A Careful Little Maid Prudence Maybe in Dimpledell Dorset
A poem about Prudence Maybe a carefully raised girl in Dimpledell Dorset with Aunt Lucy Lavender. She never spills tea and keeps tidy manners admired by peers and aunt, contrasted with other village children. A brief prose reflection on doing little things right. Then a quote from Helen Gray Cone on the science of small actions and two office boys illustrating differing attentions to detail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dimpledell
Prudence
Carteres
Lucy Lavender
Saya
Misa
Lucy
China
Aunt Lay
Helen Gray Cone
St. Nicholas
Tme
New York Sun
Marian and Her Color Pictures in a Simple Tale
A compact children’s vignette features Marian, a girl who makes pictures with pencils and sewn colored circles on white cards. Her mother narrates a tiny story about Tabby the cat, while local ads promote tonics and medicines from Daugherty Bros and Miller druggists, reflecting early 20th century public notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marian
Mamma
Tabby
Cooperation and morality in human development
A quoted passage from Popular Science Monthly argues that human survival and progress depend on social cooperation and the recognition of others rights. It contends society fosters the ethically best, self assertion, and mutual respect as foundational to social life and well being.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huxley
Popular Science Monthly
Unconventional Countess Sparks Railcar Conversation
A London smoking compartment anecdote features Belle Hilton, ex music hall performer and wife to the Earl of Clancarty, lighting a cigarette in a railcar while a gentleman apologizes and retreats. Separately, a French chiromancy briefing describes murder-tempting hand marks including a baldheaded thumb and Mount of Mars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chiromanists
Chiroman Isie
St. Louis Republic
Belle Hilton
Earl of Clancarty
Euston Square Station
London
Chappie
Broad Dr Kings New Discovery Ad and Rheumatism Cure Claims
An advertisement offers Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds with trial bottles and money refund if no benefit. It promotes Rheumatism cures Mystic Cure and English Spavin Liniment with testimonials and guaranteed products from Hetrick Bros Indiana Pa and other sellers. Also promotes weight loss and insomnia remedies from Herm manufacturing Co with mail order offers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
Tom E. Hildebrand
Indiana
Wm. I. Moore’s
Homer City
Milt G. Miller
Blairsville
Jas
Anderson
Ws. McElhaney
Hettick Bros
Hetrick Bros
Daugherty Bros
Herg Manufacturing Co
Brooklyn
N. Y
Calumet Remedy Company
Chicago
Ill
Daugherty Brothers
Drveeisrs
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Dorset
Fanny
Frank
W. A
France
Ave Brossox
Columbus
Ohio
Miller
Blairs- Ville
Aitcher
Hood
T. F. Anthony
Promise City
Iowa
Herrick Bro’s
Bucklen
Wm. J. Moore
Obesity
Blood Builder
Dr. Williams
Medicine CC
Sthenectady, Ny
Keystone Watch Case Co
Philadelphia
Wheeler & Wilson
J. H. McLean
Rica
Mad. Co
Louis
Vitalis
Madea Welt
Man
Can
Wheeler & Wilson M’f’g Co
PAL Sdi
Work & Young
Atonts
Enea
Ildo
Mame & Ca
Seien
G. Mint
Lfarqubar
Saw Mill & En
Castoria
HA Ancurs
Oxford St
N.Y
Eva F. Fanves
125Th Street
7Th Ave
New York
Pretty Maid
Johnson
Noah Adler
T. B. Clark
C. S. Apple
Reoms
Haili Baild
Philadelphia St
Thompson
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