Village Industries Exhibit Shows Rural Craft Revival
A Minneapolis exhibit showcased village industries from across the country highlighting home crafts by women. Notable pieces include Albee weavings from New Hampshire, Kentucky mountain coverlets, and Deerfield blue and white embroidery. The display underscored sociological and economic benefits of local production and self help.
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Minneapolis
Kentucky
Albee
Pequakee
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Berea College
Tennessee
Missouri
Star
Douglas Volk
New England
Deerfield
Massachusetts
Deerfield Biue and White Society
Lucy
Deerfield Society
Antoinette's Predicament Ends In Ring Runround
A Chicago News excerpt recounts Antoinette's uneasy romance with a silent suitor who proposes with a ring. He pursues a formal engagement, pushes the ring on her finger, then returns with a smaller gem and declares their engagement, prompting her frantic reaction and fear of legal trouble.
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Yle
Antoinette
Nell
Huxley
Bacon
Antionette
Chicago News
The Chinese Village Ferry And Its Curious Inconvenience
A village ferry scene illustrates the heavy loaded cart crossing by animal power. Animals must be hitched to the axle and moved onto the boat one by one, risking falls and danger on the narrow gangplanks. It requires many men to push and pull, with no guards on board and a risk of animals plunging overboard.
Ancient Welsh Cathedral Chair Said to Be 800 Years Old
A Philadelphia notice details a chair of great age named Mayflower, claimed to originate from an ancient Welsh cathedral. The chair stands five feet three inches tall and two feet wide, carved over its entire surface in ebony-like black polish. Its arched top bears a woman figure and a Virgin Mary panel, with the inscription M A 8 11 D A 10. No nails were used, as joints fit so tightly no weakness appears.
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Philadelphia
Wales
Beet Root Beer and Other Oddball Health Adverts
A collage of 1900 era notices tout beet root beer as a coffee substitute, Grain-O drink, crematorium expansions at Pere Lachaise, Lane’s Family Medicine, and a Swarthmore monument for Benjamin West. Also listed are patent cures, rheumatism offers, Mount Vernon tours, pneumonia warnings, and assorted consumer ads from the period.
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Lane
Swarthmore
Penn
Benjamin West
West
George III
England
St. Paul's Cathedral
London
Christopher Wren
Sir Joshua Reynolds
America
Estimated 10 000 laws will be enacted before adjournment
Within the winter, 30 law making bodies apart from Congress will pass about ten thousand bills, the tally likely including good, bad and indifferent measures. Last year 17 old workhouse residents in Lodden and Clavering Norfolk have lived through five reigns with average age 84.
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Congress
Lodden and Clavering
Norfolk
England
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Kansas City Star
All Grocery
Paris
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Mount Vernon
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California
Kline
H. Kurry
Congo River
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J. W. O'Brien
Third Avenue
Minneapolis, Minn
Mexico
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Mall
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Rene Maar
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Sears, Roebuck & CO
Chicago
Ill
Lion Coffee
Woolson Spice CO
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Ohio
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