Ellen Cheney Johnson Pioneer Prison Reformer Died in London
Ellen Cheney Johnson, longtime warden of the Sherborn Massachusetts women’s prison, transformed the system a model of its kind. An American Elizabeth Fry figure she led reforms, promoted a graded promotion system, and believed in rehabilitation over mere deprivation, helping many inmates reform.
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Ellen Cheney Johnson
London
Woman’s
Sherborn
Elizabeth Fry
Massachusetts
United States Sanitary Commission
Johnson
Board of Prison Commissioners
Johnston's on Adventure Ends in Clever Escape
A London man recounts a train misadventure with Mrs Scoble and her niece aboard a Chicago card scheme. He feigns deafness to dodge conversations, is accused of theft, then reveals the missing purse, sparking laughter and a romantic twist as he wins the niece’s favor and agrees to marry.
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Johnston
Chicago
Warwickshire
Morrow
Scrobe
Euston
Willerden Junction
John
J John
Greencroft
Sge
Scoble
Bertecuy
Mr. Johnston
John Calvin
New York World Note on Grave Absence
A fragment from the New York World hints at a solemn absence and a warning tone. The text names New York and invokes the term World in association with a grave matter.
Arranging the Drawing Room for Taste and Comfort
The drawing room should avoid central tables and cluttered shelves. Arrange chairs along walls with small setups near tables to encourage conversation, display books and ornaments with care, minimize cheap trinkets, keep latest magazines handy, and use fresh flowers and tasteful hangings to achieve charming, small yet refined spaces.
End of the Summer Bargains in White Fabrics
White goods and chiffon items attract shoppers with low prices. Long mousseline and chiffon jabots edged with lace drop to 3.50 from 5.00, while lawn wrappers and dressing sacks in pale blues go for about 1.98. Pattern robes in wash materials, pique and batiste with lace insertions are featured as bargains, and delicate handkerchiefs complete the counter selection.
Comic Reprints and Quips From Various Papers
A collage of short quotes and jokes from newspapers includes jabs at anti-Semitism, a sea doomed ship reference, dentist punchlines, and a theater costume expenditure remark. The snippets showcase era humor and quick wit across multiple publications.
Quotable Wit and Warped Wisdom from Social Snippets
A collection of quips on envy fashion and aging offers pithy takes on agreeableness pursuit of literature money talks and social mores. The items touch on saloon economies envy of marriage and taste for forbidden fruit in a humorous anthology tone.
Baker Reflects On A Missed Flour In Recipe Tale
A narrator recalls carefully measuring butter milk sugar and eggs with solemn care. She includes baking powder though ginners often omit it and bakes a cake for an hour. She laments forgetting the flour and accepts the tiny fault.
Southern Railway Publishes South Themed Literature
The Southern Railway distributes free folders and map folders titled Southern Homes and Land of the Sky while offering paid volumes like The Empire of the South, a 200 page illustrated book sent for 25 cents. Address WM H Tayloe Ass t Gen Pass Agent Louisville Ky.
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South
Southern Railway
Southern
Empire of the South
WM. H. Tayloe
Southern R'y
Louisville, Ky
Mexico City and Return from St Louis Deal
Travel offer via Iron Mountain Route to Mexico City priced at 53.75 dollars with Oct 5 departure from St Louis and Sept 26 return. Includes sleeping and chair cars with 82 hour trip, 15 days in Mexico, stopovers allowed, bookings through G A A Deane Jr of Iron Mountain Route Indianapolis. Also a testimonial for One Minute Cough Cure and a druggist note.
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Iron Mountain
St. Louis
Mexico City
Mexico
G.A. A. Deane, Jr
Indianapolis
Nance
Prin
Bluffdale
Texas
All Druggista
Great sale on remnants on second floor
Children’s parasols are 25c and ladies hose and mitts discounted. The store offers black seamiess hose and silk mitts from 19c to 50c, plus plaid borders and plaid ba ca x at 10c per pair. Sale highlighted on the 2nd floor with large discounts.
A Baby Sleeping and Lessons of Love and Grief
A poem fragment reflects on a mother's awakening to divine love as she holds her sleeping baby. It contrasts maternal devotion with God’s broader love and ends with a meditation on love and grief. The excerpt cites A IK Evans in Leslie's Weekly and a Chicago Record motif about love and sorrow.
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A. IK. Evans
Leslie’s Weekly
Take Care of Small Things with Dr. Pierce’s Discovery
An old financial proverb links big outcomes to small acts and applies this to health. The ad promotes Dr. Pierce’s Gold en Medical Discovery as a stomach strengthener and remedy for indigestion, biliousness, heartburn, and related symptoms, with patient anecdotes and an offer for free confidential correspondence from Buffalo, New York.
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Dr. Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Mary Helle Summerton
San Diego
Duval Co
Texas
Saturday Shoe Bargains at Le Bargains
Saturday shoe bargains list ladies tan kid lace shoes and kid or cloth tops at reduced prices. Tan kid oxford styles and two button strap shoes advertise the $1.75 quality for sale with a $1.15 price in summer goods.
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Mnother
Theother
le ‘N*yegard
Eaindy
New York
Detroit Free Press
Jaggles
Waggles
Puck
Eve
Southern Literature
Weeeeeee
Russia
Fred Barnard
South Illinois St
Vonnegut’s
Vonnegut Hardware CO
Aarles
E. Washington St
Indiana Trust Co
Wid
Buschmann & 60
Wayne Ave
WM. Buschmann & CO
DR. Klick
Dayton, O
Dr. H. C. Kirck Medicine Co
E. 9Th St
Cincinnati
Charles Mayer & Co
Eldredge& McRae
Massachusetts Ave
WM. H. West
America
Ben Hendricks
Jacob Litt
Arthur A. Alston
Empire Theater
Wabash and
Delaware Sts
Watson Sisters
Irwin
Fatr Bank
Fitzsimmons-deffries
International Cineograph Co
Fairbank
New York Ladies’ Symphony Orchestra
Brent
Majestic
Gregory & Appel
The
Indianapolis Gas Co
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