Woman's World Notes on Politics and Expositions
Kate Field presses Washington on anti Mormon measures while Minnesota grants women voting rights for county school superintendents. Julia Gautier wins portrait prize in New Orleans with Pony. Mrs Howe drives the Woman's Department at the exposition, funding efforts herself. Minnesota Woman's Relief corps grows to 928 members with funds rising to 1100 plus.
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Julia Gautier
St. Paul, Minn
New Orleans
St. Paul
Julia Ward Howe
Iady
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Woman's Relief
State Corps
Peoria
Sylvia Diehl
Henry
R. Olmsted
Scientific Temperance Instruction for Public Schools
Miss Francis E. Willard spoke at Clark Street Methodist Church in Chicago on integrating temperance into public education. She urged teaching character geography with sobriety as the core virtue, linking health laws in schools to preventing alcoholism and promoting national reform through compulsory hygiene studies in normal and public schools.
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Institute of Education
Francis E. Willard
Clark Street Methodist Church
Chicago
Howland
Chicago Public Schools
Yeoman’s Christian Temperance Union
Thelinois
Women’s Work in Indiana Documented in Indianapolis
Florence Adkinson notes many Indianapolis women in gainful roles across sectors. women lead in retail sales bookkeeping and court reporting. Nurses teachers and artists are highlighted with notable figures like Miss N Cropsey Miss Clara Armstrong and Miss Sue M Ketcham. The piece cites female leadership in schools business and the state art scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inter Ocean
Florence Adkinson
Indiana
Indianapolis
Middle States
Central Union Telephone Office
Taylor & Doris
Rachel Swain
Woman’s Medical College of
Chicago
Sarah Stockton
A. Reeves Jackson
Indiana Hospital For the Insane
N. Cropsey
Clara Armstrong
City Normal School
Catamarca
Argentine Republic
Art Association
Charles L. McDonald
Sue M Ketcham
Snowbound Milo Musings and Spring Wedding Rumors
In Milo, heavy snow and biting winds keep residents by fires as we wait for milder days. Rumors list Katie and Fred wed next Thursday, with similar weddings anticipated before spring. Griswold claims to have sold the tile factory and will offload remaining stock to Edminster and West.
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Milo
Damo
Katie
Fred
Roger Phelps
Irve Capperrune
Griswold
Edminster
West
Peter
St Jacobs Oil Calendar Promotes Health and Humor 1885
The 1885 St Jacobs Oil Family Calendar and Book of Health and Humor by The Charles A. Vogeler Company of Baltimore offers humor from major American writers and cartoons. It emphasizes advertising yet includes original content and testimonials for St. Jacobs Oil and Red Star Cough Cure. The piece comments on social ambition and forecasts good business for 1885.
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Americs
Bill Nye
Robert J. Burdette
Burlington Hawkeye
F. H. Gassaway
Puck
Charles A. Vogeler
St. Jacobs Oil
Destroy that Sign Hair loss sales pitch
An advertised patent hair product claims to reverse aging by restoring hair. The jingle asserts men fear hair thinning and grayness, urging use of Parker's Hair Alsam to gain glossy hair and cover bald spots, with promises of many users removing gray and achieving fullness.
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Parker
Seed Growers Offer Bulk Clover and Garden Seed
A regional supplier announces bulk offerings of clover and garden seed from Implement Trade P. S Timothy. The notice highlights quantities available and contact details for orders.
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P. S—Timothy
Also Mentioned on This Page
Illinois
Kate Field
Washington
Minnesota
Mishler
Mishler Herr Bitters Co
Commerce St
Philadelphia
Parker’s
Callin
David Bradley’ & Co
Parlin, Orendorf & Co
Peoria Plow Co
Troy Corn
Avery Corn
Strawbridge
Acme
B. A. Kline
Fish Brothers Farm
Ken McNeal
Henry, Ill
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