A Narrow Backwater Ride Toward Oxford
The group continues a river and canal journey toward Oxford with Miss Peggy and Jack Duncombe amid rain and cautious progress. Tension rises as a bridge arch blocks the Nameless Barge, dust and grit fill the air, and the crew fights through narrow basins and low arches while awaiting calmer conditions.
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Holme Park
Murdoch
Jack Duncombe
Peggy
Tita
Feung
Kennet
Thames
Severn
Avon
Purley
Wallingford
Miss Peggy
Mr. Duncombe
Tmwayne
Oxford
University
Abingdon
England
Canal Company
Columbus
Toy Basin
Cnme
Worries and someone else in the capital society
The piece discusses why women worry, contrasting it with men’s attitudes toward debt health and home life. It highlights Miss Adah Roberts, Utah congressman Roberts's daughter, as a notable young figure in political circles and describes etiquette of social calls and hostess duties in detail.
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Detroit Free Press
Adah Roberts
Adah Roberta
Utah
Mr. Roberts
Flirtation Etiquette and Notable Women in Society
A miscellany discusses flirtation as vulgar but sometimes harmless, advising on calling etiquette and card manners. It cites Leah Lanceford as a war correspondent and notes women in London riding schools, Vienna needlework, and Miss Elsie Reasoner as a leading AP correspondent in Paris.
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Leah Lanceford
London Pictorial
Mise Elsie Reasoner
Wilhelmina
Parla Commission
Chicago
Associated Press
New York
London
Vienna
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Rosslyn
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Queen Tita
Virginny
State University
Salt Lake City
Congress
Migg Adah Hoberts
B. A. Mulroney
Philadelphia
Klondike
Woman's Society For the
New Jersey
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz
Radcliffe College
Generose (Mattingly
Loretto
United States
Mary BE. Hawley
Pekin
International Congraeset Temperance Workers
Henry Somerset
Frances Wiklard
Georgina Pope
Canada
South Africa
Bellevue Hospital Nursing School
Brooklyn
Miss Reasonem