Miss Anita Trueman Aged 18 Teaches Metaphysics In New Haven
Miss Anita Trueman of New Haven daughter of the Single Tax Club president delivers lectures on a personal system of metaphysics she calls mind power and harmony with nature. Critics note her charm and citations from Henry George and Ella Wheeler Wilcox while recounting her early feats from Bible studies to a poetry book Philo Sophia and a Yale publication lesson in metaphysical language.
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Anita Trueman
Single Tax Club
New Haven
Miss Trueman
Henry George
Edwin Markham
Yale
Philo-Sophia
Estelle C. R. Sweet
Miss Sweets
Miss Sweet
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ralph Waldo Trine
England
Wasted Genius of Uncle Jim in a Washington Star verse
A poem praising Uncle Jim for his imagined talent in shaping war, diplomacy, and finance. It notes his foresight behind the scenes, his supposed ability to steer political and financial ventures, and laments that no opportunity ever came his way while he lived quietly behind the hill.
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Jon
Cody-Tah
Jim
Washington Star
Bingham in a Burglary Caper Turns Troubled Dream Real
In a tense London style tale, Philip Bingham wakes to a pantry entry burglar. The calm, cunning intruder maneuvers. Bingham is forced under threat, bound with towels, and watched as valuables vanish. The scene shifts to upstairs confinement and a wary, uneasy bargain unfolds.
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Bingham
R . Bingham
Burglar frees captive after demanding photo
A burglar binds Bingham and searches rooms before demanding a photograph of Dick Price. Recognizing the image as his wife, the intruder reveals he once knew Price and decides to steal nothing else but the picture, asking Bingham to promise not to reveal the visit.
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Bingham
Felaan
Rom
Atairs
Dick Brice
Price
Dick Price
Chicago Tribuns
Stage Lovers and Hats Spark City Gossip
Kathryn swoons over a stage romance and mocks her strict rule about applause as she longs for New York glamour. A Detroit Journal report notes her wish for better things, while a woman refuses to move her hat for sightlines, and a parrot interrupts Delia's calls with a clock driven cry.
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Kathryn
New York
Chicago
Detroit Journal
Delia
Detroit Free Press
Milwaukee official joins classroom geography lesson
Assistant superintendent Allen visits a public school in Milwaukee and joins a geography lesson. He asks the pupils for a term for the people of the Emerald Isle, and a bright boy answers Precious stones.
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Allen
Milwaukee
Emerald Isle
Kaffir smoking customs and tobacco comparisons in South Africa
The London Daily Mail describes native Kaffir women smoking incessantly with rank tobacco and a fashionable English style through a quill. Kaffir men prefer a fierce weed smoked via a cow horn pipe, causing intense coughing. Boers’ tobacco resembles weak tea, yet English colonists grow to like it.
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South Africa
London Daily Mail
Oysters for Lent: Smothered Roast and Scalloped Variants
A Lenten oyster guide describes three preparations. Smothered oysters melt butter with pepper salt and cayenne then simmer one pint oysters for three minutes and serve on toast. Roast oysters bake in shells until open, serve with butter and salt. Scalloped oysters layer oysters with cracker crumbs and butter, bake until top is crumbed and moist with oyster liquor.
Baby's Dress from Frugal Materials
Instructions for sewing a dainty baby dress using affordable materials. Recommends sheer rainsook at 45 cents per yard, six inch hem done by hand, yoke from skirt strips by tucking, hand gathered skirt laid neatly, neck and wrists finished with fine French valenciennes lace, and tiny lace covered buttons for a refined finish at low cost.
Returning to Life After Two Years in Insensibility
Miss Elida Wilbur of San Francisco, who lay unconscious for two years after a gas incident, has awakened briefly and spoken once, saying Nobody loves me now. Doctors had failed to revive her before. she appeared in a normal posture yet brain activity was absent. A gust of wind blowing out a lamp may have ended her sleep.
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Elida
Wilbur
San Francisco
James Dunphy
Miss Wilbur
Dottie
Philadelphia Mayor's Daughter Marries Schuyler Armstrong
The marriage of Philadelphia Mayor Ashbridge's daughter to Schuyler Armstrong drew a City Hall scale crowd with over 2,000 at the church and a hotel reception. Gifts totaled about $35,000, including a rosewood piano from police officials and a carved mahogany parlor set from city councils.
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Ashbridge
Philadelphia
Schuyler Armstrong
Old Town
London
Common Council
Select Council
Sus
Ashbridge House
Homemade Soap Making in a Housewife's Tale
A Philadelphia Record excerpt describes a housewife comparing old time soapmaking with a modern method. It details collecting fat from meat scraps, rendering in a tin can, adding lye and borax, boiling hours, moulding in a square pan, and cooling in a warm place to yield white soap superior for hands.
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Philadelphia Record
Social whirl notes from Florida to Plymouth church
The society column reports Mr. and Mrs. Henry Severin visiting Florida and Rev. and Mrs. J Cumming Smith in Martinsville. Dr H M Graham returns from Chicago and Gov Dickey of North Dakota plans a Century club talk. Several hosting arrangements and upcoming events include the Ceramic club meeting, a dinner for the Griffith Bird wedding, and a statue unveiling trip to Washington with Mrs Morton and Mrs Gill.
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Henry Severin
Florida
H. M. Graham
Chicago
J. Cumming Smith
Martinsville
Ceramic Club
Bates House
A. A. Yow
Lafayette
Joseph Fitzpatrick
Talbottave
Elenora Griffth
Gov
Dickey
North Dakota
Puerto Rico
Century Club
O. P. Morton
8. C. Gill
Washington
Fairbanks
Morton
F. E. Dewhurst
John B. Elam
Dewhurst
College Corner Club
Plymouth Church
W. F. Walker
Merle Walker
George Marshal
Central-ave
R. T. Carr
Chine
Lovely New Ribbons Shades of Soft Gauze Textiles
The piece describes ribbon fashion with soft shadowy colors and gauze like texture. Wide ribbons nine inches dominate for scarves and neck wear while narrow widths fade from the scene. It notes cherty silk quality and suggests a fashion emphasis on broad, tied styles.
Fashionable ties and accessories parade for 1900
The item list showcases ties from plain and dotted taffeta at 75 cents to higher priced options like dotted taffeta at 1.45 and Roman plaids 1.25. A Sapho four-in-hand twist adds ornamented neck shaping. A duchess worthy dress knot and Esprit plumes highlight the era, with ads for Dr Bull's Cough Syrup and various local services and eateries interspersed.
Out in the Colma Depicts Lambs in Cold Night
Poem fragment from Frank L Stanton in Atlanta Constitution describes lambs left out in the cold. Wind roars and winter rain drowns hope as the flock shivers. The piece laments absence of loving arms and questions when day will come.
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Frank L. Stanton
Atlanta Constitution
Purifying Your Blood With Hoads Sarsaparilla
An ad urges readers to purify their blood with Hoads Sarsaparilla to build up the system and expect good health through the coming season. It emphasizes safe find and personal health improvements.
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Vorthy
Morton Place Laundry Advertisement 1901 1903
Central avenue Indiana business ad for Morton Place Laundry run by Anna R B Moyes, listing old telephone number 27772. Services include collars and cuffs cleaned at 4 cents per pair.
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Morton Place
Central-ave
Anna
Moyes Proprietress
Indianapolis
Ind
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