Woman rises through adversity to Harvard next year
Hellen Kellar, born blind and deaf in childhood, passed the Harvard preliminary exams with credit and will enter Radcliffe with Miss Sullivan as teacher. A New Orleans project to found a sanitarium and training school for colored nurses gains support, while Harriet Beecher Stowe is urged for a public library honor. Louise Bonaparte becomes Countess de Moltke after marrying Dec 10. Fashion turns to yellow and other bold hues amid notes on color trends and a brief local anecdote about crows aiding farmers.
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Hellen Kellar
Harvard
Radcliffe
Miss. Sullivan
New Orleans
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Boston Public Library
Boston Transcript
Public Library
Rabelais
Marla Mitchell
War
Charlotte Ustin
Louise Bonaparte
Count de Moltke
Denmark
Bonaparte
Napoleon
Jerome Bonaparte
Madam Bonaparte
Louise- Bonaparte
Cosmateas de Moltke
Lost health remedies urged as cure all ills
A promotional column urges women to help husbands regain health, claiming neglect leads to death and praising Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a universal remedy. It markets the medicine as a tonic that fights disease germs, aids digestion, and cures liver kidney and stomach disorders with broad claims.
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Pierce
Farming Notes and Grange Plea on Looming Winter Tasks
The piece urges memory of winter prep in Putnam County focusing on sorghum use for trench filling and frost protection, shelter for hogs and cattle, lanterns for safe barn work, pruning grapes and burying cuttings, topdressing berries and fruit, and the Illinois Grange push for anti bribery laws. It mixes farming tips with a call for agricultural education and practical home measures before harsh weather.
Dreaded Consumption Cure Claim by Dr J A Slocum
Advertises a claimed cure for consumption and wasting diseases by a new remedy. Says it has helped many, offers free trials to affected readers, and directs readers to send money and address details to Dr J A Slocum at 88 Pine Street New York. The note urges mentioning the paper when writing to the doctor.
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Henry Republican
Slocum
M. D
York
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Washington
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