The Trick by Mabel Herbert Urner and Letters of Love
A serialized tale set around Dorothy and J.K. in the Mission district with Mrs. Marsh, Dayton, and a Toronto? narrative revealing mistaken letters to Mr. Craig about jealousy and love. The trio exchanges remorse and longing, ending with a farewell and wishes for happiness.
Sense of Touch Refines through Practice and Blindfolded Skill
The article explains how sense of touch is distributed over the body with the fingertips most sensitive, and that blind individuals develop remarkable tactile abilities. It cites blind girls producing art with touch and Indian silk workers distinguishing cocoon fineness by feel, aiding muslin weaving on primitive looms.
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India
Winter Coats Described by Harper's Bazar
Harper's Bazar notes winter coats are mostly mannish overcoats made of chinchilla or blanket cloth with wide sleeves and large fur collars. Raglan sleeve forms are considered the smartest style of the moment.
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Harper's Bazar
The Bad Boy in a Fifth Avenue Apartment
Dorothy Dix argues that a nine year old labeled The Bad Boy grows into a troubled man when confined to cramped luxury flats. He lacks space, guidance, and wholesome outlets, while his self indulgent, restless mother and separated parents trap him in a gilded cage. A public crisis note cites Chicago welfare findings and condemns tiny rooms as breeding grounds for bad boys.
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Dolla
Percy
Sahmael
Oature
New York
Broadway
Commissioner of Charities
Chicago
Crue
Fifth Avenue
Riverside Drive
Dreams and the Mind in Late 19th Century Thought
A survey of dream origins argues mind remains fundamentally unknowable. It notes brain regions alternately rest and active during dreams, cites problem solving during sleep, and references somnambulism and hypnotism as evidence of consciousness beyond wakeful thought.
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Imiud
Up to Date jokes and light quips spread across a page
A collection of brief humorous exchanges and one liners from readers and editors. Jokes touch on marriage travel luck cars and license checks with provincial wit and affectionate irony. The pieces reflect a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper humor tone.
The Travel-Stained Pilgrim and the Reluctant Host
A passing traveler asks for lodging and supper but a farmer declines, citing his wife’s extreme Stranger phobia. He recalls a somnambulist guest and a past counterfeit incident with a table-breaking guest who paid with a fake bill.
No Wondr Price Dropped Spares Family’s Musical Tale
A light cut from a historical page describes a narrator boasting of buying adjacent properties cheaply. The dialogue credits a wife as an elocutionist and a daughter who plays the piano while family members perform on various instruments including violin cornet banjo bones and drum, creating a lively domestic vignette.
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Jack
Bobbie
Little Freddy
Golden hair care method with raw egg shampoo
A guide for maintaining light hair by careful scalp care. It advises using raw egg whites as a cleansing shampoo to avoid darkening the color, with bicarbonate of soda and peroxide drops, plus warm water rinses and a soda pinch in the final rinse. It warns against using soda ammonia or peroxide on dry scalps.
Cheap Floor Polish Method Using Candle Wax
A frugal floor polish method suggests saving candle scraps and melting them with turpentine to make a soft paste for linoleum. The mix yields a cheap polish that many prefer over beeswax and turpentine alternatives.
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Mabel Herbert Urner
the Mission
North Meridian Street
Indianapolis
John Dear
Craig
Englihman
Dorothy
St. Marsh
Wyo
J. KK. W
Mr. Craig
W A
Fr. Marsh
Wic
Rea
Inquisition
J. K
Lfe
Mrs. Trubbell
Trubbell
Grahame White
Hoo Ray
Wat Ory
ARS Trubbell New
Aar White
Dorothy DIX
Edgar Lucien Larkin
Greece
J. J. Thompson
Violet
Paris
Rome
Naples
Pierrot
Monte Carlo
Papa
Houston Chronicle
Bertie
Reddie
Jobbins
Baltimore
Della
Thewson
Desperate Desmond
Claude
Carolamo
Deesmond
Bane Deesmond
Desmond
Rosamond
Jore
Desmieud
Tife
Lars
Regamond
Hero
Villain