Woman Sculptor Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson a Famous Artist
The article profiles Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson born in Brookline Boston, her rise from a snow pony sketch to studying under Henry Kitson, time in Paris and with Dagnan Bouveret and Catots, and her marriage in 1803. It notes her fame as a sculptor and her memorial statue of Mother Bickerdyke.
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Edward C. Cabot
Boston
Ruggies
Henry Kitson
Queen of Roumania
Alice Ruggles
Dagnan
Bickerdyke
Old Fashioned Remedies For Colds
Old fashioned cures beat patent pills for colds with simple home practices. Hot lemonade with two lemons in hot water. onion syrup with cider vinegar and molasses. camphor fumes inhaled. boneset tea steeped fifteen minutes, then taken in doses. Accessible from any drug store.
Some Pet Economies
A fragmented OCR item describes a small domestic gadget idea but lacks clear context or events. The stray phrasing mentions a button and corner of a dishcloth as a makeshift improvement, with no identifiable people, places, or organizations.
Laundering Handkerchiefs. A Gentle Guide for Care
The article urges careful handling of fine handkerchiefs during laundering. It criticizes rough piling and ironing, recommends spreading on the line, securing delicate pieces with black pins, sprinkling dampness before ironing, and ironing each item singly with hems first while preserving embroidery and initials.
Dangers of Ammonia in Hair Washing
The article warns against overuse of ammonia in bathwater and on hair as it dries the scalp and hair follicles. It cautions that violet ammonia can be pleasant for toilet use but harmful in excess, especially on the head. It suggests hot towels and a warm room to hasten drying instead.
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Toreene
A Labor Saver Makes Work Easier at Home
A woman creates a homemade tray on wheels to set tables and move dishes. The strong deep tray fits securely at the top and carries china and silver in one move. It rolls around the table to assist in serving and clearing, saving labor.
Baby's Blanket Craft Instructions
Instructions describe making four baby blankets from a single fabric strip by cutting four inches above and below the center, dividing into four widths, binding with ribbon or finishing with blanket stitch, using a double thread and threading technique.
Recipe for cornmeal wafers with sour milk batter
A historic recipe describes mixing four parts cornmeal and four parts flour, two parts thick sour milk, one part sour cream, salt, baking soda, sugar, and two eggs with beaten whites folded in. The batter bakes in a hot greased wafer iron and is served very hot.
Poor Women and Domestic Tips from a 19th Century Page
The text discusses anxious women and moralizing observations, then shifts to practical kitchen hints. It advises lemon juice to prevent apple stains, rouging walls to let lemon juice reach beneath surfaces, warm water and soap for washing, ammonia diluted with water for cleaning purposes, and storing cooking remains in a glass fruit jar.
America’s New Woman and the Changing American Type
A 19th century essay argues American women adopt broader world views and embrace education. It notes Jewish and Slavic influences, rising artistic pursuits, and a blended national identity while predicting the original Yankee type may fade with time. It references cultural shifts and changing naming conventions.
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James
James Haweker
Everytuxly
Ebe
America
Iron Gray Feeling for Aging Readers
An old age self help note warns against the iron gray feeling a mental weariness from advancing years. It urges reconnecting with youth by engaging with young people through their games, stories, and conversations to regain happiness and a sense of youth.
Household Maintenance and Glazing Tips From a Historic Page
Practical notes describe sewing button fasteners to secure sheets under a mattress and creating side loops with white thread. It also gives methods to remove paint from glass using a coin and to soften old putty with a red hot poker. The Tasmanian myrtle wood is noted as a high quality cabinet and piano material with a pink hue and close grain.
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Wml
Cleaning Fur Wraps With Bran and Sawdust Method
Instructions describe cleansing fur wraps using bran divided in two, heating one portion, rubbing fur with cold bran on paper, brushing, and repeating until clean. Additional guidance notes sawdust and plaster of Paris heated and rubbed into skins, then air out of doors to finish.
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Paris
Why fried foods cause indigestion and diet tips
A health guidance piece explains fat coats fried foods hindering digestion and why fatty meals provoke indigestion. It warns against salted meats, excessive drinking with meals, and irritants like mustard and tobacco, advising water intake and avoidance of candy and pastry.
Good Nature and the Quiet Power of Tolerance
An essay on the value of good nature, patience, and tolerance in social conduct. It argues that fault finding harms dignity, that calm restraint from others’ annoyances preserves self respect, and that practicing empathy helps one endure daily irritations. Fathers and meek discipline are praised as respected.
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Eves
Tule Breedel
Aute
Oblique Car Trouble Ends With Bold Personal Break
A quiet man beside a large antique auto on a road is approached by a touring car. The interrogating driver asks about the car’s fault. The man explains the real problem is a family matter at a distant farmhouse with his wife kissing her sister’s first baby goodbye, and he offers to telegraph the news to the other driver.
Shopping in Greenland on Far Northern Journeys
The Greenlander on the east coast undertakes long pilgrimages to reach shops in southern settlements. Journeys can take one to two years round trip, with short shopping stays of about two hours. Buyers trade fox skins and beams for secondhand clothes tobacco and old iron, often items of little value to them.
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London
Lingerie Neckwear Fashion Notes for Winter Wear
A 1910s style overview describes white linen collars fronts and accessories with wash blouses. High standing turnovers with broderie anglaise edging, bar pins, and jewels replace safety pins. Jabots, cuffs, jabots with lace, and decorative fronts use embroidery, lace scraps, raffles, and tiny silk bows for a refined finish.
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Broderie Anglaise
Lockable Poison Bottle Aimed At Preventing Fatal Mixups
A writer urges labeling of poisons with penalties to sellers after a father miscarries a deadly mixup with infant medicine. An English chemists exhibition featured a bottle that locks to prevent children from removing deadly drugs, promising safer access and easing fears of caregivers and nurses.
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England
Northwich England Curiosity Town With Shifting Streets
Northwich in Cheshire claims the title of the quirkiest town in England. Its disordered layout stems from salt industry activity. Extensive salt works surround the town and deep brine lakes cause subsidence that distorts buildings and gives the area a constantly unsettled look.
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England
Northwich
Cheshire
Beauty hints and questionable remedies from a bygone column
The piece offers satirical and harmful cosmetic tips advising drastic and dangerous methods. It mocks extreme beauty measures such as blasting, hammering nails, and cementing crow's feet, and jokes about shaving, powdering, and grace through harsh acts, reflecting period sensationalism rather than safe advice.
Cinnamon Cakes Recipe Draft
Cream one half cup butter with one cup sugar slowly. Alternate with milk and flour sifted with baking powder. Beat eggs separately and add cinnamon. Bake in gem pans until done.
Removal of Warts By Simple Soda Rub
A home remedy suggests dampening the wart and rubbing with common soda three to four times daily for a month until the wart drops off, leaving a pale mark on the skin.
The Moon's Gender Across Languages
Sanskrit shows the moon as masculine with mas. The passage cites Max Muller arguing for Sanskrit as key to language study. It notes the moon's masculine gender in Teutonic tongues contrasts with feminine forms in English French Italian Latin Greek, and hints Hamlet and Wordsworth framing.
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Max Muller
Wordsworth
Impudent Photo Cards Spark Aunt and Niece Exchange
Miss Maydeval recounts sending back portraits from Mr Faceallo with a sharp note. On the back of each photo is the inscription The original of this is carefully preserved, provoking amusement in Clara-Well and a heated exchange.
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Clara
Diplomacy Hinting Scheme Around Wives Approval
A dialogue shows Browne proposing a plan to Towne and aiming to have his wife formalize and believe she devised it herself. The exchange underscores manipulation through insinuation and self-fulfilling consent within a marriage.
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Towne
Browne
Gravitation Power Sparked by Night Hour
A humorous exchange notes that the Earth's attraction reaches its peak around 2 o'clock in the morning. The remark contrasts scientific insight with a playful political figure's quip.
Zola Quote on War and Mercy
The fragment notes a line by Emile Zola about relieving mothers and drawing men to war, contrasting care with pushing them into battle, reflecting pacifist sentiment in wartime discourse.
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Mither
Goud
Interesting Elastic Pin Light Experiments
A bright pin and a short elastic band show how twisting the elastic makes a drinking glass image appear. The effect depends on pin brightness, light, and a dark background. done in a dark room with sunlight through a shutter.
A Queer Barometer Gingerbread Fortells Weather
A Parisian man keeps a yearly gingerbread general barometer from a bakery. The figure softens in moist air and hardens in dry air, so the servant reports the weather by noting if the general is flabby or tough. The master uses the omen to decide whether to take an umbrella or dress in best clothes.
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Paris
Game of Numbers: guests recite proverbs by slips of paper
Guests draw numbers from a bowl and must respond with a proverb fact or rhyme containing the number within half a minute. For a missed response a forfeit is required and later redeemed to entertain the company.
More Blessed to Give
A child quotes a minister’s line about it being more blessed to give than to receive. The exchange with his father in a Philadelphia Press style echoes thoughtful misunderstanding and humor.
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Willie
Oll
Philadelphia Press
The Know It All Boy Narrates His Own Folly
A playful tale of a boy who claims perfect knowledge of all things and dispenses advice to family and friends. His certainty clashes with reality as his parents seek help from a doctor and the episode echoes the narrator’s wit and cautionary humor.
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