Vaccination boosts smallpox decline in Shanghai
Chinese mothers eagerly submit infants to vaccination and smallpox prevalence drops near vanishing point in Shanghai. In the interior epidemics persist, leaving population gaps. Victoria grants full state suffrage to women in Australia, aligning with other states after earlier national progress. Alice Stone Blackwell noted in the Boston Post. A teacher’s immigrant pupil faced a bathe dispute, mother insisting on warmth over water exposure. the child was bathed and not re-sewn into clothes.
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Shanghai
Australia
Victoria
South Australia
West Australia
New South Wales
Tasmania
Queensland
Alice Stone Blackwell
Boston Post
Rir
New York Tribune
Girl Billposters and the Colorful City Ads
A New York Tribune critic lauds women billposters as tasteful colorists who brighten the streets. The piece notes a college graduate taking up window washing and praises feminine posters for bringing balance to bold urban advertising seen by the public.
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Pons Rieke
Suburbin
Girl Bill
New York Tribune
European schools for women train in housekeeping and science
Miss Mary Woolman of Teachers' College reports from Europe on how German and other European women’s clubs partner with government and schools to offer free instruction in housekeeping and allied fields. Across Europe subjects tied to farm work, stock raising, and horticulture gain attention, while Berlin schools emphasize professional photography for women aiding scientists and physicians.
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Mary
Woolman
Teachers’ College
Europe
German Empire
Berlin
New York Sun
Should Have Some Hobby for Women and Housekeepers
The piece urges every woman especially housekeepers to have a hobby. It cautions against pursuing pet interests aligned with others and warns that overriding a hobby drains its value. Enjoyment should be balanced with duties, using a hobby as a personal, revisitable steed rather than a burdensome plow.
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Christian Terrie Herrick
Maxim in Conversation and Self Restraint for Social Ease
The text advises balancing talk with others by listening and showing restraint. It highlights that others may prefer discussing their hobbies over yours, urging reticence about personal facts and sympathy for others. It frames social tact as a way to ease interactions and avoid imposing oneself.
Avoid Facial Mannerisms And Aerial Inventions
A column discusses avoiding facial grimaces in conversation and their social cost, praising self control to keep serenity in old age. It then describes a 19th century London print of an Ariel style airship, noting its features and historical context and comparing to later innovations in air travel.
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Serenity
Philadelphia Puble Ledger
Shaftesbury Avenue
London
Wilbur Wright
Ackerman
Aerial Transit Company
St. Paul’s
Dundee Advertiser
Fashion Notes Signal Fall Couture Trends Across Europe
Afatpins loom large and costly while fancy waistcoats gain favor for men. Plain gold bracelets and end braids show up in gowns, with one eyelet pumps for home wear. Sotache, plum and prune colors, peacock tints, and bold passementerie continue to shape street and evening ensembles. Paris trims with skunk and corded satin or silk cravats set the season, while high-boned collars and tabots anchor the new silhouettes.
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Paris
Forgetful Husbands Prompt Traveling Wife’s Laughable Tale
A minister’s wife, a doctor’s wife, and a traveling man’s wife share a joke from the Washington Post about forgetful husbands. The minister forgets notes before sermons, the doctor misplaces his medicine case on house calls, and the traveling man returns home and asks a familiar young woman her name after a friendly pat on the cheek.
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Washington Post
Mey
A Successful Author and Sales of Short Stories
The dialogue features Mr Pennink praised for selling short stories to magazines. A critic notes his gift of rhyming and his technique of sending concise poems to fill the bottom of magazine pages where his stories end, while others doubt what editors see in his work.
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Pennink
Will and Gifts For Friends In Salem Funeral
In Salem Oregon Tillman Ford executed a will gifting gold watches worth 126 dollars each to thirty intimate friends. A disjointed clipping also mentions catarrh remedies and a quip by Nicholas Longworth with Joe Cannon as he left Washington for Cincinnati.
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Tillman Ford
Salem
Ore
Nicholas Longworth
Washington
Cincinnati
Joe Cannon
Nick
Invalid's Sad Plight and Library Publicity Tale
An ibu o protrayal recounts Mrs Lavina Henderson claiming Cuticura cured her rheumatic skin sores and hair loss after years of illness. Another vignette describes a Mapboard painter discovering library resources, prompting mayor publicity that boosted local library circulation by 25 percent in a year.
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Lavina J. Henderson
Broad St
Stamford
Conn
Algy Cockburn
Shiloh
Raphael
Rem Yrandt
Springfield
Mass
Loafing Vicariously Across Quiet Evening
Dialogue-heavy excerpt where Pep and Cholly discuss idleness with humor and weariness. Judge notes that Cholly’s man handles all tasks, highlighting a theme of delegation and indirect responsibility.
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Peppery
Cholly
Woman Drives 900 Miles to Akron Visit
Mrs Mary Canfield of Owatonna Minnesota arrived at the home of her friend Mrs Martha Seymour in Akron Ohio after a 900 mile drive from Minnesota.
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Mary Canfield
Owatonna
Minn
Martha Seymour
Akron
Ohio
Minnesota
Old Time Patent Medicine Snippets From an Era
A fragmented OCR snippet lists products and claims from the era. Mentions Bromo Quinine laxative variant with a one day cold cure claim, Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup for teething, Woolford's Sanitary Lotion said to cure faster, and Transvaal gold production figures. Also notes fast ostrich travel in marketing fanfare and generic postal service comment about Indian empire.
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E.W. Grove
Woolford
Transvaal
The Suffragette in the Detroit Free Press
In a Detroit Free Press front, a poor family scene shows a mother and daughter juggling domestic tasks while a son studies and reads. The article highlights gender roles and education as the suffrage movement gains attention in everyday life.
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Detroit Free Press
Mix For Rheumatism Universal Home Remedy
A claimed never failing remedy for rheumatism suggests mixing a half pint of whiskey with one ounce Toris Compound and one ounce syrup of Sarsaparilla Compound. Take tablespoonfuls before meals and at bedtime. The note mentions few Mes Th England being imported from South America for poultry, captive birds, and fish.
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England
South America
Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days Claim Noted
Fragmented notes describe a claimant, possibly named Pato, seeking cure for piles with a promise of refund if ineffective. The garbled text mentions obligations for New York City to provide a daily amount, $28,760, for the purpose, and references a long-standing old age scenario.
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New York City
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