The Only Lady Admiral Queen of Greece and the Russian Fleet
The Queen of Greece holds a unique position as the only lady admiral in the world after the late Emperor Alexander II of Russia promoted her to admiral of the Russian fleet instead of the customary regiment. Mrs. Edwin Gould visits New Orleans during Mardi Gras and shops for bric-a-brac and antiques, planning to ship them to Jekyll Island cottage to suit the Georgia coastal atmosphere.
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Greece
Alexander II
Russia
Edwin Gould
Count de Castellane
New Orleans
Millinery Trick for Flattering Mirrors
A New York Herald note explains a cosmetic mirror trick using white gauze to polish and frame the glass. The gauze softens tones, subtly enhances complexion, eye light, hair color, and overall harmony of reflection.
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New York Herald
Chinese Women and the Chinese Family System
Harper's Weekly notes that Chinese women are looked down upon due to ancestral worship and patriarchal family structure. A daughter belongs to her husband’s family after betrothal, limiting her role and education. Parents often neglect daughters as they will not count in the family lineage.
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Harper's Weekly
China
Lydia E. Pinkham
First Women Physicians in Russia Pioneers and Nadezhda Susloff
The article traces the early Russian women doctors including Marva Bokoff and Nadezhda Susloff. Susloff, born a serf freed in 1861, received elite education at home and abroad and became one of the era’s leading female physicians. It notes broad public and professional support for women’s medical instruction since 1870 when professors and others began establishing courses for women.
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Russia
Marva Bokoff
Nadezhda Susloff
Graters
Women Physicians in 19th Century Russia Emergence at War
A 1872 effort funded by Mme Dodssvenny now Mma Shanvansky launched ten year higher medical courses for women with full instruction at the military medical academy. 959 students attended from privileged classes, many later sent to the Russo Turkish war in 1877 where they earned imperial permission to call themselves women physicians and wear a badge.
Hungry nurses illustrate hunger issue in hospitals
A New York Mail and Express column argues that hospital nurses and trainees are often inadequately fed, tracing causes to outdated beliefs and lack of system. It cites Clara Barton and Red Cross discipline, urging modern hygienic nourishment as essential for training and discipline.
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Whittier
Buena Vista
Cuba
Clara Barton
Angela of Mercy
Red Cross
Hungary
New York Mail and Express
Linen Frocks With Gored Skirts and Elegant Trims
The article surveys linen frocks featuring gored skirts and flounces, chemisettes in white batiste, and deep gauntlet gloves. It notes foulard gowns with borders, yellow linen trims, pearl button accents, and teal and green color pairings, plus tea gowns in pink crepe de chine and dotted black silk muslin.
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Paris
A Pretty Lamp Shade and Child Safe Home Care
An article from Trained Motherhood advises quick summer cottage styling with accordion muslin lamp shades and using spare sheets to ready rooms for guests. It recommends an emergency cupboard for children with medicines, bandages, antiseptics, and simple treatments for bruises splinters and minor burns, plus basic wound care steps.
Delicacy Recipes From Tomato Cups To Raisin Cookies
Step by step kitchen notes describe Tomato Cups with Kornlet stuffing baked in a moderate oven for an hour. Also makes Strawberry Ice Cream by macerating berries, pressing juice, adding cream and freezing with salt and ice. Peach Blanc Mange uses corn starch in peach juice, served with sweetened cream. Raisin Cookies combine butter, sugar, eggs, flour, baking powder, spices, lemon juice and seeded raisins for baked treats.
The Tree That Owns Itself Deed Noted in Athens
The Athens tree known as The Tree That Owns Itself is described as a property holder after Colonel W H Jackson deeded to the oak and land within eight feet of it. The deed, witnessed in the county clerk’s records, pairs the tree and surrounding land with ownership by the tree itself to prevent future destruction. Congressman Tate remarks on its unique status.
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Llonel Jackson
Athens
Congressman Tate
County Court House
W. H. Jackson
Colonel Jackson
New York Sun
Quotes on Virtue and Thought from Ancient to Modern Voices
A collage of aphorisms and remarks on virtue memory and learning. It discusses eloquence simplicity and duty, then moves through historical notes on Cleopatra's Needles obelisks their transport to England and the United States, and ends with notes on scholarly customs and the Skye terrier’s name origin.
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Temple of the Sun
Heliopolis
Egypt
Thethmes II
B. C
Syene
Nile
Rameses III
Augustus Caesar
Alexandria
Caesarium
Cairo
England
Akien
London
United States
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Abe
Bento
Ladies’ Home Journal
Mrs. Gould
Flattery
Renefet
Words OF
Cecil
Ovid
Fuller
Bovee
Plutarch
C. D. Warner
Johson
Wiliam Penn
Emergon
Johnson
Joubert
H. W. Beecher
Sophocles
Lugater
W. Rider
Socrates
Charron
Westminster Gazette
Oxford
Pynson
The
Island
E. F. Morton
York Street
Cincinnati
Lydia Ky Pree
Xan Vey
W.l.douglas
Fond Oy
Iat Brock
FREY
Turkey
Fi & m
Hall
Toledo
Dr. Kline
H. Krixe
Led
St. Phila
Beechan
Qower
Ment Catatovier CO
Boston
Mass
Remington Typewriter
Wood Street
Pittsourg
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