Pelagic Sealing Debate Sparked by Alaska Policy
Prof Henry W Elliott in Sitka discusses sealing at Una Janka criticizes U S efforts since 1892 to fix Seal Island conditions. He recalls 1897 act banning open sea fur seal hunting, noting losses to American sealers while Canadians prosper offshore, urging open sea sealing prohibition or total seal extermination.
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Sitka
Alaska
Una- Janka
Henry W. Elliott
Acta of Congress
United States
Seal Island
Willctt
Gage
Congress
Hamlin
Beford
Ways and Means
House
Dingley
Northwest
California
Treasury Department
Hi- Hott
House Committee On Ways and
Hymn Tunes Sold By the Yard Price Quoted
A composer boasted he could write Gospel Hymn Book tunes by the yard. Mr. Sankey replied he would pay five hundred dollars a yard for tunes like those, to any composer willing to provide them.
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promoted by Mother
A testimonial from a Mrs Pinkpam praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relieving childbirth dread and postpartum weakness. She says she loved children but feared the ordeal until using the tonic, which made her feel better. The passage reflects early 20th century marketing of patent medicines to mothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Pinkpam
Lydia E. Pinkham
J. H. Haskins
Aydin H. Pinks
Mme
Lydia GB
Pinkham
Indiana Ave
Chicago
BCA Young Chinese Women Attract Attention In Washington
The young Chinese women who arrived with Mme Wu wife of the Chinese Ambassador draw crowds in Washington during outings for exercise. The most striking member is a Mme Wu relative, admired even by Western observers for her beauty. She favors a black silk divided skirt with a purplish red silk jacket and silk cords braided in her long black hair. They seldom attend Mme Wu's receptions, though Mme Wu has adopted many American customs.
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Mme. Wu
Washington
Mme
Mme, Wu
New Style Monograms and Education Figures
Old style monograms give way to subtle Japanses influenced designs. The United States reports 21,801 American women in colleges in 1909 with 27.4 percent of all students. Cameos surge in demand as jewelers sell at losses while belts mount many small carvings. Gifts for invalids include flowers books and small comforts to delight and aid recovery. Superstitions: dress inside out luck claims and pin colors foretell events in fashion lore across New York papers.
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United States
Great Brita
Washington Post
New York Times
Ladies’ Home Journal
New York Commercial Advertiser
Success In Work and the Blues of Attained Goals
A young widow laments low spirits despite social success and a friend notes the paradox of desire. The speaker argues fulfillment turns dull once the sought reward is achieved, contrasting the drive to succeed with the apathy that follows attainment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mildred
Witrow
Women and Work Reforms in Pressed Modern Roles
A collection of observations on women's health posture and roles, noting how balance and poised movement reduce stress and fatigue. It highlights women in business and professional fields, including dentistry in France, prominent American figures, philanthropy, and the Boston Business League promoting women's business education and legal awareness.
Spring fashion shapes and trims for ladies hats and coats
The piece describes hat styles for spring including a cockade effect, the Spanish turbans and tricorne shapes, pale blue and glice toques, and red morocco facings on blouses. It notes facial lacing and decorative cuffs, flowered silk lapels, delicate buttoned gloves, ribbon wiring for floral effects, and foliage sprays around medium sized hats.
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Paradise
Morocco
Market review notes unsettled weather and spring demand
R G Dun weekly Review of Trade reports unsettled weather and a rapid thaw causing floods that disrupt manufacturing and transport. Coal shipments are tight, coke supplies limited, and output weak due to disorganized railways. Prices spike for structural materials, but overall inflation pressures are muted as orders for distant delivery rise. Wheat exports fall sharply while coffee markets rally on crop outlook. Failures rise in the U S and Canada.
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R. G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
Fall River
Iron and Steel
Pittsburg
Atlantic
Travil
United States
Canada
Revivalist boycott and hall’s catarrh cure ad items
Random historical clippings mention a revivalist minister boycotted in Brazil Indiana over an unfair road, Hall’s Catarrh Cure claims, snail consumption in Paris, Mother Gray’s Powders for children, and German mining ambitions in Shantung. The text weaves dubious claims about drugs and commerce with scattered notices.
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Brazil
Ind
Mother Gray
New York
Hsaimple
LeRoy
N.ys
Aristocrats Enter Milk Trade In English Countryside
Jord Rayleigh is a milk man who owns one of the finest businesses in the home counties as England's aristocrats increasingly join the milk trade.
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England
Jord Rayleigh
Home Counties
Prodigal remedies and curiosities in a single issue
An assortment of patent medicines claim cures for headaches to cancer with Cascarins and Cascareta Gandy Onthartie in metal boxes. Also offered is millet for hay production and matches requiring 60,000 workers. Two medical claims push Dr Kline’s Great Nerve Restore and a note on spider eye counts.
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Cascareta Gandy
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Prof. Elliott
Chicago, Il
Chicago Arcade Club
Fiicenix
Buffalo Exposition
McIlhenny
Ustea
New York Tribune
Chautauquan Magazine
Td Ie
Wat
France
Jessie Benton Fremont
John GC. Fremont
Los Angeles
Anna Conover
Paris
Nellie Brown
Salvation Army
John Brown
Walla Walla
Jennie Conrad
Newton County
Indiana
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rosary Hi
Harriet Brownell
Providence
R. I
Boston Business League
Caa
Matty
Elzlu
Owl Creamery
Traey
Ork
New
Onso
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Utter—Creamer
Pennsylvania
Creamer Aceae
Statonud Pennsylvanis Jie
Central Stock Yards
East Liberty
Switzerland
Noward
Safenco
Hall
Che Proprietora
Gurney & Co
Toledo
Germany
Ching
Shantung
Errnest Rusalan Aullet
John A. Balzer Lead Co
la Crosse
Wis
Kline
B. H. Kun, Ltd
Arch St
Phila
Fizo
Joux P. Boyz
Trinity Springs
St.Jacobs
Capsicum
Cheesebrough Manufacturing CO
State
New York City
Thompson
Ayer
Emma Jane Entsminger
Langsville, O
NASA
J.C. Ayer CO
Lowell
Masa
Gower
AL. Agwer CO
Boston
Mass
Douglas
Beat
Cr Ae
Douglas Makces
Corona Colt
Dourgive
Duugins
Brockton
Druxulate
Clerita
Agit Cafe
Cgte
Colorado
Balldina
Powvers
Permecd Seav Eng Mac Ilinke Tons Widenelfl
Duog All Tran
Milion
National Automalig
PEGG
EU Street
Victoria
Wickeett
Ewing
Cate
Agierion
Bulzar
Tseo Tashiela
Catalugati
John A. Salzer Seed Company
la Crosss
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