Interrupted wedding reveals true hearts and fortunes
At a Chicago hotel a groom to be Jerome St John accuses Virginia Harding of marrying for wealth. Virginia rejects the match but confesses deeper love. He later learns he inherited a fortune and begs forgiveness as she asks to return to the church for their wedding.
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Jerome
Robert Dinsmore
Virginia Harding
Jerome St. John
Virginia
Robert
Harding
St. John
Dinsmore
James
Chicago News
Mrs T B Leiter Begins A Stage Career In Chicago
Mrs T Benton Leiter made her first appearance on the Chicago stage and drew attention to her acting as she navigates talk of bread and butter. Her husband, James Leiter, is described as an invalid under a physician’s care, with limited means.
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T. B. Leiter
T.benton Leiter
Chicago
Let Youth Have Its Flings They Grow Up Too Fast
A New York Herald remark warns parents against rushing maturity. It argues that preserving youth and avoiding steady discipline keeps children carefree, though life’s troubles will sober them later. The piece suggests allowing youthful freedom will comfort them through sorrow and shorten age by delaying adulthood.
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New York Herald
Notable Gifts and Aging Notables Highlight 1890s Memoirs
The text notes c P Huntington giving 12000 to Virginia’s negro reformatory and quotes Anthony Hope deeming his greatest work unwritten. It surveys a geriatric New York group in Russell Sage and lists memorabilia for Gov Fuller, Miss Braddon, and early 20th century literary output with her forthcoming novel The Infidel.
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C. P. Huntington
Negro Reformatory
Virginia
Anthony Hope
Russell Sage
Andrew H. Green
Charles L. Tiffany
Parke Godwin
Robert Olyphant
New York
Gov. Fuller
Vermont
John Shore
Handel
Mr. Fuller
Mme. Patti
Milwaukee woman teaches club women impromptu speech
Miss Marion Jean Craig of Milwaukee takes on training for impromptu speaking among club women. She promotes a scheme independent of art of expression schools and encourages short unscripted talks while opposing lengthy paper readings.
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Milwaukee
Marion Jean Craig
Miss Craig
A Physician's Long Skirts
Dr. Julia Holmes Smith and Dr. Sarah Hackett Stevenson discuss fashion in medicine noting skirts sweeping the floor as a street trend. Smith admits wearing the style herself and likens it to her morning coffee while acknowledging her broader cautions against corsets and similar fashions.
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Julia Holmes Smith
Sarah Hackett Stevenson
Chicago
Dr. Smith
A Young Lady's Smile Brings Her $60 000
In Reno township Michigan Miss Maggie Montgomery, a Bay City born schoolteacher, inherits $60,000 from deaf bachelor David Hepburn who died recently. He left his estate to the smiling educator who cheered him in loneliness. She is a bicycle enthusiast and also teaches music on Saturdays while continuing her teaching career.
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Prescott, Mich
Reno Township
Michigan
David Hepburn
Maggie Montgomery
Bay County
Bay City
First Colored Woman Graduate From Chicago Medical College
The subject became the first colored woman to graduate from a Chicago medical college. Her achievements include fluency in German, musical talent, and a prior business education before pursuing medicine.
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Chicago Medical College
Opit Mist and Irrational Cheerfulness Quip Fragile
A fragmentary Chicago column quotes a man who claims an opti mist can worry more people through irrational cheerfulness than gloom. It also notes a poet about selling a poem and a judge praising spring enough to afford a haircut. Other quips discuss laughter timing.
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Chicago Record
Fashion Notes From Detailing Of Dress Styles
Describes pointer neckties with tucked edges and decorative embroidery. Notes passe lace and ascendant flounces, tunics with minimal fullness, silk cords, and various edgings. Sleeves favor light fabrics, extensive tucks, and very long forms, with dressy options at elbow length. Shirts recall a de rigueur wash, minimal back yoke, and limited fullness. cuffs, pleats, and cuffs tied to starch use.
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Derigeuer
Local residents praise Chamberlain's remedy benefits
A reader notes many neighbors credit Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with saving lives and curing chronic diarrhoea. The letter highlights personal success stories and urges others to try the medicine.
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Chamberlain
Black Sheep From Their Fold Wanderers Seek Wider Range
Atlantic Monthly presents a poetic meditation on outcast figures who wander from the fold. They long for broader horizons yet feel homesick for familiar brothers as they follow a beckoning star into harsh terrains and moral peril.
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Atlantic Monthly
Rice Mutton Balls and Cream Salad Dressing
Press cold boiled rice through a colander season with salt and pepper add parsley. Form small balls with rice butter and milk brush with milk and melted butter brown in a hot oven. Serve with boiled mutton. Cream salad dressing uses eggs vinegar cream sugar salt mustard beaten and heated to cream thickness.
Only a Man. A stark take on family bonds and marriage
Tommy challenges moral sentiment by claiming blood is thicker than water while mothers and fathers are not real relations. He argues a husband is merely a man you pick up anywhere, sparking tension as others justify traditional family loyalties. The scene probes gender and affection norms.
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Tommy
Grand Hotel Cafe Promotes Best City Meals
Upright pianos offered at Wulschner's 128 130 N Pennsylvania St with 10 down and 5 monthly. The ad touts Grand Hotel Cafe as home to the best city meals and invites patrons to try them now.
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Grand Hotel Cafe
Wulschner
Pennsylvania-st
Reflections of a Bachelor Quotation Collection
A set of wry, aphoristic opinions on lunacy, time, marriage, and social behavior. The remarks compare lunatics to sane people, note footprints in time, admit excuses, and mock male prerogatives and marital dynamics with sharp humor.
Treatment of Kidney Disorders Promoted by Morrow’s Kidneoids
A physician states nine tenths of ailments stem from kidney disorders and urges early treatment. The ad claims Morrow's Kidneoids gently clear sediment in kidneys and urine, restoring function. Customer J H Winter testifies relief from backache and rheumatism after using the product. Sold by Sloan Drug Co. for fifty cents a box, manufactured in Springfield, Ohio.
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Leopold
Morrow
J. H. Winter
North
California Street
Sloan Drug Co
John Morrow & Co
Chemists
Springfield
Ohio
Be Wise In Time Make No Mistake Estate Trustees
Guidance warns against naming a friend or relative as executor or trustee due to risks of death refusal acceptance resignation. If unable, courts may appoint a stranger as successor, someone you would not have trusted with your property.
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Uncle Sam
Alaska
United
Thetis
Siberian
Mrs. Marie Fellows
Seeene
New York Press
Powter
THE
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Indiana Trust Building
St. and
Virgisis Ave
Wulschner & Son
Pennsylvania
R. T. Felix Gouraud
L. A
Cnn
Cook Bros., Grocers
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