctor Weeps Over Abandoning Profession
A young physician in distress tells a friend he must abandon his medical career despite his diploma and training. He struggles to explain, breaking down as he admits the shame of not being able to grow a beard, a symbol of manhood, to comfort him in the moment. The scene unfolds in a solitary office in New York.
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New York Times
The Cause of Boriberi and Fermented Rice Link
The piece discusses beriberi in the Philippines and elsewhere, asserting a role for defective food. Major Rost of the British Imperial Medical Service is cited as finding a bacillus in fermented rice and rice liquor linked to beriberi in humans and similar symptoms in fowls. It notes coolies’ heavy use of rice liquor and contrasts with women and children who drink less.
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Philippines
Major Rost
British
Imperial Medical Service
Haver
Is electricity a separate substance or ordinary matter
The London Electrician ponders whether electricity is a distinct substance or simply highly electrified matter. It tackles whether an electron is electricity itself or a tiny atom of matter, a question with broad implications for dynamical science.
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London Electrician
Nertia
Adolph Bettelheim tale shows crime and consequences
From 1894 to 1902 a Vienna fugitive with 250000 in trust funds slides from vault to poverty on Blackwell’s Island. In Brooklyn a lifelong thief steals 170, serves 18 years, yet gains plundered profits per year. Bettelheim’s case reveals blackmail, fear, and the ease of crime’s covert costs.
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Vienna
Blackwell's Island
New York
Adolph Bettelheim
Geedesch
Brooklyn
State Board
Bettelheim
New York World
Fortune and Misfortune Woman's Face Fortune Quote
A New York Press item notes a proverb about a woman's face bringing fortune and her clothes signaling a husband's misfortune. The nugget reflects period attitudes on gender and appearance in a concise, curio-like item.
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New York Press
Japanese symbolism and its vast system of meanings
The article contrasts Anglo-Saxon decorative symbolism with Japanese symbolism, noting Japan's expansive, integrated use across kakamonas and screens. It highlights symbols like storks for luck, cobwebs for mourning, Fujiyama as a national emblem, and the careful grouping of leaves and birds, with guidance on appropriate motifs for gifts, plus a brief note on footbinding in China and a Gaelic wedding in London.
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Dai Nippon
Fujiyama
Nikko
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M. Adolphe Gartner
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China
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London
Michael Moloney
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Horse Guards
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