Intrest 5 Self Made Martyr
A critique of a self styled martyr who blames fate for all troubles and claims no fault in life. The passage portrays a married woman who dodges duties by excuses about time money and social life while insisting others face harsher realities without blame. It portrays her as vainly suffering from imagined sufferings.
Dressing table from a packing case
A packing case can serve as a practical dressing table with a lid removed and the exterior disguised by drapery. Castors allow mobility for cleaning. The interior becomes a cupboard with shelves and pegs to hold hats dust free. Curtains open in the center for easy viewing and selection.
Bedroom Sets in White with Colored Shadow Work
The article praises white lawn bed room sets embroidered in colored shadow work with wild roses and bow knots in a long rambling pattern. It notes covers for bureau dressing table and chiffonier plus at least one pillow cover, and suggests curtains and bed valance in the same style. Stenciling bleached muslin with water colors offers another pretty bedroom option.
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Iror
A Dainty Accessory For A Simple Blouse
A dainty touch to a plain blouse shown as a DIY accessory. The design uses marrow velvet rib bon bows with a short lace jabot and a half inch velvet band hooked around the base of the collar. Velvet bow fronts, net plaiting, and velvet ends create a decorative neckline trim.
Cretonne and Chintz Fashion Women Now Earthen Fashion
Cretonne and chintz, once for chairs, now decorate the mistress herself. Women wear waistcoats and hats of the fabric and carry matching parasols. French modistes use cretonne under evening gowns to add artistic effect, with embroided motifs to personalize trims.
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Cretonne
Doll bot tle craft from a bottle to keep doors open
A simple toy craft describes making a doll from a stone beer bottle with sand and cork head and body. It uses a stocking for clothing, worsted hair, white thread features, gingham shirt, apron and sunbonnet, aimed to resemble a housemaid and prop a door open.
White Serge Frock with Lace Yoke and Blue Ribbon Accents
Description of a women’s dress featuring white serge fabric, a plaited skirt with a stitched hem band, sleeves cut as one with the blouse, and a yoke and stock in heavy lace. Decorative elements include narrow lace bands, gold-tipped ends, and a blue satin sash with pale-blue ribbon accents.
Mean men and marble cubes in the pantry tale
In a Chicago Tribune recounting, a speaker recalls Henll gus telling how he stopped his children's sugar theft by replacing sugar lumps with marble cubes carved at a stonecutter’s shop. The crowd debates the method and ends the session in a row.
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Chicago Tribune
It Was Her Doings The Man’s Culpable Alibi
A Houston poet laments the enduring blamed-on-women trope in crime and guilt. The speaker ridicules men who claim a woman coerced or tempted them into wrongdoing, noting the repeated refrain “it was the woman” as evidence of human frailty since Eve’s apple.
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Houston
Noise and Its Uses Across Society
The passage traces noise from Indigenous origins to modern city life and social events, noting its presence at political conventions christenings and women's clubs. It compares noise to a progressing spectrum from immature sawmill sounds to a crying baby, and includes a dialogue about singing annoyances and a sawmill foreman.
Trouble Over Red in Huggins Household Delicate Secret
Yonkers Statesman reports a domestic tiff as Mrs. Huggins overhears her husband praising a red haired stenographer. Patrice notes the couple has already encountered trouble over the issue.
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Patrice
Juvenile Critics Commentary Delivers Roundhouse Guffaws
The Tall Messenger Boy notes a loud Merry Widow with amusement as the humorous exchange unfolds. The short humorist responds, joking that the sound resembles a merry go round in this quirky Chicago Daily News snippet.
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Thicago Daily News
Harmony Club Attendance Stays High on Warm Nights
The Chicago Daily News notes the Girls Harmony club meets consistently with full attendance, and missing members face sharp social pressure as they are frequently teased for absence.
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Harmony Club
Jack
Myrtilla
Chicago Daily News
Unclear Dialogue Between Mabel Flossle and Flowale
Partial, fragmented lines show a tense exchange about a missing person and a father’s whereabouts with emotional undertones and unresolved questions.
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Flossle
Flowale
The Difference Does She Shrink from the Water
A witty remark about swimming attire from the Detroit Free Press notes that the woman’s bathing suit fails to keep pace with water, while she remains unfazed by the sea scene.
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Detroit Free Press
Bitter Taste and a Fiendish Scheme
A comic strip exchange reveals Tommy Giege and Johnny Briggs plotting a prank involving quinine in a face powder to hurt a rival. The scene shifts to a dramatic moment as a maiden confronts a silent caller about his persistent courting and a proposal.
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Tommy Giege
Johnny Briggs
Tommy Gigge
Royal Magazine
Too Modest Hero Uses Medal as Sinker
A Chicago Daily News item recounts Bill rescuing six people and receiving a Carnegie medal. The hero, modest about the honor, reportedly refused to wear it and instead used the medal as a sinking prop in a prank.
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Bill
Chicago Daily News
Quick Work
Dialogue captures rapid social magnetism as Muggins and Jones from Royal Magazine share a comic exchange about borrowing a shilling. The piece illustrates quick acquaintance and a humorous repayment moment.
Directed Energy Quote From Royal Magazine
A Royal Magazine excerpt recalls a woman noting a man was discharged for being too industrious after he cleaned dusted wine bottles in a cellar. The dialogue highlights a humorous take on work ethic and propriety.
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Royal Magazine
Husband complains his salary hinders marriage
A Detroit Free Press quip notes a husband telling a friend that while he and his wife are happy, the problem is she cannot get along with his salary since their marriage began.
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Detroit
A Vacation At A Country Railroad Station
The narrator muses on a summer vacation spent loafing at a rural railway station with two daily passenger trains and occasional freights. He watches travelers, wagons, and drivers arrive, notes the station routines, and imagines a quiet life interrupted only by the passing trains and the section boss’s quiet presence.
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Sam
Copper Production and Miners Signal Turbulent 1907 Era
A wide ranging mining digest notes Utah ranks fourth in two year copper output, Garfield smelter yields 100 tons daily, and a NYSE seat sells for 79000. Beaver county hosts renewed copper camp activity, United States Smelting plant at Bingham Junction completes a fourth blast furnace, and Utah Copper posts its first quarterly dividend. Reports cover mine entombment at Coal Creek BC, dynamiting of a miner’s home in Alabama, and governor plans district stay amid unrest.
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Mexico City
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Matthew Cullen
North Star
Collen Long
Haley
Carson City
Stoddard
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H. J. Doolittle
Balt Lake
Virgin River
Zenoll Mining Company
Palisade
Nev
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