Arts And Social News From City Papers
A collage of clippings describes Miss Josephine Schain compiling a Minnesota booklet on laws affecting women and children, a Paris eye operation rumor, and a Girl's Realm Guild of Service exhibit listing seventy-eight potential employments for women. The items mix essays on fashion, suffrage, and curious trades like water gilding and canine nursing with a London Globe note.
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Josephine Schain
Minnesota
The
State University
Tt Ia
Elie
New York Sun
Aucress
Guild of Service and Good Fellowship
Jane
London Globe
First Woman Librarian Appointed in Georgia
Maud Barker Cobb named State Librarian by Governor Hoke Smith. The first woman to hold the post, she has served as assistant librarian and will earn 1800 dollars annually. Cobb is a cousin of the governor’s wife, Birdie Cobb, daughter of General Tom Cobb. The appointment follows the 1896 act allowing women to hold the office.
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Maud Barker Cobb
Hoke Smith
Georgia
Cobb
Smith
Birdie Cobb
Tom Cobb
New York Sun
Our Girls Lead English Hunt at Floors Castle Home
Lady Alastair Innes-hers pursues cross country riding near Floors Castle with her husband’s family as Miss Freda Taylor joins the hunt. Taylor wins a dramatic brush at the death amid Duchess of Newcastle and other nobles.
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England
Alastair Innes-her
Floors Castle
Freda Taylor
Duchess of Newcastle
Marchioness of
Graham
Countess of
Yarborough
Green Pepper Stuffed With Corn Recipe
Large sweet peppers prepared by boiling and chilling, then filled with a corn cream mixture. Stuffing combines tender corn butter hot water salt pepper cream and flour, thickened and baked with pepper stems fastened and butter pieces, served hot.
The Most of Life For Busy Women Who Seek Variety
A concise editorial from the Indianapolis News argues that women gain life’s richness not from rigid plans or wealth but from diversified daily interests and resilient adaptability. It highlights work, shifts, and cheerful problem solving as key traits for navigating life and weathering the blues.
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Indianapolis News
Why Mothers Fail A Naval General's Daughter Recalled
A reminiscence notes Anna A Rogers wife of navy Lt Rogers and daughter of General Alexander. It recalls her childhood in South Paris in the 1860s, her early intelligence, and how friends remember her as a bright girl who told war time stories from a child's viewpoint rather than boasting about her family.
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Atlantic
Anna A. Rogers
Rogers
Navy
Alexander
Louise
South Pari
Anna
Washington
Wag
Fashion notes on 1908 garments and trimmings
A survey of early 20th century fashion detailing accessories and fabrics. It highlights black satin cravats, amethysts with violet or white outfits, Greek key silk braids on pongee or rajah gowns, blue for hats and gowns, and various waist, skirt, and sleeve styles. It notes embroidery, buckles, and coat designs, emphasizing ornamentation and versatility.
Casting Out Unclean Spirits in Modern Swedenborgian Thought
The Rev. John Curtis Ager preached on casting out unclean spirits from Matthew 10:7, linking it to the Emanuel Movement and Swedenborgian doctrine of universal human unity. He argued true discipleship entails receiving divine life, inflow from the Lord, and authority over evil through right thinking and feeling, enabling the expulsion of spiritual disturbances.
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Brooklyn
N. J
Church of the New Jerusalem
Swedenborglan
John Curtis Ager
Dmmanuel
Ager
New Church
Swedenborg
Thang
The Temptation to Get Even Is Aimed By Faith
A Presbyterian By Record excerpt argues against seeking revenge after injury. It warns that getting even lowers us to the wrongdoer's level and urges following Christ’s higher standard of love and forgiveness through true prayer. Real prayer, born of love, pleases God.
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Satan Iz
Christ
Presbyterian
How to Grow Fine Sweet Peas and Nut Trees
A collection of home garden notes on water rooting, seed variation, growing fine sweet peas in sandy loam, trench prep, and cultivation. Advice covers manure use, seed depth, and watering. Nut trees like walnuts, pecans, and filberts are praised as attractive, profitable options for homestead shelter belts.
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Oregon
USA
Indiana
Weed Cutter and Gatherer Patent Idea for Weeding
A Massachusetts inventor unveils a combined weed cutter and gatherer designed to ease lawn maintenance. The device features an adjustable cutter, a rear gathering rake, and small front wheels, operated by a lever near the handle to cut and collect weeds with a single push.
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Massachusetts
Washington Star
Labor World glimpses from global unions and urban plans
Labor topics span across nations with notes on British unemployment averages from 635,678 trade unionists to 4.5 percent, Montreal longshoremen opposing bonuses, and Minneapolis electrical workers shaping urban plans. Baltimore celebrates an eight hour law, San Francisco backs a Master Barbers’ Association funding the Barber Union, Wheeling hosts a Labor congress to form a Labor party, and Minneapolis ministers seek parity in dues. A Manhattan sewing shop project showcases Women’s Trade Union League utility efforts, while a Great Western Railway bridge aligns with a landowner’s matching stone architecture. New York wealth is questioned for domestic happiness.
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Japan
Mexico
Unite Kingdom
Montreal
Canada
Minneapolis
Mino
Baltimore
Master Barbers’ Association
San Francisco
Cal
Barbers’ Union
Wheeling
W. Va
Congregational Ministers’ Association
Women's Trade Union League
Some Men Work for Their Ying and Game Men as Bank Receivers
A fragment from the Richmond Times Dispatch reflects on the contrast between labor for personal gain and the rise of game men as receivers of detuned banking institutions in old New York.
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Old
New York
Richmond Timas- Dispatch
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Fieir
Paris
New York Press
Yotsuya Miis
Alou
Anna Alexander
San Francisco Call
John GO. Ager
Parmners’ Home Journal
K. M. Field
Ndiana
Democrat
NSOM
the Democrats
National Stockman and Farmer
Commoner and Democrat
New York Daily World
New York Sunday World
World
Pittsburg Daily Post
Philadelphia Daily North American
Pittsburg Evening Sun
Pittsburg Evening Telegraph
World Almanac
Mail
the Democrat
Church Street
W. S. Daugherty
Philadelphia St
Labor World
Great Western Railway
Lailway Magazine
Baltimore Sun
J. Hood Clark
Marshall Building
E David Blair
HE Philadelphe Street
John N. Banks
Banks
Philadelphia Street
John H. Pierce
Philadelphia Chest
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John H. Hill
Parmer's One Ballé& Ing
Court Plac
W. Fer
Joe
George J. Feit
Hmooms
Marshall Duliding
Amingal Bussages
Carefuilly Ae Saudad
Watbon
Hank Building
Rownie Omle
D. H. Toma
Moore
Farmer's Bank
Tadians
Lusitania
Mauretania
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