Brave Heroines on the Line Across Damaging Floods and Fires
Profiles of telephone operators Dalla Rooke and Clara Talbot plus assistants who stayed at their posts through 1908 floods near Folsom and Greenwich Connecticut. They warned subscribers, coordinated escapes, and saved dozens of lives while risking their own safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalia Rooke
Camerron Cie
Folsom
New Mexico
Dalla Rocke
Canon
Greenwich
Connecticut
New York
Portchester
Stamford
East Portchester
Glenville
Mianus
Saved
Clara Talbot
New England
Alice Groneld
Dews Stairs
Altey
Carbon printing for amateurs a practical guide
A detailed guide explains carbon printing from setup, materials, and steps. It covers tissue, final support papers, frame loading, border piping, and timing. It discusses drying negatives, storage, air cleanliness, and methods to avoid dirt and melting gela tine, with notes on tracing paper and ground glass retouching as alternatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P.O.P
Theo
Asia
Horsley Hinton
English Women in Politics Versus American Roles
A critique contrasts English women as active political canvassers and social actors with American women who, amid a divided society and a strong governing class absence, play a minor public role. It notes English influence through salons, charity work, and family political ties, while American politics remain masculine and opaque to most women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ais
Vomparaeps
England
America
Parsons
Squire
Imortance
Swindon
Wiltshire
Massie
United States
Primrose League
Great Britain
Fifth Avenue
New York
West End
London
Mervica
B&b
Pogland
M.P
Cabinet
Joel
Humphry Ward
Andea On
Itamed Ate
Reyal
Beginsnd
What she likes is a schoolgirl’s varied tastes and dreams
A lyrical portrait of a young girl balancing classic literature music dance and sports. She studies Macbeth King Lear Kipling Dickens and Latin while enjoying Grieg Mozart and symphonies. She dances, skates, plays basketball, sketches trees, and visits museums, cherishing Maude Adams and lively theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pati
Maude Adams
Peter
The Fateful Question in a Census Moment
A young woman awaits the long asked question as a census man stammers out the inevitable inquiry. She reveals she is eighteen, and her calm reply confirms her life beginning at that age. The scene unfolds with delicate, period tone.
Life and Its Few Years From A Wayside Lute
Poem excerpt from Lizette Woodworth Reese titled A Wayside Lute. Reflects on life’s brevity, memory, and sorrow as speakers recall ancient figures and shared losses. Includes references to Hiomer and David.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiomer
David
Lizette Woodworth Reese
The Cry of a Little Child in a Dream of War
A poem narrates a dream of conquest and plunder contrasted by the cry of a child. The speaker recalls vast human toil and a longing for a gentler future where love and contentment prevail, citing Laurence Richard Lindser in Leslie’s Weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Larence Richard Lindser
Leslie's Weekly
Stork Delivers Baby as Father Claims Pair of Freed
A garbled phonetic fragment describes a birth scene with a father celebrating a baby and joking about a pair. The quoted speech is muddled but conveys a family arrival and humorous mispronunciations.
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Vane Cossvions
Central
West Brighton
Staten Island
Exchange
O.K
Bey
Jennie Post
Stuyvesant Avenue
Quincy Street
Brooklyn
Miss Post
Bird's Saloon
Lewis and Gates
Miss Heilo
Josephine Seibert
Glassboro
New Jersey
A. F P. Jenkins
Clayton
Weedbuarry
Mr. Jenkins
Woodbury
Camden
Miss Hilds Doss
St Pitteburgh
Stees
Indiana
Elilaren
Chicago
Katherine O'Brien
John Fox
Democratic Club of New York
East Fiftieth Street
Miss Hello
Nellie Brigham
Putnam
East Woodstock
Tyler
Women In Politics
Grieg
Mozkowski
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