Women’s World outlines reform efforts and notable figures
The Domestic Reform League reports 4721 employers and 18 480 employees with an 81 percent rise in orders despite worker shortages. Mrs Alfred Stead backs prison reform and lacework exhibitions. Obituaries note Harriet Blaine and Lady Glentworth, while temperance leaders return from Geneva praising progress. Millicent Calow tops Queensland public service exams. others advance in banking and education reform.
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Domestic Reform League
Boston Woman’s Eduational and Industrial Union
United States
Alfred Stead
Wm T. Stead
London
Stead
Italy
Mary—Anderson Evarre
barie-Corelland
Detalmo di Brazza Savorgnan
Cora Slocum
New Orleans
Tralyt
Margherita
Millicent A. Calow
Treasury Department
Miksa McLaughlin
Education Department of Australia
Queensland
Australia
Miss Calow
National aid for good roads urged by farm advocates
A Kansas or Missouri era discussion urges unified national action for road improvement. Advocates warn local schemes hinder progress and cite Gladstone as a model to pursue broad principles. The piece notes harvest machine sales slow, straw shortages, and legal food-label concerns, with farmers seeking skilled help and better field efficiency.
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United States
Hera
Friends of the Good Roads
Friends-Of-The- National
Gladstone
Engleb
Henry city approves multiple cement sidewalk ordinances
City council passes Ordnances 113 114 115 and 116 detailing construction of cement sidewalks on Richard Street Wirt Street Third Street and the southerly side of Third Street in Henry with plans on file at the city clerk's office and funded by general taxation.
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City of Henry
Richard Street
Edwards Street
School Street
Bickerman
Green
Roll Call
Tyes
Bickermine Smith
Cromuell
Yaeger
City of Benry
Wirt Street
Front Street
Second Street
Cromwell
Bickermiun
Smith
Deck
Younger
Third Street
Railroad Avenue
Hic
Ko Novi
Edward
Third Streets
School Streets
City of
Henry
Green Bickerman
Gromwell
Neger
Illinois RiverRailways Spur Growth Along the Illinois
A Sparland correspondent reports on rail developments from Chillicothe to Peoria and Granville. The Iron Bridge replacement by a Banta Fe line signals freight expansion, with C M and P B widening reach toward Ladd and Henry, boosting coal and industry. Railways are viewed as constructive, fueling towns and new commerce along the river.
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Illinois River
Sparland
Cre Prineton Ei
Illnois River
Chillicothe
Banta_Fe—railroad
He-Farmere-Northeast
Toluca
Marquette and Northern
Henry
Chicago, Milwaukee and
Ladd
Bureau County
Granville
Peoria
Putnam, Marshall
Illinoia
Illinois
Lynn shoes set rapid shoemaking record in 18 minutes
A pair of women’s shoes produced in Lynn Massachusetts used 67 operations, 42 machines, and 100 parts. All components were assembled into a ready to wear pair in 18 minutes, establishing a rapid shoemaking record.
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Lynn
Mass
Catarrh of the Stomach and Digestive Ailment Cure Claim
A historical note describes catarrh of the stomach as overload and undigested food causing mucous membrane inflammation and improper gland secretions. It cites J R Rhea of Coppell Texas reporting decades of indigestion and mentions a purported cure sold by Dr Powell.
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J. R. Rhea
Coppell
iTex
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