Beatrice Fairfax Husband Rules and Mabel’s Retreat
Beatrice Fairfax reflects on Mabel who avoids social outings while Tom, her husband, flits among other women. A spinster friend urges action but Mabel finds contentment in home life, deeming herself merely a habit kept for Tom’s comfort. The piece probes marital expectations and sympathy from others toward Mabel.
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Mabel
Tom
Home Sweet Home Verse by Grace G. Bostwick
A nostalgic poem extols the speaker's home over grand mansions and hotels. The dearest wife, aging yet singing, tucks in children with a mother’s care. In warm domestic scenes by firelight, dreams of a simple cottage persist as the true treasure.
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Rome
Be Yourselves Be Your Selves Beauty Advice Satirical Piece
A speaker contrasts two images of female beauty one natural and admired for simplicity and brown haired charm, the other exaggerated and painted. The piece urges women to embrace their own style and essence rather than chase glamorous fads, praising authenticity and personal temperament.
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May Irwin
Ethel Barrymore
Pre natal Influence Pamphlet Urges Moral Reform
A Connecticut era pamphlet argues for prenatal laws and wide dissemination of guidance on womb to world. It links ignorance to vice, calls for education for mothers and laws restricting marriage for diseased or dangerous parents, and warns of drugs harming unborn children.
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Connecticut
New England
New York
The
Humane Association
America
Raphael's Prophecies for July 15 1908
General advice for the day warns to sell in the afternoon and avoid speculation or risky money ventures. It forecasts a child born on this date will be free and generous, fond of pleasure, and most successful in employment if given full attention and discipline.
FIELD FOR TRAINED NURSES IN FACTORIES
Dr. Lucy A. Bannister of Pittsburg urges placing a trained nurse in every factory department store and workshop with many girls employed. She cites five benefits: employer support, healthier workers, personal savings, moral influence, and direct reach into workers homes through social welfare work.
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Lucy A. Bannister
Pittsburg
Pa bowling tale with a rival and a knee ball
A narrator recalls a Sunday visit with family to watch a friend of Pa bowl in a bowling alley. Pa overstates his skill while the other bowler impresses the crowd. The account highlights Pa’s antics, the knee ball, the jump ball, and a final score of 265 to 118 as the narrator jokes about autograph expectations.
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Manny
Sum Big Giant
Gaim Beegan
Oast
Pritty
Thay
Beekaus
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Comstock
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