Suffrage and fashion notes from early 20th century press
Reports announce Miss Lillian Roff as the first London University bachelor of divinity and Mrs Maud Park Wood urging suffrage at Stanford. London suffrage monthly editors named. Style notes describe waist trends and fashion shifts, while domestic science critiques link lab reportage to home cooking.
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Lillian Roff
London University
New ‘York Sun
Maud Park Wood
Lincoln Memorial
Stanford University
Francis Balfour
Stachey
Cicely Hamilton
All Day Visiting Tradition in Modern Times
The piece contrasts old and new habits of social visiting among women. It notes sewing parties and dinners as controlled gatherings, rejects uninvited wagon arrivals, and praises the telephone for aiding isolated households during winter.
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Lillie Rice Stahl
Indiana Farmer
Not Like Mother Cooked Delivers Wider View on Domestic Skills
The excerpt contrasts old fashioned home economics with modern city girl life. It notes pioneer farming taught housekeeping by necessity, while urban upbringing shifts focus away from kitchen duties. It shows concern that girls may lack practical domestic training as they pursue other classes and roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agnes
Memoirs of Dan Rice Book Promises Laughs Across A Century
Maria Ward Brown presents Memoirs of Dan Rice the Clown of Our Daddies a 500 page illustrated volume of jokey harangues anecdotes sketches and adventures from fifty years of show life. The book claims to reveal inside show life and national celebrity contacts with Old Dan Rice and the One Horse Show era. Postpaid for 1.50 from Book Publishing House 184 Leonard Street New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan Rice
Maria Ward Brown
Artemus Ward
Address Book Publishing House
Leonard Street
New York City
A Cure For Fits Offers Free Trials and Testimonies
An advertisement claims a new epilepsy cure with free trial literature and testimonies mailed to readers who write to an address in New York. The notice also notes a political proposal from an Oregon legislator to make it a crime to shoot a person under the mistaken belief they are game.
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May
Jory
Pearl Street
New York
Studenta
Oregon
Dill
Baby’s Eczema Cured by Cuticura for $1.50
A mother recounts a two and a half month old with watery eczema on the cheeks. After $50 in doctors and failed treatments, $1.50 of Cuticura Remedies cured the Child. The testimonial cites dramatic prior suffering and relief with Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills. Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. advertises Cuticura in Boston.
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Chad
W. M. Comerer
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Cutiou
Boston
Mass
Rheumatism Cured in a Day by Dr Detchon's Relief
A claimed medical patent advertises Dr Detchon’s Relief for Rheumatism promising rapid cure in one to ten days. The text touts dramatic effects and mentions other era products and inventions in a fragmented ad layout.
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Detchon
Drais
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Tennessee
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New England
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California Fig Syrup Co
Putnam
W. J. Beggs
Seattle
Wash
the Clown
Eee
Ato
Mother Gray's
A'S. Olmsted, le Roy
Jaeren
Fe Oi Games
Kemp
Osugh
Gallen
Iba Regula
Mi Book Fus
Wizard Oil
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