A Royal Hoad to Learning and Fashion Notes
A feature on Mrs. Evelyn Fletcher Copp promoting the Metcher kindergarten method and musical literacy for children. Plus Parisian style briefings on French waists, gowns, and silk fabrics, and a California profile of Ethel Hobson the female thrashing crew foreman. Also notes on women hunters in the Adirondacks and their prowess.
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Evelyn Fletcher Copp
Metcher
California
Ethel Hobson
San Luis Obispo County
Adirondack Deer Hunting and the Ban on Jacking
The article describes how hunting known as Jacking in the Adirondacks, using a bright bow light to startle deer, is now prohibited by law. Hunters, including women, adapt by daytime hunting along old log roads and shorelines to shoot deer with rifles, earning trophies such as a deer's head as proof of success.
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Adirondacks
New York Sun
Women in Civic Roles and Pioneering Activists
Philadelphia reports over 1360 women in civic offices and police matrons in well governed cities. Mary Putnam Jacob and Sarah Hackett Stevenson gain national renown. New Bedford plans a library funded by the Women’s Club, raising over $12,000. Libbie Frieze invents a rotary massage instrument with electric current. The Queen of Roumania backs improvements to theatre architecture and drama standards. Margaret Howle advocates for future British women lawyers. Augusta Chapin, D. D., presides as a pioneering woman pastor in Michigan, officiating in Legislature and funerals. Women ministers increasingly speak at male gatherings and deliver memorial orations. Manitoba colonists lament scarce wives as a social issue.
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Philadelphia
Mary Putnam Jacob
New York
Sarah Hackett Stevenson
Chicago
New Bedford
Mass
Woman’s Club
Libbie Frieze
Lansing
Mich
House
Senate
Manitoba
Fashion notes on season's corsets gloves and trims
The article surveys contemporary attire with white velvet corsets floral patterns ox blood and violet trim flannel waists long waisted fronts two material sleeves double English violet hats turbans millinery dahlia as the season’s flower sable cloth winter costumes and smart buttons versus clasps Paris ideas note.
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Harper’s Bazar
More Men by 1 800 000 in the U S population
A lengthy analysis from the Census Bureau notes a consistent male excess in the United States with about 1 800 000 more men and boys than women in a total population of 76 803 887. It traces this through history and considers war immigration and internal migration as key factors in the imbalance.
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West
United States
Europe
United Kingdom
Portey
Austria
Netherlands
America
Germany
France
Old World
Atlantic Seaboard
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
District of Columbia
New England
Immigration Patterns: More Canadian Women Entering U S Jobs
The Chicago Tribune notes an influx of factory girls from Canada, showing exceptions to the male-dominated immigrant trend. While most immigrants are men, a notable presence of female migrants appears, especially in western agricultural and mining districts.
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Canada
Far West
Chicago Tribune
Do Crows Speak A Language An Insight From Crows
In this article from Lippincott's Magazine the author questions whether crows have a true language. He recounts observations of crow behavior and discusses whether empirical proof of crow talk exists while noting farmers may offer practical insights beyond professional ornithologists.
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Lippincott's Magazine
Japanese Architect Yoshii Sees Europe Shape Tokyo
Japanese architect Yoshii of Tokyo discusses the shift toward European architectural styles in Japan. He notes government offices and many commercial buildings adopting European plans while traditional Japanese homes persist. He cites Tokyo hotels and practices, earthquake considerations limiting heights, and a growing European influence in design.
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Yoshii
Tollo
Japan
Washington
Yoshiii
Ministry of Communication
Home Department
Tokyo
Tokio
Washington Post
Wise Words and Curious Tales From a Bygone Era
A fragment of wit and anecdote blends aphorisms on senility youth and love with a humorous table d hote scene in New York. It recalls twin strangers in a Melbourne tale and a New Zealand Times note on R L Stevenson’s grave visits, ending with a colonial tale of an otter clearing price.
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Tost
England
Australia
Melbourne
Daves
New York
Teddy the Hobby Horse and Other Childhood Verse
A collection of verses and anecdotes recounting playful tales of Teddy the hobby horse, Edith the wise schoolgirl, and Professor Gillespie. The pieces celebrate imagination, simple joys, and how boys' antics once shaped classroom power and thunderstorm fears into playful mischief.
Young peers may attend coronation robes rules
A London spread notes royal regulations for coronation attire affecting a dozen minor peers including Conyngham Camoys de Clifford Leinster Torrington Somers Holmpatrick Macclesfield Vernon Exmouth and the Marquis of Bute who may sit in Parliament before the ceremony. In Minnesota a farm boy cultivates a hardy plum hybrid from homegrown seeds offering a potential regional fruit variety. He planted prune pits from store stock and one tree bloomed this year as he awaits mature fruit next season amid regional trials. Also a national note cites 9 000 000 American children who do not attend Sabbath school or any vocations instruction.
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Earl Marshal
Marquis Conyngham
Lord Camoys
Lord de Clifford
Duke of Leinster
Torrington
Somers
Lord Holmpatrick
Earl of Macclesfield
Lord Vernon
Viscount Exmouth
Marquis of Bute
Westminster Abbey
London
Minnesota
Shen
Bnd
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Louis Belze
New York Commercial Advertiser
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The
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Baltimore Sun
Morgan H. Morgan
Circuit Court
Clark
Randolph Streets
Morgan
Chanphin
Chilcago Inter-Ocean
Charles Stoltz
Eliabeth Presser
Eizabeth Prosser
Tosser
Philadelphia Record
Coincsipeis Wan
Teddy
Knights of Old
Teddy Hobby Moree
Mim
Atlanta Constitution
Edith
Margaret
Jessie
Professor Gillespie
Gillespie
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